Hughes Hall Boat Club (HHBC) is the rowing club for members of Hughes Hall, Cambridge. HHBC houses its boats in the boathouse. HHBC has a history of consistently impressing on several fronts. It has risen rapidly through the Cambridge College rowing ranks since its inception in the 1970s to become one of the most successful clubs on the river, frequently winning the prestigious accolade of Blades in the annual Lent and May Bumps Regatta. The Men's first crew won blades in the May Bumps in 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2019, and 2022.
History Hughes Hall first competed in the May Bumps in 1979 when the men started at 112th on the river and went down two places while the women started at 20th on the river and went down three places. The following year the men achieved HHBC's first ever bump on Sidney Sussex M6 but the women had to wait until 1999 to achieve their first May bump.
In 2003 there was an official merger with the boat club of Lucy Cavendish College, an all-women's college of Cambridge University. The result was a combined club formally recognised by the Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs as the "Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish Combined Boat Club". This combination was the only one of its type at Cambridge.
Since the merging of the boat club has enjoyed significant advances marked by three squads winning blades during the May Bumps 2009, including a 10 place gain by M2.Bumps Charts | CUCBC It was also the first time the boat club fielded four crews into the May Bumps and winning the Pegasus Cup, awarded to the boat club that shows the largest cumulative advancement at the bumps, three times – in 2007, 2009 and 2014. They are the only club to have won the Pegasus Cup on more than one occasion.
In 2008, the women flew to Galway Ireland to race in the Tribesman Head of the River race and qualified for the Intermediate Coxed Fours in 2008 at Henley Women's Regatta.http://www.shandonboatclub.com/iopen24/catalog/pub//2008Hd1Section%20Results.doc
In October 2017 it was announced that the two college clubs were to separate.
Hughes Hall admits many students on one-year degrees. As such, the boat club trains many novices each year. Top performers are often given opportunities in the first VIII. Hughes Hall is also known for producing many of those rowers who represent CUBC at The Boat Race. In 2009 half the roster of Goldie, the 2nd Varsity boat, were from Hughes. This continued in 2010, including CUBC President Deaglen McEachern who was the first representative from Hughes Hall to hold this post. In the 2019 Boat Race, Dara Alizadeh was Light Blue president in the victorious Cambridge crew which also contained fellow Hughesian Grant Bitler.
Honours Boat Race representatives The following rowers were part of the rowing club at the time of their participation in The Boat Race.
Men's boat race
YearName 1995 Russell S. Slatford 2005 Bernd Heidicker 2005 Peter Rudge (cox) 2006 Peter Rudge (cox) 2008 Tom Ransley 2008 Ryan Monaghan 2009 Deaglan McEachern 2009 Tom Ransley 2010 George Nash 2010 Deaglan McEachern 2010 Fred Gill 2011 Derek Rasmussen 2011 David Nelson 2011 Liz Box (cox) 2012 Jack Lindeman 2012 David Nelson 2012 Niles Garratt 2013 Ty Otto 2013 Niles Garratt 2014 Henry Hoffstot 2015 Jasper Holst 2015 Ben Ruble 2015 Henry Hoffstot 2016 Henry Hoffstot
YearName 2016 Ben Ruble 2016 Lance Tredell 2017 Ben Ruble 2017 James Letten 2017 Patrick Eble 2017 Lance Tredell 2017 Henry Meek 2018 James Letten 2018 Dara Alizadeh 2018 Finn Meeks 2019 Grant Bitler 2019 Dara Alizadeh 2023 Noam Mouelle 2023 Thomas Lynch 2024 Noam Mouelle 2024 Kenneth Coplan 2024 Thomas Lynch 2025 Noam Mouelle 2026 Noam Mouelle 2026 Alexander McClean 2026 William Klipstine
Women's boat race YearName 2015 Rosemary Ostfeld 2016 Rosemary Ostfeld 2025 Sophia Hahn 2025 Samantha Morton 2026 Isobel Campbell
References
External links CUCBC/ Cambridge University Combined Boat Club Hughes Hall Boat Club