Asopos de Vliet

Asopos de Vliet
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Location Leiden, Netherlands
Home water Dwarswatering
Founded Merger of Asopos and De Vliet in 1974 (1974)
University Leiden University
Website www.asopos.nl

Asopos de Vliet is a student rowing club based in Leiden, Netherlands. It takes its membership primarily from Leiden University.

The female-only rowing club De Vliet was founded in 1905, taking its name after one of the waters in Leiden. In 1974 it merged with the male-only rowing club Asopos, named after the Greek river god Asopos). Asopos had been founded in 1962 by discontent members of the club Njord, nowadays a daughter association of Leiden's traditional fraternity/sorority (corps) Minerva.

Trivia

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands was a member of De Vliet when she studied in Leiden (1956 - 1961).

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