Sports Clubs 2019/20 Highlights

SPORTS CLUBS

2019/20 HIGHLIGHTS CONTENTS CONTENTS

ATHLETICS 1 TANG SOO DO 16

CSM NETBALL 1 ULTIMATE FRISBEE 16

CSM BADMINTON 2 SUP SOC 17

DODGEBALL 2 FAL SAIL 17

BALLET 3 SWIMMING 18

HIP HOP 3 SURF LIFESAVING 18

BALLROOM & LATIN 4

CHEERLEADING 5

POLE FITNESS 5

TAP JAM 6

EXPEDITION SOC 7 PHOTO CREDITS GIG ROWING 7

KAYAKING 7 Lucy Mason / Offside Collective

CSM GOLF 8 Evie Franklin / Offside Collective HORSE RIDING 8 Will Dax / Offside Collective SNOWSPORTS 8 Neal Megaw / Mayn creative CSM LACROSSE 9

LADIES FOOTBALL 9 Georgia Arrowsmith

FXUNION FOOTBALL 9 Max Willcock

CSM RUGBY 10 Helen Merriott CSM LADIES HOCKEY 11 AfterJam CSM LADIES RUGBY 11 Daniel Hutchings PARKOUR 12 Anna Muir CSM SQUASH 13

VOLLEYBALL 13 Adam Heywood

CSM TENNIS 14 Amber Lyall

CSM SHINTY 15 Malcolm Soh ATHLETICS CSM BADMINTON

One of our highlights was the BUCS Cross We had quite some success with a very pop- Country Championships, this year being held ular Freshers’ introduction, on top of that we by Edinburgh University on the 1st February participated within the Bottle Match though we 2020. We took 12 members from Falmouth to lost, and the teams got on with each other. Scotland, making us one of the furthest-travel- ling clubs. The Men’s A Team finished 41st out The Men’s A saw some success within their of 56 teams, and the Girls’ Team placed 60th league rankings this year. Whilst the B team out of 142 teams. Always a highlight in the FXU did not see as much success, the current roster AC Cross Country calendar. has plenty of potential for next year. There will be a Women’s team for next year if there are Another big highlight is finishing 2nd out of 9 enough players that are interested. The Mixed clubs at South West Varsity in Exeter. This put team saw quite a bit of success also. our track & fielders to the test as we competed from 100m hurdles, to 5km, to long jump and Members were very happy with how the club everything in between. Not only did we outper- ran and continued to support and attend most form the likes of Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff etc., of the sessions. Kit was bought and is still a lot of members (including the committee) got needing to be distributed which was due to the the chance to try out some new events! delivery negligence from the mailman, however many look forward to representing CSM Bad- Another big highlight is our continued contribu- minton in the future. tion to Cornwall Athletic Club’s Senior Men’s & Women’s teams in the Cornish Grand Prix & Charles Stanley Westward League XC League. We’ve had some cracking performances, with “A Team” level races across the year from Josh Barnett, Tom Newman, Polly P-K, Jas- mine Bahra, & Charlotte Matthews as well as Will Dax & Alex McCartney for Tavistock and Newquay Par respectively. Also, we can cel- ebrate our biggest ever number of members since the club being founded in 2016; I’ve got real confidence that the Athletics Club will con- DODGEBALL tinue to grow in the years to come.

CSM NETBALL This year saw lots of new members joining the society, many of which had never played Dodgeball before. Training sessions for new CSM Netball managed an incredible win at and experienced players were staggered to Bottle with a score of 109-3! allow a natural growth of abilities and confi- dences. Several new minigames were added CSM1 finished second in their division and to the plethora of games we enjoy, with themes CSM2 in the top half of theirs. Our social team, games during the Christmas period. A greater CSM3, also did really well, and came second in emphasis on inclusivity, accessibility and social the social league. These results are a experience was applied this year, ensuring the testament to the commitment the players have competitive aspect of the sport didn’t overpow- shown, through regular attendance in play and er its fun and fulfilling nature. training. 1 2 BALLET BALLROOM & LATIN

The Ballet society has had another fantastic This year we’ve been able to hold an extra year! Without a doubt, the Showcase has been session each week free for members to come our main highlight. Not only did the Showcase and practice, social dance and enjoy each provide a wonderful opportunity for the other’s company. This has been a huge asset Beginners and Advanced classes to to our members, and we’ve seen new and old collaborate, but it gave members something to members alike of different abilities improve collectively work towards. The product of this rapidly. Our members have gained confidence cohesive effort were two fabulous and we’ve been able to encourage them to performances: the Ballet and Pointe routines. attend many extra local dancing events, such as modern jive in Helston, folk dancing at The Our wonderful choreographer, Jason Thomas, Front pub and swing dance classes in Penryn. outdid himself with the choreography for our It gave our society a fresh spirit and love for our Pointe routine, which was a 1920s Charleston discipline with renewed commitment from our themed dance involving props, flapper dresses, members. More people joined us in our Show- and comedy - what more could you want!? We case performance this year than we have ever have thus received an abundance of positive had in previous years and gave up their free feedback about both the Showcase as a whole, time to practice our routines. and regards the Ballet dances themselves. Our members performed with joy and pride Another highlight has been the growth of our on the night of the charity Showcase event Performance Team, which is run by our and have made the society very proud. We fabulous Dance Captain, Erin. The performed two mashup dances: cha-cha and Performance Team is a collaborative group samba; and jive and Charleston. Two of these, involving members from both the Ballet and the samba and Charleston are new styles to Jazz societies. This year, we choreographed our society repertoire as of this year. Another and performed a contemporary piece inspired new style we introduced this year was Lindy by Extinction Rebellion. This powerful and Hop. We held a fantastic workshop with guest hard-hitting piece really sums up what the instructor Tee J, everyone loved this new style Penryn Campus stands for. Moving forwards, with some of our members attending her class- there have been talks about potentially taking es in Penryn following this. We hope next year this piece to a climate change protest, so keep will be as exciting as this year was and bring us your eyes peeled! more new experiences! HIP HOP

We are extremely proud of the Hip Hop society this year! Everyone was motivated, full of energy and ready to take on any choreography! This year, we organised two workshops, a col-laboration workshop alongside the ACS society and a heels workshop! We also performed two

sets at the AMATA Showcase, one with our society members and one with our crew team, Deadlock. 3 4 CHEERLEADING TAP JAM

Fusion Cheerleading have had such an amaz- We had a great year as a society! We ran ing year, we’ve had an expansion not only on weekly classes for beginners and advanced our talented family, but the awards in our cabi- dancers in AMATA, organised socials and taken net too. part in events, During the Freshers period we had a stall, two free taster sessions and a so- For a lot of members, it was their first ever time cial in order to encourage as many new mem- doing cheerleading, and the prospect of com- bers as possible. peting at three competitions across two week- ends spanning the country was a daunting but We had a Chicago themed session for the first fantastic experience for us all. class of 2020 which was particularly successful with lots of positive feedback. We then had FC University Nationals (Manchester), was a Refreshers week where we got people outside wonderful time for us at the beginning of the of University and students from Truro to come season, getting used to performing at competi- and give it a go! It was a great opportunity tion before going on to BCA University Nation- to encourage people to give tap dancing a go. als (Derby) and Spotlight Showcase (Essex) Also a lot of our members from last year were where we came 4th and 2nd respectively. no longer a beginner and had improved so much that they started to stay for the advanced We’ve begun an amazing link with Bath Spa class. Rapids and their institution, to compete against one another at a varsity, which we’re hoping The Showcase was the highlight of our year will happen next year. Overall, the squad has and we had many new members from other excelled all of our expectations and we cannot societies such as Ballet and Jazz to join. We wait for another year of cheer! opened the show again with our Chicago routine and showcasing another dance from our performance team. It was an amazing way for our members to perform, gain confidence and challenge themselves! It was an excellent opportunity to build connections with other performing arts societies at the University as well. The showcase was a great way to end the term! This society brings people who have POLE FITNESS the passion for tap together, and we created an enjoyable, friendly and fun class for members to come to every week.

Our highlights for this year include the sig- nificant increase in the number of members. This caused the need for two beginner classes instead of one. In February we put on our very first showcase in the Upper Stannary. All abilities performed with a variety of different ap- proaches to pole fitness. We had an amazing time performing and were surprised at the audi- ence turnout! We also organised additional pole workshops on campus for the first time, however we had to cut these short due to Covid-19.

5 6 EXPEDITION SOC CSM GOLF

Expedition Society ran walks every other After a few years of inactivity, the Golf society weekend, giving students the opportunity to was revived in January. The society is open to experience beautiful areas of Cornwall and all all levels, and weekly trips to the driving range the wildlife it has to offer! We got to see many with a golf pro made everyone progress. funky Cornish places including the amazing English Heritage bridge at Tintagel and gor- Next year we are planning on sending two geous Kynance Cove on the Lizard. We also teams to BUCS and organising matches with ran some great socials, including a film show- other South West Universities’ golf societies. ing of The Barkley Marathons, an inspirational documentary.

GIG ROWING HORSE RIDING

Gig rowing had 13 students rowing across Our membership doubled this year and we’ve three racing crews that qualified for the World had some really nice beach rides in the sun- Championships. We raced in Saltash and Hel- shine! ford. Everyone’s also made really good progress Five students in the Men’s A crew finished 10th throughout the year, right from beginners to the in the Helford Mini Scillies final race of the sea- more advanced, everyone has learnt some- son. thing new!

KAYAKING SNOWSPORTS

One of the highlights was running some suc- This year FUSC has had to cut the season cessful night paddles, and some members got short, despite this we have still had a pretty to go to the Teifi River Tour. successful season.

The events people really enjoyed included the This season we took 150 people out to Tignes under the sea social in collaboration with the in the French alps for our annual Xmas trip. other watersports societies, as well as the night Whilst in Tignes Summer Trevallion entered the paddles, the paddles to the caves on Penden- AfterJam Rail Jam completion and won! The nis Point, and our harbour paddles. very first club win for us.

We look forward to getting back to the alps next year! 7 8 CSM LACROSSE CSM RUGBY

This year CSM Lacrosse has seen some seri- This has been an incredible year for CSM ous growth: from increasing our campus pres- Rugby on and off the field. The Bottle has come ence to almost doubling our male members! home with a very close win against a strong With the grants we were awarded last year we RSM side. were able to purchase new goals and porta- ble lines, these gave us more opportunities to The team beat Newquay for the first time practice and develop new skills! Above all our in over four years which is a huge achieve- achievements this year the one we are most ment, putting us in competition for the top proud of is, for the first time in CSM Lacrosse of the league. Hayle came down from the history, winning the varsity and bringing the league above this year with four games played Bottle home! throughout the season; CSM claimed victory in two and drew one.

The biggest achievement I feel we have made LADIES FOOTBALL this year has been the attitude of the team, especially when it came to charity work. We supported two organisations this year, Movem- ber and Sport in Mind, both support people FXU Ladies football entered the Women’s and in particular men, who are struggling with Cornish League in 2018, after previous years mental health problems. Altogether we raised just playing for fun. Kicking off to a great start, over £3000 for Movember and £4500 for Sport FXU Ladies finished 2nd in the league and in Mind. runners up in the Cornwall Supplementary Cup 18/19. In our second season in the League, we We began to do the Row Britannia challenge currently sit 3rd with games in hand, and once for Sport Relief but unfortunately had to stop again have made it to the final of the Cup, how- this due to Covid-19. ever the season has been cut short. Neverthe- less, FXU Ladies continue to have smiley faces This year also saw the return of the Bob Ken- no matter the result and never fail to keep an nedy Memorial game which has not been upbeat atmosphere. played in 15 years. It saw Camborne RFC against CSM RFC with Camborne taking home the trophy. This was a fantastic event that saw FOOTBALL FXUNION players, alumni and fans all come together for beers and a great time, we look forward to hosting Camborne next year. We have been nominated for three SU awards this year, We played our first ever game competing in the including Sports Club of the Year, Most Signifi- BUCS league, we were away to Bath and we cant Contribution to Fundraising, and Fundrais- won 6-2! ing Activity of the Year.

It has been a pleasure being part of CSM for the past four years and I am taking away some of the best memories and friends I could ask for.

9 10 CSM LADIES HOCKEY PARKOUR

It has been a fantastic year for CSM Ladies One of our biggest highlights is our success- Hockey, from great training sessions and fun ful negotiation of permission to train in certain socials, to successful match results. The first places on campus in the second term this year. team had their best season to date, winning the league without losing any matches, scoring 75 Parkour is a new and highly misunderstood goals, meaning they go on to be promoted next sport. It faces many challenges when trying to season. be incorporated into the wider community, particularly in terms of council and security. The first team also won the Bottle Match, against RSM from Imperial, 21-0, a re- One of our main efforts is to build a positive cord-breaking score. The second team was relationship with the Universities and the Pen- entered into a league for the first ever time, ryn and Falmouth community to help protect meaning they got to take part in weekly match- our members and the sport that has become a es. They had a really good season too ending lifestyle for them. After many discussions with up in the middle of the league table, meaning the Student Union, risk assessment reviews, they will be able to take part in the league next insurance enquiries and meetings with health season too! and safety and the Head of Security, we were finally able to agree on times and places to train on the Penryn Campus.

This has been a big win for not only for the CSM LADIES RUGBY society but also Parkour itself and we have made the most of this new training ground in the second half of the year. It is more acces- sible for students and so encourages more of our members to attend our free weekly outdoor 2019/20 was the first official academic year of sessions. the club being up and running! We were de- lighted to see such enthusiasm with initial sign This has helped boost our members and up numbers and have slowly built up an amaz- secured our wonderful new committee for ing team of dedicated girls who are keen to 2020/21 who bring so much enthusiasm to our learn the ropes and play some rugby! society already. This year we’ve watched the society almost triple in size, each new member Considering most of the group had never has been a joy to know and shows just how a picked up a rugby ball before, it was nice to see society can bring people together, we can’t wait so many girls getting stuck into the mud and to see what next year brings. physicality that accompanies the sport. It was also nice to see that everyone was forming new bonds and friendships that otherwise might not have happened, creating a great sense of community and camaraderie.

Next year, we hope to see the team play in some real fixtures and get further involved with the amazing game that is rugby!

11 12 CSM SQUASH CSM TENNIS

It was great to have our regular sessions ex- CSM Tennis has had one of the best years in tended to twice a week for the mid-season, its lifetime within the 2019/20 season despite getting both the old guard and a number of new being cut short. We had over double the num- members playing regular friendly squash. We ber of members from last year and double the also managed to fit in several team-training amount of sessions put on in a week with the specific sessions which strengthened the team introduction of Saturday sessions as well as squash throughout the season. the usual Wednesday sessions. A real bond Entering a team into the Cornish Squash was created within the society which saw us League after a 2-year hiatus was a particular not only be fellow tennis enthusiasts but good achievement. Our weekly matches against friends. The atmosphere at the sessions was rival county clubs were always exciting and always upbeat with every ability trying their despite a slow start we began to win games hand at this sport. This year saw a lot of rain and matches towards the end of the season. during our sessions but didn’t stop the hardy If not for the tragic early finish to the year, we members of CSM tennis getting their weekly would have become a real competitive force fix and when the sun did shine, we were out on in the county; hopefully this will continue in the the courts in force! 2020/21 season! CSM tennis had many a successful event this year and most prominent being its dominance at Bottle Match. On the 21st of February we took to the court to partake in the 124th Bottle Match. 4 men’s singles, 4 women’s singles and 4 mixed doubles matches were played, and all triumphantly won by CSM tennis. This follows on from last year’s success and hopefully will continue in London next year for the 125th anniversary of Bottle Match! We also played a match against Streatham Campus’ develop- ment squad, which was well fought, and the majority of the matches were topped off with a silver medal. With the unfortunate outbreak of coronavirus cutting our summer season short VOLLEYBALL it meant that a few of our future matches had to be cancelled including a new varsity against Bath Spa and possible match against Plymouth University. Tennis has held numerous socials This year saw many exciting events, our Christ- over the course of the year with the most nota- mas dinner at The Stables is definitely one to ble being the ‘dress as a tennis player’ social remember! Great food, great company and we which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. basically packed the top floor with a bunch of volleyball nerds.

The two charity tournaments are definitely for the books, we had one in December and one in the end of January, with about 13 teams entering it got pretty heated; big up to the winning teams!

13 14 CSM SHINTY TANG SOO DO

Shinty is a stick-based mixed sport that mostly This year we had 15 people grade. We also resembles field hockey, except it is full contact. had two people grade for different levels of CSM Shinty make up two teams in the South- black belts on a separate occasion, not stu- West Shinty League: CSM Blue and CSM Gold. dents, but all black belts help with instruction so And this year, due to our high recruitment at this was a fantastic achievement for them. And the start of the season, we have performed we also had a surge in our regular members exceptionally well. CSM Blue came 4th overall with a strong start to the year while CSM Gold 9th Gup (Yellow belt) 8th Gup (Orange belt) competed in the finals, securing 2nd place. Our best results include 5-2 to Blue against Devon Rory Prestt Alex Hutchings and 6-1 to Gold against Blue. Alexandra Broatec Jo High Jake Creasey Megan Evetts We also had the opportunity to travel to London Brandon Lane Carmen Falagán Ro- in October and compete as CSM Shinty in 12 Harri Fields dríguez a-side matches against London and Oxford. Maisie Griffiths George Elbogen Though their extensive experience gave them Matthew Hardy the upper hand, we still made the most of our Rachel Flint 1st Dan (Black Belt) time there and it’s always a pleasure meeting Lexie Williams Mr Chris Burton new players and seeing old faces. During this Isaac Wright time, we also played a Shinty-Hurling match 3rd Dan (Black Belt) against the Celtic society at Imperial College Mr George Reith London, which we won.

Events and Socials

Following the newfound tradition set last year, we were keen to organise Tri-Sports again. Tri-sports is a charity competition held between CSM Shinty, Ultimate Frisbee and Quidditch where each team plays the other in the sport ULTIMATE FRISBEE that isn’t their own. This year we raised around £60 in aid of the charity Sense to help those who have complex disabilities explore the world through sport. In typical student fashion we hosted a Harry Potter themed social afterwards Despite many of the members graduating last where team members of all clubs went head-to- year, we gained over 30 new members this head to determine the real winner of Tri-Sports. year. We wanted to focus more on our outdoor Colour coding was assigned to each club to skill set this year, therefore we increased our resemble the houses in Harry Potter and teams number of training days to include the hire of a faced treacherous challenges though by the 3G pitch giving us space and ability to train for end of the night socialising had taken over and the outdoor season. no winner was chosen. One of our members formed the first ever community club ultimate team in Cornwall. This gave our members the ability to join a club team to play in national club tournaments and extra training sessions during the week!

15 16 SUP SOC SWIMMING

As a newly established sports club our total Lucy, our President, has worked so hard to members for the year 2018/19 was reaching a build relationships with the Carn Brea Leisure little over thirty. Heading into Freshers 2019 we Centre, so that we now have our own lanes expected to attract some attention but we were when we swim and have a discounted price. not ready for the overwhelming support we received from new students and returners! We have gone from having around five members last year to now having 30+ and compet- Our community now totals over one hundred ing in the Exeter Varsity 2020, placing 5th. We members; each with their own stories and had several swimmers on our team that had adventures joined together through their love of never swum competitively before and were rel- paddle-boarding. atively weak before they joined this year.

The biggest highlight for us this year is perhaps Through using Lucy’s swimming sets and train- the simplest; to be able to create a space for ing tips the swimmers have been able to prog- likeminded people to meet, bond and develop ress and compete! lifelong friendships has been the most reward- ing outcome. From BBQs on the beach to The society has gained a brand-new visual some pretty epic sunrise paddles, the smiles identity, which she has really pushed for along on our members’ faces make it all worth it! We with jumpers, t-shirts etc., which have made the also designed and purchased some pretty cool society more appealing. She has really helped hoodies too, so now everyone on campus can the society progress! recognise us as the SUP guys!

We’d also like to pop a little thank you here to the gang at WeSUP Gylly Beach who make our sessions possible and are always there to support us.

FAL SAIL SURF LIFESAVING

Freshers was very fun; we hosted a barbecue This year surf lifesaving had a record number that was very successful and we had a number of members and 5 achieved the surf lifeguard of taster sessions that everyone enjoyed. Last qualification. year, the club was in a difficult place so we really used Freshers this year to launch the club again and we enjoyed as many sessions as possible in Falmouth Harbour, sailing as much as we could.

We have also been taking advantage of our VIP pass on Virtual Regatta Inshore to host races during these confusing times, when we are all in confinement and cannot go sailing. 17 18