Hughes Hall College Boat Club

Hughes Hall College Boat Club
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Location Cambridge
Coordinates 52°12′38.6″N 0°8′4.3″E / 52.210722°N 0.134528°ECoordinates: 52°12′38.6″N 0°8′4.3″E / 52.210722°N 0.134528°E
Home water River Cam
Founded before 1992
Membership Hughes Hall and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Affiliations BR
Website hughesrowing.com

Hughes Hall College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Hughes Hall, Cambridge. The Boat Club houses its four rowing shells in the Emmanuel boathouse. Despite the college being founded in 1885 and the first male undergraduates arriving in 1973, the boatclub formed late compared to other colleges. The first crews joined at the bottom of the Bumps race order and were able to make rapid progress up the tables to a more 'natural' position: the Men's first crew won blades in the May Bumps in 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014.

M1, blades, Lents 2012

History

In 2003 there was an official merger with the boat club of Lucy Cavendish College, an all-women's college of Cambridge University. The result was a combined club formally recognised by the Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs as the "Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish Combined Boat Club". This combination is the only of its type at Cambridge, and is subject to significant controversy regarding both the ability of the two colleges to combine membership and the significant disparity between larger and smaller colleges as a whole, although this obviously only affects the women's crews.[1]

Since the merging of the two college boat clubs, Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish have enjoyed significant advances marked by three squads winning blades during the May Bumps 2009, including a 10 place gain by M2.[2] It was also the first time the boat club fielded four crews into the May Bumps. Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish have won the Pegasus Cup, awarded to the boat club that shows the largest cumulative advancement at the bumps, three times – in 2007, 2009 and 2014. They are the only club to have one the Pegasus Cup on more than one occasion.

Hughes Hall admits many students on one-year degrees. As such, the boat club trains many novices each year. Top performers are often given opportunities in the first VIII. Despite this, Hughes Hall is also known for producing many of those rowers who represent CUBC at The Boat Race. In 2009 half the roster of Goldie, the 2nd Varsity boat, were from Hughes.[3] This continued in 2010, including CUBC President Deaglen McEachern who was the first representative from Hughes Hall to hold this post.[4]

Other Appearances

In 2008, the women flew to Galway Ireland to race in the Tribesman Head of the River race and qualified for the Intermediate Coxed Fours in 2008 at Henley Women's Regatta.[5][6] The Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish women also competed in the Women's Eights Head of River Race (WeHorr) for the first time in 2009. They were the only Cambridge college to enter two boats. The first VIII overtook five boats and came 144th out of 291. W2 placed 272nd.[7]

References

  1. ↑ The Cambridge Review – Google Books
  2. ↑ Bumps Charts | CUCBC
  3. ↑ http://www.theboatrace.org/article/thecrew/cambridgecrew/2009
  4. ↑ http://www.theboatrace.org/article/thecrew/cambridgecrew/2010squad
  5. ↑ http://www.shandonboatclub.com/iopen24/catalog/pub//2008Hd1Section%20Results.doc
  6. ↑ http://www.hwr.org.uk/uploads/files/2008results.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.churchillboatclub.org.uk/news/w1_at_wehorr/