A Canadian national team member for the past six years and ‘spare man’ at the 2004 Olympics. A member of the U23 men’s eight that won gold at the 2003 World Championships, he competed in the coxed fours that took silver at the 2004 World Championships and bronze in the 2005 coxless fours at the same event. Makes backyard furniture and played American football in high school.

The 2008/9 CUBC President started rowing at school to get stronger for rugby. Represented GB in the quadruple scull at U23 level in 2004. He was the World University Champion in the men’s double scull in 2006. Seated at 3 in last year’s Blue Boat, he was a member of the Light Blue four that won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup at Henley. Also competed at the World Cup regatta in Poland during the summer of 2008.

Began rowing at school in 2000. A double and quadruple sculls US national champion, who also took bronze in the same disciplines at the 2007 Pan American Games. Finished ninth in the quadruple sculls at the 2007 World Championships. Interested in politics and worked on Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign over the summer of 2008.

Despite growing up close to the Boat Race course, only began rowing three years ago after injury forced him to quit rugby. Won a bronze in the men’s coxed four at U23 level and was at 5 in the 2008 Blue Boat. Part of the CUBC Stewards’ Challenge Cup-winning four at Henley that became the first British University crew to be selected for a Senior World Cup regatta. Took bronze in the GB four at the World University Games.

Grew up as a soccer player. But, due to persistent joint problems from a growth spurt and a stress fracture from running, was encouraged to start rowing given his 6ft 2 inches height at the age of 16. Rowed in the Cornell first Varsity boat between 2005-2007. Replaced Shane O’Mara at stroke in the 2008 Blue Boat just days before the Race.

Represented Australian teams at junior, U23 and senior level and national schoolboy champion in 1998. Took silver in the 2000 U23 World Championships in the eight and gold at the 2005 World Championships in the coxed pair. The Australian champion in the men’s pair in 2005 and men’s four in 2005 and 2006. Competed in the Head of the Charles race in the US and took silver in both 2001 and 2002.

Began rowing eight years ago at school in Kent and later trained at the York City Rowing Club. Made the final of the U23 World Championships in 2006 and competed in the European Championships in 2007. After winning the Britannia Challenge Cup at Henley, he earned his place at 6 in the 2008 Blue Boat. Stroked a Cambridge coxless four representing GB at the Poznan World Cup and at Henley in 2008 where they won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup.

A World Champion at U23 level in the 2008 US men’s eight at Brandenburg, Germany. Began rowing in 2004 at UCLA at the suggestion of his sister. Rowed in the men’s Varsity Eight at Stanford. In 2006, he won gold in the four at the Head of the Charles race, took the Copley Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic and won silver in the Pac-10 Championships. Stroked the CUBC coxed four to a strong fourth place finish in the 2008 Fours Head race.

A PhD student who previously graduated from Cambridge with a BA in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. Cambridge is Rebecca’s home town. She attended Chesterton Community College, just a few hundred metres from the Goldie boathouse, before going onto Impington Village College. Became a novice cox at Cambridge and went on to cox the 2004 Cambridge University Lightweight Men’s Boat race crew and the 2006 Cambridge University Women’s Blue Boat. Coxed the winning Blue Boat in 2007 and the losing 2008 Blue Boat. Also coxed the England Women’s Eight to a Gold medal at the Commonwealth Rowing Championships in 2006 and the Great Britain Women’s Eight to a Bronze medal at the 2007 European Rowing Championships.