Athletic Society up and running

Athletic Society up and running

The sport societies continue to grow in number at Christ Church as the new Athletics Society has been recently set up in time for the new season.

It may seem quite strange that Christ Church has failed to have an Athletics team as of now as it is seen as a very popular sport and is encouraged strongly throughout secondary school, however, due to the time of year in which athletics is participated it has always been a struggle in years gone by to create a successful society.

Last year, it was near on impossible to find out about the athletic society and who was in charge of it. A Canterbury athletic team was competing last year but at a small level, there was around 5 team members that competed once or twice a year but it did seem that it was slightly detached from the university.

This year, however, through a number of athlete’s a successful society has been established around the University and is currently training to be in good condition to compete come the start of the season.

Steps are already being taken in the right direction for the new athletics society; through the internet social networking site ‘facebook’ a group has been created to find out more about the society and who to get in contact with.

One of the bodies behind the creation of the athletics team, Glen Butler, told us about how the society came about and what are his immediate plans for the society "basically myself and a few others are looking to get it fully functioning by the time the next fresher's fayre comes around so we can get as many people interested as possible. We're also looking to try and get tracksuits for training just like the others unis and our football and rugby teams" Butler continued “but unfortunately lack of knowledge about the society and lack of facilities has made it really hard to get going this year."

It would seem all that is left for athletics to become a success at Christ Church is the performance of the athletes themselves this season and whether or not the society will continue to grow in popularity. If so then it is apparent that Christ Church could be on to another sporting success.

By Samuel Francis