The Sporting Record Captains of the Clubs Athletics: Tim Henshaw Badminton (Men’s): Calvin Cheung Badminton (Women’s): Gemma Dyson Basketball: Richard Martin Boat Club (Men’s): Nick Gates Boat Club (Women’s): Grace Long Chess: Ernest Chia Cricket: Mrinal Singh MCR Cricket: Danny Allwood Cross-Country: James Maheswaran Football (Men’s): Tom Rex Football (Women’s): Lucy Jefferson MCR Football: Ted Hayden Hockey (Men’s): Stuart Walker Hockey (Women’s): Charlotte Craven
Lacrosse: Christopher Hansford Netball (Women’s): Sophie Baillie Netball (Mixed): Anne Simm and Katie Draper Pool: Josh Cadney Rugby (Men’s): Edward Archer Rugby (Women’s): Jemima Maunder-Taylor Sailing: Sarah Crossman and George Savell Skiing and Snowboarding: Paul Kenny and David Sykes Squash (Men’s): Jamie Radford Squash (Women’s): Chantal Heppolette Swimming and Water Polo: Henry Robinson Table Tennis: Akash Maharaj Tennis (Men’s): Oliver Hart Tennis (Women’s): Sophie Baillie Volleyball: Travis Winstanley
Athletics
players enabled the team comfortably to retain their position in the 1st Division despite some very mixed results. An 8–1 defeat against Trinity was compensated for by an 8–1 victory against Downing with a number of close games in between. The 2nd Team remain in the 4th Division but have high hopes of climbing the leagues this year. Although managing to get through the first rounds of the Cuppers tournament the Queens’ Team were soon eliminated but are confident of progressing further this year with a strong team lined up already.
QCAC men had excelled themselves in 2007 and 2008, coming 2nd in the Cuppers competition each year. In 2009, with many of the previous year’s team having left and steeplechase specialist Josh Cadney out through injury, the men set about their business, and they weren’t there to mess around. Ben Garlic, returning to the pole vault after a year out, equalled his Personal Best with a vault of 1m 80. Alex Jackson, on his QCAC debut, won 2nd place in the high jump, triple jump and javelin, and 3rd in the long jump, going on to represent Cambridge in the Freshers’ Varsity Match, where he won both high and long jump and came 2nd in the triple – a true Queens’ legend in the making. Captain Tim Henshaw and Ben Garlick each also did four events, and future captain Max Wood, Adam Morgan and Tom Welchman each did three, with Abraham Isak and Mike Baker making up the numbers. With only eight men, Queens’ managed to come in an extremely respectable 5th place. QCAC women were also missing a whole host of big performers from previous years, and so it was with slight trepidation that they entered their Cuppers match. Julia Sutton stepped up to the mark in style, competing in three events. Lucy Antrobus (1st in javelin) and Swetha Suresh (1st in her 100m heat) each held their own in two events each, while Jess Jupp (3rd in triple jump), Katherine Oliver (400m) and Helen Brannigan (shot) all did Queens’ proud. With only six women on the team, Queens’ finished in a brilliant 8th place.
Basketball
Queens’ ran 2 teams in the 2008/09 season, with the First Team finishing midtable in the top division and subsequently winning through to the semi-finals of Cuppers, where they narrowly lost out to the Hellenic Society. The second team played mainly for development and fun, finishing 9th in Division 2 with only one win to their name. In the Michaelmas Term the teams were merged again as a number of key players had left Queens’. The Team currently stand 2nd in the League Table with a record of 6 wins from 7 matches. A strong Cuppers run, with returning Blues allowed to play, is to be expected, and hopefully the Team can go two places better than last year!
Boat Club
Going into the Lent Bumps 15th, Queens’ M1 had high hopes, with whispers of blades. However, the crew took a long time to gather momentum, and suddenly week 5 was upon us. As a result, the crew only went up two places, a good achievement, but below expectation. Queens’ M2 were in a tough position, having been left as sandwich boat the previous year. However, a superb cohort of novices had come into this crew and had gelled well together. After a successful row over at the head of Division 3, they managed to bump
Badminton
JET Photographic, The Cambridge Studio, by kind permission
The Men’s 1st Team performed reasonably well throughout the 2009 season and managed to stay in the Second Division in the College League for the whole year. Despite losing two valuable members of the team in the summer, we managed to maintain the standard and kept battling forward against strong opposition. Not only did we avoid relegation, we managed promotion to the top division for Lent 2010, after several tremendously close matches. This was particularly exceptional as we drew with Girton I in terms of the number of matches won and games won at the end of the term, and it was down to our head-to-head score – we managed to secure promotion marginally as we had beaten them 5–4! Looking back, should any of the 31 games that we won have gone the other way (about 8 of them went to Deuce), we would not have been promoted. The Men’s 2nd Team has demonstrated strong resilience and improved significantly in 2009. Despite good effort from the Team it was rather unfortunate to be relegated at the end of the year. Nonetheless, the performance of the Team has been very respectable and it has created a lot of opportunities for freshers to play at a social, yet competitive, level. The Women’s Badminton 1st Team started Lent 2009 lingering in the Second Division but were keen to seek promotion to face the likes of Trinity again. Some strong performances (as well as some important points from a number of forfeited games!) meant Queens’ were easily promoted back up to the 1st Division where they belonged, for the start of the Michaelmas Term 2009. The introduction of some new players and a high level of commitment from existing
2009 May Bumps: M2 after bumping up three.
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