Election post
Status
Elected
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
I was the Treasurer of the Fencing Club for 2022-2023 and was re-elected for a second year. In the last year I, alongside our President, have dealt with issues and introduced changes all of which resulted in the betterment of the club. Our finances are improved, our novice class is expanded and our equipment store if full. However, more important than all of this is that I entered the club as a novice so I understand what it feels like to enter a sports club as an outsider, which allows me to understand the challenges faced by the students who come to UCL and want to try a new sport.
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
As the Treasurer of the Fencing Club my main goal has always been to make our sport more accessible, in particular because it has traditionally been exclusionary. Having seen success in this endeavour in the Fencing Club, I would make it my aim to ensure the same level of accessibility across all of UCL’s sports clubs, ensuring that adequate resources are provided to beginners to lower the barrier of entry. For example, encouraging clubs to have a policy of lending equipment to lower the barrier of entry for sports with higher associated costs, and properly signposting the participation fund.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
I would make a good Sports Rep because I’m not an athlete, I haven’t been doing sports since I was a child and I don’t compete in BUCS. Rather, I Fence because I’m never happier than when I have a sword in my hand. There are multiple sports reps for a reason, some of them are there to represent the elite athletes and the BUCS teams, but equally some of them are there to represent people who do sport just because of the joy they find in it. It is because I found a sport I was passionate about in university that I understand the benefits of university sports clubs, and why you should vote for me
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