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2024 Head of the Charles Regatta Results
On October 19th, 2024, a crew from DUBC, competing as Trinity College Dublin, raced in the Men’s Club 8’s category at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, USA. In perfect sunny conditions, the crew clocked a time of 15:30.9 and came 15th out of 36 entries in the category.
Boating from Harvard’s Newell Boathouse and supported by numerous alumni of DUBC, it was an incredible experience for those of us involved to take part in the largest and one of the most famous 3 day regattas in the world.
The team was delighted to reconnect with many US-based alumni and supporters of the club who no doubt enjoyed watching the weekend’s racing in the pristine New England sunshine. The event also gave us a brilliant opportunity to showcase the college and its rowing programme.
On that Saturday evening, we hosted a sit-down interview with the Paris 2024 Olympic champion in the Men’s Single Sculls, Olli Zeidler. Candidly discussing his journey from 7th place at the Tokyo Olympics to Champion in Paris, the audience were offered a fantastic insight into his training regime and single-minded desire to win.
We want to again extend a massive thank you to the Trinity Trust [Twitter: @TCDTrust] for their generous support which enabled DUBC to compete at the Head of the Charles Regatta 2024.
Crew:
Caroline Welch (Cox), George Roberts (Stroke), Morgan Brennan (7), Sam Jeffrey (6), Alfie Hales (5), Ben Reid (4), Anrijs Lorencs (3), Ethan Coplan (2), Cormac Feely (Bow)
New Sign Ups Season 24/25
Hello All,
Whether you’re an experience rower or a complete beginner, we want to see you on the water. Follow the link below to sign up to row or cox for DUBC in the 2024/2025 season.
Included below is a link to the team’s FAQs about rowing at Trinity.
The 2023/2024 Season
On the weekend of July 13th, DUBC competed at the final regatta of the season, the Irish National Championships at the National Rowing Centre in Cork. A 12 man squad of senior athletes and 10 novice athletes gained some valuable racing experience amongst the best crews Irish rowing has to offer.
We’d like to offer congratulations to DULBC who secured their first sweep-rowing championship title since 2015, and to Mark Quigley, representing LEBC, who won the Club 1x championship in emphatic style.
The 2023/24 season has seen the club make leaps and bounds in progress off the water, not least through the increased collaboration with DULBC which has stood to benefit both clubs immensely throughout the season.
Our novices have had a fantastic season, retaining the Dan Quinn shield in the 74th Colours Boat Races, winning the fastest novice boat at Erne Head of the River and making great progress as oarsmen and as people.
Our Senior squad showed great maturity to persevere with their gruelling training schedules amid a tough racing season and study commitments and were able to stay competitive throughout. We are proud of our home-grown talent, signified by 7 of 9 of our Gannon Cup crew starting as novices in DUBC, as soon as last year. We look forward to continued progress in a much healthier, more vibrant environment.
We’d like to give a note of thanks to the coaches across both squads, namely William and Micheal Doyle, Paul Laird, Gerry Macken, George O’Connor and Ryan Dullaghan, whose experience, dedication and commitment is why we are where we are and whose impact is indelible. Also a note of thanks to our LTC and anyone else who has stepped up to assist at any point in the running of the club this year.
Looking ahead, we are excited to announce our attendance at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston in October. The team is continuing to train hard through the remainder of the summer and through to the start of the Michalemas term in order to prepare fully. If you are an alumnus or friend of the club interested in attending we would love to see you, details to follow.
Signing off until next year!
