college life
Sports Report Sports Report Beth Collett History & Politics, 2011
The year 2012-13 was tremendous for sports at Mansfield. Having produced an unprecedented number of University sports captains, in both Blues and 2nds teams, we fielded more College teams (and more successful teams!) than ever before.
Boat Club
On the river, both M1 and W1 experienced a very successful year, despite hugely disruptive river conditions throughout. W1 bumped and rowed over in 2013’s Summer VIIIs, which was a vast improvement after receiving spoons in Torpids. M1, with former Blues rower Dan Harvey (Maths, 2005; now in his seventh year rowing for College!), and current member of the Isis crew,
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Iain Mandale, managed to bump three times, before narrowly missing out on blades with a row-over on the Saturday of Summer VIIIs. Both M1 and W1 go into the 2013-14 academic year in their highest league position in the College’s history. We were delighted to welcome the 2003 M1 crew (who were the last M1 to achieve blades in Summer VIIIs) to 2013’s Summer VIIIs dinner, where
their support and commiserations were a welcome addition. This past year was also the first in a long time in which a Mansfield boat entered an external regatta, and, despite not passing the first round at Wallingford Regatta, M1 did a fantastic job on the Olympic course.
