Worcester College Boat Club

A full report on all of Saturday’s racing available here

M1 - BUMPED
W1 - BUMP St Catz
M2 - BUMP Jesus to win BLADES
W2 - BUMPED
M3 - BUMPED

A full report on all of Friday’s racing available here

M1 - ROW OVER
W1 - BUMPED by Hertford
M2 - BUMP Hertford
W2 - BUMPED by Brasenose
M3 - BUMPED by Benets

A full report on all of Thursday’s racing available here

M1 - BUMPED by St Annes
W1 - ROW OVER
M2 - BUMP LMH
W2 - BUMPED by St Johns
M3 - BUMPED by Brasenose and Pembroke

A full report on all of Wednesday’s racing available here

M1 - ROW OVER
W1 - BUMP Exeter
M2 - BUMP Univ (and LMH)
W2 - ROW OVER
M3 - BUMPED (Keble)

For a full round up of the year see the Annual Report .

Two weeks after Summer VIIIs Worcester W1 made the trip to Henley Women’s Regatta, hoping to qualify for the Academic Eights Category. In tough conditions the crew raced well and were delighted to qualify (according to unofficial timings) in 9th place, as the only Oxbridge college crew and above the likes of Liverpool, Bristol and Bath University crews. This was an excellent achievement and testament to the crew’s hard work this year. Luck was against them when they turned up for their first round race the next day however, having been drawn against Reading University A – fastest qualifiers (11 secs ahead of the second placed crew in qualifying), and eventual event winners. With instructions from the coach to “go hard off the start and stay hard” the crew held with Reading initially before Reading pulled away for victory. However, Worcester acquitted themselves extremely well and hopefully their experience this year will fuel more successes at HWR in future years.

Summer VIIIs was another successful Regatta for WCBC. W2 won blades for the second time this year and W1 secured another three bumps bringing their total for the year to eight. On the men’s side there were some hard fought battles with other crews, and both M1 and M2 did Worcester proud.

Read a full round up of the action here: Summer VIIIs Summary

The 21st May saw M2 and W2 face the perils of Worcester Rowing Club Regatta. It was understandably confusing to have Worcester College competing in Worcester against Worcester University and RGS Worcester. Luckily for us, the bright pink finally came into its own, making us stand out against the far less brightly coloured opposition. The day kicked off with the girls facing Worcester University. Looking strong, with half a length off their opposition, two-thirds into the 750m course, it looked like an impending WCBC victory. It seems however that W2 were “saving themselves for Eights” (N.Dinnes), and 2 ill-timed crabs saw them finish half a length down on their opposition.*

Next up were the men. As one of only three crews in the division, with a bye to the final, the boys were ready to prove themselves over the sprint course. Fired up and ready to show schoolboys how it’s done, we headed to the start line. The starter, however, nearing the end of the day and clearly hoping to spice things up a bit, decided to botch the starting call, shouting ‘go’ when both coxes’ hands were up and both crews barely at front stops. The subsequent WCBC victory was a matter of brute force and was easily the worst rowing your correspondent has ever taken part in. Luckily for us, the RGS Worcester coach’s response to our offer of a re-race was ‘that’s racing’. M2 therefore came away officially the most experienced crew in Worcester College Boat Club, with tankards to prove it.

*They did, however, go on to win blades in Eights, so perhaps the ‘saving themselves’ strategy worked. Well done, girls.

-Will Mendelowitz

19th March 2011 - W1 made the trip to London to compete in Women’s Eights Head of the River. 315 crews, including many national and international level crews, raced the gruelling 6.7km course in beautiful sunshine on London’s tideway. Worcester’s blade-winning W1 finished 121st, the fastest of all the Oxford colleges entered.

Worcester finished 3rd in the bumps chart as W1, W2 and M3 all won blades in Torpids. Both First Eights ended the week in the top division. Full report on all the racing:
Torpids 2011 Report

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