This year Staines entered 3 boats for the annual Remenham Challenge on the Tideway. The race started at Chiswick Pier and finished outside Vesta Rowing Club. The weather was dry but with a gusty southwesterly wind which made the conditions very choppy from the start do...

Everyone receiving British Rowing's December newsletter might have recognised our Senior Women's 8+ making an appearance on their article about 'Who sits where in a rowing eight'. The fabulous picture was taken by Drew Smith at Ross Regatta in 2018. Read the full artic...

Congratulations to Judith Packer, SBC member who has been announced as the Umpire for the 2020 Women's Boat Race on Sunday 29th March at 3.44pm.  The race takes place from Putney to Mortlake.  It is fantastic news. We all look forward to the race.

The 'Mighty Staines' (as nicknamed by the entries secretary for Cambridge Winter Head) travelled up to Cambridge with the Women's squad ready for their first (not cancelled) head race this season. 

This was the first time for Staines on the river Cam navigating the incr...

Friday - Time Trial

Our 4- arrived at Henley Women's on the Thursday evening to practice on the course for the very first time and returned on Friday morning for their Time Trial supported by family and friends including the heavily pregnant Womens Ex-Captain Georgina.

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Our Henley Women's hopefuls in the 4- entered Reading Amateur Regatta as their last regatta before the Time Trials next Friday. They were drawn against Molesey so knew it was going to be a tough race. The girls held onto Molesey until the last 500m where Molesey pulled...

They managed to book the beautiful weather again for this year's Regatta, unfortunately the stroke of the W4- for this race woke up to a very sore back on Saturday morning, but she decided to try to compete anyway. Despite the injury they still managed to come 4th! How...

The 6 week countdown to Henley Women's is on! With that in mind our Women's squad entered their first summer regatta. Waking up bright and early to travel up to Nottingham, they entered a 4- and an 8+.

After some satnav issues sending the trailer to the wrong side of th...

Such a shame that this year's even had to be cancelled. We had entered two 8+ and the women's squad had been training hard with their eyes set on being in the top 50!

At least all the training hasn't been for nothing though as now they're in a good position for the star...

With 2 weeks to go until WEHORR the Women's squad entered an 8+ into Hammersmith Head to gain some more Tideway experience and see how all the winter training was paying off. They came 5th in their event and with that good result behind them are preparing for the final...