Our primary competition is within the United Hospitals Boatclub! through which we find ourselves in stiff competition with the other medical schools around London and the Royal Veterinary College. Looking to the Hall of Fame you can see our previous success.
The first race of the year is known within the club as Cambridge Head. This is a time trial along a 2.2km stretch of the river Cam. For the novice crew this will be the first taste of a rowing race and more importantly their first introduction to racing with RUMSBC.
After comes the UH novice Sprints, this is the first of four events organised by the United Hospitals Boat Club. The Novice Sprints are series of head to head elimination competition, a sprint of roughly 1000m along the Thames near the the University of London Boat House. This race is unique in that only the Novice crews of each boat club compete. It is traditionally followed by the UH Pub Crawl, the first of many United Hospitals events.
The third event is Allom Cup, this is organised by the University of London Boat Club. This event is very like the Novice Sprints but entrants are all crews from the constituent colleges of the University of London. The competition and it’s sister the Ann Redgrave are in effect to find the best crews of the entirety of University of London.
The UH Regatta is in all respects the same race as Allom Cup the important distinction is that this event is limited to the UH Colleges so the air is thick with traditional UH rivalries.
The final UH event of the spring term often becomes the most important race in the RUMSBC racing calender. This is the UH Head race, over 3.6km from the Pink Lodge back to the Mortlake Anglian and Alpha Boat Club. We are often very successful in this race; in 2012 all our senior crews were victorious and in 2013 both the Men’s and Women’s 2nd VIII’s were victorious. The Men’s 2nd VIII were able to extend an unbeaten record of 8 years. In 2014 all crews performed exceptionally well considering that the river had been closed for several weeks before the race due to adverse weather conditions. Lets hope the 2015 crews can get us back to our winning ways.
After the race is the annual UH dinner, where all the boat clubs gather for a meal and eagerly await the announcing of results.
The year culminates with UH Bumps usually held at the end of May. All the crews line up along the river and race back to the boathouse, aiming to overtake or hit the crew in front (bump) before being taken over themselves. Its a fantastic weekend of rowing and fun is had by all!
The first race of the year is known within the club as Cambridge Head. This is a time trial along a 2.2km stretch of the river Cam. For the novice crew this will be the first taste of a rowing race and more importantly their first introduction to racing with RUMSBC.
After comes the UH novice Sprints, this is the first of four events organised by the United Hospitals Boat Club. The Novice Sprints are series of head to head elimination competition, a sprint of roughly 1000m along the Thames near the the University of London Boat House. This race is unique in that only the Novice crews of each boat club compete. It is traditionally followed by the UH Pub Crawl, the first of many United Hospitals events.
The third event is Allom Cup, this is organised by the University of London Boat Club. This event is very like the Novice Sprints but entrants are all crews from the constituent colleges of the University of London. The competition and it’s sister the Ann Redgrave are in effect to find the best crews of the entirety of University of London.
The UH Regatta is in all respects the same race as Allom Cup the important distinction is that this event is limited to the UH Colleges so the air is thick with traditional UH rivalries.
The final UH event of the spring term often becomes the most important race in the RUMSBC racing calender. This is the UH Head race, over 3.6km from the Pink Lodge back to the Mortlake Anglian and Alpha Boat Club. We are often very successful in this race; in 2012 all our senior crews were victorious and in 2013 both the Men’s and Women’s 2nd VIII’s were victorious. The Men’s 2nd VIII were able to extend an unbeaten record of 8 years. In 2014 all crews performed exceptionally well considering that the river had been closed for several weeks before the race due to adverse weather conditions. Lets hope the 2015 crews can get us back to our winning ways.
After the race is the annual UH dinner, where all the boat clubs gather for a meal and eagerly await the announcing of results.
The year culminates with UH Bumps usually held at the end of May. All the crews line up along the river and race back to the boathouse, aiming to overtake or hit the crew in front (bump) before being taken over themselves. Its a fantastic weekend of rowing and fun is had by all!
Bumps'14 from justchazzo on Vimeo.
Outside of UH, HoRR and Hammersmith Head are common events and we now aim to get crews to both BUCS Regatta and to Henley Royal Regatta whenever possible. Our Women's Captain for 2013/14 Jess Rankine rowed for UCL at Henley Women's Regatta 2014 and was in the winning team for the Academic VIII's category. Also rowing was Maja Donaldson (UL) who won gold in the Academic IVs.
