Durham School Boat Club
Motto | Mileage Makes Champions |
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Location | Durham School Durham |
Coordinates | 54°46′19.39″N 1°34′48.29″W / 54.7720528°N 1.5800806°W |
Home water | River Wear |
Founded | 1847 |
Affiliations | British Rowing Northern Rowing Council |
Website | dsbc |
Durham School Boat Club (DSBC) is a school club offering rowing to students, parents, friends and other local schools. Based at Durham School in the city of Durham, England.
History
Durham School Boat Club was founded in 1847.[1] However, there was rowing at Durham School in earlier years: the club was a founder of Durham Regatta in 1834[2] and it is, therefore, one of the oldest clubs on the River Wear in Durham. Record keeping in the early days was non-existent[3] and the first reference to a School boat was to the four oared wherry Argo in 1838.[4] At the regatta, the club went on to win its first Challenge Cup in 1865.[2] The first club rower to win a blue for Oxford or Cambridge rowing in The Boat Race was W. King, who rowed for Oxford in 1854.[2]
Facilities
The club operates from its own boathouse situated just downstream of Prebends Bridge; this was built in 1892.[5]
The club has a range of boats ranging in size from singles to eights and octuples. Durham School boats use the three letter boat code DUS.[6]
Philosophy
The club is not selective; that is, it is open to all students: "All year groups at the school have the opportunity to row at the appropriate level for their physiological and physical development".[7]
The club also offers rowing to
PODS
The Parents of Durham School Boat Club or PODS are a group of parents at the school who raise money to support the development of the Club.
International representation
The club has been successful at international level, the athletes having represented their home countries and Great Britain at Olympic, World Championships, Under-23, University and Junior level, most recently being GB representation, winning a silver medal in the junior women's 8,
National events
The club enters a number of local, national and international events. In addition to wide-ranging representation at the various north-eastern
The club has been successful in the British Rowing Championships producing eight champion crews, the last in 2010 with Gold in the Open Junior Coxless Pair and women's eight composite.[13][14]
In the National Schools Regatta in 2010 the club won silver in the Fours Cup for First Coxed Fours.[15]
Recent years have also seen the club at Henley. The women's 1st
There are also frequent trips to various events held on the Tideway in London, the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre and Dorney Lake. In 2012, the school achieved its first success at the School's Head of the River race on the Tideway, with the women's J16 4+ winning their category.
International events
The club also trains and competes internationally.
Each year there is an annual training camp, previously to Gent with entry into the Gent Spring Regatta
In addition, the club visited the United States in October 2008 to row in the Head of the Charles Regatta,[23] achieving an excellent result for their first visit.
Honours
British champions
Year | Winning crew/s |
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1992 | Men J16 2x |
1993 | Men J18 4+ |
1994 | Men J16 2x |
2008 | Open Ltw 2x, Open J16 4- [24] |
2009 | Open Ltw 2x [25] |
2010 | Women 8+, Open J16 2- [26] |
References
- ^ a b c "Durham School Boat Club". Durham School Boat Club. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ^ a b c "Rowing North East Rowing - A History Time-line". North East Rowing On-line. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
- ^ Macfarlane-Grieve, Captain A.A., ed. (1922). A History of Durham Rowing. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid and Company, Limited. p. 8.
Durham School, like the D.U.B.C. possesses no early record of its rowing.
- ^ Macfarlane-Grieve, Captain A.A., ed. (1922). A History of Durham Rowing. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid and Company, Limited. p. 8.
In a letter of the late Canon Tristam we read "The first boat the School ever put on the river was a four-oar wherry named the 'Argo' in 1838".
- ISBN 0-9528670-0-1.
During 1892, a temporary gymnasium was opened and the School Boathouse was built.
- ^ "Durham School BC (DUS)". Amateur Rowing Association. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
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- ^ "Extra Curriculum". The Chorister School, Durham. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
Sporting activities such as Football, Cricket and Netball consolidate the work done in Games lessons. Additional clubs include Rowing... .
- ^ "DSBC". Durham School Boat Club. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
Parents Rowing is now in full swing.
- ^ "JW8+ FINAL". coupe de la jeunesse. Retrieved 5 August 2010. [dead link]
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- ^ "2010 CHAMPIONSHIPS - RESULTS OF SUNDAY RACING". British Rowing Championships. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "Previous Wins". Durham School Boat Club. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "NSR Results 2010". National Schools Regatta. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "HWR Race Results". Henley Women's Regatta. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "Henley Royal Regatta - Princess Elizabeth Cup Results 2008". Henley Royal Regatta. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ^ "Henley Royal Regatta - Princess Elizabeth Cup Results 2009". Henley Royal Regatta. Archived from the original on 6 July 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ^ "Wedstrijdprogramma - Race programme". Gentse RS. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ^ "Durham School Boat Club". Durham School Boat Club. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
Ghent Spring International Regatta (Sun): J8+ Bronze; W4x- Silver; u23 4x- Gold; J18 4- Silver; JM16 4- Gold; J 4+ Silver; JW4- Bronze. Ghent Spring International Regatta (Sat): JM16 4- Silver; u23 4- Silver.
- ^ "Wedstrijduitslag - Results" (PDF). Gentse RS. Retrieved 25 August 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "Wedstrijduitslag - Results" (PDF). Gentse RS. Retrieved 25 August 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Powers, John (20 October 2008). "Some of these race lengths were almost gone with wind". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
The Durham School Boat Club (back) and Cleveland Scholastic Rowing Association compete in youth men's eights.
- ^ "2008 archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
- ^ "2009 archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
- ^ "2010 Championships - Results of Sunday Racing". British Rowing Championships. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.