University of London Boat Club

University of London Boat Club
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Motto Excellence Through Rowing
Location Chiswick, London, UK United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°28′57″N 0°16′28″W / 51.4825°N 0.2745°W / 51.4825; -0.2745Coordinates: 51°28′57″N 0°16′28″W / 51.4825°N 0.2745°W / 51.4825; -0.2745
Home water Tideway
Founded 1864 (1864)
Affiliations British Rowing
Website www.ulbc.co.uk
Distinctions
Henley Royal Regatta (43 wins - the most successful university at HRR) Olympic Games (representation at every Games since 1960) Henley Women's Regatta (36 wins in HWR's 25 year history)
Notable members

University of London Boat Club (ULBC or UL) is the rowing club for the University of London with membership open to students of all of its constituent Colleges. As with other collegiate universities, many of the University of London's colleges have their own boat clubs. Members of these college boat clubs who feel strong enough can trial for a place in the squad of The University Of London Boat Club to compete at an elite level. The club has its boat house on the River Thames in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom and is a designated High Performance Programme for GB Rowing, providing a pathway for athletes onto the U23 and Senior GB Rowing Teams

The University of London Boat Club (ULBC) has been represented at every Olympic Games since 1960, has more Henley Royal Regatta wins than any other British University in history and has won at least one event a year at Henley Women's Regatta for the past 20 years. ULBC won the Victor Ludorum in 2014 at the BUCS Regatta. ULBC has produced a huge number of international representatives, many of whom have then gone on to medal or win at Senior and U23 World Championships and Olympic Games.

History

The club was formed in the mid-1860s, and since 1950 has won 43 Henley Regatta finals, produced 125 full internationals winning 363 vests[n 1], achieving a total of 74 medals: 21 gold, 19 silver and 34 bronze. At U23 Internationals and World Student Games events the club has won 178 vests and produced 31 medal-winning crews (9 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze).[1]

ULBC has been represented at every Olympic Games since 1960:

Coaching team

The University of London Boat Club has three full-time coaches, two S&C coaches and a large network of volunteer coaches. Physio support is also available. There are a number of alumni and volunteers who help with facilities and logistics. Phil Gray was appointed Chief Coach in 2015, replacing Brian Young who continues to support the club.

Scholarships and support

The University of London Boat Club supports all its athletes by covering race entries, transport to events, racing kit and subsidising post training meals and club training camps. For those athletes who are competing at the top level of the sport they will receive assistance in covering the extra costs associated with that. The club is also able to offer subsidised on-site accommodation.

There is also support available from the university in the form of the Convocation Trust. This funding is available through the university to help cover the costs associated with international representation.

Some individual college sports department also have sport bursaries available to students of those colleges. These vary in form from cash bursaries to support services such as physiotherapy and strength and conditioning. In addition most colleges have a number of academic scholarships and bursaries.

Alumni and wider participation

The club shares its facilities with an active and supportive rowing alumni club, Tyrian Club which began as a selective club but in common with various community-minded sports initiatives across British universities became open to a wide range of non-novice adults in the early 2010s with its own designated blades and training programme.[2] Tyrian members frequently train with the current ULBC squad. In 2013 a Tyrian Club crew won the Wyfold Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta and in 2015 won an event at the Head Of The Charles Regatta, in the USA.

Notable members

College boat clubs

As with other collegiate universities, the University of London's colleges have their own boat clubs. Members of these college boat clubs who feel strong enough can trial for a place in the squad of The University Of London Boat Club.

Imperial College School of Medicine Boat Club[n 2]

London School of Economics Boat Club
Queen Mary, University of London Boat Club[n 4]
Royal Free and University College Medical School Boat Club
Royal Holloway College Boat Club[n 5]

St George's Hospital Medical School Boat Club
University College London Boat Club[n 7]

The senior male crews of these colleges compete annually for the Allom Cup. Additionally, the medical schools take part in the United Hospitals Bumps races. Both contests take place on the Tideway.

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ Positions in national boats
  2. ↑ Land training of ICSMBC is at Imperial College Boat Club, Putney
  3. ↑ KCLBC inc. Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals. Boat at Tideway Scullers School (a club 100m downstream of the UL boathouse)
  4. ↑ Based at the London Regatta Centre, London Docklands
  5. ↑ Land training at Egham
  6. ↑ Land training in September at the London Regatta Centre, Docklands
  7. ↑ Land training of UCLBC is at Bloomsbury campus
References
  1. ↑ "Boat Club Wins prestigious cup, Alumni to compete in London 2012". ULU Student Union. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Tyrian Club". Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Katie Greves". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Maurice Hayes". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Frances Houghton". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
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