University College London Boat Club

We welcomed in the New Year with Training Camp in Chiswick, a week which saw 60 rowers training up to three times a day, despite the rapidly decreasing temperatures and bitter cold wind. Having survived the seemingly never-ending week, we must still battle with persistent winter training. Even despite the snow! With a number of…

The beginning of term one promised new and exciting things for UCLBC, with an abundance of new novice rowers meaning the Boat Club became bigger than ever. The onslaught of ergs and weights after three months off, however, was not met with quite such delight… Suddenly Bloomsbury’s erg room filled up, purple and blue dominated…

Last Saturday morning the crewmembers of six Novice eights, four Senior eights and two senior fours made their way down to the UL boathouse, all keen and ready for the Allom Cup. Every year the event hosted by UL is the only opportunity for all the University of London colleges to measure up against one…

And on the 7th weekend, they faced the colleges. 30mph winds greeted the 48 nervous UCLBC novices as they arrived at their first regatta on the 25th of November. With the fear of that second stroke in the racing starts, and catching the “inevitable ejector crab” the organisers were expecting, the six beginner men and…