Basketball Club (Men's): Social Basketball Secretary

My name is Xuanrun Wang, though most teammates know me as Jerry. I am a currently second-year Engineering & Architectural Design student at The Bartlett. Since first year, I have consistently attended Social Basketball at least twice a week and built strong friendships across different backgrounds. Basketball is a key part of my university life.

Through regular participation and conversations with players and last year’s Social Secretary, I have identified areas for improvement.

Firstly, many sessions exceed 20 players. While this shows strong interest, it often means paying members struggle to get enough game time, and non-members sometimes occupy court time. If elected, I will ensure I am consistently present to manage rotations fairly, prioritise members, and organise structured queues so everyone gets reasonable playtime.

Secondly, weekend competitions often lose attendance after a few weeks. I believe many players join Social Basketball not only for fun but to showcase their ability and potentially progress to Teams 1–4. However, exposure for Social players is limited.

I propose increasing visibility through simple initiatives such as session photography, Instagram highlights, and weekly recognitions like “Play of the Week” or “MVP”. This would improve engagement and create a clearer pathway between Social and competitive teams.

My goal is to make Social Basketball fair, organised, and visible for everyone.

I've enjoyed playing in the weekly social basketball sessions and I'd like to get more involved in the society and help improve the experience, whether that's by helping organize more sessions or doing more outreach so more people can get involved with basketball at UCL. 

I go to every social event and has experience organisign events with other universities + I will make sure we get more events close to UCL, as well as more social games with other universities 

and I will get socials to be more than an hour , and make sure to check tickets every time. xx

I go to every social basketball session. 

I will (might) check tickets. (only if there are many people so there is a queue, i will make sure memebrs get priority)

I will make sure we play half court so as many people can play.

I will do my ting properly.

Most importantly, I will add a sunday session, and if possible I will look to make a 2 hour session, as 1 hour seems to not be enough sometimes. I will conduct a vote on whether or not the 9pm sessions on Monday and Tuesdays are optimal, I feel like it isn't as it is really late. We'll see tho. 

I'm the best but im not gna reinvent the wheel, nor do u need me to. love. all my guys who attend the social sessions know i go to all of them and I make all my threes and im the best at 3v3 just vote me. thanks 

I have been going to social basketball sessions since the start of the year and I plan to continue next year aswell. This means that I will be able to ensure that the sessions will run smoothly with a hands on approach as I will be able to sort any problems that arise immediately. One way I would improve the society is that I will look to provide more sessions at earlier times so more players can attend. I have also heard many problems caused by the fact that the venue is far from the main campus which has stopped a lot of people from coming so I will try to explore closer options.