Novicing
If you're interested in rowing with GCBC please contact our Lower Boat Captains if you're new to rowing or if you've rowed before our Senior Captains using the contact form.
Cambridge University is famous across the world for it's rowing, so why not give the sport a try? Rowing is a great way to improve your fitness and greatly rewards technical ability and teamwork. Girton rowers have a strong history of representing the University Boat Clubs at various levels, and GCBC a fun, friendly and rewarding club to get involved in.
You don't need to be over 6ft, you don't need to be super fit and you don't have to wear skin tight lycra to be a rower at GCBC. You don't need to be 4ft nothing, and be super tiny to cox. Crews fit their training sessions around their own availabilities, you won't miss lectures and while some crews prefer getting up early in the morning, others train exclusively in the afternoons and at weekends. Don't let the myths about rowing put you off!
The social side of rowing is also really important. GCBC rowers get up to all sorts of nonsense, but in general we do:
- Formal Halls: usually with crews of the opposite sex.
- GCBC Currys: A start of term must for any rower, we feast in one of Cambridge’s many fine Indian establishments.
- Pub Crawl: As you would expect, no society is complete without a few pub and club crawls. A great way to meet people in the Boat Club.
- May Bumps Marquee: Every year on the Saturday of May Bumps we host the GCBC May Bumps Marquee. Serving food and drink to race spectators all afternoon, the Marquee is always a popular race day destination.
- Crew Meals: The night before a race a crew will get together for a meal, with pasta, cheese and tomato sauce the firmly GCBC established tradition. Alcohol free, banter fueled and 100% essential!
