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Isis Winter League 2014-15 During Michaelmas and Hilary Term, the Isis Winter League allows the crews to gain a bit of head race practice on the home stretch throughout the terms. With a mix in squad sizes, returning and novice oarsmen, Merton entered various boats into several of the events. All courses are rowed from … Read more
Autumn Fours Term has started and the development squads had a first chance to show what they have been up to in the last couple of weeks training. Autumn Fours on the Isis featured two Merton fours and a double. Especially after no boats being entered last year, this year’s crews showed promise. Both fours … Read more
Casual paddles and regatta racing Summer. The rare time of the year when you can actually row on the Isis in the sun, but also the time when coxing and manoeuvring around punts, cruisers, tourist paddle boats, and all other kinds of river traffic becomes the challenge of the day. Summer rowing was taken up … Read more
SCR fields successful crew in Summer Eights A long-term goal of the Boat Club has finally come to fruition – getting the SCR out on the water again. ‘Again’ because legend has it an SCR 8+ was fielded for rowing-on in the 1970s though not much is known of any success thereafter. It has also … Read more
New committee – old and new faces Yesterday our Annual General Meeting took place. Starting with the outgoing committee giving account of the past year we can look back on hard training on the Isis, at Godstow, and good performance from our novice crews both in Christ Church Regatta and in Nephthys Regatta. Furthermore a … Read more
Torpids rained off Unfortunately Torpids which were due to take place this week have been called off completely. With continued rain over the last days and the overall flooding around the Thames and the heavy rain falls in the upper catchment, even red-flag racing under contingency plans are to dangerous. The SUs have decided not … Read more
Isis Winter League A 2013-14 After training at Godstow for around a month whilst the Isis bustled with Novices, our Mens’ Dev Squad entered an eight into the Isis Winter League on 3rd November 2013, where we finished 5th out of over 20 crews, a testament to our hard work and our new coach, Rebecca … Read more