BUCS Head 2019 After a great winter block of training, a week in Seville and a trip up North to play in Newcastle, last weekend was finally time for BUCS Head. This is always the first opportunity of the season to see where we rank as we rapidly approach the regatta (summer) season. The boat
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Tyne Head 2019
When the Development Squad headed to Newcastle… On Friday 15th February, 17 athletes from the dev squad made the long journey up to Newcastle. They had their first race fixture on the Saturday competing in Tyne Head. A men’s 8+ and women’s 8+ were both entered in the Tier 4 category with high hopes of
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BUCS Indoors 2018
BUCS Indoors 2018 Sunday 25th November saw over 100 athletes come to Surrey Sports Park to compete in the first BUCS competition of the season – BUCS Indoors. It was the fourth consecutive year that USBC hosted this event. The day consisted of the senior athletes completing a 2km erg race and the beginner athletes
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Kingston Small Boats Head
Kingston Small Boats Head Saturday 10th November saw nine USBC boats head down the Kingston course for the first head race of the 2018/19 season. It was a successful day of racing with every boat finishing in the top four. Here are race reports from some of the athletes that competed. Race report from
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British Rowing Senior Championships
British Rowing Senior Championships Saturday On the weekend of October 21st/22nd, USBC saw five of its athletes heading to Nottingham to compete in the British Rowing Senior Championships. The first athlete to race was Sam Bodkin who was racing in the U23 lightweight 2x category with Molesey athlete Ash Cowley on the Saturday. Their first
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Peterborough City Summer Regatta
Peterborough City Summer Regatta took place on 11th and 12th August. On Saturday, races were held over 1km and over 500m on Sunday. First up to race on the Saturday were 3 singles, Maddy Brown, Megan Pearson and Ben Radcliffe-Brown. They were followed by the men’s 4+ racing in tier 1, compromised of Ali Douglass, Chris Homes, George
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Home International Regatta
HIR was hosted by Rowing Ireland and held on the 21st of July in Cork, where crews from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland race. As part of the squad from England, three of our girls had been selected to race. They qualified during England trials which were held on Sunday the 15th at the London
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EUSA 2018
The European University Games in rowing were held from the 14th to 19th of July in Coimbra, Portugal. Due to the win in the championship pair at BUCS regatta, USBC were able to send a pair to the games. Alastair Douglass and Alex Law flew over together with the coaching team after preparing for the
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Henley Royal Regatta
Held from the 5th to 8th of July 2018, Henley Royal Regatta was the highlight of this season for the men’s squad. For the first time in club history, they qualified for the Temple Challenge Cup. As part of their qualification, they were able to stay in Henley for the time which helped them in preparing
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Henley Women’s Regatta
On the weekend of the 21st of June, our women’s squad ventured to Henley on Thames to take on the final big regatta this season. 12 of our athletes raced in two crews. As the categories were changed since last year, an aspirational academic eight and a development four were entered. On the Friday, the
