Sports & Socs

Whether you like making films, watching films, or just want to try out a new hobby and make friends, the Royal Holloway Film Festival society is for you. Despite only having existed for two years, we have already won Best New Society in our first year, runners-up and then winners in the Skills and Employability, both years, as well as one of our members having won the Freshman of the year award. On top of this, we had one of our films get into the final 15 of the international film competition the 48 Film Project, with our entry being screened in Hollywood in September. We also set up the first ever Roho Film Fest on campus, a week-long festival showing short films from across the world and including talks by industry professionals, such as Raindance founder Elliot Grove. There are p...

2014’s Club of the year, the RH Tom Cats are a highly successful sports team on and off campus. We compete across the country throughout the year in Cheerleading, Stunt, Jazz and Hip-Hop. If you’re not competitive then our lively Sideline team could be for you. Our Sideline team is the face of Tom Cats on Campus and attends sports fixtures supporting other Royal Holloway teams. Think cheerleading is just for girls? Think again. Our boys have no issues trying to pick up girls. We lift people rather than just weights. It takes power, strength and athleticism to be a cheerleader but we have a great laugh while we’re staying in shape. We are Tom Cats and we like to play as hard as we work! We love lots of socials. This is where teammates become friends and friends become family. The RH T...

After a successful development 7s tournament last year, RHUL Women's Rugby are back again with a BIGGER and BETTER event; ‘Rumble in the Jungle' 7s. Women's Rugby is taking over Windsor RFC on the 8th June to showcase 7s talent from a range of South-East University Women's teams. The day is all about developing the 7s game at University level to give teams the chance to play more 7s whilst the Sun is still shining. As the name gives away, the tournament is themed so every team takes part as an animal (three guesses on which we will be?) It should make the event a light-hearted, fantastic tournament, similar to the great atmosphere of the London Sevens tournament. With music provided by Insanity Radio, a BBQ, face-painting, raffles and much MORE, the tournament is set to be a showc...

Australia have annihilated this wretchedly poor England side. England have been pilloried by the Australian media, pulverised by the pace of Johnson and Harris and battered submissive by the tenacity of the Aussie batsmen. The (deranged) English Supporters who presumed the series to be a foregone conclusion have been made to look foolish. England were ‘marmalised' in Brisbane by a colossal 381 runs thanks to hundreds from the pugnacious Warner and captain Clarke, sandwiched in between the mustachioed Johnson's extreme pace, frightening the England batsmen into handing him 9 wickets in the match. In Adelaide, England were similarly thumped by 218 runs. Australia's 570-9 dec was built upon hundreds from Clarke and the irrepressible Haddin. The English reply was nothing short of atrocious wi...

The Ping-Pong Revolution is afoot! As we enter the second term of the year and the second term where RHUL has been graced by their sparkly new Table Tennis team, things are looking good for our young ping-pongers! The Men's team currently sit unbeaten at the top of their league following their most recent victory against Middlesex University and at this point in proceedings are virtually guaranteed promotion. The Women's teams are currently gearing up for a big match – against each other! – for a place in the semi-final for their division. As well as all of this good news, 3 Men's players and 3 Women's players are looking to enter the BUCs Individual Championships which will take place in Nottingham later in February. Good luck to them! Lastly a nod to our friends over at the A...