Meet the Cambridge University crew

			Name:		Tom Stallard (President)
			Position:		Bow
			Nationality:		British
			Age:		23
			Height:		6ft 3ins (1.91m)
			Weight:		14st (89kgs)
	Stallard has been in the Cambridge boat for four years and was elected President after last year's race. Wins in his first and third outings sandwiched a defeat in 2000. He enjoyed World Cup success in the GB eight last year before his season was cut short by an ankle operation.
			Name:		Sam Brooks
			Position:		2-Strokeside
			Nationality:		American
			Age:		23
			Height:		6ft 3 ins (1.91m)
			Weight:		14st 4lbs (90.7kgs)
	Rowed in the number two seat in the American eight at last year's world championships. It was his first appearance in the senior national team having been selected at stroke twice as a junior. This is his first appearance in the Boat Race, although he has won the US equivalent in Harvard colours.
			Name:		James Livingston
			Position:		3-Bowside
			Nationality:		British
			Age:		21
			Height:		6ft 3ins (1.92m)
			Weight:		14st 13lbs (94.8kgs)
	At 21, Livingston is the youngest oarsman in the Cambridge boat. He has rowed in the reserve race for the last two years, winning in Goldie in 2001 and losing 12 months earlier. He finished sixth in the coxed four in last year's Nation's Cup - the under 23 world championships.
			Name:		Sebastien Mayer
			Position:		4-Strokeside
			Nationality:		German
			Age:		28
			Height:		6ft 3ins (1.91m)
			Weight:		13st 13lbs (86.7kgs)
	The German lends great experience to the boat having represented his country at the last two Olympic Games. He finished fourth in the heavyweight double sculls in Sydney two years ago. And Mayer also has silver medals from the world championships in 1999 and 2000.
			Name:		Josh West
			Position:		5-Bowside
			Nationality:		British
			Age:		24
			Height:		6ft 9.5ins (2.12m)
			Weight:		15st 6.5lbs (98.2kgs)
	The American-born Brit is the tallest man to ever take part in the Boat Race. This is his fourth outing on the Tideway in Cambridge's Light Blue, and he has also rowed in the Yale-Harvard race. West was part of the World Cup-winning GB eight that finished fifith at the world championships 12 months ago.
			Name:		Lukas Hirst
			Position:		6-Strokeside
			Nationality:		Australian
			Age:		29
			Height:		6ft 3.5ins (1.94m)
			Weight:		14st 7lbs (92.1kgs)
	The one-time lawyer came back from "retirement" to row for Cambridge last year. Hirst, a former Australian surfboat champion, was lured back to his childhood hometown and was rewarded with victory. The oldest competitior in the race is now hoping to make the most of his dual qualification and row for Great Britian.
			Name:		Stu Welch
			Position:		7-Bowside
			Nationality:		Australian
			Age:		24
			Height:		6ft 4ins (1.95m)
			Weight:		14st 2lbs (89.8kgs)
	The Australian, who has performed at the highest level of the sport, takes part in his first Boat Race. At his home Olympics in 2000, Welch was part of the eight that took silver. Prior to that he enjoyed sustained success in the Nation's Cup with a silver medal in 1997 and a gold a year later.
			Name:		Rick Dunn
			Position:		Stroke
			Nationality:		British
			Age:		25
			Height:		6ft 4ins (1.93m)
			Weight:		15st 1.5lbs (95.9kgs)
	The Blue was a member of Britain's winning coxless four at the 2001 world championships in Lucerne. It was his second world gold, having won the coxed four 12 months earlier. His father coached rowing at Cambridge University and his cousin, Andrew, is in this year's Oxford boat.
			Name:		Eleanor Griggs
			Position:		Cox
			Nationality:		British
			Age:		19
			Height:		5ft 5.5ins (1.69m)
			Weight:		8st 9lbs (54.8kgs)
	The only woman in the race will be returning to her old haunts. Griggs coxed at school on the Tideway from the age of 15. Last year she was involved in the men's lightweights at Nottingham.