By
Callum Clarke
St Andrews
We are Saints Rowing - the University's Boat Club and one of the teams on the Performance Sport programme at St Andrews.
The Boat Club was founded in 1962. Although it has grown steadily but surely since then, it has reached new heights during the past few years: in 2019 at Henley Royal Regatta one crew reached Saturday in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup while in 2021 another reached Friday in the Prince Wales Cup. Olympian Alan Sinclair joined us as Director of Rowing at the beginning of the 2020-2021 season and he has since led us from strength to strength!
We have recently become trailblazers in the world of coastal rowing! At the 2021 British Offshore Coastal Championships, we secured one gold and two silvers – a ground-breaking performance for a University club. Moreover, two of our athletes joined the GB Team.
We want to build on this momentum and encourage the wider community to participate in coastal rowing by fundraising for communal essential safety equipment such as life jackets, wetsuits and beacons that will help us train all the year round.
This equipment will help us to:
This project is raising money for essential safety equipment for the winter and will enable us to train year round
Donate a gift to help us realise our goal and become part of the Boat Club's history by having a chance at naming one or more coastal boats of our new fleet :
Polish up your creativity and submit your names! We will review them all in January 2022 and select the top six (final approval of the names at the discretion of the University).
(Please indicate that you'd like to submit a name for the boats - but don't write down the name of the boat! - in the Comments box when making your gift. Your name along with your message will appear in the Comments section on the platform. Or please send a message to SaintsFunder@st-andrews.ac.uk. We will follow up with you about the names.)
Please help us succeed by broadening participation in this fast-growing sport by donating today!
THANK YOU!
You can follow the club's progress on:
Meet the rowers
Select this reward if you just want to donate to the project without receiving a reward.
5 claimed
Select this reward if you want to submit a name for one racing shell.
3 claimed
Estimated delivery: 1 February 2022
Select this reward if you want to submit a name for two racing shells.
5 claimed
Estimated delivery: 1 February 2022
Select this reward if you want to submit a name for all six racing shells.
4 claimed
Estimated delivery: 1 February 2022
Select this reward to be granted a naming right to a boat in the new fleet! (final approval of the name at the discretion of the University)
1 claimed of 3
Estimated delivery: 1 February 2022