Jo Carter
For so many people, three years at York is taken over by sport, and their degree becomes their part-time hobby. With 54 active sports clubs, you will never have a better opportunity to try out a new sport (or several!). Make sure you head down to the Sports Centre on Saturday Week 1; the best chance to work out how you are going to avoid spending too much time in the library over the next three years.
I’ve spent the summer in York with no-one to keep me company, but more importantly, no-one to play any sport with. There are only so many times you can pretend that you’re racing against the guy on the next treadmill, or the woman in the next swimming lane. Competitive? Who, me?
I was recently introduced to the President of the Students’ Union at Lancaster University.
We were having an amiable enough conversation until he made the mistake of bringing up the subject of Roses. I think it would be an understatement to say I scared him with my sudden transformation into a competitive monster. If you get involved in sport at here at York, you’ll soon find out what Roses is about.
It’s big. We take on Lancaster University over three days in just about every sport you can imagine, in the biggest sporting event of its kind in Europe. 45 sports, over a hundred events and somewhere around a thousand competitors. This year we’ll be travelling to the other side of the Pennines to make sure we defend the Carter-James trophy and take the score to 22-21 to York.
And, of course, sport at York isn’t all about the blood, sweat and tears, and most clubs will remind you that the social side is an equally important aspect. Campus Wednesdays aims to encourage clubs, societies and friends to socialise on campus in the evening, either as an alternative to heading into town, or as an ideal meeting place prior to going out. It’s a fantastic opportunity to sample the diverse atmospheres in Derwent, Langwith, Vanbrugh, Goodricke and Wentworth college bars.
Collect a Campus Wednesdays Passport in the first bar you visit, and receive a stamp in each bar that you buy a drink, and in the fifth bar you will receive a free drink. And if you want to know any more about sport at York, just pop into the office, email au@yusu.org, or see me in the one of the bars on a Wednesday evening.
