Manchester University Boat Club
This weekend saw our Senior squads race at BUCS head in Newcastle. Unfortunately due to high winds, the novice divisions had to be cancelled. After a 4 start, both squads headed up to Newcastle, and after rigging the boats everyone boated in good spirits for the first division First up was the women’s intermediate 8+. […]
Sunday 24th November saw us go back to Runcorn to race down the 750m time trial course at Novice Race Day. Hosted by Liverpool University Boat Club. As always it was a great day, which provided our novice crews with their first taste of racing, as well as the opportunity to learn essential skills such […]
Saturday the 9th of November saw all of our squads do incredibly well at BUCS indoors, hosted at Leed university. The day started off with the men’s open weight 2k, in which we had four entrants. They all put in very good performances with Felix Rummel and Tom Bobrowski securing first and second place retrospectively […]
UMIST Boat Club (as it was then called) was founded in November 1994 when UMIST changed its partnership with the University of Manchester and was required to establish independent sports teams from Manchester University. Prior to the foundation of UMIST Rowing Club, UMIST students used to compete as Manchester University, UMIST contributed about 20% of […]
Executive Committee President – Miles McEwan Degree- Material science and Engineering. Rowing history- Miles joined MUBC in 2016, having learnt to row at Bedford Modern School in 2011. Whilst his rowing performance peaked at 16 when he medalled at the National Schools’ Regatta, Miles is a veteran at the club with this being his third […]
Yesterday saw both senior squads race in their first race of the season at Agecroft head. It was an uncharacteristically dry day for Manchester which saw both squads have a successful day racing down the 3100m course. The first boat to race was Felix Rummel who once again delivered a great performance placing first in […]
MUBC had two boats rowing at Henley Royal Regatta qualifiers. Our VIII+ competed in the Temple Challenge Cup and the IV+ in the Prince Albert Challenge cup. MUBC’s ruthlessly competitive mens’ heavyweight IV+ and VIII+ made a spectacular start to their season a few weeks before HRR by starting to train. The crew rapidly “gelled” […]
Saturday 11th May saw the return of the battle between Salford University Boat Club and MUBC in the Two Cities Boat Race. The University of Manchester and the University of Salford battled it out over 500m in glorious sunshine on the River Irwell. Twelve crews raced in six categories: Alumni 8+ (separate Bridgewater Cup), Novice […]
May Bank Holiday weekend saw 20 crews compete in the largest student regatta. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t as good as last year, with Holme Pierrepont providing the usual strong head wind. This meant that the majority of the minor finals were cancelled due to the adverse conditions. Saturday was extremely successful with Claire Boomla from […]
After a positive week’s water sessions, the Senior Men’s 8+ were looking forward to racing at Eights Head on the 30th April. It would be the last head race of MUBC’s calendar and they were determined to put in a good performance. After the morning stress of missing a number, we were given a temporary […]