Coaches

Donald Legget

Donald rowed in the 1962 Goldie crew, and the 1963 and 1964 Cambridge crews. He has coached at CUBC continuously since 1968.

His many achievements at Henley include coaching the winning Leander Club Thames Challenge Cup 8s in 1968, 1969 and 1970, the Silver Goblets in 1971 and the Double Sculls in 1972. He also coached Durham University 4- to win the Visitors' Cup, the GB Squad Heavyweight 4x to win the Queen Mother and the Cambridge University/Mladost (Croatia) Composite 4-, which won the Stewards' Challenge Cup in 1995, and still holds the Course and Event record at 6.22. The following year Donald coached CUBC to win the Ladies' Plate.

Donald was in charge of the coaching at Trinity Hall from 1991 - 1995 when they rose rapidly to Head of the Mays and remained there for 4 years.

In 1996 he became the rowing coaching co-ordinator at Radley College, winning the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley in 1998. Radley 1st and 2nd 8s under his guidance appeared on the rostrum every year at the National Schools' Regatta from 1997-2004 and won a total of 9 Golds in 8s and 4 Golds in Small Boats. Donald coached the GB Junior World Championship 4+ to a Bronze medal in 1998 and the 8 which finished 5th in 1999. Since 2004 he has acted in a more advisory role and now helps all the RCBC coaches with the coaching of their crews.

Donald has been lead coach of Magdalen College Boat Club, Oxford since 2004.  Magdalen rose to be Head of Summer 8s for 3 years from 2005 and also were Head of Torpids in 2008.

More recently in 2008 he coached the winning 1829 Wyfold and semi-finalist 1829 Britannia 4s at Henley.

Donald's role with Cambridge University Boat Club is assisting the Chief and Assistant Coaches as well as the President in their annual quest to win The Boat Race and also the Isis v Goldie Race.

More recently, Donald has coached 1829 Boat Club’s winning Wyfold and semi-finalist Britannia IVs at Henley in 2008, and 1829 BC’s winning Thames Cup VIII at Henley in 2010.