Dover Rowing Club’s Junior squad competed in the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships. The Championship was run virtually for the first time leading to 7834 entries overall. The competition pitched clubs, state and private schools against each other.
DRC Captain Will Coleman was very impressed with the performance of the young rowers who competed across various age categories. Dover’s 15 competitors submitted 18 entries resulting in an initial racking of 80th and narrowly beating local rivals Folkestone. When the rankings were examined they had been skewed by strong individual entries taking the higher places when compared to club and school team entries. Removing the single rowers from the list, and looking only at the team / club entries in the competition, Dover’s squad ranked 54th nationally.

The Dover squad consisted of:
Year 7: Riley Danko
Year 8: Hollie Castree, Holly Dunham, Erin Sanders, Oliver White
Year 9: Holly Young, Jess Clements
Year 10: Rhiannon Castree, Henry Cox
Year 11: Jack Castree, Sonny Varnes-Stone, Orla Sanders, Ella Cook
Year 13: Evie Holland, Alex Sutherland
There were some stand out performances with Henry Cox finishing 14th in a field of 548. He completed 1434m in 5 minutes, with an excellent 250m split of 01:44.5. Ella Cook was 19th out of 190 after completing 1519m in 6 minutes, with a split of 01:58.5. Jack Castree was 37th recording 1671m in 6 minutes, with a split of 01:47.7 and Sonny Varnes-Stone 56th with 1575m and a split of 01:54.3 out of 238.
The Club would like to thank Jacky Silk for completing all the admin for the competitors.