They think its all over...

For many club at UWE the year is over, everyone does their exams and then they all disapear off to work for the summer. Not at the Canoe Club. The pool sessions are all over now until September but thats not going to stop us.

There was a trip to South Wales last weekend and we're planning another trip in the UK before we head off on our mighty summer tour of Europe.

Below is a picture of us acepting the 2008/09 'club of the year' shield presented by Shelly Rudman.

We are the champions!

Yes it is true we are club of the year 08/09!

Cheers to all who have put in lots of help to make us the best club!

Some of the highlights of the year for me:

The carnage and amazing surf at Polzeath! A great birthday weekend!

The Gene17 adventure paddler weekend and Dart trip adventures!

BUCS Slalom one of the best weekends ever! We are the UWE Morris Dancing Society and represented proudly!

Having Doug Ammons come and talk at Uni.

And Getting 4 new boats, 6 new cags and boots from the SU!

All of this couldnt have been done without lots of effort from a lot of people so thank you all!

We are Varsity winners

Every year the a select few of the University sports clubs challenge the University of Bristol to some games. We are one of these few clubs. Each year we build a Canoe Polo pitch in the middle of Bristol Docks and lay down the challenge. We generally invite some guest teams to come and fill out the day. It is a very friendly little tournament that we use to showcase the sport in the city center of Bristol. The sun came out as the giant crowd cheered us on. Our Alumni team took up the first Varsity match and won. The ladies then met their match, having previously beat UoB ladies unfortunately fell and lost by two goals. This put the pressure on the men, who norrowly won 2-1. The day it's self is fantastic and really shows how great the canoe club is. All other Varsities have alot of support from the Centre for Sport but we take this upon our selves and put on a good show for the public.

The picture below shows UWE's Kevin Roberts (in red) being congratulated by a Bristol Uni student (in blue).


I can't wait till next year.