Corpus Christi College Boat Club

Sadly the Isis has been red flag for over a week now, which has hit Corpus preparations before Summer Eights. Everyone is hoping that the river will calm down as quickly as possible, but in the meantime Land training is the name of the game. Everyone loves those ergs.

The results of the annual boat club elections are as follows:

President: Alex Law

Treasurer: Clare Franklin

Secretary: Caroline Ellard

The incoming committee would like to thank the outgoing committee for all the hard work they put in over the course of the last year and are looking forward to building on their achievements!

Forza Corpus!

On Sunday, May 22, one of the biggest events of Corpus’s social calendar took place; the Tortoise Fair. Amongst the face-painting and food was the Boat Club’s own charity stall, ‘Guess the Name of the Tortoise’, raising money for local charity Reading Quest. With possibly the cutest ever cuddly tortoise up for grabs, the stall was one of the most popular at the whole fair and most of the possible names (Chaucer? Cosmo? Chapman?) were guessed by the many hopefuls.

By the end of the day, we managed to raise a fantastic £70 for Reading Quest. Congratulations to Eva Butkovicova who correctly guessed the Tortoise’s name as Boris!

We hope that the money raised will make a real difference to the charity and we are already looking forward to planning more charity events!

A committee meeting was held on the evening of the 8th May 2011, the minutes can be found here

A team made up of CCCBC M1 rowers has come 4th at the St Edmund’s Hall relay competition, held in 8th week of hilary.

Ryan Wood (President), Jeremy Dodd (Secretary), David Fidgett (Treasurer), and “ringer” Alastair Marsh from the 1st Torpid 2010 (and conveniently Corpus’ own cross-country runner) put in a brilliant performance (particularly brilliant given it was the week following Boatclub Cocktails and Boatclub Dinner) to come 4th out of Oxford’s rowing clubs, beating some 1st division boats (shame on you, Magdalen and Wolfson) on their way.

The current highest bid in the CCCBC boat naming auction for the right to name the new M1 boat is £1963 pounds.

The picture on the left hand side is of the Corpus Boathouse’s boat bay in the sunshine of Torpids Saturday 2011. Jerome, the 5 seat man, talking to Emma-Lucy, the 2010-11 President, while the rest of the crew diligently dry the new Filippi off and check it over after bumping in it (within 3o strokes of the start).

The Election Results for 2010-11 are as follows:

President: Ryan Woood

Treasurer: David Fidgett

Secretary: Jeremy Dodd

The outgoing committee of 2010-11 wish them all the best for the rowing year 2011-2012 (and apologises for the picture of them we’ve decided to publish on the right!)

Men have so far gone up 4 places, over-bumping  Trinity II (over New College)  and bumping  Wadham (over Linacre).

Women have so far gone up 2 places, having bumped St Annes and Linacre at the top of the Green Bank on both Weds and Thursday.

Tomorrow, Friday, looks set to be the “make it or break it” day of racing, with M1 chasing Exeter II, and W1 chasing St Hildas who are a quick boat, but fell their entire division after a disastrous coxing escapade found them wedged between a wall and a tree at Long Bridges.

Good Luck to the crews for tomorrow.

The new mirror tiles are up in the second room; they still need permanently fixing, so go careful with them until we’ve no-more-nails-ed them please. The second and front rooms are in the process of being moved and cleaned for Torpids; any volunteers for this job please contact ELP, JEFF or KATIE.

Timetable Released, with Joe Dawson (M1) overseeing it’s completion. We have 4 Marhsalling, 4 Umpiring slots, with Bumps novices encouraged to take the former and Bumps veterans encouraged to take the latter. Please take a slot, with a friend, if you’re able to, OR WE CAN’T RACE. Those who refuse to marhsal without legitimate excuses will be suitably punished come Torpids Dinner.  ELP.

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