Ben Anstiss reports on the Saturday of racing at Reading Amateur Regatta last weekend...

On a rather sunny Saturday 12th June, a contingent of Imperial and Sport Imperial rowers arrived in Reading, a place with more one-way streets than it knows what to do with, in order to compete at Reading Amateur Regatta.

The MET, Dorney Lake 2010: ICBC were represented in four wins (INT18+, E4-, WE2-, WE4-), five runner-up positions (WINT14+, WE2-, WSen2-, E4+, WSen2x), and five third placings (WINT14+, WE2-, WSen2-, WSen2x & INT28+) at this year’s Metropolitan regatta. The club raced in blue-sky summer conditions at what will be the Olympic 2012 rowing venue and destination for many of the club’s young athletes.

Women's Captain Mathilde Pauls (MP) reports on a weekend of racing at Ghent in Belgium...

British University Championships (BUCS) 2010: ICBC have won 180 more BUCS points at the Championship Regatta in Nottingham bringing the total to 378 - that’s 97 ahead of the next sport, firmly placing ROWING as the top sport at Imperial. This comes at the beginning of a week where British Rowing officially announce that Imperial will join it’s High Performance Programme. The news is yet another turning point in a period of ICBC’s history that will no doubt be fondly referred to in years to come as “The Great Duffy Years”, erm... "The Great Trapmore Years"; a time of killing; a time of maiming; a time of destruction.

Training Camp Temple-sur-Lot 2010: Breaking NEWS! Imperial College’s Materials Department has been outed as an undercover government operation to cease rowing activity in the London borough due to a reported (but surely not proven?) correlation between grade averages and rowing gold medal percentage scores (inversely proportional they say!). The Materials Department, revealed as an acronym for Mission Apocalyptic: Terminally Eradicate Rowers In All London Sectors, has long been questioned for it’s seemingly fruitless work and mystifyingly consistent stream of funding. The ring of athleteists have been working in unsolicited labs creating down-scaled volcanoes and calculating ash cloud distributions. The crack team were foiled last week as their plot came to a head following a series of incidents in an attempt to prevent ICBC’s training camp from going ahead.

The Head of the River Race 2010: Imperial College have secured two pennants and two top twenty places in this year’s HORR. Imperial I claimed the IM1 pennant (16th overall), Imperial IV won the novice pennant (103rd overall) and the elite lightweights came a close second in category (8th overall). An alumni reception was held at the club with several VIPs in attendance including the Imperial College London Rector Sir Keith O'Nions.

2007 Henley winner Will Todd recaps on the men's recent trip to Amsterdam in preparation for this week's HORR.

Hamsterdam 2010: It was with great excitement and youthful exuberance that members of the IC gentlemen's squadron departed Putney for Amsterdam. One member of the men's second crew managed to forget his passport, thus cementing his reputation as an eternal novice for the rest of us. Alas the journey was underway with only a few memorable arguments and funny looks from other fully clothed road users to disrupt a seamless trip to Holland. Mark Mearing-Smith somehow found time for a "tremendous" roadside steak dinner. Long gone are the 6 hour mini bus shifts with no rest stops now this gentleman is around.