Author: spcbc1929
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The King Award for Most Improved Rower
St Peter’s College Boat Club had a lot to celebrate at Hilary term’s Boat Club Dinner. Between them, our two men’s crews and two women’s crews managed fourteen bumps in total, placing us at the top of the total bumps table for the whole university. This was a fantastic level of success and as great an…
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150,000m for the Stroke Association
In light of the sad news of the much loved Francis King suffering a severe stroke last December, St. Peter’s College Boat Club decided to join thousands of fellow rowers on the 30th January (Saturday of 2nd Week) in the StrokeforStroke campaign to raise money for work of The Stroke Association. Members of SPCBC hopped on…
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Ready for Launch!
So the stress and strain of Christ Church is now more than a week behind us, and the time has come to start looking forwards and preparing our crews for the challenge posed by bumps racing. One thing has always given our boat-club an enormous advantage, and that is the wonderful stretch of the Thames…
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Christ Church Regatta 2009
With Christ Church Regatta both commencing and finishing on Wednesday, the entire boat club had plenty of time to prepare ourselves for a hard night of celebrating rowing at St. Peter’s. We might not have had the chance to prove to the rest of Oxford just how proficient the St. Peter’s novices have become with…
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On a Term with the Men’s Seniors…
Last night, at a wonderful dinner, the mens senior squad very generously presented me with a fine bottle of single malt along with their thanks. In truth it is I that should be thanking them! This term has seen a calamitous run of bad fortune, including illness, food poisoning, and multiple deaths to the launch.…
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As Race Day Draws Near…
The ergs are turning, the starts are finally getting there, someone is dusting off True Blue ready for the race-day-eve ritual screening; the Boat Club is getting ready to do what it does best: putting good crews into Oxford regattas in short order. If you’re in Oxford (be you student, alumnus or friend), do please…
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Confessions of a Novice Cox
I started rowing as a novice in Michaelmas 2008 and quickly developed a passion for all things rowing related. Inspired by Christ Church Regatta success I moved up the ranks to rowing in the mens first eight in Trinity term. This term I decided to have a go at coxing. I assumed that coxing would…
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Meanwhile, Down on the River…
I’ve seen quite a few of the Freshers crews over the last few weeks and they are shaping up very well indeed. Whether we will have success of the degree of intoxication as last year remains to be seen. Perhaps with Ladies A we have the best chance. They are big and strong and being…
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The Oxen Ford
In the dim and far off times Oh best Beloved, Oxford was not a great Centre of Learning elegantly spread along the well tempered shores of the Thames and Cherwell rivers but a set of squalid hovels and tawdry pubs running up a gravelly hill above a minor cattle ford over the swamp that stretched…
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