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Our preview of all the Junior Women's categories for Fuller's Head of the River Fours 2019.

With some clubs opting to race just Wallingford Regatta the next day, and some athletes racing at Munich Regatta, there were reduced numbers of rowers at Junior Sculling Regatta, however, it still provided some exciting racing and promising results on a sunny day at Dorney.

Check out our video shot and edited by Lucinda over the past few weeks ahead of tomorrow's Cancer Research UK Boat Race.

Starting in September 2019, the world renown rowing program at Oxford Brookes University will take on a junior team for the first time. Will it create a new standard of junior rowers?

J18 8+ The eights category looks like it may turn out to be a fairly straightforward race. Shiplake seem to have fielded a 1V for this event, with only one boat entered into this category. Shiplake are renowned for putting out some very classy eights, especially during the head season, as was highlighted by their win at SHORR a couple of years ago in 2017, and silver medal places in 2016 and 2018. The two other entries into this category come from Reading Blue Coat School, who are fielding either mixed eights or an A and B crew. They will most likely not be able to challenge the eight from Shiplake college given that they lost to Shiplake at Quintin Head...