University of Warwick Boat Club
| University of Warwick Boat Club | |
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| Location | Barford, Warwickshire, UK |
| Home water | River Avon |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Coaches | Thomas Broomfield, Oliver James, Patrick Hinton, Oliver Frazer |
| Membership | 100 (approx) |
| Affiliations | British Rowing |
| Website |
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| Notable members | |
| Tom Solesbury | |
The University of Warwick Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Warwick. The men's team is colloquailly known as the Warwick Rowers. The club was founded in 1966[1] and currently has over a hundred members.[2] It rows out of a boathouse on a 3.5 km stretch of the River Avon, Warwickshire. It caters for all levels of rowers from novices to experienced oarsman, and boasts previous members such as Oxford University Boat Club member and Boat Race winner, Ben Ellison[3] and Olympian Tom Solesbury.[4]
Facilities
The club's facilities include sixteen Concept2 ergos and a Concept2 dynamic ergo, kept in the on-campus sports centre. The club's men's 1st VIII currently rows in a 2008 wing-rigged Empacher[5] and the women's 1st VIII currently rows in a 2011 Janousek.[5] The club owns three further eights, three fours and numerous small boats.
The club trains out of a recently rebuilt[5] boathouse on a 3.5 km stretch of the River Avon south of Warwick Castle.
Warwick Graduate Boat Club
The club's alumni maintain strong links with the club through the Warwick Graduate Boat Club.[6] Members of WGBC and UWBC regularly compete.
Recent alumni of the club include Boat Race winners Ben Ellison[3][7] and Olympic rower Tom Solesbury.[4]
Warwick Rowers calendar
Since 2009 the men's team, known as the Warwick Rowers, has produced an annual wall calendar featuring the rowers modeling nude, to help fund the team.[8] Since 2012 some of the proceeds from sales of the calendar have gone to Sport Allies, a programme created by the team "to reach out to young people challenged by bullying, homophobia or low self-esteem".[9] Since 2011 the women's team has produced a similar calendar featuring its rowers.[10] The website now features a shop page which costumers can purchase other goods including posters, greeting cards, and apparel.[11]
References
- ↑ "Naked Warwick Rowers Come To Hollywood". The Hollywood Times. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ↑ http://uwbc.org.uk/
- 1 2 http://www.theboatrace.org/article/thecrew/oxfordcrew/2011squads/benellison
- 1 2 http://www.britishrowing.org/gb/biographies/tom-solesbury
- 1 2 3 http://uwbc.org.uk/about.php?Doc=fleet[]
- ↑ http://uwbc.org.uk/alumni.php?Doc=about
- ↑ http://www.theboatrace.org/article/thecrew/oxfordcrew/2009/toms
- ↑ Dicker, Ron (31 October 2014). "Naked Warwick Men's Rowing Team Calendar Makes A Splash To Fight Homophobia". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ↑ "Sport Allies". The Warwick Rowers. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ↑ "Warwick Rowing - Women's Naked Calendar 2015". Warwick SU. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ↑ "Products | The Warwick Rowers". www.warwickrowers.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
External links
- University of Warwick Boat Club Homepage
- Warwick Rowers Official site
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