WYE rower Eleanor Lawrence-Preston followed former Monmouth Comprehensive schoolmate Violet Holbrow-Brooksbank to Henley Women's Regatta glory at the weekend.

Violet helped her Wycliffe boat lift the Bea Langridge Trophy for junior girls' quadruple sculls last year before winning the same class at Henley Royal Regatta.

And Eleanor – second for Wales in the 2024 Home Countries J18 pairs with Monmouth Comprehensive club mate Seven Van Der Horst – will be hoping to repeat the prestigious double after helping Wycliffe lift the Henley Women's title for the third year running.

Racing upstream over 1500m of the timber-boomed Royal Regatta course, the crew of Eleanor, Cassie Anderson Daisy O'Reilly and Lily Anderson eased through the opening 40-boat time-trial before beating Marlow B in the last 16 by 4 1/2L, followed by Australian outfit Canberra by 5L.

That put them into the semi-final against Sir William Perkins School, where Wycliffe secured a 1 1/3L win.

Marlow were seven seconds faster beating Henley by 2 1/2L in the other semi, but Eleanor's boat were unphased, holding off all challenges to win by 3/4L in 5.13.

Former Monmouth School for Girls rower Ailsa Whitehead raced for Wycliffe in the girls’ fours, beating Headington by 2L before bowing out at the last-eight stage to event winners Surbiton by 3L.

Ex-MCS Boat Club captain Peaches Hale also made the quarter-finals of the Academic 8s with Newcastle University, beating their own C crew by 3L before missing out to London University by 2 1/2L.

Haberdashers' Monmouth's girls raced the junior 8s time-trial, but bowed out finishing 26th.

Their boys' 8 have to race Friday's time-trial qualifier to make the 32-strong Princess Elizabeth Cup junior 8s at the following week's Royal Regatta.

But they will be buoyed by a positive showing in their graded final at Marlow Regatta on the London Olympic lake on Saturday, finishing second out of eight to Minerva Bath, and ahead of the likes of Bedford RC and Green Lake USA.