Linacre College Boat Club (LBC) is a rowing club for members of Linacre College, Oxford. It is based on the Isis at Boathouse Island, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, Oxford and is affiliated to British Rowing. The boat club also represents Nuffield College, Oxford.
The boat club shares the boathouse building with Magdalen College Boat Club, Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club and Trinity College Boat Club.
The club was founded in 1969 and as both Linacre and Nuffield are graduate colleges, LBC is one of the few rowing clubs on the Isis that caters solely to postgraduate students.
Linacre competes in a wide variety of races, both on the Isis (including the Torpids and Summer Eights) and elsewhere, including the Head of the River Race on the Thames at London.
From time-to-time the club uses the scallop shells of Linacre college, which are themselves taken from the arms of the prominent Linacre family of northern Derbyshire and southern Yorkshire, and represent the completion of the Camino pilgrimage to Santiago. The colours of the blades likely originate in the golden (or) crowns of the old (pre-1988) arms of Linacre college and its black (sable) shield. Since 2022 Linacre has organised the Tamesis Regatta, a series of side-by-side races held over four days for novice crews.
Between the college's foundation and the creation of its boat club in 2023, members of Reuben College also rowed with LBC.
In 1994 Snorre Lorgen of Nuffield College was the club's first representative in the men's Boat Race.
In 2019 Lizzie Polgreen was the club's first representative in the women's Boat Race
The following rowers were part of the rowing club at the time of their participation in the The Boat Race.
Men's boat race
Women's boat race
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