Mina Nixon
Mina is a PhysNatSci who matriculated in 2020. Novicing in the novice 2nd VIII during a rocky year and in an even rockier boat, she still fell in love with the NCBC community and rowing on the cam. She was […]
IT Officer
Emily Cooper
Emily is a geographer who started novicing with NCBC in 2020. This meant that her first year of rowing was chaotic – she didn’t actually see a boat until Easter term! Despite this, Emily has fallen in love with the […]
Catherine Prior
Cat studies Natural Sciences and sings with Selwyn Choir, but most importantly she loves rowing! After novicing (…erging) with N7 in Michaelmas 2020, she rowed with N2 and raced with N1 in Easter 2021. She then rowed in the 3rd […]
Rebecca Sproston
Becca is a 3rd year Historian who joined NCBC in 2020-1. After novicing during Covid in the 1st Novice VIII and having a love-hate relationship with stroke seat, she fell in love with rowing. Her first senior year turned out […]
Florence Bradshaw
Florence first noviced in Michaelmas 2019, rowing in N7! Florence has rowed in both the 3rd VIII (Lent 2020) and 2nd VIII (Easter 2021) in seat 5. After quitting hockey and taking rowing more seriously, she rowed in the 1st […]
June Eights Regatta: Day 4
1st VIII – won against Peterhouse W1 The 1st VIII went into today’s race knowing it’d be tight. With Katie miraculously bank partying us the div after she was rowing herself (legend), we rowed up in high spirits knowing that […]
June Eights Regatta: Day 3
1st VIII – won against Trinity Hall W1 After beating Murray Edwards yesterday, we were raring to go when we found out that our opponent would be Tit Hall today. We rowed up with all the chonk Cat could ever […]
June Eights Regatta: Day 2
The second day of racing saw decisive wins for all three crews! 1st VIII – won against Murray Edwards W1 It was a sunny day to have another go at racing. We had a chunky row up to early marshalling […]
June Eights Regatta: Day 1
1st VIII – lost to Queens’ W1 Day 1 for the 1st VIII began with a decisive energy of nervous excitement. The row up was smooth but silent. The crew relaxed following a dose of jelly babies. Our opponents, Queens […]
1st Novice VIII race ’99s Spring Regatta!
Race report by the 1st Novice VIII Our first race!! It was a very sunny day (we had to put sun cream down the partings of out plaits ☹) but we had ribbons in them – yellow for bow side […]