Talbott Cup
4th VIII On Tuesday the 15th of March, the 4th VIII raced in the Talbott Cup. It was a beautiful sunny day; spirits were high and people were out enjoying the weather. Slowly, the crew began to arrive at the […]
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WEHoRR 2022
Fresh off winning Headship and after one hungover, post-BCD practice training session on the tideway, the 1st VIII ventured down to London to race WEHoRR on the Thames. Thanks to Rosanna (the newbie causing issues again), we were in the […]
Lent Bumps 2022 – Day 5
1st VIII – Rowed over to claim HEADSHIP! The 1st VIII woke up on Saturday morning with enough adrenaline to fuel the entire boat club. We knew that our previous successes were all leading up to this crucial day. Downing […]
Lent Bumps 2022 – Day 4
1st VIII – Rowed over in headship position After claiming headship yesterday, we knew that Downing would come back fighting. Channelling Cat’s key words of the day – “clean and confident” – we rowed up to marshal as chonky and […]
Lent Bumps 2022 – Day 3
1st VIII – Bumped Downing W1 to claim HEADSHIP! Fuelled by yesterday’s bump, the row up to marshalling was chonky (like a Labrador), strong and intimidating. After arriving at marshalling (and being pulled into the bank by a member of […]
Lent Bumps 2022 – Day 2
1st VIII – Bumped Jesus W1 With no opportunity to race this term and suss out the competition, the 1st VIII turned up on Day 1 with the only things we could; the most intimidating paddling, good tunes for marshalling […]
Lent Bumps 2022 – Day 1
2nd VIII- Row-over Under yet more threatening skies, NCBC took the Cam by storm on the first day of Lent Bumps. Of the three Newnham crews racing this week, two boated for the first day of competition, with W3 being […]
Senior QErgs 2021
Having missed out on the chance to compete last year due to Covid, we were excited for the chance to take part in the infamous QErgs (though sadly minus the weirdly orange room because of corona). Thanks to the power […]
Novice QErgs 2021
We entered QErgs with a group of 8 enthusiastic novices, after meeting a few times before the race to rehearse transitions. Our secret technique was to have two people holding down the footstraps for the one rowing so that we […]
Fairbairns 2021
1st Novice VIII Our race morning started in an RFB kitchen, as our stroke, Andrea, made the rounds braiding our hair, as per the Newnham tradition. Whilst we were feeling nervous at the prospect of a 2.7km race, we tried […]