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 …
Queen’s crews prepare for Henley and Marlow
This week we have various crews from both clubs travelling over the pond to prepare for, and to race at, Henley Royal Regatta, Woman's Henley and Marlow Regatta. The Men's Club Senior 4x- are heading to Belgium for a training camp which will take them onto Marlow Regatta and finally into Henley Royal Regatta and …
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Athlone Regatta – Results
Mens and Ladies clubs from Queens attended Athlone Regatta on a sunny Saturday the 14th of June. Over the 1700m course we had various crews entered with much success. Liam Moran took home a win in the club 2 single scull by narrowly defeating the GSBC sculler. Jason Armstrong and Luke McCann won the Intermediate …
Men’s and Ladies’ AGM 2014
See below the new committees for each club. Men's Club Captain - Luke McCann Vice-Captain - Jason Armstrong Secretary - Andrew Beatty Treasurer - Liam Moran Logistics - James Cook Novice Managers - Christopher Rice & Brian Murray House and Grounds and Safety Officer - Ruairi Leonard Regatta Secretary - Mark McMullan Dinner Coordinator - …
10th Annual University Boat Race
Exams are mostly over, our crews are back training hard for the Boat Race on Saturday 7th June. Come on down and cheer all the crews on! See below details of the event!
Lord Rana visits Queen’s Boat House
Lady Victoria Boat Club President, Ricky Caruth, welcomed new club patron, Lord Rana, to the boat house on Saturday morning, 10 May. Lord Rana saw the boat house at it's typical bustling weekend best, talking to Queen's oarsmen and women, and members of the Lady Victoria committee, including club captain Maurice Warnock. LVBC President Ricky …
BUCS Regatta 2014 – Results
Queen's Rowing had a very successful weekend at BUCS Regatta 2014 taking home medals in 7 different categories. Conditions were probably the best that we will see for the next number of years with flat calm conditions on Day 1, very slight headwind on Day 2 and a moderate crosswind on Day 3. Throughout the …