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Basketball

Emma Bass, MPhil Sociology of Media and Culture, played for the Blues, the University Basketball Women’s First team, as one of the Guards. The CUWBbC Blues started their season well with a home win against Bedfordshire in November. They finished 1st and undefeated in the BUCS Midlands 2B League and won the silver medal in the Midlands Conference Cup in March. At the end of Easter Term, Emma was awarded the Half Blue for Basketball, Senior Tutor’s Prize for Sporting Blues Football

Connie Buettner, PhD student is part of the Cambrdge University Football Team who proudly won their league (BUCS 2a Midlands League) in March 2020. The Blues train three times a week which includes a football-specific strength and conditioning session. This is Connie’s third year on the team and is sure to be a highlight of her athletic career - she was awarded an Honorary Full Blue for Football, one of the Senior Tutor’s Prizes for Sporting Blues.

Hockey

In March 2020, Lucians Simrat Sodhi and Lauren Archibald together with the other members of the Cambridge University Women’s Ice Hockey Team competed in their 2020 Varsity match and won 3-1. This is the third year in a row the Women’s Blues have won the cup and they continue to improve. Simrat and Lauren would once again like to thank Dr. Lindsay Traub for her generosity, which made it possible for them to compete.

Dancesport

Marta Tomaselli, PhD Plant Sciences, has been part of the Cambridge University Dancesport Team (CUDT) for the entire duration of her time in Cambridge and she has been a member of First Team since 2017. The Cambridge University Dancesport Team is a competitive team where members compete in the 10 dances grouped under the Ballroom and Latin American styles, i.e. Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot and Quickstep for Ballroom, and Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive for Latin American. In the 2019-20 season, together with two other team couples, Marta and her dancing partner were invited to represent Cambridge at the Chinese Ball in Vienna, and they reached the semi-final as an individual couple in the Intermediate Category at National in Blackpool. Marta says joining CUDT has been a great escape from the stress of her degree and helped her make incredible friends. Duathlon MPhil student Lucy Havard was first female in the Varsity Duathlon in February 2020. The Cambridge women absolutely dominated achieving the first seven female places in the race. She previously competed and won in the Cuppers Duathlon, organised by the Cambridge University Triathlon Club in November 2019. The Duathlon started from the Wilberforce Road race track. The race consisted of a 3.2km run around the West Cambridge site, a 10km cycle, and another 3.2km run. An amazing year for Lucy who also came 22/226 in the women’s field at BUCS, which is the best result a Cambridge athlete has ever seen, and is within the top 10% of competitors. Netball

Our Grad Med student Sarah Godlee and the Cambridge Blues team played in the Netball Varsity. The annual Battle of the Blues took place in Oxford. The Varsity Match against Oxford in Lent Term is the highlight of the season and the Club always train hard to secure wins for all three teams. There was a great atmosphere with loads of supporters from both sides, including many CULNC Alumnae. Despite the Oxford team being in the league above us, the match was tightly contested with Oxford leading by only two goals at half-time. In the third quarter, however, Oxford began to pull away and ultimately won the match 47-34. The Blues have had a highly successful and incredibly fun season. It took the Blues a few matches for things to click into place, but once they did the Blues just became better and better. Sarah played an important part in the CULNC

success.

Prizes

Dame Veronica Sutherland College Prize(s) for Rowing Blues

Anouschka Fenley – Honorary Full Blue in Rowing

Senior Tutor’s Prize(s) for Sporting Blues

Lauren Archibald – Half Blue for Ice Hockey Emma Bass – Half Blue for Basketball Connie Buettner – Honorary Full Blue for Football Claire Collins – Full Blue for Performance Swimming Helene Greenwood – Half Blue for Cross Country Lenka Janik Blaskova – Half Blue in Volleyball Eleonore Poli – Half Blue for Handball Simrat Sodhi – Half Blue for Ice Hockey

Rowing Report

Lucy Cavendish College takes part in Virtual May Bumps 2020

In light of the pandemic, the Cambridge rowing community planned Virtual Bumps for June 2020. Lucy Cavendish College entered 2 boats (18 students) from the boat club itself and had 1 combined boat of 7 alumnae and 2 members of staff running in their own boat category.

It was a run instead of a row, with each team member (8 plus a cox, of course) running an 800m sprint as fast as possible. Times had to be entered to give an overall boat time, and bumps/row overs etc. were awarded based on these. As with bumps this was once a day over 4 days. On the final day, there was also a circuit competition; max reps of 4 circuit exercises, 2 minutes each plus a surprise finisher. Any proceeds, from fines or donations, were given to East Anglia Children’s Hospice (EACH), who launched an emergency appeal for the approximately £1.8 million lost during the first three months of the pandemic. Almost 100 crews participated and ran 700km every day. Throughout the event nearly £6,000 was raised for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and the Cambridge Covid-19 Fund. Highlights of the race included 2 of our students being successful in the photo competition: Marta Mitrofanovaite with a photo of her in a paddling pool post run and Aurelie Deshons lining up to run against her tortoise!

LCCBC co-captains Hattie Wills and Bridget Larman shared the final results: “W1 put up a great fight and nearly made the row over but were caught at the last minute by Lady Margaret. W2 continued their run of success and bumped Newnham W3 at the plough.

Alumnae/Staff boat was unfortunately bumped by BPBC Mixed (First and Third Alumnae/Staff boat). Thank you to everyone who participated. It was an exciting four days of bumps!“

Meet the LCCBC committee and coaching team

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1. Rebecka, LCCBC President, is a 3rd year English (BA) student who learnt to row with Lucy, and this is her second year on the committee. “I like everything Nature. The outdoor aspect of rowing is partly what attracted me. I like that rowing is so physically demanding and the perfectionist in me derives a lot of satisfaction from refining the one movement”. 2 & 3. Bridget(PhD in Medicine) andHattie (Graduate Medical Course) both learned to row with LCCBC last year and have been busy this term teaching the novices everything they know. “We have loved being LBCs this term! It’s been fantastic to watch the novices go from their first nervous outing to competing as a team in races. We are so proud of how well they have done and can’t wait to row with them next term.”

4. Yining (PhD in Engineering) is the LCCBC treasurer and secretary – the role involves everything from finances to kit ordering. “I learnt to row with LCCBC and more importantly met new friends with ‘boatie love’, who make the early freezing mornings worth it. The LCCBC experience makes me feel lucky to be in this Lucian family” News and Results -Lea Baltussen, Anouschka Fenley and Gloria Jansen are the three Lucy Cavendish College students that are now part of the 2020 CUWBC squad. -Ten crews represented Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club and Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club at the Fours Head of the River Race in London in midNovember, including two of our Lucians, Lea Balthussen and Gloria Jansen. 5.Alumna Abbey (MPhil, Public Health) is an ex-Lucian rower who still helps out with coaching, contributing to both the May bumps blades last year and the Queen’s Ergs win in October! “LCCBC was the place I learnt to row, and from there I’ve gained so many more skills and friendships. I’m happy to be able to share that with others by coaching!”

6. Hannah has been coaching LCCBC since 2008, and is Head Coach of the club, after learning to row in Cornwall and coming to Cambridge as a student at St Edmunds College. “I’ve been amazed by how the club has grown and what has been achieved with so much help and support from the college and alumnae over the years. It’s such a friendly club to be part of and I love my time by the river, seeing crews progress and grow together over the term

and year.” -Emma Sprints was the first novice water race of the year and Lucy did fantastically well. Both crews won their first races, then lost their second to Churchill, who went on to win both divisions. The best part of the race had to be their costumes, in particular our Bloom of Jellyfish. -Both the novice crews (NW1 and NW2) won their respective division in the Queen’s Ergs in early November.