St Edmund's College Boat Club (SECBC) is the boat club for members of

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, England. St Edmund's College is a

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of the

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in England. The boat club has had considerable success in recent years, for which its men's first boat (M1) has continually bumped in both

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and May Bumps races. SECBC was founded in the 1970s and uses the Cambridge '99 RC

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for training and storing its boats.

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St Edmund's College Boat Club
Rowing clubs of the University of Cambridge

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