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Posted: 13 November 2025

Written by Andrea Byrne, Scottish Student Sport Communications Officer & Glasgow Uni BC Member

 For many Scottish rowers, the November trip to Inverness marks the first major head race of the season and a chance to test early-season speed. This year’s Caley Cruisers Autumn Head delivered everything competitors could have hoped for, with calm water and tight racing across all divisions.

Read more: Caley Cruisers Autumn Head 2025 – Race Report

After a record 8 Scottish athletes were selected to represent Great Britain at the first World Championships in the LA28 Olympiad, we were treated to another thrilling long weekend of racing in Türkiye.

Read more: Inaugural World Champions and a Solo Bronze – Scottish Rowers shine in Antalya at the World Rowing...

Posted: 04 November 2025

Following on from the three Scots who raced at the European Rowing Beach Sprint Championships in October, GB Rowing recently announced a massive eight Scottish athletes have been selected to race at the World Beach Sprint Finals this coming weekend donning the coveted red and blue ‘hoops’ of a GB World Championship team for the first time at the beach.

Read more: A record eight Scots selected to represent Great Britain at World Beach Sprint Finals in Turkey

Posted: 04 November 2025

18 Scottish athletes travelled to Boston last weekend to take part in the first of this season’s GB Trials for Seniors, U23 & FISU athletes.

Image: Scottish Rowing. Boats lined up on the River Witham at Boston.

Read more: Twenty Scottish athletes travel south to take part in first round of 2026 GB Rowing Team trials...

Posted: 05 October 2025

Thank you to everyone who played a part in the Scottish Rowing Awards.
With a significant increase in nominations this year—and the quality of each submission so impressively high—our staff and board panels faced an incredibly difficult task in selecting the winners!

A huge congratulations to all who were nominated, shortlisted, and awarded.
Your achievements reflect the outstanding talent and dedication within the Scottish Rowing community. We’re proud to celebrate such exceptional individuals and groups who continue to inspire and elevate our sport.

Read more: Your Scottish Rowing Award Winners 2024-25

Posted: 08 October 2025

Written by Andy Dobson.

For many of us, the season culminates in a small town in Oxfordshire – in one regatta or another – but the sense of an ending here is deceptive. Henley has the history and the Pimms – not to mention a few hundred hectares of blazer-cloth, and more hats than a millinery catalogue – yet in terms of participation, it’s a rather trifling backwater. Rumbling into view at the start of each September is the largest regatta by far: World Masters. The numbers speak for themselves; this year, almost 4,000 athletes aged from 26 to 96 converged on the little town of Banyoles, Spain, forming 5,171 crews to contest 763 races over five days.

Read more: Scots Master the World in Banyoles