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Mixed Netball Skill Swap This Friday Session!!

Hey everyone! I hope everyone has been surviving the exam season so far. There is no better way to ease your mind from exams than to join the Canoe Polo & Mixed Netball Skill Swap!!

Mixed Netball will be joining us first at this week’s Friday’s pool session 8:30-10pm (2nd of June). Please be aware that this session will be treated as a ‘Taster Session’ meaning priority will be given to the Mixed Netball members and the regular returners session will not take place. I would still like to encourage as many of you to come and join the session to show the sport to everyone trying it out and help out during the session to make sure the Mixed Netball members really enjoy their time playing polo!

After this, you all will get the chance to swap skills too by heading out to the netball courts and join MIxed Netball at their sport. The details for this are still being confirmed so stay tuned for more information over the next few weeks.

Any questions feel free to contact me or any of The Exec :))

Polo Love,

Yousuf x

Tue 30th May 2023, 14:35:39

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Posted 8d ago by Peter Earp

Surf shirts, Get them now!!

Get a memento for the epic surf trip or simply commemorate this eventful year by obtaining this year's surf shirt. It has unique personalised nicknames for current members and comes in a mystery colour. Get yours for only £13!

link to grab below, hurry as the deadline for orders is Sunday 4th June!

https://forms.gle/YTeGTiMcEUmF78LX7

Hope exams have gone well so far.

Peter E and the Canoe exec

Sun 28th May 2023, 16:12:01

Rage Fantasy League

Posted 12d ago by Dan Collier

Next Tuesday will see the first of 3 evening sessions, where our members will be battling it out to gain points in our RAGE charity tournament. Alongside this, we will be running our own fantasy league.

HOW WILL THIS WORK?

Each player will have an associated cost and you will have to create a team, whilst keeping to the set budget. Do you spend your money on fewer players or do you get more players in the hope of picking the best of the best? Who will you pick?

You are allowed to enter as many teams as you want, £2 per team. The money that we raise will go to the charity of the winning team from the tournament.

If you are interested, please sign up on the Warwick Canoe website, via the link below.

https://warwickcanoe.uk/trips/trip.php?trip_id=150

Polo love,

Dan and all the exec

Wed 24th May 2023, 20:51:58

Rage Sign Ups Reminder

Posted 13d ago by Dan Collier

Sign Up for Rage 23 Reminder

Sign ups close on Friday!

What is rage?

The annual rage tournament is a chance for our members to play against each other at the end of the year, showing off the skills they have learnt over the year but also raising money for charity.

Over the course of 3 Tuesday evening canoe polo sessions (weeks 6, 7, & 😎, members will play in their allocated teams to win. The teams will play in a round-robin format, with each team competing for their charity. All the money that we raise will go towards the charity of the winning team.

If you would like to get involved by playing, please sign up on the Warwick Canoe website. Entries close on Friday 26th May!

For those of you who are not canoe polo players or don’t have the time to play, you can still get involved! Alongside this, we will be running our own internal fantasy league based on the members that are playing. You will be given a budget and each member will have a price, your job is to pick a team of players who you think will score the most points and must be within budget.

Players will get points for all sorts of things, starting with scoring, assisting and stopping a goal, but also for things like binning, refereeing, and subbing off. But be warned, players can also get negative points, for example, if they receive a card, they will lose points, so be careful who you pick!

At the end of the tournament, there will be awards up for grabs for both players and fantasy league team managers! These include the ‘Mount Everest’ Award, the ‘Naughty Naughty’ Award and the ‘Everyone Wants Me’ Award.

Entry to play is £2 per session you play in and £2 per fantasy team entered. You are allowed to enter as many fantasy teams as you like. To enter keep your eyes peeled for a Google form coming soon!

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask the exec,

Polo love,

Dan and the polo exec

Tue 23rd May 2023, 17:54:45

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Posted 18d ago by James Bevan

Hey everyone,

Hope exams are going well!

Something to think about to take your mind off revision for a minute is our annual surf trip.

Taking place on the 23^rd – 26^th June at the end of week 9 we will be heading to Newgale campsite and praying the weather will be nice. Here we will be camping right next to the beach so it’s the perfect place to try out some surf kayaking or a gentle paddle in the sea depending on the conditions!

Signups go live at midday tomorrow (Friday 19^th) so be ready! The link can be found below.

https://warwickcanoe.uk/trips/

Canoe love,

Brother and all the exec.

Thu 18th May 2023, 22:04:08

What is Rage?

Posted 20d ago by Dan Collier

The annual rage tournament is a chance for our members to play against each other at the end of the year, showing off the skills they have learnt over the year but also raising money for charity.

Over the course of 3 Tuesday evening canoe polo sessions (weeks 6, 7, & 8), members will play in their allocated teams to win. The teams will play in a round-robin format, with each team competing for their charity. All the money that we raise will go towards the charity of the winning team.

If you would like to get involved by playing, please sign up on the Warwick Canoe website. Entries close on Friday 26th May!

For those of you who are not canoe polo players or don’t have the time to play, you can still get involved! Alongside this, we will be running our own internal fantasy league based on the members that are playing. You will be given a budget and each member will have a price, your job is to pick a team of players who you think will score the most points and must be within budget.

Players will get points for all sorts of things, starting with scoring, assisting and stopping a goal, but also for things like binning, refereeing, and subbing off. But be warned, players can also get negative points, for example, if they receive a card, they will lose points, so be careful who you pick!

At the end of the tournament, there will be awards up for grabs for both players and fantasy league team managers! These include the ‘Mount Everest’ Award, the ‘Naughty Naughty’ Award and the ‘Everyone Wants Me’ Award.

Entry to play is £2 per session you play in and £2 per fantasy team entered. You are allowed to enter as many fantasy teams as you like. To enter keep your eyes peeled for a Google form coming soon!

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask the exec,

Polo love,

Dan and the polo exec

Tue 16th May 2023, 19:57:35

Rage 2023

Posted 22d ago by Dan Collier

Sign-ups to play in this year's annual RAGE charity tournament are open on the Warwick Canoe website. This is for if you are interested in playing. This year we will be hosting it during our Tuesday sessions in weeks 6, 7 and 8, if you would like to play, you need to be able to attend at least 2 of these sessions if not all 3. As a charity tournament, we ask all players for a £2 per session donation.

The annual RAGE charity is where our members are put in teams which play a round-robin of games, competing against each other over the course of a couple of weeks. Not only do you play for your team to win, but you can also gain points for yourself. This will feed into our fantasy canoe polo league which we will be running alongside this. More details of this to be released next week.

https://warwickcanoe.uk/trips/trip.php?trip_id=143

Polo love,

Dan and all the exec

Sun 14th May 2023, 20:48:43

Hull Canoe Polo Tournament!!

Posted 22d ago by Yousuf Mohammed

Hey Everyone!

We are really getting into the tournament spirit now with another possible polo tournament this summer!! This tournament is in Hull and takes place from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July.

We hope to have as many teams as possible and have heard that this is a lovely tournament to play in, with some sunny weather (almost) guaranteed. No previous tournament/polo experience is required. This link has some more information about the tournament: https://www.kkc.org.uk/events/hull-canoe-polo-international/?fbclid=IwAR23Lq0bVJcRPFkv71buPnEciQzOMWiNB8CHLLnkVn6H7ti70vbRB6Ufiks

The final cost of this trip will be confirmed closer to the time as this is dependent on the number of teams we enter. The deadline to sign up is the 1st of June on the canoe website.

If you have any questions feel free to contact myself or any of the exec :))

Polo love,

Yousuf xxx

Sun 14th May 2023, 12:03:50

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Posted 1mth 1d ago by Sam Pfeffer-Matthews

While you're on your way to elections tonight, check your diaries as we're headed back to Cardiff in a week's time. Come along for great break from revision or a last chance to go kayaking before the exam period

Sign ups will go up TOMORROW at 12pm. https://warwickcanoe.uk/trips/

As this will be run as a peer-paddle style trip, there is a requirement that you have been on at least one of our other whitewater trips.

There are two sessions run throughout the day, morning and afternoon. Members will be attending both sessions but it is not compulsory to do both. The morning session is designed to be a bit easier than the afternoon with less water being pumped down the course. I highly reccommend getting in as much practice as you can as the course is such an amazing place to learn!

It is £10 to book onto a session https://www.ciww.com/. (Fuel cost will be calculated after the trip)

Canoe Love,

Sam xx

Thu 4th May 2023, 16:26:23

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Posted 1mth 6d ago by Sam Pfeffer-Matthews

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The next two Mondays (1st & 8th May) are Bank Holidays. Unfortunately this means that the sports hub will be closing early.

There will thus be NO MONDAY CANOE POOL SESSIONs for the next two weeks.

Wednesday and Sunday sessions continue as normal.

Lots of Canoe Love

Sam xx

Sun 30th April 2023, 13:29:43