Jesus College Boat Club

Novice rowing at Jesus is a great way to meet new people, stay fit, have fun, get involved in loads of social activities and meet people from other colleges. Not to mention a welcome break from work.

We would love for you to come and try it out and make the most of our excellent facilities and coaching. Even if you are unsure about it, come along and give it a try and if it's not your thing, there'll be no hard feelings.

To get involved come see us at the college freshers' fair (look out for the red and black oars), visit the boat house for the open day BBQ or come meet the senior squad at the JCBC Squash. Or you can contact a Lower Boats Captain (LBC). We look forward to meeting you soon. Have a great freshers' week.

The Boathouse Open Day will be 10:00-16:00, Sunday 7th October 2012. Come along for a BBQ and to see what rowing is all about (map to Jesus Boathouse).

On Saturday 3rd March, a crew made up of seven seniors and a novice went to the Women’s Head of the River Race (the Lents were brought forward a day to accommodate the Women’s HoRR).  Again this was a very solid row – whilst fatigue was evident after the four days of the Bumps, we still finished in a respectable 146th place.

One of the goals of Michaelmas was to get a new group of novices involved and trained up, and in this regard we had a great Michaelmas term.  The fresher’s fair sign up at the start of term saw an extremely large proportion of the year signing up to try rowing.  Our first promising result was that of our novice men’s first VIII coming 4th in the Queen’s ergs competition, with one of our rowers pulling the fastest erg overall.  NM2 and 3 both also ranked highly in their divisions.  

The next 2 competitions of note were Emma sprints and Clare novices.  Whilst unfortunately without any overall winners for us, both NM1 and NM2 rowed well and were beaten only by the finalist/winners of their divisions.

The main event of term was the Fairbairn cup races in which, on the novice side, we entered 4 men’s boats and 2 women’s boats.  Our NW1 came 14th and our NM1 came 9th – so, whilst there is room for improvement with these rowers, there is definitely promising talent.

The Lent Bumps 2011 took place Tuesday 1st to Saturday 5th March. JCBC will represented by 4 men's crews and 2 women's crews (and also a 5th men's crew which unfortunately did not get on).

M1					Starting 6th in Division 1 Bumped by Queens', Trinity Hall
M2					Starting 9th in Division 2 Bumped by Wolfson. Bumped Wolfson, Lady Margaret II
M3					Starting 9th in Division 3 Bumped by Clare II, King's II. Bumped King's II. Bumped by Kings II
M4					Starting 14th in Division 4 Bumped by Trinity Hall IIi, St. Catharine's III, Hughes Hall II, Magdalene III
W1					Starting 6th in Division 1 Bumped by Queens'
W2					Starting 6th in Division 2 Bumped by Murray Edwards, Fitzwilliam

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