This was the end of the planning leading up to Varsity. With the first lot of matches taking place on Monday 15h. So a little bit of my day was being apart of talks about what we are going to be doing on both the Monday and Wednesday. I am excited to have a real part of varsity this year and I hope that we can have a very successful week of sport.

It was also sport relief, we had a good turn out of students wearing sports kit. This was mainly the seniors. All year it has been hard all year to get 1st years involved in activities around campus. I was very disappointed in the turn out for blind football. I was expecting more of a turn out as it was all about footballing ability. This has been happening all year. So it is getting pretty hard to keep putting activities on. Another round of intramural football happened on the same day. The league is really taking shape and I look forward to seeing who will make the top 4.

hours:5

On this day I was planning ahead for sport relief on Friday 13th. Looking to see what Marjon could do. I can up with the plan of making it a non-school uniform day. Getting both students and staff to wear sports kit and to donate 50p to sport relief. My second idea aswell was to put on a game of blind football, this is a very inclusive sport. This way I believe more people would turn up as ability on the pitch won’t matter. Again people will donate 50p to play.

Apart from sport relief I was also looking to moving forward with the American football team. Speaking to Kathryn she will be bring it up in the next executive meeting, so we can play for the grant. I was also sorting out how we are going to run the female intramural football tournament. The plan is to have it run over one day as there won’t be as many teams. This will start after Varsity.

Hours: 5

I went to a safeguarding conference at Home Park. There were a number of guest speakers talking on topics with different forms of terrorism and children safeguarding in sport.  The talk that was good for us at Marjon was about hate crimes and how to report them. This is important for us because it is a big talking point for sport with racism. Now we can take a big stand of hate crimes during sports games and how we can report them.

6 hours.

I was doing work from home on this day as the office was closed but I still needed to get on with some work. One of which was a phone call with the CEO of Sports Bucks. This was about getting funding for an American football team at Marjon. We will be trying to a grant of up £10,000. It was a good conversation and it looks like we can move forward and created a team. I have since spoken to the sports federation about setting a team and will be bring up in a meeting to see if we can put in the money for the team.

I was also giving a list of events to do. Sport Relief and Intramural.

2 hours.

On this day I was trying to sort out 5ths football games. Getting into contact with teams and what facilitates are available for us. On the 26th we are having a game with Plymouth College. However, the game is on grass so I’m sure if the grass will be good enough. I am finding it easier to talk to members of staff then other students. It is harder to organised a match or an event with other students. I was also apart of a meeting with the catering company about varsity and sports awards. This was to make sure the new manger is aware of what is going to happen on those days and what we are going to put on.

3 hours.

It was a big day on the Friday. It was the 2nd week of the Intramural football tournament. We had 3 teams playing that day with each team playing. So I was referee for 3 matches. It was a good show for all the boys who played. I do need to work on my refereeing skills. It was fun to be apart of and I look forward to being apart of more games.

I was also sorting out a football match for the 5ths team on Wednesday 19th against Exeter University. As the game is at home we need to sort out a referee. This is something I am struggling with as there isn’t a lot of referees in Devon. Hopefully the high powers can sort one out by Wednesday.

6 Hours.

On the 4th it was a bit of a boring 1 hour. I was just in the office for a little bit before having a meeting that included Kathryn, Lauren, Geoffrey (SU President) and Luis Costa (SU Sports Officer). This was just a small meeting about the Varsity timetable and a bit about what we will be doing on the main day. More detail will be made closer to the date. In the office I was sending out emails about the 5ths football team as they have plenty of matches coming up soon.

On the 7th I was in the office all team. It started of  with a meeting about Inner Warrior, which is all about getting females into rugby. Now the Marjon Women’s team is struggling for players and this is about them getting more players. However, the people from the team that we spoke to about this meeting didn’t really think about what they wanted to do. The RFU gives Marjon £400 for this program and we need to know what is the best way to spend the money and how we are going to run this. We are going to run one session before varsity to get the ball rolling. Afterwards two more session will be done and each session will be getting more and more advanced. We will then do a tag-rugby tournament to finish off.

Another meeting will be called soon, then we will talk more about the money side. I believe getting a student qualified as a coach will be good.

5 hours.

With the Monday not going very well, the sports fed and SU were worried that it will be the same for the bubble football on the Friday. This was because, the total cost to hire the company was £250 for the day. Me and sports officer Luis Costa were promoting the event all week to get the interest going. It was also important to get people attending so they can support the charity, Row Britannia. Row Britannia is an inclusive (adaptive sport) mental health, fitness and wellbeing challenge by The British Inspiration Trust (BRIT), for teams throughout the UK to raise vital funds and positive awareness. The event went well, we was hoping for more people to come. I was shocked that no one from the hockey teams or netball teams came to support us. We only got people from football, rugby, lacrosse and tennis. The people who did come had fun and enjoyed the day. As there wasn’t many who turned up we was able to raise a good amount of money for the charity.

On Sunday we held a dodge ball session, again it was a decant turn out but we was let down by people who said they’d come but didn’t. Again the people who did come had a good time. Overall from the week it wasn’t as we planned. We thought it would go better, which is why we might not be doing as much of these events for the rest of the year. We are just going to wait for freshers and refreshers next academic year. We can also include the price in the bands offered by the Student Union.

hours done: 6

On the 27th it was the start of refreshers and we planned to host rounders on the 3G however, the weather let us down and we had to go into the gymnasium to do a mix of different old school PE games. That didn’t really work out as no one turned up. I was really gutted and put me down a bit. I’m so far losing a battle when it comes to putting on fun events for students to take part in. Students ask for these events and activities but never show up. If the other two don’t go well then I will be put off from hosting these events in the future.

2 hours

On the 28th I was back in the office trying to sort out more games for the 5ths team. I am really enjoying communicating with other institutions and just networking around. This is getting me thinking about maybe running for football club captain next year. Sorting out these games isn’t fun but it shows that i am good at it. I was also emailing Absolute bubble football about what time they will be coming on campus and letting them known about university policy on parking.

1 hour

I was in the Office to put together the final plans for refreshers. We have agreed that we will put on 3 sporting activities in the week. On Monday the 27th will we put on rounders on the 3G however, if the weather is not good then we will go to the gymnasium and do different activities in there. On Friday 31st we will host bubble football. This will be run by the company absolute bubble football. We are hoping to get a good turn out for this as we have put money into running this event. We are also doing an charity event on the day called Row Britannia. We will be getting students donate £1 and to row a mile. Our final activity is dodge ball on 2nd February. Hoping for a good turn out for all activities.

This week has given me a opportunity run my own events with the help of  the Sports Fed and the SU.

2 hours