HOCR Saturday: Heavy Hitters, Back-of-the-Packers & Alumni Magic – Head Of The Charles Regatta coverage

Saturday at Head of the Charles is really an XL regatta day, with 33 occasions overlaying nearly 8 hours. Diving proper in, listed below are the Saturday highlights.

Champ Sculling Occasions

With each the boys’s and girls’s 2019 defending champs within the singles not competing this 12 months, the fields opened up a bit bit, and whereas Ben Davison’s second win within the occasion since 2018 was not an enormous shock, Maggie Fellows’ win within the Ladies’s Champ single, beginning with bow quantity 20, positively was.

“I am fairly accustomed to this course, and I used to be simply hoping that I’d have a transparent line,” mentioned Fellows after the race. “I positively thought of it. I’ve by no means needed to begin behind the pack, apart from the primary 12 months I raced right here. I do know that I can row a really aggressive line on this course, I feel that is a part of headracing, that simply go on the market and do one of the best of all the things you’ll be able to and the outcomes will determine themselves out.”

Fellows mirrored on her outcomes her, coming on the tail finish of a 12 months that noticed her end fourth on the Olympic Trials within the single, however in the end not make the workforce within the double or the quad.

“The summer season was a very laborious time. I went to Henley to only see if I needed to maintain going. I am nonetheless getting quicker, however the query is, am I having fun with it or not. I actually had fun at Henley, and the Charles is one in all my favorites, so it is extra about simply having enjoyable and seeing what occurs, moderately than being too involved concerning the outcomes proper now. I am in for the subsequent few years.”