The 2025 Oxford-Cambridge girls’s Boat Race can have a particular South African flavour to it within the type of ‘Gentle Blues’ cox, Jack Nicholas.
Nicholas, who holds duel South African and British citizenship, will steer the Cambridge boat towards rivals Oxford on the River Thames this weekend.
Sunday’s lady’s race would be the 79th up to now with Cambridge holding a 48-30 benefit.
Cambridge are the overwhelming favourites for the race, so count on to see Nicholas – as is custom – dunked into the Thames post-race by his team-mates.
In a latest interview, Nicholas named Springbok flyhalf Handré Pollard as his “earliest sporting inspiration”
Extra about Jack Nicholas
What course are you learning and what stage?
MEng in Engineering
Why did you selected that course?
Maths and physics have been all the time my jam at school, and I used to be eager to use these to precise sensible conditions – after slightly stint in Pure Sciences, I discovered my approach again to Engineering and have by no means been happier.
When, the place and why did you begin rowing? And what do you like in regards to the sport?
I began coxing in my first 12 months of college at Pembroke School Boat Membership, to lastly leverage my quick stature in a sporting context.
I like a lot in regards to the sport, primarily the early mornings: the construction they supply to your day is invaluable, and I completely adore seeing the dawn!
The principle purpose why I maintain coming again to rowing in any case these years, although, is the social facet of it.
The individuals you meet alongside the way in which are actually unimaginable (the highest 20 funniest individuals I do know are all rowers, which is handy) and I’m so grateful for all the chums I’ve revamped these previous couple of years.
Additionally, rowing is the one context the place it’s applicable to put on a zephyr, and I’m an enormous fan of zephyrs. If there may be one fan of zephyrs left on the planet, it’s me.
What was your first rowing membership and coach?
Pembroke School Boat Membership (Cambridge), Seb Matthews
What or who was the earliest sporting inspiration you keep in mind as a baby?
Handré Pollard (Springbok flyhalf)
How has rowing and being a part of the Boat Race squad impacted your life?
With out rowing, I might by no means have had the chance to supply my very own watersport-based memes (please get involved when you’d prefer to see my portfolio) and naturally being part of one of many oldest, most well-known sporting occasions on the planet is extremely humbling, a once-in-a-lifetime expertise.
If you happen to weren’t a rower, what sport do you suppose you’d excel at?
F1, badminton or MMA
What’s your favorite non-academic guide?
The Buried Big by Kazuo Ishiguro
In the meantime, Sunday’s race would be the a hundred and seventieth event wherein Oxford and Cambridge’s males have raced towards one another.
Within the historical past of the lads’s Boat Race, Cambridge lead Oxford by 87 wins to 81.
There was a lifeless warmth in 1877.
Boat Race course
The Boat Race will happen on the Championship Course on the River Thames in London.
Crews will begin on the Putney Bridge and row upstream 6.8km to the end simply earlier than the Chiswick Bridge, passing notable landmarks like Craven Cottage stadium and Fuller’s Brewery.
This route has been used for each single Boat Race since 1845 apart from three events when the race was held in the other way and in 2021 when it was held on the River Nice Ouse in Ely because of Covid restrictions.
A coin toss earlier than the race determines which workforce will get to select their most popular station: both Middlesex or Surrey.
Roughly 300 000 individuals will line the banks of the Thames to observe the race with many extra following on tv.
When will the 2025 Boat Race be held?
This 12 months’s race shall be held on Sunday, 13 April.
Do you know … ?
The date of the boat race modifications yearly depending on tides, college calendars and main London occasions.
On 30 March in 1912, each boats sank and the race needed to be re-run the next week.
What time does the race begin?
The ladies’s occasion is about for 14:21 (SA time) with the lads’s race beginning an hour later at 15:21 (SA time).
The races between the reserve crews happen earlier within the day.
Crews for the 2025 Boat Race
Girls
Oxford
Daniel Orton (Cox)
Heidi Lengthy (Stroke)
Kyra Delray
Annie Anezakis
Sarah Marshall
Alexia Lowe
Tessa Haining
Lilli Freischem
Sarah Polson (Bow)
Cambridge
Jack Nicholas (Cox)
Samy Morton (Stroke)
Tash Morrice
Claire Collins
Carys Earl
Annie Wertheimer
Sophia Hahn
Gemma King
Katy Hempson (Bow)
Umpire: Sir Matthew Pinsent
Males
Oxford
Tobias Bernard (Cox)
Nico Kohl (Stroke)
Nick Rusher
Tom Waterproof coat
Tass von Mueller
James Doran
Felix Rawlinson
Will O’Connell
Tom Sharrock (Bow)
Cambridge
Ollie Boyne (Cox)
Douwe de Graaf (Stroke)
Simon Hatcher
James Robson
George Bourne
Gabriel Mahler
Luke Beever
Noam Mouelle
Luca Ferraro (Bow)
Umpire: Sarah Winckless
Prediction
Males’s winner – Cambridge
Girls’s winner – Cambridge
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