The women's team has won the title Head of the River eight times in Summer Eights and five times in Torpids, more than any other women's rowing team from the University of Oxford.

[1] Due to fears that it might harm their reproductive abilities, women's rowing clubs were banned until 1921.

A member of the club was first permitted to take part in Summer Eights in 1927, following the rejection of an earlier request in 1922.

The building is owned by University College and won a Royal Institute of British Architects prize and has enjoyed a very favourable reception in the architectural world.

[4][5] Somerville College Boat Club has produced four Olympic rowers:[6] Other notable members of the SCBC were Lucy Sutherland and Dominica Legge.