The Isis Winter League is a series of head races run throughout Michaelmas and Hilary terms.

IWLs are open not only to OURCs affiliated crews but also to other rowing clubs based on the Isis.

[11]  However, the committee, college, and generous alumni rallied to replace the lost equipment, enabling the crews to continue moving up the bumps divisions.

The club has spawned multiple blues rowers including Jack Shuttleworth (2015 Lwt crew),[12] Merel Lefferts (2016), and Ruby Mullin (2024 Women's Lwt crew),[13] but most famously Donald MacDonald, the President of OUBC in the mutiny year of 1987, the events of which are told in the book and film ‘True Blue’.

Donald MacDonald was President of Oxford University Boat Club in the mutiny year of 1987, the events of which received publicity in the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny and the film True Blue.