Changes to the Commentary team for 2023 include the addition of Sasha Castel-Branco and Dr Aaron Jackson. Charlotte Currey returns for a second year while James Andrews takes a break for a year.

Sasha is a 3rd-year student reading Biology at Hatfield College. A keen rower she has been the Durham College Rowing Press Officer (22/23) and the President of Hatfield College Boat Club (HCBC) 22/23.

Charlotte (Charley) is a second-year Modern Languages student at Grey College. She joined Durham University’s student radio station Purple Radio at the start of the 2021/22 academic year and broadcast her show Global Tunes throughout the year.

Aaron is better known in rowing circles as “The Northern One” in the popular Broken Oars Podcast in which he discusses many of the thorny topics of interest to the rowing community with his partner-in-pod, Dr Lewin Hynes.

Find out more about the Commentary team on our Commentators page.