Trinity College Boat Club
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 Trinity College Boathouse (right) and rowing blade colours | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°44′33″N 1°14′55″W / 51.7426°N 1.2486°W | ||||||||||||||
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| Home water | The Isis | ||||||||||||||
| Founded | c. 1837 | ||||||||||||||
| Head of the River |
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| University | University of Oxford | ||||||||||||||
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| Affiliations | Churchill College, Cambridge (Sister college) | ||||||||||||||
| Website | TCBC Website | ||||||||||||||
Trinity College Boat Club (TCBC) is the rowing club of Trinity College, Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. The club's members are students and staff from Trinity College and, occasionally, associate members from other Colleges.
The boat club is based in its boathouse on the Isis, which is shared with Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club (LMHBC) and Linacre College Boat Club.[1]
History
Rowing as an organised inter-collegiate sport became increasingly popular in Oxford during the early decades of the nineteenth century, with the first organised bumps races being held at around this time. A Trinity rower in 1831 by the name of James Pycroft detailed how the men within the team would pay for a college boat themselves, and would levy a rate upon all members of the college to help pay for it,‘it being considered that the boat and its anticipated victories were for the honour of the college generally’.[2] Even at the outset of rowing at Trinity in the 1830s, Pycroft records in his memoirs an incident in which a scholar named Thomas Lewin ‘had thoughts of joining the boat, but received a hint that it would not do’.[2] The reason behind this being that members of the boat club were known to be uproarious, riotous and generally interested in having a good time while they studied!
In 1838 Trinity join the records, which can still be seen in the college’s boathouse, and moved up three places over the week’s rowing from eighth to fifth. Trinity’s first rowing Blues are both depicted in the earliest known depiction of a Trinity crew, from 1842. John Cox and Edward Breedon both rowed in Oxford’s sixth boat race on the Westminster to Putney course in 1842.
Another nineteen years passed with rowing at Trinity growing in its importance within the college, until finally during the Eights in 1861, Trinity bumped University College, Brasenose College, Exeter and finally Balliol College to go Head of the River. The run of great rowing remained until 1865 which marked the beginning of a disastrous few years of racing at Trinity. However, the period at the head was matched with a similar stretch of dominance at the top of Division one, just a few months before the start of World War Two in 1939. Several of Trinity’s ‘old boys’ rowed at this time and experienced being the best of the Oxford college teams on the Isis.
In addition to this, past Trinity crews were involved in many regattas outside of the college including the Henley Royal Regatta, and the Thames Regatta.
Results
Men's Summer Eights Headship: 1861-64, 1938, 1939, 1946–49,
Men's Summer Eights Spoons: 2016
Equipment
Fleet
- 2014 Filippi 8+ "Spirit of Myrtle"
- 2008 Empacher 8+ "Parni"
- 2008 Stampfli 8+ "Magnificat"
- 2008 Stampfli 4+
- 2003 Janousek 4+ "Judith Beloff"
- 2000 Sims 8+ "Lady Elizabeth"
- c.1990 Janousek 8+ "Richard Hillary"
Blues
Trinity College Boat Club – University Rowers
| Year | Name | Crew | Blue | Result |
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| 2016 | Henry Smith | OULRC | Half Blue | Lost by verdict of easily |
| 2015 | Constantine Louloudis | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 6 and a 1/2 lengths |
| 2015 | Michael Di Santo | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 6 and a 1/2 lengths |
| 2015 | Emily Reynolds | OUWBC | Full Blue | Won by verdict of easily |
| 2014 | Constantine Louloudis | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 11 lengths |
| 2014 | Michael Di Santo | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 11 lengths |
| 2014 | James Fraser-Mackenzie | Isis | Half Blue | Won by 13 lengths |
| 2013 | Constantine Louloudis | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 1 and a 1/3 lengths |
| 2011 | Constantine Louloudis | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 4 lengths |
| 2011 | Nat Upton | OUWBC | Full Blue | Won by 1 length |
| 2010 | Ellen Kempston | OUWBC | Half Blue | Won by 3 and 1/2 lengths |
| 2009 | Alexander Hearne | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 3 and a 1/2 lengths |
| 2008 | Henry Sheldon (President) | OULRC | Half Blue | Won by 2 and a 1/2 lengths |
| 2007 | Henry Sheldon | OULRC | Half Blue | Won by 1 length |
| 2004 | Rachel Gray | OUWLRC | Full Blue | Won by 3/4 of a length |
| 2002 | Charlotte Rooke (Captain) | Osiris | Half Blue | Won by 1 and a 1/2 lengths |
| 2002 | Katie King | Osiris | Half Blue | Won by 1 and a 1/2 lengths |
| 2001 | Katie King | Osiris | Half Blue | Won easily |
| 2000 | Katie King | Osiris | Half Blue | Lost by 1 and 3/4 lengths |
| 1999 | Melissa Carson (President) | OUWLRC | Half Blue | Won by 3/4 of a length |
| 1998 | Claire Booth | OUWLRC | Half Blue | Won by a canvas |
| 1996 | Nathan Tamblyn | OULRC | Half Blue | Won (Cambridge disqualified) |
| 1996 | Pete Richens | OULRC | Half Blue | Won (Cambridge disqualified) |
| 1987 | Rachel Barton | OUWLRC | Half Blue | Lost |
| 1984 | Joanna Armstrong | Osiris | Half Blue | Won |
| 1982 | Finlay Decker | OUWBC | Full Blue | Lost |
| 1980 | Christian Holland | OURFC | Blue | Won by 9 lengths |
| 1978 | John Chadwick | OULRC | Half Blue | Lost |
| 1977 | Mike Ridley | OULRC | Half Blue | Won |
| 1952 | Christopher Davidge | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by a canvas |
| 1951 | Christopher Davidge | OUBC | Full Blue | Lost by 12 lengths (Oxford Sank!) |
| 1949 | Christopher Davidge | OUBC | Full Blue | Lost by 1/4 of a length |
| 1938 | Henry Melvin Young | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 2 lengths |
| 1937 | Henry Melvin Young | Isis | Half Blue | |
| 1842 | John Cox | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 13 seconds |
| 1842 | Edward Breedon | OUBC | Full Blue | Won by 13 seconds |
See also
References
- James Pycroft (1886). Oxford Memoirs: a Retrospect after Fifty Years. Richard Bentley. ISBN 117733948X.
