Rowing Facilities at SUBC
The Boat Hard
The boat house is a located at the University's Department of Sport and Recreation's Boat Hard, the building itself being for the exclusive use of SUBC. The boat house is divided into two sections, the larger side for accommodating VIIIs and the other for smaller boats. A separate building houses the Men's and Women's changing rooms, complete with warm showers, and filled with the history of old SUBC crews and captains. Outside there is a basic rowing tank in which our novices learn the simpler parts of rowing at the start of the year. Finally we have a large selection of safety launches for our coaches' use. The hard is situated close to Wessex Lane, and can be found here.
River Itchen
Our water training takes place on the River Itchen, a large tidal river with just over 5km's worth of rowing, fantastic for head race practice as the conditions can often be comparable to the Tideway and wide enough to allow for several boats to row side-by-side. There are several straights varying from 500m to 1500m on which we can prepare regatta starts and sprints.
Gym
It is widely acknowledged that rowers are some of the most competitive and driven athletes in sport, and as such our squads tend to train upwards of 10 times a week. SUBC utilise fully the University's Jubilee Sports Centre. This is a new state-of-the-art gym, located on the University's main Highfield campus, and boasts a large selection of weights and rowing machines for the squads to use.
Funding of Equipment
Sponsorship and fund-raising is extremely important to the club, and vital for our continued success. Racing boats are notoriously expensive, our 1st VIIIs costing in the region of £15,000. Although the Athletic Union, and University help fund purchase our larger boats, the club has to finance pairs, doubles and single sculling boats; all of which we remain short of. For further information about our Sponsors or Fundraising activities, please click here.
Ergo Room
This a resource new for 07/08 that will allow the whole club to do ergo training side by side which will help improve performance by keeping competition high amongst the crews.