Somerville College Boat Club
Location | University College Boathouse | |||||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 51°44′32″N 1°14′59″W / 51.742171°N 1.24961°W | |||||||||||||||||
Home water | The Isis | |||||||||||||||||
Founded | 1921 | |||||||||||||||||
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University | University of Oxford | |||||||||||||||||
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Affiliations | British Rowing (boat code SOM) Girton College Boat Club (Sister college) | |||||||||||||||||
Website | somervilleboatclub |
Somerville College Boat Club (SCBC) is the
Due to fears that it might harm their reproductive abilities, women's rowing clubs were banned until 1921. A member of the club was first permitted to take part in Summer Eights in 1927, following the rejection of an earlier request in 1922.[2]
Now there are 6 women's divisions in
Somerville College Boat Club shares the University College Boathouse with University College, St Peter's College and Wolfson College. The building is owned by University College and won a Royal Institute of British Architects prize and has enjoyed a very favourable reception in the architectural world.[4][5]
Notable alumni
Somerville College Boat Club has produced four Olympic rowers:[6]
- Fiona Freckleton, bronze medalist in the Women's Pairs at the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna - Great Britain's first medal in a major World Championship women's rowing event[7] - also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1993 World Rowing Championships.
- Patricia Reid also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, having achieved silver and bronze at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.
- Luka Grubor, gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2002 World Rowing Championships and 1993 Nations Cup, silver medalist at the 1999 World Rowing Championships.
- Jennifer Goldsack, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics; gold medalist at the 2011 Pan American Games and silver medalist at the 2007 World Rowing Championships.
Other notable members of the SCBC were Lucy Sutherland and Dominica Legge.
References
- ^ "Eights Statistics". eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ Adams 1996, pp. 209–10.
- ^ "History - SOMERVILLE COLLEGE BOAT CLUB". somervilleboatclub.weebly.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ "New college boathouse scoops design award", Oxford Mail .
- ^ University College Boathouse, Oxford, artitecture.com.
- ^ Oxford at the Olympics
- ^ "Tributes for coach Proudley". Southern Daily Echo. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- Adams, Pauline (1996). Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. Oxford: ISBN 9780199201822.
External links
- "SOMERVILLE COLLEGE BOAT CLUB - Home". somervilleboatclub.weebly.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- "Somerville College Boat Club". British Rowing. Retrieved 15 August 2018.