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Good unis for rowing?

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Im applying to UCL, KCL and Newcastle, possibly StAndrews and Glasgow, anyone know which of these and others have good facilities and teams in Rowing?

Reply 1

AlphaNumeric

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Oxbridge

Reply 2

roff

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Birmingham :p:

Reply 3

OppressedMass

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ramroff

Birmingham :p:

Hmm I've always maintained that any city with 'ming' in the middle cant be any good.

Reply 4

Elles

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OppressedMass

Im applying to UCL, KCL and Newcastle, possibly StAndrews and Glasgow, anyone know which of these and others have good facilities and teams in Rowing?

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our current boat club captain was captain at glasgow as an undergrad - so i imagine they're reasonable.

but otherwise, haven't heard much of any of your other unis from regatta/Heads results etc. & of the non oxbridge unis it's Brookes, Nottingham and Imperial that stand out thinking of people i've met/GB trialists.

why not look up results of college 8 type races at Henley..?

am procrastinating & done it for you - Visitors Challenge Cup this year http://www.hrr.co.uk/thisyear/results/rvisitors.htm Brookes, Imperial & Durham are the only English university finalists.
in terms of student men coxed fours http://www.hrr.co.uk/thisyear/results/rstudent.htm again its Imperial, Durham & Brookes of the non Oxbridge. although the Uni of London as a composite also qualified - so if you went to GKT/UCL & were of a high enough standard perhaps UOL would be viable?

(assume you're male here - but can check females ones too if you want!)

& for a potentially more informed opinion will ask the boyf if he knows about the BCs of your choices.

Reply 5

Resonate_Thus

OppressedMass

Hmm I've always maintained that any city with 'ming' in the middle cant be any good.

However, there is a reddeming suggestion of 'ham'...eh?

Reply 6

OppressedMass

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Elles

<anecdote>

our current boat club captain was captain at glasgow as an undergrad - so i imagine they're reasonable.

but otherwise, haven't heard much of any of your other unis from regatta/Heads results etc. & of the non oxbridge unis it's Brookes, Nottingham and Imperial that stand out thinking of people i've met/GB trialists.

why not look up results of college 8 type races at Henley..?

am procrastinating & done it for you - Visitors Challenge Cup this year http://www.hrr.co.uk/thisyear/results/rvisitors.htm Brookes, Imperial & Durham are the only English university finalists.
in terms of student men coxed fours http://www.hrr.co.uk/thisyear/results/rstudent.htm again its Imperial, Durham & Brookes of the non Oxbridge. although the Uni of London as a composite also qualified - so if you went to GKT/UCL & were of a high enough standard perhaps UOL would be viable?

(assume you're male here - but can check females ones too if you want!)

& for a potentially more informed opinion will ask the boyf if he knows about the BCs of your choices.

Best post ever! You are a sweetie.
Imperial won't do as I'm no sientist, Durham as I'm not Oxbridge reject, but I'll look into Brookes. Only thing is I live in Oxford. If all my other choices fail 3 yrs spent rowing might be fun...

The quality of teams must vary year to year though, surely? I know that Newc has a yearly race with Durham and so must take it quite seriously.

Reply 7

alro

you can do rowing at basically every uni. i do it a warwick which isn't particularly well known for it but we have a lot of fun and it is taken seriously. we even have a GB rower in our men's senior team this year which is pretty cool, especially since he's a first year and he's pretty hot.

Reply 8

Elles

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you're welcome.

whoops, forgot about imperial being science only! :rolleyes:

well, if you're a serious rower (i.e. first boat at school? national junior trials?) then Brookes might suit for that aspect, they seem very strong, normally making semis/finals at Henley & quite a few GB Junior/Senior squad. & if you're into coaching/fancy making some money there are ~30-40 BCs in Oxford, plenty of which seem to have brookes student coaches. can understand wanting to move area - but from a student POV, Oxford is probably quite different to being a local..

The quality of teams must vary year to year though, surely? I know that Newc has a yearly race with Durham and so must take it quite seriously.

i imagine there's some fluctuation, yes. but should still think there are some general trends - what with it becoming self perpetuating that high standard rowers are drawn to certain unis, & more prestigious/'better' uni boat clubs will have bigger endowment funds/better facilities/attract better coaches etc.

not to say you won't have fun anywhere & oodles of unis do have boatclubs, but since you asked i imagine you're fairly seriously into it..?

oh & asked re Glasgow - apparently they are pretty good - but don't compete much in the english regatta esque circuit, which would probably account for me not knowing much!

Reply 9

kateykat

Elles

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our current boat club captain was captain at glasgow as an undergrad - so i imagine they're reasonable.

My brother was captain of the Glasgow uni rowing team about 8 years ago. I remember they used to do quite well...*random* those were the days!

Reply 10

Anth

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Durham appears to be good for rowing.

I am not a student there, but the amount of times they are out on the boats when I am on the River Wear fishing at 6am in the middle of winter shows that they have dedication at least :biggrin:

*Mumbles about boats getting too close and nearly dragging fishing rods in* :mad:

Reply 11

OppressedMass

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Hmm al taken on board and greatly appreciated :smile:

Im actually still a novice but am enjoying it a great deal, and hopefully going to get to competing standard sometime, its something I'd like to do at uni.

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