Gemma Yendall is the club president for 2009-2010.

More information to be added soon.

The club is now closed for the summer. Training will resume in October, however there are still one or two social activities planned before the end of May so keep an eye on our Facebook group.

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Unfortunately, this year the Octopush club did not have a team photo. However, I have arranged for a friend of mine to being his swish camera down to the pool before training on Sunday. The photo will then be printed and mounted, so we can have a nice memento.

The cost if currently unknown, however I will let you know as soon as possible. It would be nice if as many people as possible could be there for it. So meet a bit earlier down at the pool tomorrow (10th May 2009) at 4:15pm.

Today Gemma, Tom and Rebecca went to a committee training day at the union for some of next year’s committee members.

Things that came out of it that you guys need to know are:

1. You may be aware that all sports clubs within the athletics union are getting new social and playing kit next year; this is to improve the image and solidarity of the whole AU.

The Hoodies will be Purple and Polo shirts in white, we also have a pool side shirt which is black that we designed, there is more information about this on the website.

The major change to all sports club kit is that it will no longer have the university crest on it. The university and the students union are separate things and at present the university allow us the AU to ‘borrow’ the crest to put on out kit, with this comes the promise that we will respect the crest, therefore we aren’t allowed to put it on posters and sports prospectuses or get sponsorship from clubs and bars.

The AU has had a new logo/crest of our own designed to put on all kit, posters flyers anything to do with and promote uni sports. This also means we could get sponsorship from alcohol promoting companies! The Final design of this Logo is up to us, Clubs, committee and members of the AU. You can go and vote for which logo you want on you kit next year via: this link.

2. Just thought I’d let all members know that next Monday the new and old committee will be having a meeting to sort out next year’s budget and handing over of jobs etc!

3. Last couple of training sessions are coming up, it would be really nice to see everyone turning up and having a laugh, say goodbye before the end of the year and on a more serious note paying up any outstanding subs (sorry!!)and return any club kit you have

By the way, if you go to the UPSU.net and click on the sports clubs page an article that Hannah wrote about us at the Plymouth cup features on the main page at the moment!

Following an election the 2009-2010 committee is as follows:

President – Gemma Yendal
Vice  President- Matt Nunn
Club Capatin – Tom Cane
Treasurer – Rebecca Weicht
Social Secretary – Katie Machray
Media & Publications Officer – Hannah Barclay

Our social kit is changing next year, due to the whole of the AU getting new playing and social kit the same matching colours, this is to make the image of the AU stronger as a whole.

There will be a Portsmouth purple hoodie with white stripes down the sleeves, a social shirt in white with purple stripes, and we have designed a black polo shirt with white stripes for pool side. Kit will have the university crest on one side and Octopush in big letters across the back.

Kit should be able to be ordered on-line and kept in stock so that we can get it at the end of summer ready for the start of the new year and freshers can get it asap. The kit will stay the same for at least 3 years because of the contract the AU has with the supplying company.

This is all we know at the moment, so I will keep you posted on any new developments.

As with our lovely little game i hear that relentless question “how the hell do you play that?”

So: everyone will have a game card, on one side the rules and on the other, score calculations (scorecard).

Rules: 9 (different) Drinks to be consumed over the space of the crawl.
As you drink you have a partner to ensure your drinking score and not lying that you did it in one when you actually did it in 5 tries.
How many attempts it takes to finish a drink gives you a specific number of points (as stated on card).
Refusal to drink results in a foul and the player receives a 3 Point deduction.
One substitution is allowed for each player during play where a non alcoholic drink may be consumed at any time in replacement of an alcoholic one, However,this is only worth a maximum of 1 point.

All rules are on the scorecards so easy to follow and remember.

Costumes: Nice and easy one here.
Octopush hats, Social/pool shirts/tour tops (anything that promotes the team) and Masks (optional, do you fancy downing a pint through your snorkel? I do!)

So, get in gear and get invloved!

The Club will be closed from the 2nd April 2009 until 21st April 2009. The first training session after the Easter break is on Wednesday the 22nd at 20:45.

This year the student national competition will be held on the weekend of the 13th March. The competition will be held at Bangor University’s Pool in Wales. More details to follow soon.