York City Rowing Club has named a new addition to its fleet “Donald Shepherd” in a riverside ceremony after a generous grant from the Patricia and Donald Shepherd Charitable Trust enabled the purchase of a quadruple scull for use by the club’s junior girls’ squad. Named by Jane Robertson and Patrick Shepherd (Patricia and Donald […]
YCRC had a fantastic weekend at the British Rowing Junior Championships Held at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham on 19th-22nd July. YCRC sent a strong squad of 28 young athletes to compete over three days of competitions, athletes who secured an impressive haul of three medals and high placings across the weekend. On the […]
Henley Royal Regatta is the highlight of the rowing calendar, attracting crews from around the world to race head to head on the Thames, and YCRC were there to race in the yellow, purple, and gold for the Fawley Challenge Cup for Junior Quadruple Sculls last weekend. The quad of Luca Machado, Aiden Wilson, Alfie […]
Bradford Sprint Regatta lived up to its reputation last weekend as a fabulous 600m splash and dash in the glorious summer weather. YCRC sent a large squad to this ever-popular event on the 30th June, and they brought home just a few pots… From the senior squads, Jez continued his winning ways in the 1x […]
It was a sunny weekend on the Thames as two YCRC crews travelled to race at Henley Women’s Regatta, one of the higlights of the rowing calendar. After a winter and spring of hard work, an ‘aspirational’ quadruple scull of Sophy Nicholson, Helen Waller, Helen Sneath and Louise Hawkyard, and a junior double scull of […]
Held in the centre of York, York Summer Regatta saw nearly 200 crews from clubs from as far afield as Cambridge come together for a day’s worth of racing in the glorious sunshine on the 24th June. YCRC crews had a fantastic day, winning 23 out of the 51 events, many wins coming from our […]
Our juniors and seniors had a fantastic day at Chester Regatta last weekend, racing in good conditions and getting their hands (briefly) on some impressive silverware. The 4- of Joey, Dan, Tristan and Simon, along with Jez in the 1x, won their events, all the sweeter as Dan and Tristan are only in their first […]
It was another busy weekend of hard multi-lane racing for YCRC crews from across the squads YCRC sent two crews to National School’s Regatta at Dorney Lake: Lucy and Katharina in the Champ 2x, and the Boy’s J184x. One of the highlights of the junior racing season, the regatta always produces tight racing of a […]
YCRC continued their winning ways in May at Durham and Tees Regatta. A large fleet of juniors and seniors headed to the always-competitive Durham City Regatta, and came back with an impressive list of wins. Our quads in particular made a massive impact , coming home with wins in the J184x-, J14 4x+, J13x+, WJ154x+, and Sen […]
YCRC made its mark on the 2018 JIRR with great performances all round, topped by a fabulous Yorkshire gold in the WJ152x. In early April the YCRC juniors attended Yorkshire trials at Yarm School, and qualified a staggering 20 boats for the Yorkshire team, ranging from singles to quads. The stage was definitely set for […]