It has risen rapidly through the Cambridge College rowing ranks since its inception in the 1970s to become one of the most successful clubs on the river, frequently winning the prestigious accolade of Blades in the annual Lent and May Bumps Regatta.

Since the merging of the two college boat clubs, Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish have enjoyed significant advances marked by three squads winning blades during the May Bumps 2009, including a 10 place gain by M2.

Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish have won the Pegasus Cup, awarded to the boat club that shows the largest cumulative advancement at the bumps, three times – in 2007, 2009 and 2014.

[3] This continued in 2010, including CUBC President Deaglen McEachern who was the first representative from Hughes Hall to hold this post.

In the 2019 Boat Race, Dara Alizadeh was Light Blue president in the victorious Cambridge crew which also contained fellow Hughesian Grant Bitler.