Linacre Boat Club (LBC) is a rowing club for members of Linacre and Nuffield colleges in the University of Oxford.[1][2] Founded in 1968, the club rows on the River Isis and shares a boathouse with the college boat clubs of Magdalen, Lady Margaret Hall and Trinity.
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| Location | Boathouse Island, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, Oxford |
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| Coordinates | 51°44′34″N 1°14′56″W / 51.742756°N 1.248819°W |
| Home water | River Isis |
| Founded | 1968 |
| University | University of Oxford |
| Affiliations | British Rowing (boat code LIN) |
| Website | linacreboat |
Linacre Boat Club is affiliated to British Rowing[3] and, since 2022, has organised the Tamesis Regatta, a series of side-by-side races held over four days for novice crews.[citation needed]
History
editThe club was founded in 1968 and, as both Linacre and Nuffield are graduate colleges, is one of the few rowing clubs on the Isis that caters solely to postgraduate students.[citation needed]
Linacre competes in a wide variety of races, both on the Isis (including the Torpids and Summer Eights) and elsewhere,[4] including the Head of the River Race on the Thames at London.[5]
From time-to-time the club uses the scallop shells of Linacre college, which are themselves taken from the arms of the prominent Linacre family of northern Derbyshire and southern Yorkshire, and represent the completion of the Camino pilgrimage to Santiago.[6] The colours of the blades likely originate in the golden (or) crowns of the old (pre-1988) arms of Linacre college and its black (sable) shield.
Between the college's foundation and the creation of its boat club in 2023, members of Reuben College also rowed with LBC.[7] They have since incorporated to form Reuben Boat Club.
In 1994 Snorre Lorgen of Nuffield College was the club's first representative in the men's Boat Race.[8]
In 2019 Lizzie Polgreen was the club's first representative in the women's Boat Race.[9]
Honours
editBoat Race representatives
editThe following rowers were part of the rowing club at the time of their participation in The Boat Race.[10]
Men's boat race
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Women's boat race
| Year | Name |
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| 2019 | Lizzie Polgreen |
| 2019 | Eleanor Shearer + ^ |
| 2026 | Sarah Marshall |
Key
- + = Coxswain
- ^ = Represented Nuffield College
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "b.Respective college". OURC. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Societies, Sports and Networks". Linacre College. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "British Rowing Affiliated Clubs, Competitions and Tours". British Rowing. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Oxford Bumps Charts". Earth Observation Data Group. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "News from the Linacre Boat Club". Linacre College - News. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ↑ Kosloski, Philip (23 July 2025). "How the scallop shell became a symbol of pilgrimage". Aleteia. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ↑ "Reflections on rowing at Reuben College 2022-2023". Reuben College. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
- ↑ "Oxford boosted by Norse power". Daily Express. 24 February 1994. p. 60. Retrieved 1 April 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race 2019: BBC TV coverage times, crews and course". BBC Sport. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ "Crews & Results". Oxford University Boat Club. Retrieved 1 April 2026.