GB junior international rower Rhiannon Morgan scored a hat-trick of gold medals at the British Rowing Junior Championships, and will spearhead the England girls’ team’s Home Countries Regatta bid in Scotland this weekend.

The Gloucester Hartpury star took the U18 girls’ singles title at Nottingham’s National Water Sports Centre on Sunday, and added the doubles and quads titles with her clubmates.

And not to be outdone, the Hartpury boys’ U18 quad scull also won, while strokeman Fergus Woolnough doubled up with gold in the U16 singles, and crewmates Peter Howard in the U18 singles and Robert Kilgour and George Reed in the U18 doubles all took bronze.

It meant that Gloucester Hartpury took the Victor Ludorum for most successful club.

Morgan, 18, who won bronze for GB at last year’s European junior team regatta in Ireland, dominated the girls’ junior singles event, winning the opening 2km 39-boat time-trial by seven seconds, before seizing control of the six-boat final right from the start.

In tough headwind conditions, she had 3L lead at 500m and came home 4L ahead of Cambois’ Jemima Furness in 9mins 16.74 secs.

Things were tougher in the 25-boat double scull final where she and Charlotte Enright were pushed hard all the way.

A fast start gave them a 1L lead at the 500m mark, but Sudbury’s Amelia Moule and Martha Bullen inched back to within three feet at the 1500m mark.

But the Hartpury duo pushed on again in the last quarter to win by 1L in 8.27.40.

With Ruth McAteer and Karrie Spencer, they also launched out in the 10-boat U18 girls’ quad scull event where they cruised to a 5L victory from Staines outfit Sir William Perkins School in 8.04.85.

All four of them will be racing for England this Saturday in the Home Countries against Wales, Scotland and Ireland at Strathclyde Park in Glasgow.

The boys’ U18 quad scull went through half-way in second in the final of their 16-boat event.

But they made their move in the third quarter to hit the 1500m mark 1/2L up, and raced clear to win by 1L from Clydesdale in silver in 6.55.08.

Woolnough fought out a titanic battle in the 43-boat U16 single sculls event, grabbing an early lead and squeezing home 1/2L up on Talkin Tarn’s Benjamin Norman in 8.44.09.

Kilgour and Reed were fourth at in the final of the 30-boat U18 double sculls event, before rowing past the Wallingford duo to take bronze some 3L back on gold, while Howard held third through each marker to take bronze in the 56-boat U18 singles final just 1/3L off silver.

The club, who are a GB centre of excellence for junior rowing, also finished second for 8th overall in the junior boys’ doubles B final, 10th in junior girls’ singles, 13th in girls’ U18 quads, and 14th and 16th in girls’ junior doubles,

Monmouth Comprehensive duo Laura Willis and Peaches Hale battled through to the six-boat A final of the girls’ U15 double sculls after finishing ninth out of 59 in the opening time-trial.

They came third in their semi and then fought hard in the final before placing fifth overall in 9.34.58.

Their schoolmates Tom Powell and Jack Bufton battled through to the C final in their 41-boat U15 boys’ doubles event, where they placed fifth for 17th overalll.

The 17th place finish was matched by Ross RC’s Emily Hermon in the 42-boat girls’ U15 singles and her clubmates Ella Bardsley-Taylor and Yasmin Howe in the girls’ U15 doubles, while Oliver Billington was second in the D final of the 47-boat boys’ U15 singles for 20th overall.

Meanwhile, no less than 28 Monmouth rowers will be launching out for Wales at this weekend’s Home Countries.

Monmouth Comprehensive School has eight in the team – Tom Smith, Rowan Kohler-Hoon, Finlay Waters, Mia Boycott, Talia Gould, Josephine Harrison, Katie Kearsey and Martha Waterstone.

Monmouth School for Boys is represeted by 10 rowers – Joe Harrison, Ryan Baldwin, Hamish Lawson, Cameron Michie, Antony Wright, Ben Emes, Alex Kulkarni, Robbie Prosser-Wrench, Rui de Sousa Stayton and Angus Whitehead.

Monmouth School for Girls has six team – Darcy Haines, Abigail Jones, Harriet Leaf, Anna Pritchard, Sonia Ambrose and Sasha Baldwin, while former pupil Pippa England rows in a strong women’s senior team which includes GB world and European U23 medallists Ellie Lewis and Issie Powell.

Former Monmouth School boy Steve Pearson will become the second oldest rower to represent Wales when he races at the age of 52, while London-based former Monmouth RC rowers Simon Williamson and Kathryn Lewis will also be launching out.

Meanwhile, Churcham European and world junior medalist James Cartwright will be looking to add another medal to his trophy cabinet at the World U23 championships in Florida this week.

The 19-year-old Hartpury product has enjoyed his first year of senior rowing at one of the world’s most prestigous sports clubs – Leander Club in Henley – whose rowers have won a total of 123 Olympic medals in its 201-year history, and include the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent.

This year he has won at top regatta, the Metropolitan, on Eton’s Olympic lake, and helped give the Dutch quad finalists a run for their money at Henley Royal, with his Leander boat losing out by just 1/3L.

And he has now won GB U23 selection in the men’s double with clubmate Viktor Kleshnev, as he continues his his long-term aim of following fellow Newent Community School product Natasha Page into the Olympic rowing team.