Christ Church and Kellogg have much to offer as colleges, while Christ Church Boat Club is one of the best clubs to row for in the university.
The Boat Club is a great place for experienced rowers and coxes to continue their development in the sport.
We recognise that the most experienced athletes will want to trial for OUBC straight away, and are particularly supportive of this, backing you through to the Boat Race and then welcoming you back afterwards for the April training camp and the Summer Eights campaign. Both Christ Church and Kellogg offer financial support for those involved in sport at the university level. Moreover, we have many alumni who have trodden this path before who can offer advice if needed.
We are also geared up to support those who might need a year or so to get their rowing to a high enough standard to trial. The coaching and training programme at the club are capable to driving your technique and physiology to the necessary level.
Equally, there will be those who are looking only to row at college level, and we will look to get you straight into our senior boats, forming the nucleus of these crews.
Either way, we feel that the Boat Club is set up to help you enjoy and improve your rowing.
Follow this link for information on under-graduate study at Christ Church, and this link for information on post-graduate study.
Information about college open days can be found here.
Information on the college scheme to help students from state schools prepare their application can be found here.
Kellogg College is a purely post-graduate college, and is unusual in that it caters for students studying part-time. For reasons to apply to Kellogg, please click here.
Christ Church Boat Club sees coaching as a priority, and a critical part of the rowing experience. The balance of an experienced Head Coach with several really promising Assistant Coaches ensures that we can meet coaching needs across the club.
For information on who will be coaching you when you join the club, please click here.
The Boat Club is blessed with a large and varied range of training equipment spread over several venues. It must be one of the best-equipped clubs in the university, and we are constantly seeking to upgrade and update in this area.
To find out about the equipment and venues that you will have access to, please click here.
We are the only college boat club with its own boathouse, which means we have racking space for a large boat fleet. All the club’s higher crews train and race in top-line racing shells.
If you want to know what boats you will be rowing in when you join the club, please click here.
The club intends to take the men’s and women’s 1st and 2nd VIIIs abroad on training camp every year in April. The details are still being worked through but this will be highly subsidised by the club to make it affordable for the students.
For the details of next year’s camp, please click here.
The club has one of the most illustrious histories of any of the Oxford college rowing clubs.
Find out more about the tradition that you will become a part of by clicking here.
If you would like to discuss anything about the Boat Club, please feel free to contact the Head Coach to arrange a meeting or phone call. All Boat Club contact details can be found here.
If you would like to come to Oxford and look around the boathouse, perhaps even jump in a boat during a training session, we will do our best to lay that on for you.
If you would like to talk to someone who is a current student at either of the colleges, studying the subject that you are thinking of applying for, we can sort that for you.
