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After Cricket Cuppers – the Bursar with the triumphant team: Tom Corner, Oli Taylor, Max Burrows, Nathan McStay, Julian Wreford, Jake Marshall, Ted While, Sam North, Toby Hiram, Ben Roberts, and Omar Hatteea Athletics Cricket At Fenner’s on Thursday 20 June, Fitzwilliam achieved JRAC an eight-wicket victory over Emmanuel with 92 to 86 in the 20-over game. A consistent outcome: it was the fourth successive Cuppers win for the College. Captain Tom Corner – who had already been a member of the victorious teams of 2016, 2017 and 2018 – hit the winning runs, scoring 37. Oli Taylor, also a long-term player, opened the batting with Julian Wreford (who scored 18) and scored 24; Hiram (13 not out) and Corner completed the win. Ted While took three wickets for 10 runs and Toby Hiram two for eight, while Max Burrows – who also was Fitzwilliam’s double-winning football captain – took a fine catch on the boundary. Rowing It has been an exciting year for Fitzwilliam College Boat Club, with a large uptake in people getting involved with the sport, culminating in six Fitzwilliam boats (three men’s and three women’s crews) competing in May Bumps for the first time since 2013. One of the highlights for the women’s squad was a visit from the Lionesses of the University of Venice – our squad having challenged them to racing in their galeone The Cambridge University Athletics Challenge Cup, donated in 1910 by last September, they came for a return visit, and put in W.W. Rouse Ball (1850–1925, Fellow of Trinity). In 2019, Fitzwilliam a very impressive performance in St Radegund’s Mile won the trophy for the first time – in spectacular fashion, with a score nearly against a Fitzwilliam composite crew. We were also twice that of the second-placed College incredibly lucky to have Sarah Winckless joining us for 2019 66 Members of the Men's First and Second Boats with coaches at the end of the Easter Training Camp at Henley with our scullers winning events at Star Head, and W1 winning the Spring Head to Head. This all bodes very well for the depth of the squad going into the next year. It was a positive year for the men’s squad, with a number of successes off-Cam – with our M1 winning Norwich Head as well as winning our division at Nottingham City Regatta. This translated into some of our best results in the Lent and May Bumps in a decade; up two places in Lents and returning to Division 1, and a net-zero move in the Mays putting an end to our slide down the table in recent years. We had plenty of success for our lower boats too, who benefitted from plenty of racing and training this year. One of the highlights for the men’s squad this year was our Easter training camp in Henley which offered some serious fun for the crews, especially those who only started rowing this year. Over the three days away there was plenty of time for training, sunshine, and team bonding. It certainly seems to have benefitted our lower boats with our M3 going on to get blades in the May Bumps. Our M2 had a strong Lents campaign, going up three places and getting an overbump – although in Mays a first-day traffic mishap saw them fall three places. With many of our squad staying on next year, we look forward to building on our success and climbing ever higher in the Bumps Tables next year. Women’s Captains: ROBERT MACHADO (2011) & EMILY LEES (2016) Men’s Captain: ANDRÉ NETO-BRADLEY (2016) The Women's Second Boat celebrating their bump, with Captains Robert Machado and Emily Lees Tennis In consequence of not playing in the Michaelmas League the weekend, leading an Alumni Four in the race, and in 2017–2018, Fitzwilliam Tennis found itself in a being a very welcoming and inspirational presence to relatively low division for 2018–2019 – so we often had the Fitzwilliam and the Venetian rowers alike. more difficulty avoiding the inevitable Michaelmas rain W1 had a strong year, going up four places in Lent than in winning the ties. Nevertheless, the campaign Bumps and up two in Mays, both positions being the was a great success, as we finished top of our division highest that a Fitzwilliam women’s crew has reached in and so were promoted for next year. the competition. W2 also had their first bump in Mays Sadly, we could not carry the success in the in five years and we fielded a W3 in Bumps for the first Michaelmas League through into Cuppers in the Lent time in six years. We also saw success on and off-Cam, Term. Despite a tough draw, we battled hard with some 67 good individual performances, but eventually fell 5–4 to St Edmund’s in a tense series of matches. Looking towards the next year, I am confident that under the Captaincy of Adnan Allawala we will continue to climb in the League – and perhaps even make a run in Cuppers. GEORGE NEVILLE (2016) Netball Ladies' Netball The Fitzwilliam Ladies Netball Team has performed consistently in the First Division of the College Netball League this year. Despite losing many valued players Mixed netball, L–R: Duvessa Bandeen, Dan Riches, Emily Bertin, Ted While, who graduated last year, the team has remained strong Sulaimaan Lim, Cavan Farrow and Irene Jessel – throughout the year we worked together to rebuild the team with some new and some old players, all of whom have demonstrated excellent netball skills. Mixed Netball Our hard work paid off, as we made it through to The Fitzwilliam Mixed Netball team has enjoyed a mixed the Quarter Finals of Ladies Netball Cuppers at the end season. We started the season with the squad fairly of Lent term, being knocked out by Churchill, who were depleted by a fair few outgoing third years, but soon the then reigning Cuppers champions. We look forward bolstered it with some fresh blood. There have been to continuing a high level of performance next year. tense matches where both defeat and victory were within grasp, as well as some outright victories and losses. EMILY BERTIN (2017) We have seen a variety of new and unusual moves – including an attempt to shoot lying down! We defended our Division 1 standing at the end of Michaelmas, but unfortunately dropped into the top of Division 2 by the end of Lent term, from where we will resume play this October. In Easter term, it was time for Cuppers! We had some cracking game play, with excellent shots being made, as well as some rapid interceptions – I began to think that some of our players must have some flying-squirrel DNA! We came second in our group, thus only very narrowly missing a place in the quarter finals. Although we were disappointed in the end, I’m so proud of how a rag-tag bunch, some of whom were total newcomers, turned up week after week to represent their College, to get fit, and to have fun with their friends. They have hugely improved from the beginning of the season, and as Captain, there is nothing else I could have asked for. Finally, I would like to wish all the Ladies’ Netball, L–R, standing: Samantha Pinches, Clare Pearson, very best to the next captaincy trio of Ted While, Cavan Nisa Hasan, Laura Dementiev, Emily Bertin, Emily Baker-Thurston, Farrow and Charlie Broughton. Emma Middleton; in front: Kate Gargan, Hannah Webb, Lauren Sullivan, Duvessa Bandeen IRENE JESSEL (2017) 2019 68 Members development Development Office News The last day of July 2019 marked the formal end of the 150th JRAC Anniversary Campaign. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to our achievements, whether by donating, by volunteering or by helping us raise the profile of the College’s needs and priorities. I am delighted to announce that the Campaign closed with a total of £23M raised. The 2019 Fitzwilliam Telephone Campaign was the most successful to date, raising £281,655 over the next three years. Over the two-week campaign, callers had conversations with 567 alumni, leading to a 68% giving rate, with 91% of gifts made immediately over the phone. Thank you to everyone who participated this year! As the Bursar’s remarks (p.14) make clear, however, this simply marks the end of the first chapter in our fundraising. Alumni support is fundamental to the College’s existence, and we face significant challenges in the years ahead: long-term refurbishment of student accommodation; increasing provision for students requiring financial support; ambitious targets to broaden access to Cambridge. But the College faces these Alumni donors made possible the new construction of the MCR building – see also p.18 challenges confident in the knowledge that alumni stand with us – thank you. DR NICOLA JONES, Development Director JRAC Telephone-campaign callers in 2019, with the Master 69 Celebrations of the 150th Anniversary Access and Widening Participation Conference Marking Fitzwilliam’s 150th Anniversary means looking Donors’ Garden Party forward as well as celebrating achievement, and with The conclusion of the highly successful 150th this in mind the College was proud to host a September Anniversary Campaign was celebrated in June with our conference on Access and Widening Participation. Striving largest ever thank-you event for donors, a garden party for fair representation of disadvantaged or under- at which over four hundred guests were welcomed. represented students at Cambridge has been at the heart The Campaign raised £23 million to support outreach, of Fitzwilliam’s work since its foundation, but there is student bursaries, teaching, and capital projects – an more yet to be done.