After the gruelling Trial-Eights in December, the Oxford and the Cambridge squad spent the Christmas period in theit training camps in the South. Back in the UK, the Cambridge women are the first rowing again on the Tideway. Their opponent is the formidable Women's squad from Oxford Brookes Universtity.

The event is the first of two fixtures open to the media, the second is OUWBC vs. Molesey BC on February 28. The first photos should come online in the evening of the event, on Sunday, January 31.