Cambridge will race leading British club, Leander, this Saturday on the Thames in the lead up to the 2006 Boat Race which takes place on April 2nd and is sponsored by Xchanging.
Leander will field a crew which includes world and Olympic Champion Steve Williams in the stroke seat with current world champions Alex Partridge and Peter Reed in the seven and fifth seats respectively.
Reed, of course, was part of Oxford's winning Boat Race crew last year.
Former world silver medallist Toby Garbett will be at bow in a Leander line-up which may give Cambridge a stiffer test than the Molesey crew of two weeks before.
Oxford, meanwhile, take on an Imperial College eight on Sunday. This is packed with Italian internationals and should, once more, prove a testing pre-Race work-out.
CREW LISTS
SATURDAY 18 March
15.00 Cambridge "Blue" Boat v Leander
Cambridge
Stroke: Kip McDaniel
Tom James
Kieran West
Sebastian Schulte
Thorsten Engelmann
Sebastian Thormann
Tom Edwards
Luke Walton
Cox: Peter Rudge
Leander
Bow Toby Garbett
2 Marcus Bateman
3 Matthew Langridge
4 Steve Rowbotham
5 Peter Reed
6 Rick Egington
7 Alex Partridge
Stroke Steve Williams
Cox Steph Richards
Sunday 19 March
15.00 Isis v Polish eight
Cox: Nick Brodie
Andrew Brennan
Phillip (Phil) Killicoat
Terence Reece Kooyker
Bruce Magee
Jonathan (Jonny) Mathews
Michiel Munneke
Dominic Burke
Andrew Wright
Polish eight names not yet available
15.30 Oxford "Blue" boat v an Imperial College eight
Oxford
Cox: Sebastian (Seb) Pearce
Paul Daniels
Robin Esjmond-Frey
Tom Parker
Bastien Ripoll
James (Jamie) Schroeder
Colin Smith
Jacob (Jake) Wetzel
Barney Williams
Imperial
Cox: Abbie Stephenson.
Carlo Mornati
Leonardo Raffaello
Dario Dentale
Mario Palmisano
Elia Luini
Pierpaolo Frattini
Niccolo Mornati
Lorenzo Porzio-Bow.