Manchester University Boat Club
Despite a lack of photographic evidence, the club had an incredibly successful weekend at Royal Chester Rowing Club, with the novice women’s first 8 Securing 1st place!! The senior women’s and senior composite 8’s also did incredibly, both come second in their bands. Unfortunately, due to damage to the boat, the novice men were unable […]
Over the weekend the women’s squads headed down to London to race the Women’s 8’s Head of the River Race 2025. It was the first time since 2022 that MUBC have been able to attend and considering it is the biggest women’s rowing race in the world it was a much anticipated race and the […]
On Saturday (29th February) the senior and novice men’s squads headed back to runcorn for another race. The sun was out and the boys were ready and raring to row the 6k, a great opportunity to prepare for HORR in a couple of weeks time. The day started with division 1 where we saw the […]
On the 22nd and 23rd of February, the squads were meant to be headed up to Newcastle for a weekend of racing at BUCS 4s and 8s head with the seniors competing on the Saturday and novices on the Sunday. However, due to forecasted winds of up to 50mph on Sunday (not to mention the […]
After an initial cancellation in December due to the rain, this weekend (2nd February) the novice squads were let loose at Runcorn rowing club for Nov Race Day!! It was a great success with some brilliant performances from the novices, a good turn out of seniors to help out, a lovely sunny day and of […]
As usual, the start of term was very busy with society and sports fairs as well as our taster sessions held at the Boat House. We ran the sessions over two days, the first of which was lovely and sunny, the second of which not so much. We had a great turnout and even had […]
With a new academic year comes a new committee!! The 2024/25 committee is a mix of old and new faces and we can’t wait to see what they can bring to the club! Jesse Devaney – President Matt Mace – Club Captain Amaris Bhasin – Senior Women’s Captain Gus Elliott – Senior Men’s Captain Abbie […]
On the 11th of March, Manchester hosted Salford at the annual Two Cities Boat Race! A slightly different format this year with the race being held on the canal rather than at Salford Quays, but the sun was shining and both clubs were in high spirits! Competing in three categories with current athletes and alumni, […]
On the 4th of May, MUBC headed down to Holme Pierre Point, Nottingham to race to BUCs regatta! Here’s how we got on! Saturday On Saturday, we had a huge variety of crews going out, both Novice and Senior, with the novice’s getting their first taste of side by side racing! Headed out for their […]
On the 31st of March, MUBC headed to Nantes in France for our Easter training camp! With 54 athletes, 3 coaches and 6 days, we rowed 459km in a huge effort from all 4 of our squads and our fantastic coxes! We are really please with the progress made this week and are now gearing […]