The Cambridge University Boat Club squad for the 2011 Xchanging Boat Race against Oxford University has been announced. It includes one of the biggest concentrations of home-grown oarsmen and undergraduates for many years.

Cambridge have 17 Britons in a squad of 27, made up of 22 rowers and five coxswains, and featuring 12 undergraduates.

Four other nationalities are represented in the Cambridge squad with five Australians, two Canadians, two Americans and one individual from New Zealand.
 

Cambridge have four returning Blues – President Derek Rasmussen from Maryland, Canadian Geoff Roth, George Nash from Guildford and Australian Hardy Cubasch from the 2009 boat.
 

There are five returning Goldie crew members in the Cambridge squad. Britons Joel Jennings, Mike Thorp and cox Liz Box as well as Hardy Cubasch from the winning 2010 reserve boat, plus James Strawson who rowed in the losing 2009 boat.
 

The 2011 Race will be the first experience of the event for the new Cambridge Chief Coach Steve Trapmore, who won a Gold medal for Britain at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The last Light Blue coach to win an Olympic Gold was James MacNabb, who won his medal in 1924 and coached the winning boat in 1951.
 

“I’m very pleased to have so many returning Blues and Goldies who give the squad a thorough grounding in what’s needed to win the Race,” said Steve.
 

The 157th Boat Race sponsored by Xchanging will be staged at 17:00 on Saturday 26 March and screened live on BBC 1 within a two-hour programme. The 2010 Race was also televised in more than 200 countries around the world.
 

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