At the end of an exhausting and exhilarating week, Balliol Women remain Head of the River. As W1 arrived at the boathouse on a sunny Saturday afternoon there was an overwhelming sense of camaraderie in the air.  Leading up to this hour motivational ‘we CAN do this’ emails had been flying around left, right, and centre, and the entire [...]

Many of you will have heard about the controversy over the result of Women’s Division 1 on Saturday. Pembroke appealed to the race committee that they had bumped Balliol shortly before their 3 girl caught a crab and consequently stopped their boat pretty much dead. Yesterday evening, the race committee decided on the balance of [...]

Wow W1 – you now have a task on your hands! Today our first women’s eight had a much easier time of it – keeping their distance well-ahead of Wadham until Pembroke stormed upon Wadham in the gut. This, much like Wednesday, allowed our girls to drop the rate and have a relaxed paddle home. [...]

And what a tense day it was! W1 had Wadham chasing them, a crew who caught Hall yesterday and who over-rated Balliol for the most part of the race today. Our girls managed to keep their cool and with some classy coxing (S Wan), evaded being caught to defend Headship for one more day! High [...]

An equally infuriating and pleasing day for the girls! W2 were chasing LMH and had overlap in the gut but then unfortunately came a crab, to detrimental effect. 5 more strokes and they would have had it! But they recovered well and gained on them for the rest of the race, – day two should [...]

Summer Eights – the most important four days of the year for the College Boat Club – starts this Wednesday and we would very much like to invite you down to the Isis to watch the racing, join in the festivities and support the five Balliol crews racing this year. In particular, the Women’s 1st [...]

  Balliol’s first women’s eight competed in Bedford Regatta on the 14 May – a show known to give us many a trophy over the years. Unfortunately this year saw two injured crew members – one of whom had to be replaced from the start by one of last year’s Headship crew, and the other [...]