Clare Novices took place on Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th November with three Fitz novice crews entered.

NM1: Sadly due to a few marshalling errors were disqualified from the competition (they did win Emma Sprints though..)

NM2: Entered into the Plate (2nd boats) Division they won the Clare Novices Plate! NM2 beat Emma II in their closest race to kick things off, then Darwin II, FaT III and LMBC II in the final. Strong rowing over both days and they pulled away at the start in each race, so the result was never in doubt in any heat. (Click the hyperlinks to watch their races).

NW1: They lost their first race against Christ’s I but not by far although their bow’s seat had come off at the start so they were rowing with 7!

M1 and W1 both WON their divisions!!! To add to this, M1 placed joint 12th overall out of 232 crews in a great day of racing for Fitz!

Both NW1 and NM1 had seriously good rows in their first racing events with NM1 placing joint 2nd in their division.

GO FITZ!!! Next up for the novices is Emma Sprints and Clare Novices before novices and seniors both take on Fairbairns!

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Solid performances from both NW1 and NM3 who came 6th in their heats. NM1 heat saw NM1 and NM2 battle it out in what must’ve been the closet, most intense inter-college contest the competition has ever seen with a mere 0.3s per person difference in split.

Finally NW2 blew their heat away placing 2nd with one of the quickest second women’s times in the competition!

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Good luck to all Fitz Novice crews taking part in Queens’ Ergs today. It will be great to get as many supporters down to Queens’ for all our division times:

NM1: 7:30pm

NM2: 7:30pm

NM3: 8:30pm

NW1: 5pm

NW2: 8pm

We hope to see a big Fitz contingent down there!

Join the Facebook event here!

Save the date! Queens’ Ergs is back and all five Fitz novice crews will be taking part.

The competition will involve novice rowers in a 8x500m relay race with 20 seconds changeover in between each rower. A big Fitz contingent on the balcony of Fitzpatrick Hall will be much appreciated!

Join the Facebook event here!

Get excited for our first social event of the year taking place at the glorious TP next Wednesday. Seniors, novices and non-rowers are all welcome for a night of curry, drinks and some dodgy tunes in Cindies if that takes your fancy. It’ll be a great chance for all the Fitz rowers to get together before the bar crawl on Sunday!

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The novice information leaflet for 2014 is now available here.

Fitzwilliam Boat Club will be holding an open day on the Wednesday of Fresher’s Week (8th October) to anyone considering trying out rowing.

Between 11 and 4, people who have signed up at the fresher’s fair can come and get in a boat with some seniors and see what it’s all about.

For more information, come and find FCBC at the Fresher’s Fair, join the novice group on Facebook and check out ourwebsite.

Well done to all Fitz crews who raced on the last day of May Bumps with W2 rowing over ahead of Sidney W2, M2 rowing over in front of Darwin M2, W1 unfortunately getting bumped by Emma W2 and M1 rowing over ahead of Churchill M1. Thanks to all who turned up on Billy Field to support!

Results:

Well done Fitz!

W1 Mays 2014