Queen’s University Boat Clubs both have a well-established history of rowing successes in Britain, Ireland and worldwide. Every year we have a large cohort of novices join the club and then work through the system into intermediate squads the following year with opportunity for some to then progress to the Academy and Elite Athlete Programme. There are also athletes who have jumped straight into the performance programme having had success at a high level previously.

Our 2022/2023 season was a successful one for our novice squad who won 5 medals at BUCS head in February and continued that with 4 medals at BUCS Regatta in May. Queens finished 8th overall in the Victor Ludorum Standings at the British University Championships, our men's club placing 4th and women's club placing 12th, taking home 11 medals over 3 days: 4 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.

 We had 3 athletes representing Queens at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Bulgaria, Molly Curry representing Great Britain in the Women's quadruple sculls, finishing 8th, Ciarán Purdy representing Ireland in the men's Lightweight Double sculls, finishing 4th and narrowly missing out on a medal and Konan Pazzaia representing Ireland in the Men's double sculls, winning Gold and becoming U23 World Champion.

 We also had 5 Queens athletes racing at the Home Internationals Regatta this year in Lough Rynn, Co. Leitrim. Representing Ireland, Fergus Bryce, Sam McCormick, Nancy Roberts and John Harte, and Chloe Matthews representing Wales.

 QUB Elite athlete Nathan Timoney, along with Queens alumni, Ross Corrigan won bronze at the Senior World Rowing Championships in Serbia, this result qualified the Men’s Pair for Paris 2024 on behalf of the Irish Team which we look forward to seeing in August.

 In 2023 we were pleased to announce Options IT as our new sponsor, who we look forward to working with over the coming years. we thank them for their continued support.

 At the start of the academic year we welcomed Ryan Carney, our new Rowing Development Officer, who joins Head Coach, John Armstrong, and Andy Purdy, our Pathway Coach who will lead us into the 2024 racing season. We look forward to build on the progress from last year as our club grows with both experienced and new rowers joining.

Students can avail of a range of support structures which include end-of-year bursaries based on performance, clothing, complimentary gym access, sports psychology, high-performance coaching, and a bespoke strength and conditioning programme from renowned practitioner Mike McGurn at our first-class Upper Malone facility. Queen’s Sport has also recently teamed up with Kingsbridge Private Hospital to provide the very best in physio and injury rehabilitation, through our Academy physio Shea McAleer.