Throughout the next year, CUSWPC is looking to facilitate getting old team mates back together through the hosting of alumni events, either in Cambridge or elsewhere! This could be a great opportunity to catch up with some old friends and reminisce on the old days over some drinks or dinner. If you’re interested in attending…
After nearly a whole week of waiting for the go-ahead due to stormy conditions, the 13th Channel Varsity race started for Cambridge at 1.30am on 7th July in a rather frosty Dover car park. Following a rather nervous boat ride to the starting location, Flynn Ryan got the race off to start, diving from the…
Weiyi Tan 2022-23 Season Review: W1 had a tough season last year but made some great improvements in both individual and team play throughout the season, making for a close Varsity match that unfortunately ended with a 10-6 loss but was still a great end to the season. The team finished 5/6 in the BUCS…
Callum Malcolm 22-23 Season Review: MWP had a great season last year and we’re looking to kick on this year and build on that success. The M1 team finished 2nd in BUCS Tier 1, missing out on the top spot to Loughborough by one match and made the Finals of the BUCS National Trophy Competition….
25th February 2023, Parkside Pools Cambridge Cambridge: 95 Oxford: 85 Mens: Cambridge 49, Oxford 41 Womens: Cambridge 46, Oxford 44 The winning team! After two terms of hard training and pizza eating, the energised and committed Seconds team was ready to come back with a bang at the first home Varsity in four years following…
The mandatory team picture! After 4 years of absence, the much anticipated Swimming Varsity Match came back to Cambridge! The Blues were the last swims of the day. The night session started off with a wave of cheers from our home crowd during the team’s parade. Captains Giorgos Papageorgiou and Sophie O’Keeffe leading the way…
Henry Choong: Having graduated in 2019, fellow CUSWPC alumni Henry Choong is now focused on his career as a modern pentathlete. 2022 marked the first year of competing on the senior international stage for Henry. He most notably finished 23rd at the European Championships this September, as well as participating at the World Championships and…
As originally published in the Lent 2022 Ospreys Newsletter. Many often refer to the ‘Cambridge bubble’, the sense that when in Cambridge, the outside world appears to dissipate, and you are at once transported into this 8-week period of academic seclusion. Whilst this distance can be welcomed, when crises such as the ongoing war in…
On Saturday 14th May 100 people including swimmers, water polo players, alumni and even coaches from Cambridge, Oxford and all over the UK gathered at Parkside Pools to each complete 100m freestyle in the largest relay that has ever been swam in Cambridge. The race was led off by the CUSWPC and OUSC captains Ellie…
February 26th 2022 Rosenblatt Pool, Oxford Cambridge Women’s Firsts 4, Oxford Women’s Firsts 16 Cambridge Women’s Seconds 8, Oxford Women’s Seconds 6 February 26th saw the continuation of the most recent developments in the history of the Varsity match, that being the addition of a Woman’s Second team first established in 2019. Due to the…