Jason Armstrong: Men’s Club Captain Hello, I’m Jason Armstrong, Captain of QUBBC for the 2015-16 rowing season. I would like to introduce myself, and give you all an insight into our plans for the season ahead. I grew up around rowing as a child, both my parents rowed for Queen’s and I often found myself …
Continued work on Queen’s Boathouse refurbishment and the new Captains
With the rowing season at an end and with all athletes continuing their fitness with a well deserved break from on the water training, that does not mean the work has stopped at Queen's Boathouse. With the on-going refurbishment of the long standing Queen's boathouse, the current Queen's rowers are excited by the prospect of …
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Irish Rowing Championships 2015
The Queen's crews traveled down to Cork during the week of the 6th of July in preparation for the grand finale to the 2014-2015 season; the Irish Rowing Championships. The Men's intermediate 4+ were first up on Friday morning, and came up against some of the strongest crews in Ireland. After comfortably qualifying for the …
Update – June 2015
WIth Queen's regatta finished it was off to the library for the rowers as they prepared to take their summer exams. However, the minds naturally began to drift toward the University Boat Race on the 6th June. Eventually the big day arrived and it was a fantastic day of racing on the river Lagan. The …
Irish University Championships 2015
Once we arrived in Cork we were greeted with the disappointing news that Skibbereen Regatta had been cancelled due to forecasts of adverse weather conditions (they were obviously looking at different forecasts to us as this was totally unexpected). However the University Championships on the Friday were going to go ahead as planned, albeit with …
Indoor Champs, Lagan HOR, and heroic rowers
With exams now out of the way, the men's and ladies' squads were back into full training, with focus on the second part of the head season. Two of our rowers travelled down to Limerick for the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships to compete over 2km on the rowing machine. Philip Doyle clocked an astonishing 6:01 …
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Update – December 2014
December has been another busy month for QUBBC and QUBLBC. Things kicked off with the men's and Ladies' dinners. Friday 5th December saw a great turn out to the QUBLBC 46th Annual Ladies Dinner. We were pleased to have Beth Rodford as guest speaker, a British rower who has represented Team GB in the last two Olympic games …
Men’s and Ladies’ Dinners 2014
A quick update on the men's and ladies' 2014 club dinners. The ladies' dinner is on Friday 5th December, the men's dinner is on Saturday 6th December. Also, as I know it is of concern to a lot of ex-Queen's rowers, I can confirm that next year (2015), the mens dinner will return to it's …
Novices, British champs, and Irish trials
Since the last update it has been an action packed few weeks for Queen's Rowing with the novice programme now in full flow, four athletes competing at the British Rowing Championships and four athletes trialling for the Irish national rowing squad. With the new season well underway the novice programme is now beginning to gather …
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Welcome back! (2014)
Welcome back to the start of another exciting year for Queen's Rowing! The new Public Relations managers for the club are myself (Oliver Graham) and Jennifer Whittaker. We are both in the second year of our degree courses at Queen's, and after competing as novices last year we are about to begin our second season of rowing. …
Irish Rowing Championships 2014 – QUBLBC
Last weekend, 11th-13th July saw Queen’s Ladies Boat Club partaking in the annual Irish Rowing Championships being held in Cork. The weather conditions throughout the weekend were fair for rowing with a moderate tail wind each day. This meant the start was relatively sheltered with the wind and wave increasing further down the course. Friday: …
Irish Rowing Championships 2014 – QUBBC
The Men's and Ladies clubs now have their own individual Public Relations managers so updates will be posted separately in the future. We feel this will bring us more enthusiastic and complete reports of events and an overall better experience for you as readers. We enjoyed a very nice Irish Championships this year, the weather …