The novice men train with the senior 8  in preparation for the upcoming Boat Race (Link) and  summer regatta season. 

May 2012

BUCS  Rowing Championships 2012

The novice men had an enjoyable and successful weekend at the British Universities and Colleges Sports Rowing Championships 2012 in Nottingham England.  unnecessarily and unfortunately Saturdays racing for Beginner 4+ crews was canalled due to the fear of bad weather witch  the end did not materialize.  All other racing on Saturday raced as planned.  On the Sunday in the beginner 8+ the lads has a good start completing the time trial  to advance to the semi finals.  Drawn in land 3 for the semi final , the lads rowed well and booked a place in the final by coming second to Nottingham, who they would finish ahead of in the final.  

The final its self was close a run affair.  The lads did not have their greatest start with the eventual winners Southampton Solent University having a quick start to lead the crews away from the start.  Queens lay in fourth for much of the race over lapping with all the crews in front about 3/4 down on Solent, ½ down on Durham and just a bow ball behind Nottingham.  Coming thorough the last 500m Queens lifted there pase to go with the leaders and to overtake Nottingham. Bristol made a late charge for the line but the young queens rowers held there nerve and took their place on the podium in 3ed behind Solent who held Durham to win by 0.1 of a second.    

Congratulations to Southampton Solent University on their impressive win, And to all the queen's finalist most  notably the Woman’s beginner 8 who took home gold.

 

6 May 2012 BUCS Mens beginner 8+

1.       Southampton Solent

2.       Durham

3.       Queens Belfast

4.       Bristol

5.       Nottingham University

6.       Warwick

Queen's eFlow 'GoRow' Grand League Regatta 

Round 2

Although Queens’s regatta 2012 will be remembered for all the rung reasons, it must not be forgotten that  it was a successful day for the queen’s novice on the water.   The men novice’s   took victory in the 4+ and the 8+ as well as competing well in the senior 4+ and 8+ events with they were also entered.  In the smaller boats (1x and 2x) victories were hard to come by voluble experience was had by all that took to the water.

Novice 8+  1st Afinal, & 2nd - Bfinal
Novice 4+  1st & 4^th

Full results: here

                                       Queens Novice men 2012 (with a few blow in's)

Novice 4+ queens 

April 2012

Irish University Championships/ Skibbereen eFlow Go Row Grand League regatta

The men’s novice squad had and enjoyable weekend in cook for the  Irish University Championships and the Skibbereen eFlow Go Row Grand League regatta.  A lot of new racing skills were learned and the lad go a chance to put into practice the skill that have learnt on the lagan since last October.

The week end started well with a win in the Men’s beginner novice 8 event. In the Main novice 8 the lads race well until 1000m but were pushed out of the race in the second half. The crews finish 3ed and 5^th.  The 4 narrowly missed out on a win in the last 400m of the race.  Sunday was a better day  and in the novice 8 the same opponent crews that took to the water. Queens novice used the valuable race experience gained on the Saturday to up there game and unlike the uni champs were in the race through the last 500m. They were level with trinity until the last 300m when DUC pulled away to take a ½ length win. Queens also improved the results in the 4’s by this time wining the 4+ event 1 length clear of trinity with QUB B coming in  3ed.

The weekend was a good start to the regatta season for the QUB men with win in the inter. Senior and novice events. 

 Men's beginner 8 uni champs 

 Men's Novice 4+ Skibb 

MS8 and MS4- champs, Uni champs and skib regatta 

April 2012: Training Camp

Training Camp  April 2012

The Novice men have just returned for a 3 day camp in Enniskillen. Some great progress was made and a enjoyable time was had by all.  We now take a few days off over Easter and then return for the uni champs.   The lads would also like to thank Portola for their grate hospitality over the weekend. 

Photos from Dublin head

Photos from Dublin head

An enjoyable day all round, results  HERE   

Untitled from marc butler on Vimeo.

Dublin Head 2012

Dublin Head 2012

Dublin Head will mark the end of the first Head season for this year’s new QUBBC rowers.  QUBBC Novice men will have three VIII entered at Dublin head this weekend, and the lads are looking forward to the challenge

Dublin Head entry     

Crew 10 

Crew 24

Crew 26 

Training on the Lagan March 2012