Cambridge University Clay Pigeon Shooting Club

We hope everyone is having a fantastic summer break! We have some exciting news to share, but before that, we'd like to congratulate all the incoming freshers! We hope to see lots of of you in the coming month at our tasters and team trials! 👋

Onto the news - we're pleased to announce the new CUCPSC committee for this coming year, as well as our term card for Michaelmas! A big THANK YOU to the outgoing committee for all their hard work in making the club bigger and better than it ever was before - we're sure the new committee will carry the torch! 🎉

Find our term card and new committee in the post below, or in a fancy PDF on our website, and come find US at the Sports Fair (2nd October, 12-5pm) or the Freshers' Fair (3rd and 4th October, 10am-4pm)! 🏅

Following a few recent departures as of August 2022, the fantastic current Committee for 2022/23 is shown below.

President & Women's Captain - Georgina Chamberlain at King's College (involved with CUCPSC since 2019)

Chairman - Lawrence Biggs at Pembroke College (involved with CUCPSC since 2020)

Treasurer - Nick Von Jeinsen at Jesus College (involved with CUCPSC since 2020)

Secretary - Phoebe Crofts at Homerton College (involved with CUCPSC since 2020)

Team Manager and Quartermaster - Jacob Pantling at Girton College (involved with CUCPSC since 2019)

Social Secretary - Tor Warner at Trinity College (involved with CUCPSC since 2021)

Social Secretary - Thomas Højlund- Dodd at Hughes Hall (involves with CUCPSC since 2021)

Club Sommelier - Tom Ings-Chambers at Pembroke College (involved with CUCPSC since 2021)

Social Media Secretary - Serena Day at Newnham College (involved with CUCPSC since 2021)

General Committee Members - Will Boxall at Corpus Christi College (involved since 2019) and Elizabeth Weber at Girton College (involved since 2021)

Chairman of the 1978 Club - Maximilian Yale of Christ's College (graduated in 2021, involved with CUCPSC since 2019)

Our previously announced Chairman Senthooran Kathiravelupillai of Jesus College, resigned over the Summer, deciding to focus on his roles as continued President of the Cambridge University Polo Club and Master of the Hounds alongside his final year medical studies. Senthooran steps down after 4 years of CUCPSC Committee duty.

Our previously announced continuing Men's Captain Tristan McCallum of Homerton College is now pursuing his Masters studies at Imperial College London. Tristan served diligently as Club Men's Captain over 2 years and was a greatly appreciated member of the Committee.

Our previously announced Quartermaster Jack Salveson of Churchill College is pursuing his DPhil at Oxford University.

We look forward to seeing CUCPSC grow from strength to strength, over the forthcoming years, and encourage all past and future members to be involved in the Club's sporting and social activities!

Following this evening's AGM, the new Committee for 2022/23 has been announced. Thank you to the outgoing Committee for their hard work. Chairman and Treasurer were not voted for, and have been rolled over from the outgoing 2021/22 Committee.

President & Women's Captain - Georgina Chamberlain at King's College (involved with CUCPSC since 2019)

Chairman - Senthooran Kathiravelupillai at Jesus College (involved with CUCPSC since 2017)

Treasurer - Lawrence Biggs at Pembroke College (involved with CUCPSC since 2020)

Secretary - Phoebe Crofts at Homerton College (involved with CUCPSC since 2020)

Event Manager - Jacob Pantling at Girton College (involved with CUCPSC since 2019)

Men's Captain - Tristan McCallum at Homerton College (involved with CUCPSC since 2019)

Quartermaster - Jack Salveson at Churchill College (involved with CUCPSC since 2021)

Social Secretary - Tor Warner at Trinity College (involved with CUCPSC since 2021)

Club Sommelier - Tom Ings-Chambers at Pembroke College (involved with CUCPSC since 2021)

General Committee Members - Will Boxall at Corpus Christi College (involved since 2019) and Elizabeth Weber at Girton College (involved since 2021)

We look forward to seeing CUCPSC grow from strength to strength, over the forthcoming years.

Congratulations to everyone that took part in this year's British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Clay Pigeon Shooting Championships!

A strong performance from CUCPSC despite the wet and windy weather conditions. Thank you to Orston Shooting Ground and British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) for hosting us, and to all those that attended. Click on the below link to see the scores!

https://www.orston.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPSA_Scores_Overall_ESP_BUCS.pdf

A few of the photos from Sunday's taster shoot!

Come and speak to us at this year’s Sports Fair!

Interested in joining the CUCPSC? There has never been a better time to get involved!

Check out our 21/22 term card below. See you soon!

Over the weekend a small team of CUCPSC members attended a charity shoot at Barbury Shooting School, organised by the University of Bristol Clay Pigeon Shooting Club. It was a brilliant weekend all round - despite a poor forecast, the weather turned out to be fantastic - with a very well organised competition, and a beautiful shooting ground, we all thoroughly enjoyed the day. We placed 4th out of the 18 teams competing - a mix of other university shooting clubs and the general public - with Sasha Sebright finishing joint 2nd for the women.

There was a great turn out on the day, with £3,643 being raised in aid of the charity CALM - Campaign Against Living Miserably - https://www.thecalmzone.net/, which provides support to help combat su***de, through their helpline, and by campaigning both for greater awareness of the impacts of su***de, and for changes in our attitude towards seeking help.

Often mental health is overlooked, and seldom discussed at university, despite the constant and ever-increasing workload most of us are under. None of us are exempt from feeling down sometimes, so don’t be afraid to reach out. It’s okay to take a break from your work and focus on something different for a while; be that clay shooting or another hobby, look after your mental health.

Will
CUCPSC President

Credit to Emily Towner and Sasha Sebright for the photography

A wonderful evening at Jesus College, Cambridge for our Black Tie Easter Term Dinner.