Editing St John's College, Cambridge (section)

===Sports===
[[File:Cambridge boathouses - St John's (Lady Margaret).jpg|thumb|right|[[Lady Margaret Boat Club]]]]
[[File:Path across the playing field - geograph.org.uk - 1254786.jpg|thumb|right|St John's Playing Fields]]

The college has a sporting history, enjoying success in most of the major sports on offer in Cambridge. The college has a cardio gym and a weights gym on-site and has pristine pitches right behind the college.

The college's hockey club is one of the biggest student sports clubs in the college, with over 50 active members as of 2024. It has had strong success including winning the Division One League title every year from 2019 to 2024. St John's is the only Cambridge college to have more than one mixed hockey team, with four teams. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sport.cam.ac.uk/student-sport/college-sport-leagues-and-competitions/hockey | title=Hockey | date=21 September 2022 }}</ref> Legend says that the founding of the hockey club predates the college itself.

The Red Boys, St John's College Rugby Club, won the Division One League title for nine years in a row, before losing to Jesus in 2010–11, and the [[Cuppers]] trophy for 6 years in a row from 2006 to 2011, making it one of the most successful collegiate sports teams in Cambridge's history. The Redboys occupy eighteen out of the twenty-four plates on the current Division One League Shield and thirteen out of the seventeen names on the Cuppers trophy. Since 2014, the club has taken home four Cuppers trophies (most recently in 2023 wherein they went undefeated and won the league title), three Division One League Shields, and the inaugural Sevens Shield in 2016–17. In the 2016–17 season, the Redboys went undefeated.

St John's regularly produces a strong contingent of university players but also ensures new players develop and get game time swiftly. The rugby club has produced several notable alumni including former RFU executive Francis Baron, former [[Newcastle Falcons|Newcastle]], England and Lions fly-half and former RFU Director of Elite Rugby [[Rob Andrew]], and ''Battlestar Galactica'' actor [[Jamie Bamber]].

The college rowing club, the [[Lady Margaret Boat Club]] (LMBC), is the oldest in the university and was founded in 1825. Despite many rumours concerning the name of the club, it was merely the most successful of the many boat clubs established in the college in the 19th century. Similarly, the traditional rival of the LMBC, the Boat Club of Trinity College, is known as "[[First and Third]]" because of its formation from two original clubs.