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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.
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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 soci-
ety this year! Everyone was motivated, full of
energy and ready to take on any choreogra-
phy! This year, we organised two workshops,
a col-laboration workshop alongside the ACS
society and a heels workshop! We also per-
formed two
sets at the AMATA Showcase, one with our
society members and one with our crew team,
Deadlock.
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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 success-
ful 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 rou-
tine 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
POLE FITNESS the term! This society brings people who have
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 abil-
ities 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, howev-
er we had to cut these short due to Covid-19.
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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!
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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.
LADIES FOOTBALL The biggest achievement I feel we have made
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
FOOTBALL FXUNION the trophy. This was a fantastic event that saw
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.
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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, par-
ticularly 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 com-
munity 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!
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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
VOLLEYBALL coronavirus cutting our summer season short
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 enter-
ing it got pretty heated; big up to the winning
teams!
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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
ULTIMATE FRISBEE
CSM Shinty, Ultimate Frisbee and Quidditch
where each team plays the other in the sport
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 16SUP 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 mem-
bers 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 re-
ally 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.
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