Alumni News: Laura Wins the Bronze in Rowing

This past summer, Heritage Alumnae Laura Burton earned a bronze for Great Britain at the World Rowing U19 Championships in Italy. During the women’s quadruple sculls final, she and her crew finished in an impressive 6 minutes 33.54 seconds, closely following behind first place Romania and second place Germany. This most recent victory for Laura comes after a busy 2021, during which she won in the girls’ singles sculls title at the National Schools Regatta in May and was selected for the British Rowing U19 squad winter training camp in December. Laura, a 2020 Heritage Leaver, attended sixth form at The Perse and is currently spending her gap year with the Leander Club’s prestigious rowing  programme in Henley.