St Hilda's College Boat Club

St Hilda's College Boat Club, Oxford (SHCBC) is a rowing club part of the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford. The club was founded in 1911, and competes primarily in the Torpids and Summer Eights bumps races in Oxford.

St Hilda's College Boat Club
Longbridges Boathouse and the club blade colours
LocationLongbridges Boathouse
Coordinates51°44′19.3″N 1°14′47.0″W
Home waterThe Isis
Founded1911
Key people
  • Frank Gargent (Senior Member)
  • Alex Koffman (President)
  • Peter Belcak (Men's Captain)
  • Julia Halligan (Women's Captain)
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Colours         
Websitesthildasboatclub.co.uk

Pioneers of women's rowing

St Hilda's College was the first college of Oxford to have women rowing on Thames, at the turn of the 20th century, with the boat club founded in 1911.[1][2] It was St Hilda's student H.G. Wanklyn who formed OUWBC and coxed in the inaugural Women's Boat Race of 1927, with five Hilda's rowers. In 1969, the St Hilda's Eight made Oxford history when they became the first ever female crew to row in the Summer Eights. They placed 12th.

In the 1980s, Hilda's rowers Alison Gill and Pauline Janson were Olympians.[3]

Recent Years

After 1976, the Women's 1st VIII consistently competed in the first division of both the Torpids and Summer Eights competitions, placing second on the river in 1981. After the admittance of men to the college in 2008, performance declined and the crew is currently placed in division three.[4]

Since 2009, the men's boat has steadily climbed the Torpids and Summer Eights leagues, currently falling in division four of both competitions.

'Blades' have recently been achieved by the women's team in 2016, and by the men's team in 2013, 2016 and 2017. In 2016, the men's first boat was bumped in their 28th Summer Eights race, for the first time.

gollark: I could work on something other than science. There isn't much scanning to scan.
gollark: HelloBoi === 1337 hacker?
gollark: Do 500THz.
gollark: I have beam thingy data.
gollark: Oh bee oh apiary form.

See also

References
  1. "St Hilda's Boat Club". sthildasboatclub.co.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. Clewlow, Ellie (1994). "The Ammonite".
  3. "Oxonian Olympians". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  4. http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/bumps/shil/shil_wea.html
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.