Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club

Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club (LMHBC) is a rowing club for members and staff of Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Oxford and was founded in 1976.

Not to be confused with Lady Margaret Boat Club.
Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club
Lady Margaret Hall Boat House, right (shared with Trinity College) and rowing blade colours
Coordinates51°44′34″N 1°14′55″W
Home waterRiver Thames
Founded1976 (1976)
Key people
  • Owen Sweeney (President)
  • Ben Gregson (Men's Captain)
  • Aoife Elwood (Women's Captain)
  • Emily Cook (Captain of Coxes)
Membershipc. 60
Head of the RiverWomen: 1977
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
AffiliationsBritish Rowing
boat code - LMH
Newnham College, Cambridge (Sister college)
Websitewww.lmhboatclub.wordpress.com

History

LMHBC first competed in inter-college OURCs racing events in 1977, when a women's division was finally established (LMH was a women-only college for the first 100 years of its foundation). As the senior women's college LMH was placed first on the river for the inaugural women's division.[1]

It is run by an executive committee, which is elected annually by members of the club at that time. It is affiliated to Oxford University Rowing Clubs (OURCs).

The club shares a club room and boat house on Boat House Island, Christ Church Meadow with Trinity College Boat Club. The building also houses the Linacre College Boat Club and Magdalen College Boat Club.

The club has provided rowers for the Boat Race,[2] the Women's Boat Race,[3][4] and the Isis Reserves Race.[5]

A former president, Monica Fisher (née Pring-Mill) was responsible for instigating some of the biggest changes in Women's Boat Race history, which raised the regularity and status of that event.[4]

For a period around 2010 three times World Lightweight Sculling Champion Peter Moir Haining coached LMHBC.[6]

LMHBC is the largest sports club within Lady Margaret Hall. The club is affiliated to British Rowing.[7]

Results
LMH Men's 1st VIII 2019

The club fields a Men's First VIII and a Women's First VIII in the annual inter-collegiate Torpids and Summer Eights bumps racing competitions, along with second and, from time to time, third VIIIs.

Chalk Arm in the College Record crews winning blades

Men's crews

Men's crews began competing for LMHBC in 1979/1980 (the year after LMH first admitted men). As a new boat, they entered the table at the bottom as 90th on the river. Over the following years, the Men's 1st VIII have gradually risen up the rankings. After first rowing in Division 1 as sandwich boat in 2017, the Men's 1st VIII finally secured their place in Division 1 for the first time in Summer Eights 2019 with the following crew:

CoxEmily Cook
StrokeRudy Bunel
SevenOwen Sweeney
SixFelix Drinkall (Oxford Blue)
FiveKeitumetse-Kabelo Murray
FourHarry Ward (Oliver Watson Sat.)
ThreeBen Gregson
TwoDarius McArdle
BowChris Liang[8]

The men's second VIII are 60th on the river as of 2019.[9] A men's third VIII is periodically fielded.[10]

The Men's 1st VIII have raced in the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta on several occasions. Other external regattas include Head of the River Race, Wallingford Head, and Henley 4s and 8s Head.

Women's crews
Eight's week in Oxford

The LMHBC women's first VIII had the Summer Eights headship in 1977, the inaugural year of women's inclusion in Summer Eights as recognised, distinct divisions.[11] In 2017 it was 24th on the river. The LMH women's first VIII had the Torpids Headship in 1978 and was 20th on the river in 2017.

The LMHBC Women's second VIII first raced in 1986 and was 59th on the river in 2017.[12]

A women's third eight is periodically fielded.[13]

Recent Blues

There were two LMHBC members in the Oxford men's crew at The Boat Race 2018: Zachary Thomas Johnson (Cox) and Felix Drinkall (Stroke).[14]

Drinkall also served as OUBC President in 2019, and rowed in the Six Seat in The Boat Race 2019.

Blazer
Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club Rowing Blazer

The boat club has an ivory blazer with blue and gold piping and cuff rings bearing the Beaufort portcullis device in blue on the left breast. This may be worn by men and women who have rowed in the first Summer VIII or first Torpid.

Prior to 2005 an earlier blazer had the college arms imposed on crossed oars on the left breast and navy piping and cuff rings.

The blazers are supplied by Walters on Turl Street.

See also

References
  1. "A History of Oxford College Rowing". University of Oxford. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  2. "Boat Race 2015: Full list of men's and women's crews for the April 11 event on the Thames". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  3. "University Boat Race: men and women weigh in at same event ahead of Oxford and Cambridge race". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  4. "OUWBC – Alumni News". Ouwbc.org. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  5. "Isis-Goldie Race Triumph for James Mountain". Dulwich.org.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  6. "LMHBC". LMHBC. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  7. "Lady Margaret Hall BC – British Rowing". Britishrowing.org. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  8. "Summer Eights Finishing Order 2019" (PDF). Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  9. "Summer Eights Finishing Order 2019" (PDF). Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  10. "L.M.H. Men's 3rd Eight". University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  11. "L.M.H. Women's 1st Eight". University of Oxford. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  12. "L.M.H. Women's 2nd Eight". University of Oxford. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  13. "L.M.H. Women's 3rd Eight". University of Oxford. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  14. "Men's Blue Boat Crews | The Boat Race". The Boat Race. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
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