Ross Rowing Club was in action on three fronts over the weekend. The senior men and women headed to Bewdley Regatta, which is held over two days ,and came away with one win on the Saturday with Jeremy Picton-Turbervill winning the Masters F single scull. On the Sunday, Ross secured further victories including a Masters E coxed 4 made up of Phil Palmer, Paul Nicholls, Dave Morris, Dave Badham and Karen Blackwood (cox). This was the first win for Dave Badham in 40 years.

Jeremy Picton-Turbervill continued his effortless domination of the Masters F single scull category with another win, despite having to stop to disentangle himself from an eight coming in the opposite direction. Mark Sleeman, Paul Watkins, Fred Jones, Robin Fletcher and Georgie Jones (cox) won the Masters D coxed 4, beating Monmouth in the final, and a mixed IM2 8 came through two rounds only to be beaten in the final by ¼ length.

The Ross Juniors took a small raiding party to the Staines and Burway Regattas, to take on the Thames clubs on their own patch. On the Saturday they took the Staines Regatta by storm and in thrilling fashion won the Victor Ludorum with the last race of the day. The J16 quad made up of Johan Lai, Dale Kernot, Will Gladstone and Elliott Ball rowed superbly to win against Bristol, and to secure a cheque for £500 which will be used to buy more equipment for the club. At Burway, Ross again took the lion's share of the pots, including a win for the youngest competitors of the day, Lara Banks-Martin and Heidi Brodholt, who beat opposition from Eton who were over a year older and at least a foot taller. Over the weekend, Ross took no less than 17 wins at Staines and Burway

On Thursday 25th July, Morgan Baynham-Wiliams, a Junior Alumni from Ross Rowing Club, took to the starting pontoon for the opening heat of the U23 World Rowing Championships in the Womens Eights boat class. Off the back of a great starts the GB 8 commanded the field for the whole 2000m, becoming the first womens 8 through to the final. Soon to follow in the second heat were the USA. The remaining six crews were left to battle head to head for five places in the final.

On Sunday 28th July, the British 8 lined up against the best crews in the world, with a line up of Netherlands, Germany, USA, Canada and Australia. Having set out hard, the British crew had battled their way into second within the first 500m. Keeping the crew calm, Morgan was able to hold the crew in second position over the next 1000m of the course. Into the final 500m of the race, Morgan challenged the USA with an exhilarating surge from the British crew, seeing them narrow the gap to just ½ a boat length. With 250m to go the USA did all they could do to hold on until the line. Great Britain took the silver medal, in what was, without question, the crews' best race of the season. Germany finished two seconds behind Great Britain to claim the bronze.

When interviewed by World Rowing, Morgan said:?"Today was the day that Great Britiain rewrote the history of the Womens 8s. We knew that if we held onto our pace through the middle 1000m we would be in a position to challenge for the gold in the final 500m".

When later asked what their race plan was, Morgan joked, "a good magician would never reveal their best tricks".