2 CROSSWORD Monday 29 January 2007 thefounder Solution: Issue 3 Crossword puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com (http://www.bestcrosswords.com). Used with permission. founderblocks want to advertise your society, charity, sports team... or just want to sell someone you love them?! founderblocks is the way to do it. buy a block for just £10! if you buy multiple blocks you can join them together to make one big message. finally, classified ads have come to royal holloway! email simon@thefounder.co.uk to find out more. U8 Donations Needed RHUL’s U8 Team are urgently looking for donations to raise £750 by 31st January to help bring over students from their ‘twin’ university in a developing country. <strong>The</strong> U8 is a recently established International Development Student Partnership that brings university students together from both developing and developed countries to discuss and challenge policies which affect international development. Please could you leave your donations in an envelope for the attention of the ‘RHUL U8 Team’ in the Student Activities office in the Students’ Union. One of these blocks could Any amount of donations would be gratefully received. Thank you Amee Daruwalla A.Daruwalla@rhul.ac.uk be your’s for just £10! contact: simon@thefounder.co.uk
thefounder Monday 29 January 2007 SPORTS 23 Sports Editor’s Note As many of you may (or may not) recall, last week’s issue brought forward the discussion of a Holloway mascot, which has turned around some interesting responses. Some people favor a mascot, some don’t. Some readers informed me about a former Holloway mascot which seems to have faded away. With permission pending, I hope to print some of these responses in upcoming issues, to allow the voices of Holloway students to be heard. Additionally, this week I have been continuing to contact “<strong>The</strong> Powers That Be” concerning a sports-scoreboard for this section of the paper. Hopefully in the next few issues, there will be a scoreboard bragging of all the accomplishments of Holloway athletes! In the mean time, please, continue to comment on mascot names, gripe about stories you don’t like, or make note of ones that you do like! After all, this is the independent student paper, and we would like nothing more than to please the students it reaches. If you have ideas of stories you would like to hear, issues you would like to see investigated, or a sport you simply don’t understand, email me! Allison Ealey Sports Editor Crunching tackles… Lacrosse, a game with passion By Daniel Griffiths Lacrosse; a game similar to hockey played with nets on sticks. This is not just my thought on what Lacrosse is, but the definition given by the Oxford Dictionary. As a spectator of a sport, of which you know very little, it is not easy to write an article which others will find interesting. For example, I cannot go into the technical details of the game I saw on Sunday, even comment on how well players might have played in their positions (... that is because I do not know what they are)! Although, this might also be the best possible way to get the message across of how good this game actually is. Lacrosse is an active team game, which requires pace, commitment, and the ability to shout as loud as possible. <strong>The</strong> game on Sunday saw Royal Holloway up against the traveling St Barts. <strong>The</strong>re was a great atmosphere, with both teams looking Photo: Monkey Images to attack and really push the other. However, despite the almost deafen- …all in a day’s work for Bethan Rees! thefounder allison@thefounder.co.uk ing shouts of encouragement from the sidelines (I actually felt pity for St. Barts), it wasn’t quite enough to overcome the playing style and speed St Barts possessed. <strong>The</strong> team talks during the breaks gave Holloway some hope and encouragement, even sparking a come back. <strong>The</strong> fact that St. Barts goalkeeper was quick to react and seemed engulfed by the space around him, didn’t stop Holloway from getting shots on target. As the match came to a close, I learnt that leaving a St Bart’s player in space was not such a good idea and the last goals were scored with some great solo efforts from the opposition (the final score being 11-5 in St Barts favour). I think in conclusion, it is fair to say that Lacrosse is a sport played in good harmony, with a lot of passion and is definitely a great team sport. By Barry DeSilva Like I promised in the second issue of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Founder</strong>, I mentioned that athletes around Royal Holloway would be interviewed regarding their various sports. This week, I came face to face with Beth Rees, a first year who plays at the heart of the defensive unit for the women’s 1st XI Football team. On meeting Ms. Rees she comes across as a very passionate footballer, who expresses a keen enthusiasm to succeed. Her hunger to beat King’s College in the ULU (University of London Union) league on Sunday is undeniable. She tells me that if they (Holloway) beat King’s, the Holloway Women’s team will then go top of the ULU women’s premier league, and ‘hopefully’ she says, go on to win the league. Beating King’s will however be no easy task, as they put nine goals past the girl’s 1st team earlier in the season, on the Nobles ground, as they beat Holloway in a thriller, 9-4. Looking at the stats for the season however, the Holloway girls have the meanest defensive record in the women’s ULU premier league, conceding only 14 goals, in 5 games. If you take into account the fact that King’s put 9 past them in 1 game, then conceding 5 in 4 games is a fantastic record. As Beth was part of the defence in those games, it’s fair to mention that she has certainly played a big part in the team’s success this season. Beth tells me that despite the team’s multicultural personality, they still seem to be able to gel together, and produce clinical results (the most satisfying being the 14-0 mauling of Queen Mary’s). That is again one of the beauties of sport; despite cultural differences, and diverse nationalities, it binds others together, which in the case of the women’s 1st XI, has worked to make them the highest scoring team in the league, with an astounding 38 goals in a mere 5 games. Two of the more crucial cogs in the team in generating these great results this season have been the Captain Charlotte Wheeler Quinnel, and top scorer Kat Fiddler. <strong>The</strong> social scene is once again a big part of RHUL sport. <strong>The</strong> social secretary, Ms. Tania Clayton, Beth tells me, has been nothing less than fantastic all year, organising various so- Photo: Edward May cial events like Pub Crawls going as far as the now deceased clubhouse, at Brunel. It sounds more like an expedition than a social event, if one is to travel that far! Ms. Rees mentions the football dinner as being a momentous occasion, with all the teams in the club coming together. If it was anything like the hockey dinner I attended (which included the delights of ‘ginning’), then I’m sure it was special. On starting at Royal Holloway in September, Beth (who came from Welsh school, Ysgol Gyfun Cymer Rhondda) says that the training is far more demanding than it ever was at her previous school in Wales, though she prefers the training to be challenging as it boosts and maximises your ability as a player, which she says leads to greater rewards on the field. Tiger Woods always said that if you don’t practice, you won’t get results, and in fact you don’t deserve results either. That quote just proves that training and practice can most definitely get results; despite how repetitive it may be, it leads to a more fruitful performance both as a player and a team on the field. <strong>The</strong> next few weeks for the women’s 1st XI will likely define their season, and hopefully it will end on a sweet note, with them ultimately winning the league. If you miss any of the action, Beth tells me that you will be able to catch the action of every minute of every game (including her own goals, and crunching tackles) on an end of season DVD – some people will do anything to plug their merchandise! Next week I hope to catch up with a few more sporting personalities around Royal Holloway, and deliver some sporting results. <strong>The</strong> snow last Wednesday morning however made it impossible to play hockey, which meant there has been a lack of hockey news this week. Hopefully (fingers crossed!) next week there will be matches to report on. For now, keep active!
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