We announce and welcome Dick Millard as Club Coordinator. Dick will be responsible for administrative support our Coaching team, Executive Committee and our University partners, sponsors and stakeholders. “We are all delighted to welcome Dick as our new Club Coordinator to Cambridge University Women’s and...
Charlotte Jackson at Jesus College studies within the Earth Sciences Department. The mantle comprises over 80% of the solid Earth, yet what do we know about it? The answer to that is not much! So, when I’m not on the water, rowing with CUWBC, I spend...
Thank you! We would like to take a moment to deviate from our usual style of posting to thank all the wonderful volunteers who support our scholar athletes from far and wide. [caption id="attachment_17845" align="alignnone" width="350"] David & Lucy Pike, Emma & Vanessa Andrews[/caption] We are grateful to the...
It was a successful day with our two Openweight women’s eights winning the Championship 8 and Senior 8 divisions. Quintin Head gave us another great opportunity to practice racing on the Tideway and managing strong wind conditions. The Quintin Head course is the Championship Boat...
Earlier this month, the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club and Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club flew to Banyoles, Spain to take advantage of the winter break for some intensive training on the buoyed 2k race course there. The squad spent a week in Banyoles, returning...
[caption id="attachment_17795" align="alignnone" width="810"] Crews From Clean Sweep 1993[/caption] To commemorate Clean Sweep of six victories by Cambridge against Oxford in the Boat Races in 1993, the Hawks’ Club gathered all six crews together in Portugal Place for a photograph together with Lord Butterworth of the...
It is Trial VIII's Day & Nobel Prize Day Chief Coach Robert Weber has selected his two crews to race later today along the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race course from Putney to Mortlake. The selected rowers and coxes are drawn from 10 University of Cambridge colleges...
For the first time in many years, CUWBC returned to its roots on the Cam to race Fairbairns – a 4300m course starting at Jesus college boat house. CUWBC I and II were matched openweight crews, but still managed to be first and second women’s...
CUWBC had 6 athletes entered in the GB rowing team 1st winter assessment, which took place this weekend in Boston, Lincs. Tricia Smith gives her report of the weekend, which culminated in her and her pair partner Pippa Whittaker winning the Openweight Womens 2- water...
On Saturday, a team of 9 crews from CUWBC and CULRC raced the full boat race course backwards, at Fuller's Head of the River race. CUWBC Vice President Emma Andrews reports...