SPORTS AND SOCIETIES IT WAS A BITTERSWEET YEAR FOR SPORT AT FITZ WITH STRONG TEAMS ACROSS MULTIPLE SPORTS MANOEUVRING THEMSELVES INTO STRONG POSITIONS BEFORE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC BROUGHT THE SPORTING SEASON TO AN EARLY CONCLUSION. The standout teams this year were undoubtedly the Ladies’ Netball Club and the Men’s Rugby Club, who were jointly awarded the prize of Fitz Team of the Year. Both teams had progressed as far as it was possible for them to do so in their Cup competitions before the suspension of the season, alongside also securing their respective Division One titles, in the case of the Rugby club this was for the first time since the 1980s. Fitz Athletics Club were also standout performers of 2020, securing the Athletics Cuppers title for the first time ever, the club captain puts this down to having the highest turnout of any college with a multitude of students competing in any and all events to accumulate points for Fitz.
The Football Club experienced mixed success this year, the Men’s 1st XI continued their unbeaten run in the league, now stretching over two seasons, positioning themselves effectively joint top with Churchill in the Premier League and ready to defend their Cuppers trophy in the final against Queen’s before the suspension of the season. The Ladies Football Club, despite a quarter final Cuppers exit inflicted by the same Pembroke side that ended their run a year earlier, secured promotion to Division One for next season. Both the Men’s 2nd and 3rd XI suffered relatively early Cup exits with the 2nd team agreeing to relegation from Division Two with one game left to play in the season and the 3rds retaining their place in Division Five. It was a positive year for the Titz (Trinity-Fitz) Hockey Club, winning the College hockey league in Michaelmas 2019, before going on to win ‘Supercuppers’- a oneoff match between the winners of the Oxford and Cambridge
College leagues - in emphatic style, triumphing 9-1 over their Oxford counterparts. Other Cup competitions were sadly cancelled due to the pandemic, including Titz’s Cuppers final against Jesus College. The nascent Fitz Basketball team met up an hour a week to train together and often played games in the College basketball league on the weekends. Their Cup run in Lent Term 2020, however, was abruptly interrupted. The story was the same for Fitz’s Lacrosse team whose Cup competition was postponed once for weather and then again for the pandemic after they had secured their promotion into the Second Division. Fitz Boat Club only had the chance to compete in one Bumps event last year but recorded an amazing week which saw the club field four boats and rise six places overall in the Lent Bumps Campaign coming 4th in the Marconi cup. W1 bumped three times to move to the highest position (12th) that W1 has been
Ladies Football Team. Photo: Priya Kaler
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