Well done to the Men's Boat Club who have won Team of the Year at the 2017 QUB Blues Awards. This follows the 11 medals and 4th place Victor Lodurum finish at BUCS regatta last month under the guidance of Trevor McKnight and Mick Desmond. Additional congratulations to Tiernan Oliver, Philip Doyle, Sam McKeown, Chris Beck, …
Update – February 2017
Each year BUCS head takes place on the River Tyne in Newcastle with both novice and intermediate crews taking part. Due to Storms Doris and Ewan, BUCS officials cancelled the event for novice crews on the Saturday. However, the novices travelled to Newcastle to support the inter crews, showing great club spirit! Sunday saw a …
Update – January 2017
January has been a busy start to the rowing year as both clubs took part in our Winter Training Camp on the Lagan. We trained three times a day, from Monday to Friday, and individually clocked up over 200km each. The clubs mixed things up halfway through the week by training boats made up of …
Update – December 2016
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 …
EAP and Academy Update
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 …
Update – October 2016
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 …
Captains’ Address 2016-17
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 …
Naming the Filippi 4+ & Ghent Regatta
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 …
Roaring Success for Queens at BUCS
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 …
Regatta 2016 season begins
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 …
BUCS Head 2016
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 …
Irish Indoors Championships & Lagan Scullers Head
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 …
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