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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!
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President |
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
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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
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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
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Secretary |
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!
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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
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Treasurer |
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
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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
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Kit Secretary |
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
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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
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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
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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
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Tour/League Secretary |
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
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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
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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
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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
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