MONMOUTH School head boy Will England will be rubbing shoulders with the nation's Olympic medal rowing stars next week after being invited to a training camp at the Great Britain rowing centre at Caversham. The 18-year-old finished first in the pairs at the recent GB junior team regatta and is hoping to make the world junior championship team for Hamburg in Germany this August. Last week, he launched out with the GB juniors on the Munich Olympic lake, racing a scratch squad coxless four on both days. Racing the likes of the German, Polish, Czech and French teams, on day one, his crew were 12th fastest out of 22 overall finishing third in their heat, which placed them in the race off for 13th-18th places. And in the C final they squeezed out a German crew by just 0.32 seconds to win the six-boat race in a time that would have placed them fifth in the B final, 11 seconds down on the overall winning time. Day two was a similar story, as they again headed the C final, but with GB's boats tending to come together later than most nations, there is plenty of opportunity to up the pace after the National Schools' Regatta in Nottingham this weekend and Henley Royal Regatta at the start of July. Meanwhile, Will's sister Pippa, 16, who like her brother has already raced for GB, made an impression at the Welsh squad trials on the Wye at Monmouth, winning the junior girls' singles. Pippa was one of three Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls rowers bidding for a place in the team for July's Home Countries Regatta in Cork, with Emma Richardson in third just three seconds back and Charlotte Gill fifth. Monmouth School's Alex Buhaenko, Morgan Gray, Rory Freeman and cox Gabriel Cronin also did well to stay on course for Welsh honours, and will attend the squad training camp over half-term. Rowers from the two schools made an encouraging start to the regatta season on the London 2012 Dorney Olympic lake at the 2,000m Wallingford Regatta. In a blanket finish, Monmouth School's first eight raced out of their skins to finish second in their J18 heat, just three tenths of a second behind top Thames school Radley College, with King's Chester in third 0.7secs back, and Bedford Modern and Winchester trailing. With just the three heat winners and the three fastest losers going through, the Wye boat put everything into the heat, and had to settle for sixth in the final, three lengths back on winners Eton – still a highly creditable performance and one that will boost them ahead of the National Schools, where after three '1st 8' silvers in four years, they will be hoping to finally land that elusive gold. Their U16 coxed four pipped Bedford by 0.1secs to finish second in their heat, but like their 8 then placed sixth in the final, half a length behind the Ouse crew. HMSG's U18 coxless four was second in their heat to Henley before finishing second in the final 2 1/2L down on the Thames outfit, with Bedford, St Paul's, and St George's trailing. Their U16 four won their heat by 1L rowing down Bedford Girls, but Henley again pushed them into second in the final, this time by 2L, ahead of Bedford, King's Chester and Kingston crews.