Matt'Snow' Soman

Course & Year:
4th Year Physics

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
Like a camera, the lens of an octopus' eye has a fixed focal length, so the octopus deforms its whole eyeball to focus instead of just the lens as in a vertebrate.

Claim to Fame:
I'm the only gay eskimo

Kayak of Choice:
HMS Triumph

Last Swam:
Aberglaslyn Gorge

Favourite Paddling Place:
Orchy, Scotland

Would love to paddle:
Up shit creek [with a paddle] and the Alps

Liver destroyer of choice:
REEEALLL ALEEE!

Rich 'PGL' Clabon

Course & Year:
3rd Year Engineering

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.

Claim to Fame:
I once served Vinnie Jones at Waitrose - He was a prick. I also served some premiership footballers but didn't know until told afterwards. I don't remember their names but don't think they were pricks.

Boat of Choice:
Combat 65

Position of choice:
Usually goal but depending on my mood sometimes attack.

Last swam:
Never playing polo (We'll leave the river bit out!)

Liver destroyer of choice:
Real Ale

Adam 'screamer' Talbot

Course & Year:
Biochemistry 2nd Year

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
It cost 7 million dollars to build the titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

Claim to Fame:
Turned down an interview with BBC1.

Kayak of Choice:
Something not leaky.

Last Swam:
Aberglaslyn Gorge

Favourite Paddling Place:
Aberglaslyn Gorge (preferably not swimming)

Would love to paddle:
Better

Liver destroyer of choice:
Fortyniner

Steve 'Bong' Brown

Course & Year:
Computer Science, 3rd Year

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
During the whole year that I was on the polo exec I never attended a meeting or played polo

Claim to Fame:
Housemate got rescued from a river in Iceland by Mel Gibson

Kayak of Choice:
The Doctor

Last Swam:
Crack of Doom on the Etive

Favourite Paddling Place:
Orchy and its little trib

Would love to paddle:
The Dart in decent water, the orchy again and the Nevis

Liver destroyer of choice:
Old Rosie

Amba 'The Colemanator' Coleman

Course & Year:
2nd year Early Joke Studies

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
The average British person will, in the course of a lifetime, eat 550 chickens and other poultry, 36 pigs, 36 sheep and eight cows.

Claim to Fame:
A fan club

Boat of Choice:
I'm easy.

Position of choice:
Attack if feeling energetic, otherwise defence.

Last swam:
Somewhere in Scotland...Too frequent an occurance to actually note where I was at time of said swims!

Liver destroyer of choice:
cheap white wine!

Sam 'Scamrass' Camrass

Course & Year:
2nd year Maths

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk

Claim to Fame:
My sister's boyfriend's mother's auntie's son's wife was on big brother

Kayak of Choice:
Canoe

Last Swam:
Slalom

Favourite Paddling Place:
River Medway

Would love to paddle:
The pond outside the Maths building

Liver destroyer of choice:
Alcohol

Alex 'Yellow' Chamberlain

Course & Year:
2nd Year Maths

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
Henry VIII only had 4 wives - well it's complicated!!

Claim to Fame:
My Uncle was David Beckham's plumber and my ancestor taught the Queen how to ride a horse.

Boat of Choice:
For Polo, Combat 65 - but only if I can beat PGL to it!!

Position of choice:
Hmm... well... on the pitch, defence or attack, I'll take goal if I have to!

Last swam:
Playing Polo, one sad Friday morning, on the river, Lower Gizanne, French Alps

Liver destroyer of choice:
Fosters

Rich 'PGL' Clabon

Course & Year:
3rd Year Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering (The joke one that has no maths - It sort of bridges the gap between art and science subjects)

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
Polo is played by people who love balls in their hands. Unlike the Polo president, I prefer balls in my pants.

Claim to Fame:
I look more like the Polo President than he does

Kayak of Choice:
Homemade Composite G-Forces

Last Swam:
Last Weekend

Favourite Paddling Place:
The Pool

Would love to paddle:
In my basement next time Leam Floods

Liver destroyer of choice:
Port

Matt 'The Baron' Blackmore

Course & Year:
3rd Year Chem

Claim to Fame:
My identical twis is the canoe coach

Boat of Choice:
If I had the money a DPP or Vampire. For now the Nitro.

Position of choice:
Getting out of a mega

Liver destroyer of choice:
Rum

Fred 'fun is more important than skill' Lehmann

Course & Year:
In 4th year of engineering, and about 3rd-and-a-half of regret

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
Sea monkeys and x-ray specs were invented by a Jewish motorcycle racing white supremacist

Claim to Fame:
When I was about 11, Elizabeth Hurley told me to fuck off

Kayak of Choice:
Anything I can fit in. This is also my answer for woman of choice

Last Swam:
About 90% of the time i'm in a boat

Favourite Paddling Place:
Upside down

Would love to paddle:
yo' mama's sweet, sweet ass

Liver destroyer of choice:
Dirty, dirty pints

Michael 'G' Dundee

Course & Year:
3rd year PhD, Electronic engineering

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
This machine is a high power curve tracer, blah blah blah, yawn! (as featured on Warwick iCast)

Claim to Fame:
I once appeared in the audience of 'Trisha'

Boat of Choice:
Jefe, Flight IIi, Skip, Quantum, not necessarily in that order

Position of choice:
Reverse cowboy

Last swam:
Norway in a slot on the Jordalselvi, it was an unpleasant experience.

Liver destroyer of choice:
Atlas Latitude

Sarah Blair

Course & Year:
3rd year Politics and International Studies

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
Although the banana 'tree' might grow to be 10 to 30 ft tall, it is in fact not a tree, but a perennial herb

Claim to Fame:
My sister-in-law to be is in Cool Runnings

Kayak of Choice:
Kendo (yes, it *is *most like a polo boat)

Last Swam:
Im pretttttyy sure I never have (now im doomed)

Favourite Paddling Place:
In all my vast experience, tyne?

Would love to paddle:
full stop

Liver destroyer of choice:
I like my liver Though I do like hot winter drinks too, mmmm to mulled wine and winter pimms

Nigel 'Nignog' Markey

Course & Year:
3rd Year Maths

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
You can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a quiff

Claim to Fame:
I was once offered the chance to get 'frisky' with a Mexican pizza delivery boy who was probably an illegal immigrant and couldn't speak English.

Boat of Choice:
Combat 65

Position of choice:
In the zone

Last swam:
When Chloe and Blackmore tried to break my neck.

Liver destroyer of choice:
Purple

Andy 'Mofo' Moffatt

Course & Year:
2nd year Maths

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
1 blade is better than 2

Claim to Fame:
My photo was in an adventure holidays brochure

Kayak of Choice:
My C1

Last Swam:
C1-BUCS Slalom, K1-NEVER

Favourite Paddling Place:
Devon

Would love to paddle:
In India...

Liver destroyer of choice:
Black 'n' Black

Jen 'adopted gypo killer'

Course & Year:
2nd year physics

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
Most tropical marine fish can survive in a tank of human blood

Claim to Fame:
My uncle coached GB slalom back in the day.

Kayak of Choice:
combat 65

Last Swam:
scotland new year tour on constriction

Favourite Paddling Place:
the pool

Would love to paddle:
really well

Liver destroyer of choice:
vodka

Einstein

Course & Year:
1st Year Medic

(Almost) Interesting Fact:
you can invaginate through the scrotum to find the superficial inguinal ring

Claim to Fame:
Might have never had nasal, or not

Kayak of Choice:
Burn

Last Swam:
The tardis at HPP

Favourite Paddling Place:
Scotland

Would love to paddle:
Uganda, or the alps

Liver destroyer of choice:
RUM or REAL ALE!! so long as I get drunk