Aberystwyth University Women's Hockey Club

Welcoming our new President for 2020+1-22:

😍 Name: Emily Ratchford
⏰ Age: 20
📚 Course: Mathematics

Sexy Fun Facts: I have a spicy Aberfess written about me 🤯

Welcoming our sexy new Secretary of 2020+1/22:

😍 Name: Immy Thripland
⏰ Age: 20+1
📚 Course: Business Management

Sexy Fun Fact: I’ve been an intern in the logistics department at MINI for the last 13 months! 🤯

Welcoming our new Screamer of a Captain:

😍 Name: Becca Gibson
⏰ Age: 20+1
📚Course: Veterinary Bioscience

Sexy Fun Fact: I have spent the last 9 months in Spain working with dogs! 🤯

Welcoming our new Vice Captain of 2020+1/22:

😍 Name: Jess Brake
⏰ Age: 20 + 1
📚 Course: Criminology and Sociology

Sexy Fun Fact: I am no longer allowed to drink vodka! 🤯

Meet our Development Captain and Well-being Officer for 2020+1/22:

😍 Name: Eloise Kernaghan
⏰ Age: 20
📚 Course: Human Geography

Sexy Fun Fact: I had to have surgery on my ear because it ate my helix piercing! 🤯

Meet our second social secretary for 2020+1/22:

😍 Name: Tegan Morris
⏰ Age: 22
📚 Course: Zoology

Sexy Fun Fact: I can fit into a grit bin! 🤯

Meet one of our new Social Secretaries of 202+1/22:

😍 Name: Katie Langslow
⏰ Age: 19
📚 Course: Psychology and Criminology

Sexy Fun Fact: I have consumed 79 bottles of dry martini since September! 🤯

Introducing our committee for 202+1/2022 🤩

Meet our new Fixture Secretary:

😍 Name: Lexie Drake
⏰ Age: 19
📚 Course: Law and International Politics

Sexy Fun Fact: I let a random Stranger give me a helix piercing while I was black out! 🤯

Amazing to see Women’s Hockey up for these awards!! ❤️🏑

🏆 Sports Awards Shortlist🏆

Congratulations to everyone who has been shortlisted; we look forward to announcing the winners and celebrating everyone’s achievements during AberSU Celebrates Week!
Each of the events will take place online for all shortlisted individuals, and anyone else who wishes to join is welcome to do so! We will send over more information about how to access the live awards evening nearer the time.

🎉Sports Awards on Friday 7th May

https://www.abersu.co.uk/news/article/umabersu/SHORTLIST-Sports-Awards/

During January our members travelled over 860 miles to raise money for West Wales Poundies! We managed to complete this challenge by 1st February and raise over £100 for them!! Thank you to everybody who donated and took part ❤️🏑

During January our members travelled over 860 miles to raise money for West Wales Poundies! We managed to complete this challenge by 1st February and raise over £100 for them!! Thank you to everybody who donated and took part ❤️🏑

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Over the past 2 weeks, AUWHC have travelled over 400 miles and are over half way to meeting our goal of 870 miles!

We have set up a JustGiving page where the money will be donated to West Wales Poundies. We would really appreciate all the support and donations as we push ourselves for the last 2 weeks to meet our goal 💪🏼

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberuniwomenshockey?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=aberuniwomenshockey&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=0e1a207792ff45568449f6b4446d7057

justgiving.com Help Nicola Hall raise money to support West Wales Poundies Dog Rescue

During the lockdown last March, AUWHC and AUMHC travelled the distance to Benidorm to keep members active and raise money for Mind Aberystwyth.

This lockdown, AUWHC have decided to travel 870 miles, the distance of the Welsh coast path through running, cycling and walking in their local areas🚶‍♀️🚴🏼‍♀️ We aim to complete this by the end of January!

We have chosen to raise money for West Wales Poundies. This is a charity which is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs in Welsh council pounds. It would be amazing if anyone could sponsor us and donate money to help this worthy cause!

A page will be set up in the coming days for donations.

We are looking forward to raising money for West Wales Poundies and keeping our members active during this lockdown! Here are some pictures of our members with their own dogs 🐶

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Today is World Mental Health Day and AUWHC alongside AUMHC wanted to share everything we are doing this year to support each other.

After last years success, we have continued our partnership with Mind Aberystwyth. We are currently planning lots of fundraising ideas for this year to raise money for them.

This year we are also focusing on raising awareness about mental health and breaking the stigma. Our aim is to support all of our members and others in the student community. We are looking forward to our return to hockey and being able to support each other on and off the pitch during these difficult times.

Over the lockdown period, we teamed up with Aberystwyth University Men’s Football Club to create a video where our members discussed the impact of sport on mental health. This video helped raise awareness about ways in which sport has helped people and we aim for hockey to continue to help students suffering with mental health.

This year our committees have been given the opportunity to take part in mental health awareness training which will help prepare us for certain situations and know how we can support our members! This training is an amazing opportunity for the club and we are hoping that this will help us support each other even more.

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After last years success, we are pleased to announce that Aberystwyth University Men’s and Women’s Hockey Club will be continuing our partnership with Mind Aberystwyth.

Last year we raised over £3000 for Mind Aberystwyth with the help of Aberystwyth University Netball Club and Aberystwyth University Football Club.

This year we hope to continue to raise money for Mind, as well as raising awareness about mental health. We are hoping to introduce Mental Health Ambassadors to our clubs which will help improve the way in which we deal with mental health.

We are already in the process of planning our events this year and more ways to raise money for Mind, as well as helping break the stigma surrounding mental health in sport and student life!

We are looking forward to sharing all our plans with everybody soon! Enjoy some pictures of us supporting Mind Aberystwyth last season! #tîmaber

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Ar ol blwyddyn llwyddiannus blwyddyn diwethaf, rydym yn falch i gyhoeddi bydd Clwb Hoci Dynion Prifysgol Aberystwyth a Chlwb Hoci Merched Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn cario mlaen gyda ein partneriaeth gyda Mind Aberystwyth.

Blwyddyn diwethaf casglwyd £3000 i Mind Aberystwyth gyda help Clwb Pelrwyd Prifysgol Aberystwyth a Clwb Peldroed Prifysgol Aberystwyth.

Gobeithiwn i gasglu mwy o bres i Mind blwyddyn yma, ynghŷd â chodi ymwybyddiaeth iechyd meddwl. Rydym yn gobeithio cyflwyno llysgynhadion Iechyd Meddwl i ein clwb sydd am helpu i ni helpu iechyd meddwl o fewn y clwb.

Rydym yn barod yn y broses o chynllunio digwyddiadau blwyddyn nesaf a mwy o ffyrdd i godi pres, ynghŷd â dymchwel y stigma sydd am iechyd meddwl mewn chwaraeon ac o fewn bywydau myfyrwyr!

Rydym yn edrych ymlaen i gyhoeddi ein syniadau yn fuan gyda pawb! Mwynhewch y lluniau isod o ni yn cefnogi Mind Aberystwyth blwyddyn diwethaf! #tîmaber

Meet our new President 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Nicola Hall
⏰Age: 20
📚Course: 3rd Year Human Geography with English Literature
🏑Position: Forward
🤪Fun Fact: could’ve paid for the hire of the 3G pitch for 50 hours with the amount of VK crates bought
🙊Most likely to be found: collecting recycling bins

#Imbuyingacrate #itwasafoodbin #messi

Meet our new Secretary 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Kayleigh Jones / Kaj
⏰Age: 22
📚Course: Geography Masters
🏑Position: Defence
🤪Fun Fact: Deja Bruce
🙊Most likely to be found: Marine toilets / in our attacking D 😉

#Kaj #topstriker

Meet our new Captain 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Eleanor Phillips
⏰Age: 20+1
📚Course: Agriculture with business
🏑Position: Midfield
🤪Fun Fact: was battered by her housemate and team mate in 7’s last year
🙊Most likely to be found: taking Elliot Peters to Maccies

#Captain #silagepit #lukeisarubbishflatmate

Meet our new Vice Captain 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Iris Lopes Duarte
⏰Age: 20
📚Course: Animal Behaviour
🏑Position: Goalkeeper
🤪Fun Fact: once walked around for half an hour with no shoe because she used her socks to pick up fish and throw them back into the sea
🙊Most likely to be found: Arresting people on nights out

#sexycop #goalkeeper #dorito

Meet our new Development Captain & Welfare Officer 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Emily Ratchford
⏰Age: 19
📚Course: 2nd year Mathematics
🏑Position: Midfield
🤪Fun Fact: Still owes at least 2 jugs x
🙊Most likely to be found: Scoring outrageous goals

#pablo #topcorner #thescoreanators

Meet one of our new Social Secretary’s 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Karla Greggs Dullaghan
⏰Age: 19
📚Course: 2nd year Agriculture
🏑Position: Midfield
🤪Fun Fact: Bought a middle name 🤭
🙊Most likely to be found: on Downies floor

#greggs #downies #thenewkirsty

Meet one of our new Social Secretary’s 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Lily Mann
⏰Age: 18
📚Course: 2nd Year Agriculture
🏑Positon: Defence
🤪Fun Fact: Becomes a member of ABBA after a few quadvods
🙊 Most likely to be found: Loft x

#bargeorloft #ABBArystwyth #wheresjim

As this year is a bit different from previous, we have introduced a new role to help us deal with coronavirus within our hockey club.

Meet our COVID-19 Officer 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Cerys Hill
⏰Age: 20
📚Course: Zoology
🏑Position: Midfield
🤪Fun Fact: Got married and divorced within 24 hours 😉
🙊Most likely to be found: trying to outstage Nicola at karaoke

#marriedtomenssec #ceryscantsing #canthandleagamechanger #actnormal

Introducing our new committee for 2020/2020+1 🤩🤩

Meet our new Fixtures Secretary 2020/2020+1:

🤩Name: Sophie Cadman
⏰Age: 19
📚Course: 2nd Year Creative Writing ✍️
🏑Position: Defence
🤪Fun Fact: has the ability to do the worm after a bottle of wine and a few quad vods
🙊Most likely to be found: in A&E after a night out

#ligamentdamage #dignitydamage

Congratulations to our Class of 2020 graduates🎓🥂We are so proud of you all and can’t wait to hear about the amazing things you get up to in the future! See you all at Glynn and Rugby 7s 🥳🤩

As this month is Pride Month, AUWHC and AUMHC are working together to support the LGBT community 🏳️‍🌈

Studies, undertaken by the National Union of Students have highlighted:

- 46.8% of LGBT students who do not participate in sport find the culture around sport alienating or unwelcoming.
- 41.9% had a negative experience at school which has meant they don’t want to get involved at college or university.
- 14.3% had experienced homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia which has put them off from participating.

These statistics have inspired our clubs to support the LGBT community by implementing the Zero Tolerance policy to show that homophobia, biphobia and transphobia abuse is unacceptable within our clubs.

From September we are asking all of our players and members to wear the Rainbow Laces as part of a way to show support and to raise money for Stonewall. We want to continue to make our hockey clubs a safe environment and to support everybody equally, regardless of sexuality.

Both AUWHC and AUMHC are proud to support the LGBT community and some of our members want to share their views on LGBT in sport, particularly hockey:

Molly Rowell, AUWHC, “AUWHC has been a massive part of my life and I’m proud to be able to say I’ve never felt I have to hide who I am with this club. The club has helped me to become more confident with who I am and accept myself more. The best part of being out in this club is that no one cares about your sexuality they just care about your ability to neck a pint 😉”

Anonymous, AUWHC, “I have never felt that I had to hide who I was being part of AUWHC. I have always been able to be open about my sexuality and both clubs have accepted me with open arms. I'm proud to be part of such a diverse and accepting clubs”

Luke Archer, AUMHC: “Aberystwyth University Men’s and Women’s Hockey Club have implemented a ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy which highlights that homophobic, biphobic and transphobic abuse is unacceptable and will not be tolerated within their clubs - I believe this shows how accepting the clubs are and that other sports clubs and societies should follow in their footsteps!

Since I joined AUMHC in 2017, I have always felt involved and part of the team despite being gay. I soon realised that my sexual orientation did not matter when I stepped onto the pitch and that I was treated as an equal by all my team mates. Even though members of the LGBTQ+ community in sport still encounter discrimination and abuse, I believe that AUMHC & AUWHC do a brilliant of supporting their members regardless of their sexuality.

AUMHC has a safe environment where members can speak openly about their sexual orientation. Additionally, both AUMHC & AUWHC advocate that hockey is for everyone, regardless of their sexuality and by supporting the Rainbow Laces campaign in 2020 we have not only raised money for Stonewall but removed any preconceived ideas that students may have regarding university sport.”

Aberystwyth University Women's Hockey Club

Big thank you to all of our hockey key workers 💙 lots of our members are working during this pandemic, from farming to working in Tesco. Thank you for helping the nation🏑💙

Beat is the UKs eating disorder charity, it became established in 1989 after merging with two other charities. They campaign to end the suffering that is caused by an eating disorder and provide a support for anyone effected. They run and assist with research to learn more about what causes eating disorders and how to treat them. They also provide guidance for those affected and those around them. Offering awareness training in schools and workplaces. They offer online support groups and regional support groups to help those affected, allowing them to talk to people who have similar experiences. They also run a phone and email helpline which is active 365 days of the year for anyone who needs it.
Every year around 130,000 people will fall ill with an eating disorder and in 2018-19 beats helpline managed to support just over a fifth of this number 28,732 and aim to help over 100,000 each year. Over Christmas their helplines supported 407 people, a lot of whom felt they could not speak to their families surrounding the issue. As well as providing helplines they work to change the governments policies to provide increased support for those suffering. In 2018-19 they managed to reduce the waiting times and improve access to support for children suffering in England, now 4 out of 5 children and young people in England will receive treatments within 4 weeks, or 1 week in a an urgent case. The government has also promised to provide more money for children and young peoples eating disorder services.
These are just some of the things they have achieved in the last few years but there is still a long way to go. If you would like to get in touch or show your support for the charity, then please visit the website via the link below:
https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

Safeline was established in 1994 and helps to prevent sexual abuse and help those that have experienced it. Their services include:
- Councelling- face-to-face, by telephone and online
- National male survivors helpline- Provides immediate emotional support, information and advice to men and boys affected by sexual abuse in England and Wales
- Online support (text and email)- Providing immediate emotional support, information, and advice to anyone affected by sexual abuse or rape in England and Wales
- Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVAs)- provides emotional and practical support for those individuals who chose to report the abuse to the police
- Training- Provide training for professionals, parents and anyone affected by sexual abuse to help them protect and support their communities
- Prevention- Prevention projects, one-to-one support, and peer monitoring to keep vulnerable young people safe and enable them to fulfil their potential.
Their mission is to provide specialist, tailored support for anyone affected by or at risk of sexual abuse and rape, that empowers them to make choices about the lives they want and helps prevent abuse.
If you would like to learn more, receive support or make a donation, please click on the link below that will take you to their website
https://www.safeline.org.uk/