St Edmund Hall Boat Club - Oxford | UK Rowing Clubs | Row HQ

St Edmund Hall Boat Club is the rowing club for undergraduate and postgraduate members of St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. Founded in Hilary term 1861, it reports a membership of about 60 students in a typical academic year.

Most water outings take place from the club's boathouse on the River Isis in Oxford, although the first eights normally train at Abingdon during winter. The club trains principally for Oxford's Torpids and Summer Eights competitions and offers routes into both rowing and coxing.

The club rented a barge from Salters as its headquarters in 1898. It moved to the University boathouse in 1937, then into its own boathouse in 1969; work marking its 150th anniversary later improved the first-floor training space and added storage for a coaching launch.

Its first major Isis success was the 1939 Torpids Headship, followed by its first Summer Eights Headship in 1959. The men's first eight was Head in Summer Eights in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964 and 1965, and the club won Torpids in 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1966. A Hall crew also won the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley in 1959.

Women's rowing rose 21 Summer Eights places during the 1980s, and the women's first eight held the Headship from 2006 to 2009. After the pandemic, W1 returned to second on the river in 2023, while the club continues to publish crew lists, race reports and novice guidance.