Vet School Boat Club

Come along to the first VSBC social of term where we joining forces with the other vet sports teams!🐮

We will be meeting at Nanna Mex on Sunday 11th February for burritos, a range of alcoholic or soft drinks and great vibes🌯🎉

Everyone is welcome, and it would be great to see some new faces! Cow print is strongly encouraged🤍🖤

Please fill out this spreadsheet so we have an idea of numbers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bdyW1kUwLGhhf6JDmGkcJ_7DzOpCJrvp-kytmSqYVcs/edit?usp=sharing (or use the link in the bio)

See you there!

✨🐮Come and join us at Spoons (The Regal) on Friday at 8:30pm for a social with the Vet School sports teams! It will be a great way to get to know some other vets across the year groups and take a break before exams start🚣‍♀️🏀🥍

Our graduating boaties!*

We're very proud of all of you and wish you the best of luck with whatever the future may hold!

The Cam will miss you 💞

MOOOOVING

*Do not worry fans, Petros is here next year 🤩

VSBC was lucky enough to have not one but two Boat club Dinners this term!
A massive thank you to our wonderful outgoing social sec for all her hard work organising BCDs and socials this year! And a huge thank you to for inviting us to tag along to their BCD too! The perfect way to celebrate Blades 🐮🖤

Bumps day two!

VSBC returned to the water for the second day, hoping to secure a bump on Peterhouse W2.

After a speedy start, we steadily gained on Peterhouse and inched ever-closer to them. Just as we were about to bump, an emergency ‘hold it up’ was called due to obstruction further ahead.

After some deliberation, it was decided that another division of bumps would be squeezed in - the VSBC vs Peterhouse W2 showdown.

After a brief break, we prepared ourselves for another chase, this time from station 2. A lovely second race saw us bump Peterhouse and secure our second bump of the week! 🖤🐄

Catch us chasing Clare W4 tomorrow at 14.30pm, and give us a passing moo!

Bumps day one!

The first day of bumps saw VSBC don their cowprint and put their legs down, showing just how beefy we are flying down the cam from station 17.

A combination of extreme wattage and Abi’s impressive cornering saw us bump Corpus W2, and we headed into the bush to grab some greenery for the row home.

Today we are chasing Peterhouse W2! Come see us take on the Cam competition once again at 14.30pm 🐄🖤

And finally, this is when to find us this week! If you are watching/listening, we have Fitz blades.
Weds-Friday 14.30
Saturday 12:30

Listen live on camfm 🏁🏁

A final thank you to all our sponsors, without whom this year and this week would not be possible 🥰

Reminder of our crew order before the big day tomorrow!! 🐄🚣‍♂️

Introducing our crew for May Bumps 2023!

Come watch us take on the W4 Division in station 17 at 2.30pm Wednesday-Friday, and 12.30pm Saturday! 🐄🖤

Easter Term BCD!! 🖤

Join us this Saturday 10th at the Boathouse Pub for a cheeky pre-bumps celebration! 🚣‍♂️🐄

See the Facebook event for details and sign up:

https://facebook.com/events/s/vsbc-boat-club-dinner/3525141217766466/

Save the date for our upcoming events🖤🐄 and don’t forget to apply to be on next years committee too!

--'99s Regatta 2023 Race Report--

VSBC re-emerged for our second race in two weeks and first win of the year! On Sunday 21st May we competed in 99s regatta, 1km course, in the W5 category (opponents of college W2 and W3 crews).
Rebecca at five broke her footplate in a power 10 on the row up leading to some fairly chaotic marshalling. We were very gratefully saved by lovely Hughes Hall lending us a rigger jigger!
After a little delay we sheepishly (😜)rowed up to the start and proceeded to win our first two races
against Hughes Hall W3, followed by Corpus W2. We managed to wind it down in the last 400m of each race to conserve our energy for the final, which was revealed to be against Hughes Hall W2.
After bonding with our oppo to YMCA (great choice of tunes gals 😍) we got ready for our final race of the day. Our strong and cohesive start gave us an immediate advantage but Hughes caught up and we had lost a couple of seats by the bend in the reach. Josie at stroke was undeterred and maintained an unforgiving rate 38 for the whole course (your local college M3 will be proud). We regained at the railway bridge thanks to a big push with the hips through and thankfully all footplates survived the "EMPTY THE TANK" call, ending with us finishing in first by a length.
A massive thanks to our sponsors for making such an amazing day possible, and to Selwyn for lending the boat (and a rower).

Crew: C- Hannah (6th year), S- Josie (4th year), 7- Emilia (4th year), 6- Irene (final year medic!), 5- Rebecca H (6th year), 4- Katie (6th year), 3- Charlotte (Selwyn super sub!), 2- Rebecca M (5th year), B- Susannah (6th year).