Durham University Canoe Club

As we begin to prepare for the new academic year and all the amazing sessions we have planned, we wanted to take a moment to say goodbye, good luck and thank you to all our graduates from this year! They’ve all helped make the club what it is today and we wish them the best in their future adventures. We hope to see you all at reunion in a couple years!

Swipe to see some of our happy graduates and some memories from their time in the club :)

Team Durham Dunelm - Durham Alumni

Huge congratulations to Charlie on being awarded a Half Palatinate!

A fantastic achievement that reflects the hard work, commitment and personal effort he has put in throughout his time with the club.

Team Durham

DUCC has just spent the best part of 2 weeks in the sunny French alps. Here is the photo dump.

To burn off the excessive amount of baguette and Sangria we usually ran 3 sections a day, including:

✅️ Briancon gorge
✅️ Upper Guil
✅️ Château Queyras
✅️ Middle Guil
✅️ Guardian Angel Gorge
✅️ Middle Ubaye
✅️ Fresquiere
✅️ Ubaye Racecourse
✅️ Ubaye Gorge
✅️ Upper Guisane
✅️ Lower Guisane
✅️ Gyr
✅️ Gyronde
✅️ Sunshine run
✅️ Veneon

For some of us, however, this wasn't enough paddling, and we then went to Austria for a week.

BUCS CANOE POLO 2026:
Back in April DUCC delivered a strong performance at the annual inter-university canoe polo tournament in Nottingham. Our men’s team ‘locked in’ and finished in 5th place out of 25 teams, our best men’s polo result for several years. This included spectacular wins against Loughborough, Swansea, Cardiff and Oxford Our fresher-heavy women’s team delivered very convincing performances throughout and finished in a respectable 17th place, with a particularly dramatic golden goal win against Birmingham. Well done also to three team members who completed their level 1 polo referee course and put their knowledge to use during the tournament. An enjoyable weekend all round, well done all! Team Durham

BP, BTMS (belated post, blame the media sec)

This week DUCC’s Wednesday warriors embarked on the annual camping trip to the Wye valley!
Here are a few highlights:

1. The crew!
2. Efficient car packing with - who needs legroom anyway?
3. Chaddie
4. Mooring up for lunch
5. The sandwich factory
6. Canoe handstand
7. Camp dobble
8. A SUP train
9. Fajita cooking under a double rainbow
10. It might have rained a bit
11. Synchronised handstanding by Arun and Anaya
12. Zak, , and enjoying a brief moment of sun
13. Sausage party with
14. evading brutal .earl26 attack
15. Top tier balancing by
16. and Zak cruising
17. Drying clothes and toes round the campfire
18. A sunset to end a lovely week

Thanks to everyone who came along!
Missed the trip this year? Fear not! There are still a few more chill paddle sessions in Durham left before the end of term! Please get in touch if you are interested!

The DUCC annual BBQ social is on Saturday, 30th May, at 2pm. Meet at the boathouse, and we will then make our way to the racecourse for a chill afternoon.

Please bring your own drinks, food will be provided. Please let us know of any dietary requirements.

Please sign up on the website so I know how much food to buy.

DM us if you have any questions.