A CURRENT and former Evesham rower have booked places in the Welsh junior women's team for the Home International Regatta at Strathclyde Park on Saturday.

Sophie Evans and Immy Ledbetter have secured places for the weekend trip to Scotland.

Ledbetter, of Moreton-in-Marsh, took up the sport three years ago at Evesham on a learn-to-row course before moving up to the junior and then advance squads, winning at various summer regattas and winter heads.

Earlier this year she moved to the Worcester club where she has been training in a coxed women's junior 16 boat and with a women's eight crew around five times per week.

Ledbetter competed at the Metropolitan Regatta at Eton Dorney and the Henley ladies' regatta where the Welsh coach noticed her.

The 16-year-old went to Bristol for trials and made the junior women's squad as the youngest member to face England, Ireland and the hosts.