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Upcoming Events

Sport Qualifications Week 2013

14th - 20th September

SU Sport is offering 6

different courses at heavily

discounted rates. Ranging

from First Aid to Level 2

Basketball Coaching, there is

something for everyone to

take advantage of! Up to

100% subsidy for our Gold

Volunteers...

Sports Day - 25th Sep

An entire day of outdoor fun

on campus where all sports

clubs show off what they can

do! Get out there and enjoy

the show!

Sports Fair– 1st Oct

This is your time to sign up to

the clubs you’re interested in.

Your chance to meet the

committees and find out

more about the opportunities

you will have. All 48 clubs will

be there so don’t miss out!

What’s been happening?

Have your say:

A message from your Sport Officer

Represent your hall on or off campus! Hall reps organise

social, sporting and cultural events as well as report your

feedback on halls. Everyone can get involved, so look out

for nominations and elections from 25th September.

If you have an idea on how to improve the

operations of the Students’ Union it is very

simple to put your idea forward!

www.bathstudent.com/ideastoaction

Find out more about the Union’s main campaigns at bathstudent.com/campaigns

Hey everyone, my name is Tom Janicot

and I am proud to be your Students’ Union Sport Officer for the

2013/14 academic year! First of all, welcome and congratulations to all students who got the

grades to come to the University of Bath in September, I hope you’re all excited as we are! This

newsletter will be published regularly by the SU Sport Exec throughout the year, and it will

update you on all that’s happening with student sport. For more information make sure you

visit bathstudent.com/sport or email me at susport@bath.ac.uk. Please also add me on

Facebook (Tom Janicot Bath SU) and follow me on twitter (@BathSUSport) to stay up to date. :)

TomTom

Sport Officer

Last year we finished 4th in BUCS for the second consecutive year, very closely

followed by our biggest rivals, Exeter!

This year will see some amazing competition take place with 4 teams promoted to the

league above, two of which are going

to Premier: Women’s Tennis and

Men’s Lacrosse!

Of course, BUCS is not the only competition or activity at this university.

Our social programme has seen a huge increase in numbers and we are

now looking at some massively successful recreational sessions in over 12

different sports. You can already look forward to Sports Day on Wednes-

day 25th September!

ISSUE 1 - 15th August 2013

University Total Points

1 Loughborough 5499

2 Durham 3419

3 Birmingham 3135

4 Bath 2724

5 Exeter 2667

Jordan

Chair

Stu

Treasurer

Jameo

Treasurer

Alix

Events

Zoe

Events

Kate

Web & Publicity

Will

Recreational

Matt

Recreational

Ed

Sports Reporter

Libby

Volunteer Rec

James

Open Rep

Imogen

Open Rep

Handover:

I got back from basketball tour at 2am on Sunday 9th June and the

next morning I had to be on campus at 9am for the start of a 2 week

intensive handover. Let’s just say I am considering timetabling nap

time into next years schedule! The other 4 officers and myself were

put through workshops about the SU, I even had to take an exam!

All in all we’ve got a great team surrounded by amazing staff so feel

free to approach any of us for any information!

BUCS Conference:

Held in Edinburgh this year, I was not expecting

30° C and sunshine all week long! Got to meet

my equivalents in loads of other universities and

proud to be elected as South West Student

Officer, representing our region at the national BUCS Advisory

Group! I also attended some talks on disability sport which triggered

some ideas to bring back to Bath this year…

NUS Training - Leading Active Student Involvement:

This 3 day training at Keele University was incredibly intense. Putting

over 90 Sport and Activities Officers together in the same room is

not the best way to ‘keep calm’. Lots of ideas were thrown at us,

going from making students more employable to making sports

clubs accessible to all, and lots of these will be embedded in every-

thing I plan to do this year. Made loads of useful contacts for the

year coming, and obviously Scott and I topped it off with a fantastic

performance at Karaoke night:

Aqua, Barbie Girl.

A summer in the life of the Sport Officer:

Things to look forward to this year

Freshers’ Week

23rd - 29th September

Calling all students starting university

in September: this week will be an

amazing week with lots of events

planned! Freshers’ night on campus

every night, Sports Day, Activities Day,

tours around town,... you name it!

There will be over 200 volunteers

working day and night to make it the

best week of your life so sit back and

enjoy!

bathstudent.com/freshers2013/

Score

Every Wednesday

Following the weekly BUCS fixtures

on Wednesday afternoons, Score is

the night that brings our sports clubs

together. The Plug & The Tub is the

biggest club venue in Bath hosting

over 1000 students, and last year the

tickets were sold out almost every

week in less than a day!

Buy your Score T-Shirt now: only £10

and only 1000 available!

bathstudent.com/bars/score/

Snowball

4th/5th December

This black tie event held in town is the

celebration of a semesters’ worth of

sporting achievements. It is fully

organised by the SU Sport Exec, a

group of committed volunteers that

support the work of the Sport Officer.

Last year’s Snowball had a silent dis-

co, photo booth and live music all

night, and I can tell you by experience

that both nights were pretty epic!

Perform well in the start of term and

you may even become club/team of

the semester!

bathstudent.com/sport/events/

snowball/

Varsity

March/April

All of our fixtures and tournaments

against other universities are

extremely competitive, but when we

play against Exeter it’s a whole other

ball game. Our first teams in Premier

clash in Netball, Hockey, Rugby Union

and more! This all cumulates to a

massive multi-sport event at the end

of the year where the trophy of Best

of the West is handed out to the

overall winner. Needless to say we

won the last two years...

This is what Tom Janicot, your Students’ Union Sport Officer, has been up to in preparation to what is promising to be another amazing year for sport! There

were three main events in the summer, this is his experience:

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