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Welcome to Lancaster University Canoe Club!

This is the place for you if you are interested in starting a new and exciting hobby, or if you want to simply improve your existing skills or continue with your favourite sport in a new place with new friends. We paddle a wide range of grades of rivers, from bimbles to boofs. For the competitive-minded, we participate in canoe polo tournaments all year round, including at BUCS and Roses. Click here to see an old promotional video or copy and paste https://bit.ly/LUCC-Promo! 

Our current pool training times for the 2023/24 academic year are as follows:

Tuesday - 7.45am-9:45am

Sunday - 4pm-6pm

Please turn up early for pool sessions to ensure you are ready to get on the water at the designated times.

 

A little more about LUCC:

We are a very friendly, reasonably small club. We have regular training sessions, socials and trips away! Our three main areas of the club are:

• Canoe Polo - a fast-paced, water-based ball sport (similar to handball… but in a Kayak). This is the ideal sport to get you into paddling as you learn to paddle whilst being involved in a friendly team. As a club we are fortunate enough to have access to a brilliant external coach who has guided our team to where we are today. We have had an excellent track record over the past few years in competitions (currently both our teams are top 10 university teams in BUCS and Roses champions). With so much excitement around polo, the majority of our pool sessions are polo-based allowing everyone and anyone has time to develop and play on one of our teams.

• River Paddling - we’re fortunate enough to be based so close to the Lake District and Yorkshire meaning we have access to some of the best UK rivers on our doorstep. To not miss this opportunity we are out most weekends to make the most of the area, paddling everything from fairly flat water to some big white water. Again no experience is needed, we have a beginner rapid right next to our boathouse - with regular trips here development of basic skills opens doors to some of our more advanced trips all whilst in the comfort of being next to the boathouse. 

• Socials - we have a good reputation for holding some brilliant weekly socials. Often joining up with other societies for joint socials… double the society = double the fun! With most of our other activities being water based it’s a nice respite to have a laugh and make some brilliant friends within the society. For those of you unsure about kayaking but want in on the socials, we offer a social membership - this is more popular than you might think, allowing you to tag along with us and be a part of the fun. 

 

If you’re not convinced by weekly socials, 2 pool sessions a week and lots of opportunities to get out on rivers maybe we’re not the society for you… but we certainly think there’s something for everyone in LUCC.

 

If you're interested in joining, you can either message the club via email or facebook or come along to a pool session! Click the Join Now button to become a member and receive our newsletters.

 

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