St Hilda's College Boat Club

TORPIDS 2023.
🎉Hilda’s achieved +14 net places on the river (4th highest net places gained out of 35 colleges)

🎉W2 achieved blades

🎉 Only 2 concessions in total from Hilda’s the whole week

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Full roundup from the week:

⬆️M2 bumped Teddy Hall II on the final day finishing +5 on the river and bumping three out of four days.

➡️M1 rowed over, holding their position in Division 3

⬆️W1 bumped Linacre straight off of the start before Donnington Bridge, also bumping three out of four days.

⬆️W2 achieved blades for the second time ever in SHCBC history and the first time since 1984. They bumped Brasenose II and across all four days, never rowed past Donnington Bridge, finishing +6.

Overall, this was a massive week for Hilda’s and we are looking forward to refurbishing the blades winning, Women’s Second boat (Mary Bennett) over the vacation to go even faster next term. Thanks for everyone who came down to the river to support, everyone had so much fun and it’s great to see so many Hildabeasts enjoying rowing (and coxing!).

📷 Gareth Ardon

Torpids Day 3 - 3 more bumps for Hildas! 🎉

⬆️W2 bumped ChCh III in under a minute- a bump tomorrow would mean blades for W2!

⬆️M2 also bumped very quickly off the start, catching Mansfield II and moved up 3 places in one day!

⬆️M1 was the sandwich boat rowing strong at the top of Div 4 and went on to Bump Oriel II securing their position back in Division 3.

➡️W1 had a really strong row over, and were chasing St John’s off the start. Unfortunately, Worcester and St John’s both bumped Linacre. This meant that in order to bump, Hilda’s would need to gain a double overbump and also bump Linacre. W1 rowed really well and managed to close down on Linacre to less than half a length by the finish line (equivalent to gaining ~ 6 boat lengths over the race!)

This has been such an incredible week so far for Hilda’s, please come down to the BH to watch for our final day of racing tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far!
Sport Focussed
Gareth Ardon photos (W2,M2,M1,W1)

Torpids Day 2! Two more bumps for Hildas! 🎉🦄

➡️M2 had a really strong start and gained very close to Keble III however Keble bumped out just before Hildas could catch them and so M2 rowed over

⬆️W2 bumped Merton II in under 15 strokes.

⬇️M1 rowed strong but were unfortunately caught by St Antony’s II near BH island.

⬆️W1 had a phenomenal row and achieved a long bump on Merton W1 just before Univ boat house.

Sport Focussed photo

Torpids Day one Wednesday: 4 Crews 4 bumps! 🎉🦄

The day started well with Hildas M2 bumping Osler M1 by the end of the gut despite losing the stroke seat and having 7 rowers.

Hilda’s W2 also bumped and bumped Pembroke W2

M1 had a very strong row and were bumped by Wadham II but went on to bump St Catz II before the finish.

W1 had an amazing row and bumped Wolfson III in 44 seconds off the start.

We look forward to tomorrow for another fun day of racing and hopefully more bumps!

TORPIDS 2023!

This year we have 4 crews (M1,W1,M2,W2) competing in Torpids for the first time since 2018, good luck to all crews racing!

We will post a round up here after each day of racing - for more frequent updates have a look at the Instagram and for updates throughout the day check out Racedesk Live: http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/racedesk.html

As ever, if any alumni are local to Oxford or will be down on the Towpath this week please do come and say hello! There will be some celebratory drinks on Saturday at the BH too.

Torpids 2023 - Racedesk Live

We're live! Watch the final few hours of our ergathon on our Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hildasboatclub/
Not only are all donations being matched, but an extra £5 is being added onto every donation from now until the end of the ergathon. That means you could donate as little as £1 and we'll receive £12!
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/shcbc

SHCBC 24-Hour Ergathon Raising funds for the refurbishment of our women's second boat, the Mary Bennett, by erging continuously for 24 hours.

Congratulations to everyone who has rowed so far.
To make their efforts worthwhile, a donor has challenged ALL members, friends and alumni of SHCBC to make a donation.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/shcbc

Every donation made between now and the end of the ergathon a donor has agreed to give £5. So if 10 more make a donation then that’s an extra £50 support. If 20 more people donate then that’s an extra £100 etc.
With the matched funding already in place, these amounts will be doubled.

SHCBC 24-Hour Ergathon Raising funds for the refurbishment of our women's second boat, the Mary Bennett, by erging continuously for 24 hours.

Only two hours in and we're already over halfway! If you'd like to help us reach our goal then please visit: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/shcbc to donate - all donations up to the first £1500 will be matched so your gift will effectively be doubled!
Thank you so much to those who have supported us already.

We are fundraising to refurbish our women's second boat.
Beginning at 18:00 on Friday 27th, we will be rowing non-stop for 24-hours.
For full details of our upcoming 24-hour ergathon, visit our fundraising page below.
*All donations up to the first £1500 will be matched!*

SHCBC 24-Hour Ergathon Raising funds for the refurbishment of our women's second boat, the Mary Bennett, by erging continuously for 24 hours.