Queens’ Sporting Success

Queens’ is fortunate to be represented on many of the University sports teams, and has strong collegiate teams for a range of sports. Here we highlight just a few of their recent impressive achievements.

Ellie White & Ella Jennings: Squash

Squash at Cambridge is going from strength to strength, topped off by CUSRC’s Varsity victory in February. The women’s team won with a clean sweep of 5-0, and the Cambridge men won 4-1. Queens’ is fortunate to have not one but two talented squash players in Ellie White (2020) and Ella Jennings (2022). Ellie proceeded to play in the Real Tennis Varsity match at Lord’s and won a Half Blue.

Ellie said, “It was an honour to lead my team to a convincing 5-0 win over the Oxford women as string 1, and the first student President of CUSRC. The day was everything I had hoped for, with victories for the Cambridge men and women, plenty of friends, family and alumni watching, and most importantly some great squash. I'm looking forward to doing it all over again next year!”

Anna Clay & Zara Guppy: Powerlifting

Anna Clay (2020) won Best Female Lifter at Varsity this year for achieving the highest International Powerlifting Federation GL score, which determines the best overall lifter. She competed in the 125 FR-O category. Anna is a PhD student in Biological Sciences whose work focuses on the use of optogenetic tools in order to explore the effects of KRAS mutations in the tumour microenvironment. Zara Guppy (2019) is a Natural Sciences postgraduate student and is also on the University powerlifting team, coming fifth in the 152 FR-O category.

Brett Taylor: Rowing

Third-year medic Brett Taylor (2020) helped the Cambridge crew to victory in the Men’s Boat Race, our first undergraduate oarsman in the blue boat since the mid-1990s. Brett rowed for QCBC during the first two years of his degree and, last Mays, was part of the blade-winning M1 crew. He is currently on his intercalated year, and is one of two Welfare Officers on the QCBC Committee.

Toby Flood: Rugby

Former World Cup fly half, Toby Flood (2021), led the University Men's Rugby team to victory in the Varsity Match at Twickenham in March, ably supported by fellow Queens' member Matt Symons (2022) at lock. The College was represented in the women's match by Polly Hipkiss (2020) at inside centre, but the team succumbed to a strong Oxford side.