WORDS + PHOTOGRAPHY BENEDICT TUFNELL
“It wasn’t until I actually started this job that I realised the scale of the challenge ahead,” says Steve Trapmore as we talk in Putney, after his last outing as Cambridge men’s head coach. It’s the day before the 2018 Boat Race.
The quick turn over of heavyweight men’s coaches Cambridge had seen prior to Trapmore’s arrival eight years ago meant that CUBC had “largely been running on a year–to–year” basis since Robin Williams left in the mid 2000s.