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Last Sunday Hughes W1 had their first race of the term! In ‘Bedford Eights and Fours Head’ they came 3rd in their category, tackling strong winds! An amazing result – especially considering that most members of the crew started rowing only four months ago! What a promising start into the Bumps season! #GoHughes!

  Last Saturday the new M1 crew of Hughes Hall raced together for the first time in Newnham Short Course, just more than 3 weeks away from Lent Bumps. The 2km course spans from the Motorway Bridge right up to the Railway Bridge. This is a great race for crews to assess how fast theyContinue reading “Newnham Short Course 2018”

On the 25th of November 2017, we had our inaugural Hughes Hall Boat Club Dinner for the Michaelmas term. This is the first dinner organised since the mutual separation with Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club and it was an occasion to formally welcome and celebrate the successes of the new members of the club thisContinue reading “Michaelmas Boat Club Dinner 2017”

Hughes Hall has a big tradition of having a number of Cambridge Blues rowers that have gone and won in The Boat Race against Oxford for the past few years. This year we have three Hughesians trialling for the Men’s Blues boat. They are James Letten, Dara Alizadeh and Finn Meeks. In the Trial Eights,Continue reading “Cambridge Trial Eights – Crews Announced”

The Novice Fairbairn was held on the 30th of November where our novice men had a  really strong race. They started well and looked strong, together and in control around the first few bends. By the time they passed our boathouse they were fully in their stride. Spurred on by the cheers from the women’sContinue reading “Fairbairn Cup 2017”

On a cold winter morning of the 25th of November, the Hughes Hall novice women rowed upstream to the start line of the Clare Novices Regatta, practicing race starts along the way. Jeff, our Senior Treasurer parked alongside the bank and gave them his encouragement and support. They aligned with Pembroke in round 1 atContinue reading “Clare Novices’ Regatta 2017”

  HHBC Novice W1 Wins Emma Sprints 2017! Yesterday we saw the victorious win by Hughes Hall Women’s Team at their first ever race on River Cam! A race filled with drama and suspense from the word “Attention, Go!” We showed consistency, courage and beating the odds in four 500-meter side-by-side sprints. The first raceContinue reading “Emma Sprints 2017”

This year saw the debut of Hughes Hall Women’s Team in the first novice race of the Michaelmas term. The team worked tremendously hard over the past month to get to where they were, with a dramatic improvement in both form and timing. On the night of the 11th of November, the team came togetherContinue reading “Queens’ Ergs 2017”

Hughes Hall Boat Club invites you to celebrate the successes of the Michaelmas term with the fellow club members! It will be an evening filled with merriment and joy to formally welcome all the new members of the club and acknowledge all the hard work that every single member has put in this term.  Continue reading “Invitation for the Michaelmas Boat Club Dinner 2017 – 25th November”

Hughes Hall and Lucy Cavendish College today announce their mutual decision to row separately in the future. The combined Boat Club (HHLCCBC, known more usually as “Hucy”) is being retired, and women’s boats from each college will compete independently. HHLCCBC was formed in 2002 to give the women of both colleges the opportunity to rowContinue reading “Goodbye “HUCY”: Lucy Cavendish and Hughes Hall Announce Plans To Row Separately”