Queen's University Belfast Boat Clubs
Announcements and updates
The last two months of 2016 has been a busy period for Queen’s Rowing seeing both Micro Head on the Lagan and Bann Head. On top of this both novice and intermediate crews see huge improvements with many members exceeding their personal best times at the BUCS indoor event. In December, not only did we [...]
We had seven students at the National Rowing Centre in Cork from Friday the 16th to Sunday 18th December to take part in Rowing Ireland’s National team trials. It involved EAP athletes Sam McKeown and Tiernan Oliver along with Academy athletes Ewan Murray, Miles Taylor, Jordan Wilson, Olivia Blundell and Roisin Maguire. All trial races were conducted [...]
This year at Queen’s Rowing we have two new PR Officers, Bilal Korimbocus and Laura Potts. We would just like to take a moment to introduce ourselves. Bilal is a second year Medical student at Queen’s University Belfast. Last year, he was the novice cox for the men’s cub. This year he has chosen not [...]
Patrick Martin: Men’s Club Captain Hello fellow QUBBC alumni past, present and indeed future, for the 2016/17 season I am Patrick Martin and I am privileged to call myself Captain. Blonde hair and lightweight it now seems QUBBC definitely has a type when it comes to Captains over subsequent years. Personally I hope this is [...]
Chris Rice Boat Naming Commemoration Last month not only saw the start to our Regatta Campaign but also something very personal to Queen's Rowing. With the loss of Chris last year to a tragic car accident many club members, supporters and coaches wished to do do something to honour his memory. The decision was finally [...]
Last weekend saw Queen's University Belfast travelling to the British Universities & Colleges Sport Regatta in Nottingham. Following on from the first two regattas of the year at the Irish University Championships and Skibbereen Regatta in Cork during April, the Men's Squad had set their sights on Nottingham. Results & Medals The first success [...]
2016 Irish University Championships With the beginning of the regatta season Queen's Rowing set out to Cork and the National Rowing Centre at Farran Wood. Both Men's and Ladies squads from Novice to Senior were raring to go from winter training and a long HoRR season. The first event was the Senior 2-. Representing Queens were [...]
On Saturday 20th The Queen's Men travelled to Newcastle to compete at the Annual British University and College Sports Head of River Race. The club submitted racers in both the Intermediate 8+ as well as Championship Lightweight 4-. Both events ran on the Sunday with the 4-s running in the morning and the 8+s occurring [...]
Upcoming Events for QUBBC Below is an outline of the upcoming events that Queens shall be competing in over the coming months; Lagan HoR: 27th of February Erne HoR: 5th of March Irish University Championships Cork: 8th to 10th April BUCS Regatta Nottingham: 30th April to 2nd May Queen's Regatta Castlewellan: 7th May University Boat [...]
QUBBC January Update & New Year Winter Training With New Years over and the crews having enjoyed their Christmas break all squads have returned to training. With exams looming the Men's Club is prioritising their time well alongside their academics. Thanks to a break in the bad weather some great progress has been made on the water [...]
What's been going on? The last few months have been jam packed for us at Queen's Rowing. With now having moved into our new Boathouse both Men's and Ladies Clubs are throwing themselves into the Winter Training for Head of River Season. The new building and facilities are a great asset to both current rowers and our [...]
Evening All As the University year is about to begin the Queen's boathouse nears completion. Having worked tirelessly the construction of the newly refurbished is nearly finished, with a face-lift and an extension to the old boathouse the Queen's oarsmen and oarswomen are excited by the prospect of pushing off the newly constructed pontoon! [...]