Don’t let opportunity pass you by, enrich your life and row with the Old Collegians!  

Heady words, but if you have shared a pre-dawn start to get the boat onto the water,  then enjoyed a cross fit work out, camaraderie, along with the outrageous spectacle of a sunrise on the Brisbane River, you know OCRC rowing is fuel for the soul.  Throw in a coffee with the crew before heading to work or an ice-cold drink after racing and you are all set for success, no “life coach” required. 

We come in all ages (old boys from 1974 to 2015), shapes, sizes, and walks of life, but we share the bond of BBC and the joy of the experience of rowing.  Exploit the opportunity to join any of the ergo sessions on a weeknight and you will be rattling through a decade of new year’s resolutions in no time at all.  Never fear, for most of us it was “decades” in between rows.

Should you choose to join in the opportunities to race you will find yourself re-living your youth in battling old foes from Grammar, Churchie and Terrace amongst others.  There is a social side to this old school rivalry and before you know it you will be trading tales and laughing amongst alumni from assorted schools about long forgotten victories, defeats and escapades.

The Old Collegians club is just five years young, yet in 2019 one of our crews secured victory in their race category at the Head of the Yarra in Melbourne, the pinnacle (+300 eights) of river rowing boat racing in Australia.  We have an active presence on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bbcoldcollegiansrowing) where you will find race footage that will set the nerves tingling.  We have started from scratch and have a tax efficient Australian Sports Foundation fund to help raise money for equipment.  We row out of the Toowong Rowing Club and the 2020 calendar includes events over a range of distances.   Please contact me (M 0417 625 919) to learn more about getting involved in the club as a rower, donor or both.  Please join in and seize the day!

- Adrian Humphrey (OC 1984)