Jenny Riley & Freya White
2025/26 Captains
jriley8@sheffield.ac.uk | fwhite1@sheffield.ac.uk
The senior women’s squad at SURC has experienced some major achievements and developments over the recent years, such as qualifications at Henley Women’s Regatta, and making major finals at BUCS Regatta. Our aims for this year will be to keep up, and hopefully improve, our successes from the previous seasons whilst ensuring our squad functions as a cohesive unit with a strong bond.
Although our squad certainly has a focus on performance and competition, many of our girls also row more recreationally in their spare time for the social aspect of the sport. We value these rowers just as much as those focused on competing, and we definitely would love to encourage this side of rowing alongside the performance-based side.
A great aspect of joining the SURC senior women is the friendly, welcoming and inclusive community that we have formed, and will continue to foster in the seasons to come.
This year we would love to welcome more senior women into our squad, whether recreationally or competitively, and create a really strong team to continue and improve upon our great results from past seasons in head season, and in regatta season at the more prestigious races.
If you have any questions about joining the senior women’s squad, or about how we train, please feel free to contact either one of us!
Jakob Evans & Zac Knowles
2025/26 Captains
jevans10@sheffield.ac.uk | zknowles1@sheffield.ac.uk
The Senior Men's squad at SURC has seen great recent success. Particular highlights being wins in major BUCS Regatta finals, and top 10 finishes at BUCS Head. Moving into the 2025/26 season we will look to maintain and improve upon these results, establishing SURC's reputation as a high performance club.
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The key to past success has been the mix of new rowers, previous novices and returning seniors, fostering a supportive, competitive, and fun training environment. By establishing goals and needs at the start of the year, we look to support each rower's development to help them to get the most out of their experience at SURC.
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Main Race Aims:
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Top 12 finish at BUCS Head
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Top 100 at HoRR
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Major final at BUCS Regatta
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Henley Royal Qualification
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Within the squad there will also be the opportunity for more recreational rowing for those who may not want to race competitively, but would like to keep rowing at university. Everyone with previous rowing experience is more than welcome in the squad, we look forward to seeing you in September.
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If you'd like any more information about joining the Senior Men's Squad or have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in contact, we'd love to hear from you!
NOVICE PROGRAMME
Men's Captains: Josh Day & Josh Massey
jday9@sheffield.ac.uk | jmassey1@sheffield.ac.uk
Women's Captains: Lucy Weld & Rosie Turp
lweld1@sheffield.ac.uk | rmturp1@sheffield.ac.uk
The successful SURC novice program consists of up to 20 men and 20 women, completely new to rowing. Selection takes place at the beginning of the year, via trials based around core, strength and initial rowing machine tests. Captains will be looking for traits such as adaptability, resilience and determination to learn when trialling, with preference towards those who appear ready to take on the unique technical and physical challenges that rowing presents. This programme is ideally suited to those who want to push their limits, and will get out of it what they put in.
Once selected, the squads will immediately be introduced to the fundamentals of rowing on the water, with training focussing on the technical aspects of the sport. Supplementing this, the squad will be immersed into SURC with club-wide land training such as strength and conditioning, ergs and mobility/core. It is important for the squad to reach the base level of fitness required for the sport early on, with up to 8 sessions a week, on and off the water. This training also creates strong bonds as a squad very early on.
Novices are taught mainly sweep rowing throughout the year, with an integration of learning to learn scull with seniors towards the end of the year. Once the squad has a grasp of the technical basics, a training camp in October will create even stronger bonds within the squad, and allow them to make leaps in the there technique. Their first race shortly follows this, introducing them to the excitement of competitive racing early on. After an exciting season they will slowly start to be integrated in to the senior squad allowing for easy progression to future years rowing.
To anyone old or new to Sheffield who think this may be for them, we look forward to meeting you!
Clara Waller
2025/26 Co-ordinator
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Coxing is a vital role involving much more than steering and coordination within the boat, and a crew's cox is integral to their success.
SURC are continuously recruiting experienced and novice coxes, with the opportunity to race at national races including Henley, HoRR and smaller local races.
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You can also be involved in all club activities including land training and socials.
For more information, contact us via email (rowing@sheffield.ac.uk), Instagram or Facebook.
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