Cardiff University Athletics Club

Last weekend saw a team of 22 athletes head to Leeds for some BUCS cross country “fun”! The course was a vast contrast to the idyllic pembrey park last year and was possibly the muddiest and toughest course any of us had ever run on in our athletics careers. But never fear… this team descended on temple hill armed with 15mm spikes, buckets of face paint and the odd can of red hair spray and produced some pretty awesome results.

In the women’s long course, lead us home in 33rd with , and packing together well and finishing in 63rd, 68th and 73rd respectively. The team came 14th out of 41 universities with 164 points, beating our score from last year by 6 points🫡

Fresher lead the club home in the men’s long course race placing 7th - possibly the highest place by a CUAC athlete at BUCS XC ? (So far 😜). Senior veteran followed closely in 9th with triathlete .c113 38th and ._galloway placing 75th. The team also saw BUCS captain .x finish 104th and social sec ._smith._ in 129th. The men’s team came an incredible 5th out of 46 scoring universities, with a total of 129 points also improving on their score from last year by 6 points!

The women’s short course race saw fresher lead the team home in 64th followed by in 75th and cross captain in 85th. The team also consisted of , , .x and .griffithsx .

The men’s short course consisted of a very strong team of freshers with .fagan1608 and leading the team in 65th and 66th respectively followed by and 💥

Final Gwent League is on the horizon for this Saturday with BUCS Indoors in just over 2 weeks time - big few weeks for the club

Today is the day

Presenting our A teams for BUCS XC tomorrow 😼🔥

With the exam period coming to an end it’s time for all club activities to go go go with some big opportunities coming up for the club in the next few months 🤩

We’ll have a stand at the Refreshers Fair on Tuesday 30th January to chat all things CUAC! With sessions for all abilities and events there is something for everyone in the club. Come down to the SU and chat with it !

Let’s take a trip down memory lane from 2023…

CUAC x Spotify Wrapped 🤩

Before the new year is here these photos from our Christmas ball are too wholesome not to share!!What a great group of people to celebrate a successful first term with the club 🤍

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Did someone say 3 time back to back (to back) indoor varsity winners ? 😏🔥🏆🤩

2 weeks ago we saw a mix of both fresh and experienced CUACletes take on alongside the duel meet with some great performances posted for an early season opener.

See ya in spring 😎

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Our fell running crew have been busy racing so far this term 🤩huge kudos to our trail captain .pmathew for arranging some awesome races for the club!

Fan Fawr, Night Sugar and Blorenge - completed it 🫡🫡

Lots of exciting opportunities coming up until Christmas break for our CUACletes starting with Cardiff Cross today !!!

U20 women kick off at 12:25 with pub socials booked for late afternoon - join the WhatsApp group for more information!🍻

Cross country, track/field, trail running - we’ve got it all covered 🫡🎽🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

The first Gwent League race of the season took place in Pembrey last weekend!! Race round up below👇🏻

The senior women were first up with Erin Burt in 8th place who led the CUAC team home and was 2nd in the university race. Maddie Elliot finished strongly in 18th, claiming 4th in the university race. Liv Stillman finished 21st and Niamh McDonald 28th, claiming 5th and 7th in the university race respectively. Ale Prince, Rona Fishburn, Niamh James, Meghan Watson and Jeanne Cizeau also helped to secure university team gold, senior women's team bronze and U23 women's Gold and silver!🔥

In the u20 race, it was great to see new faces competing for CUAC. Natasha Griffiths led the team home in an impressive 4th place with Manisha Dave following in 7th place. Rachel Duckworth and Anneka Colegrave took 11th and 12th place respectively with Abbie O’Key following in 15th to claim team gold for CUAC! 🥇

We had some great performances on the Men’s side. In the U20’s race first man from CUAC was Jacob Reynolds coming 3rd, shortly followed by fresher Henry Fagan who put in a solid run, fellow fresher James Peck came through in 7th just ahead of Joe Comerford in 8th. Social sec Josh Smith put in a good run to come 12th while Connor Hood stepped up in distance and placed 15th with Will Birch coming in 24th. 💨

In the men’s senior race, first Tristan Rees was the first CUAC athlete to finish in 9th, shortly was Ben Miles in 17th, C^2 in 22nd and fresher Ethan-Esteban Protheroe in 26th. First of the vets was Tom Baird ex CUAC in 32nd just ahead of Malek Roostaei who placed 34th, another CUAC coach James Thie came in just behind these boys in 35th. Jimmy Meeks was 52nd with James RB10, James Farmer, Reece Clark, Ben Orton, Alex Pennington, Michael Jarred, Justin Moore and Joseph Paul rounding out an epic first Gwent League for the club with the boys first in the university league❤️🖤

💜 world mental health day 💜

Hi everyone - Anna and Erin here, your welfare officers. We believe your mental health makes a world a difference to your day to day life and should be your priority to a healthy body and mind! Please come talk to ourselves, an organisation (there are many) or a trusted person/friend if you are struggling - it’s so important to normalise these conversations and remember that it’s okay to not be okay.

For world mental health day, we are suggesting the mini task of reaching out to someone today that you haven’t spoken to in a while or simply to check in on a friend! Mental health issues can show in a multitude of ways but have the tendency to hide and stay silent. Start the conversation - no matter how big or small a scenario may seem, no one should have to suffer on their own 🫶🏼

If you haven’t seen the WhatsApp chat or Facebook post, we have planned a sunrise dip at Penarth on Sunday the 15th of October. Everyone is welcome so please do come along, rain or shine 😊

We hope you are all having a lovely day xx