On the 3rd of January 2020 SSBC ventured to Portugal for a training camp in Figueira da Foz alongside Corpus Christi College for four nights. Our journey ran smoothly, despite our morning flight being delayed by a passenger grounding the […]
From us all to each and every one of you, a merry Christmas! Here’s a gift for your digital stocking. Reading and reminiscing belongs to the festive season. Reading and reminiscing about SSBC, however, transgresses all such seasonal limitation. SSBC […]
Contrary to this website, the club has actually been very active. Especially, as always at this time of the year, with regards to novice rowing. We can confirm that the newly-hatched rowers of the ’19 season are getting on rather […]
Having been a crew for less than a month, it was time for Cheadle’s first competition: Queen’s Ergs. Our heat was at 4pm. Loaded up on carbs and anticipation, we nervously headed over to Queen’s about an hour before (nearly […]
May Bumps was coming to an end. On Saturday, 15th June, SSBC gave it all in a last effort before the beginning of celebration. It was another day of less than exhilarating results: one bump (W2), one bump down (M1), […]
It was a long day of racing for SSBC. M1, W1 and W2 all rowed over, and the rowers’ bodies were again pushed to their limits. Coming up to the last day of racing, one is lucky if there’s a […]
It has been a day of ups and downs for Sidney, this first day of the 2019 May Bumps. Both women’s crews maintained their position, W1 rowing over with conviction and W2 receiving a technical row-over due to carnage earlier […]
Sunday 26th of May saw W1 competing in Nines Regatta, a 1000 metre long side-by-side knockout race from the Reach to the Pike & Eel. Four members of the current crew had won the 2018 edition of this regatta in […]
2019 sees SSBC M1 returning to BUCS Regatta. A successful time trial and a second place in the F final of the Men’s Intermediate VIII+ – together with some first-class team building off the water – made for a truly […]
Sidney undergraduate and former SSBC W1 stroke Florence Alexander has been selected to race with the CUWBC Lightweights against Oxford. Hugo Durward, also an undergraduate at Sidney, is trialling for a seat in the Men’s Reserve Boat, Goldie. Rowing at […]