UW won all their races at the 30th Anniversary of Opening Day including the coveted Windermere Cup.
The 30th Annual Windermere Cup was originally supposed to pit the UW crew against Cuba. This never materialized, as the Cuban national teams pulled out last March in order to "focus on the upcoming Olympic Games" which, let's be honest, we're all assuming translates to "to prevent our rowers from defecting." Cuba's replacements ended up being, for the women's Varsity 8, Cambridge University, while the men's Varsity 8 faced the Russian U23 boat. The latter was particularly fitting since the first ever Windermere Cup was won by the Soviet Union in 1987.