The Ivy League is a collegiate

athletic conference comprising

sport teams from eight private

universities in the Northeastern

United States. It was founded

in 1954, and its headquarters

are at Princeton, New Jersey.

 The New London Boat Race

or Yale-Harvard Boat Race is

an annual contest between M8+

crews of Harvard University

and Yale University. First rowed

in 1852, it is America's oldest

athletic competition.

 The coloured drawing shows

an incident during the 1890

race when the Yale stroke

broke his oar and dove over-

board. Yale still won the race.

Tonia Williams was born in NZL and competed

in NZL crews and later on in GBR lightweight

crews. She stroked the GBR LW4- for three

consecutive years (1992-1994) winning one

gold and two silver medals at the corresponding

WRCs. Her victory at the WRC Racice 1993

was British Rowing's first ever sweep-oar gold

medal for women.