Dublin University Boat Club 16.2.02, Trinity College, Dublin 2	March 21st, 2010

Life at Dublin University Boat Club and information for prospective rowers

Here at DUBC we pride ourselves in providing a unique collegiate rowing experience. Collegiate rowing, unlike club rowing, is a sport one can pick up in Junior Freshman year and become a top athlete by the time one leaves university. Rowing at Trinity provides you with many opportunities to sample college life including the Boat Club's social events: Halloween Massacre, Christmas Commons, and Trial Eights dinner - all legendary events organised each year by the Boat Club. We also send our best rowers each year to Henley Royal regatta where we compete against top British and American crews.

(The War Memorial Park outside the Boat Club)

Rowing as part of a crew brings people together in a way that builds lifetime friendships. Rowing is a wonderful team sport and is rowing in a team is akin to being part of one big family. Rowing at DUBC is certainly not easy and places in the Eights are fought for - one thing is for sure, rowing is demanding. Being a member of DUBC involves commitment and dedication.

If you would like to get involved in the club, please feel free to contact us at any stage. We will have a stand at freshers week (first week in October) where you can speak with members.

For those with ambitions to further their rowing, the club encourages participation in squad trials. With top-quality coaching facilities, emphasis on small boats and physiological monitoring in Trinity's Sports Science laboratory even novice rowers have obtained national vests within two years.

Trinity College Dublin operates a scholarship scheme for a number of major sports, including rowing. The scholarships are designed to help serious young athletes continue to use their sporting talents at university. They are open to all potential undergraduates. Applicants for the scholarship must have rowed at a high level as schoolboys; current scholars have represented their country at international events ranging from the Home Internationals to the Junior World Championships.

Dublin University Boat Club traces its roots to 1836 making it the oldest rowing club in Ireland. It is also one of the most successful, having won the National Senior Championshops a staggering twenty-two times. The club has won at Henley seven times and has been in the final of the Temple Challenge Cup five times in the recent past.

In order to maintain this level of success, DUBC wishes to draw upon the talent of junior oarsmen leaving school, both in Ireland, Great Britain, United States and the rest of the world. The scholarship scheme is an incentive to attract able and dedicated oarsmen to Trinity College and DUBC. For further information on applying for the scholarship and an application form see Trinity College's Department of Sport web site and email sport@tcd.ie

Trinity College Dublin Department of Sport

Dublin University Central Athletic Club

Applications to Trinity must be made through the CAO (Central Applications Office - the Irish equivalent of UCAS). Any applications to institutions associated with UCAS are not influenced by an application to Trinity - an application through one system can be made as a backup should the other one fail. Tuition fees for EU students studying in Ireland are paid for by the Irish Government. For students from the UK, the Local Education Authorities make independent decisions regarding grants to students who wish to study overseas. Contact the CAO via their website.

Central Applications Office (CAO)

Courses and Applying to Trinity

Despite the dedication that rowing involves, the Boat Club hosts some of the best entertainments out at the Club House where girls find it hard to resist the temptation of men in uniform! We have our own rooms (House 23, Rubrics) and are the only sporting club with its own bar. You will undoubtedly have the best years of your life here.

Directions to the Boat House