This week, the students on KMTV's Year In Television course are looking at Sports. The team take a look at Canterbury Varsity and getting involved in sport whilst studying.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Kent Student 101, live here on KMTV. I'm Etelie Reynolds and this
00:22is the show for students by students. Each week we'll be exploring different facets
00:27of student life across Kent with a range of topics and segments. This week we're taking
00:33a look at sport and varsity. First up tonight, since Saturday team Kent and the Christchurch
00:38Lions have been competing in Canterbury varsity. Both UKC and CCU have been competing in a
00:45variety of sports in the competition that dates back to 1999 when it was only the two
00:51rival rugby teams playing each other. Let's take a look at how the teams have been getting
00:55on. And currently team Kent have 46 points with Christchurch only having five. But let's
01:05take a look at how these points have been racked up. Well, the Kent's men's basketball
01:10team won with 96 points and the volleyball men and women's team also took home wins.
01:18The cricket team of Kent, both the men and women's also did incredibly well, taking home
01:24many victories this weekend. And as we move on to Sunday, the Kent netball team did very
01:32well with their fourth, second and first team winning. But the Christchurch Futsal took
01:38home the win. And on the 24th of March, team Kent dominated in football and hockey with
01:44both the men's and women's team doing incredibly well. And finally, on the 25th, the Christchurch
01:50Lions won pole fitness, but team Kent took home the win with dance, mixed badminton and
01:57dodgeball. Now, next up, let's hear what our resident student Sam has to say about varsity
02:05and how you can get involved in sports yourself.
02:14Hello, I'm Sam Says. This is the part of the show where I talk you through different student
02:19activities and experiences to give you some advice that will hopefully help you out. This
02:24week, we're going to be talking about being a part of sports activities. Even while you're
02:29watching or participating, being part of a sport as a student can be a big deal for you
02:34and help you make so many good friends. This week, we're going to be going through the
02:38benefits of it and honestly, how you can go and watch your local sports teams as a student.
02:43Let's get into it.
02:45The first thing I'm going to talk about when getting involved in sports is the benefit
02:50they can have on you mentally and physically. It gives you an excuse to go out of the house
02:54and get involved in something that will really help you. When I first started as a student,
02:58I was part of my football team. I used to love going training on Saturdays and playing
03:02games on Sundays and it helped me make so many good friends. Another way as a student
03:06to be involved in sporting activities is to be a part of or keep in touch with varsity.
03:11Now, you may be wondering what that is. Varsity is a sporting event between two universities
03:15or colleges where the two different universities compete against each other in different sporting
03:20events. There's a number of ways you can get involved in this such as spectating, supporting
03:25or being a part of and honestly, can bring a whole university and community together.
03:30The final thing I'd have to say about being involved in a sport is you don't even have
03:33to be good at it. Just being around, being involved in it can mean a whole world of difference
03:38to everyone playing it and to you and your mentality. That's been this week's episode
03:42of Sam Says. The final thing I'd mention is varsity is coming up soon, so go give your
03:46local team a watch and give them some support. Thanks for watching and see you next time.
03:51Goodbye.
03:59Hopefully that was some helpful information for some of you watching at home, but now
04:04let's take a break, take a breath and join Kate for this week's Buddles Book Club.
04:16Hi Kate, what book have you brought in today?
04:18So I'm very excited today because I get to talk about one of my favourite books way back
04:22in secondary school, a little bit of a while ago now, but I've never been much of a fantasy
04:26reader and so I was very sceptical picking this one up, but I was incredibly surprised
04:30and it is, drum roll please, The Invisible Life of Adi Leroux by V.E. Schwab.
04:35Amazing, tell me a bit more about the book.
04:37Of course, so this book follows Adi as she's living in 1700s France and she's about to
04:42be married off, which understandably she's not a big fan of, and so she ends up making
04:46a deal with some sort of demonic entity, exchanging her soul for immortality. So she'll escape
04:52the marriage, but the catch is no one she meets will ever remember her. And so she resigns
04:56herself to just being the forgotten muse for centuries until 2014 where she meets a
05:01boy called Henry.
05:02And saying you went into fantasy, what made you enjoy this book so much?
05:05Well, it's interesting because the narrative is the perfect balance of fantasy and reality
05:09for me, and the characters of Adi and Henry have so much depth that your heart really
05:14breaks for them by the end of this book. And by the end, all you want to do is just give
05:17them a massive hug. All in all, a really, really solid read.
05:21And Kate, I've loved your book recommendations over the past few weeks, where can we see
05:26more book content?
05:27Well, it's funny you should ask. I've got a BookTok. If you just go on to Appbottle's
05:33Book Club on TikTok, you can find Mark Moore.
05:36Thank you so much, Kate.
05:42Now with International Women's Day just been and gone and Mother's Day just around the
05:46corner, it made sense to look at the women playing in varsity this week. And who better
05:51than the ones that started it all, the rugby team. We sent Isaac down to their practice
05:56earlier this week to see what varsity means for them.
05:59Well, varsity is well and truly underway. The smaller sports such as dance and dodgeball
06:05happening earlier in the week, the week will be ended with the heavyweight rugby matches.
06:09With International Women's Day having just happened, I thought it fitting to come down
06:13to see the UKC rugby women's team and see how they're prepping for their big match.
06:19It's just a really nice opportunity to kind of show what we've worked towards the whole
06:23year in front of all of our friends and family. And it's just nice to kind of make it into
06:30a big event to like kind of show what we've been working on this whole year.
06:35You've got to be optimistic going into every game. Just kind of excited to show what we
06:41can do against Christchurch. We haven't played them this year. So yeah, the amount of people
06:46we get to our trainings compared to the men's, like men's they turn people away and women's
06:51we just want as many people to come as possible. I think it starts with grassroots and it starts
06:56at just, you know, giving everything a go. So as many people as we can get in, then we
07:01can kind of grow the sport from there.
07:04And of course, it takes two to tando. So earlier in the week, I went down to see how the CCCU
07:08women's team are practising for the match their end.
07:10Got to do it. It's the best decision I've made when I've come to uni. It's where I've
07:14met all my friends. And I'm so grateful for having rugby over the last three years.
07:19As a team, we have a few rituals. So on the day of varsity, we all go for breakfast together.
07:25And then we get our hair done together. And then we also do these affirmations for each
07:30other where we write nice things and give them all to each other.
07:33So in my first year we did these. But last year we won. We had a really successful year
07:39last year. We had some good coaches come in. We won our league, we won varsity and we won
07:45our cup. So we're going into this year with a similar team, a few additions. So yeah,
07:51feeling pretty good.
07:52We've got a really nice team. We all work well. We're being permanent with each other
07:55and it's just a pleasure to play alongside them. And for a lot of us, this year, it's
07:59our last year. So it'll be the last time we all get to play together. So it's been quite
08:04emotional, I think. So yeah, there's definitely been improvements over the last few years.
08:08But I think there's still a massive, massive problem, I think, with under-representation.
08:13So yeah, I do think it's something that needs to change.
08:20And now I'm joined by Brendan Papp, the president of Medway's Volleyball Society, to talk a
08:25bit more about volleyball and about competing in competitions. Hello.
08:29Hello. Thank you for having me.
08:31So do you want to start by telling a bit about yourself and how long have you been playing
08:35volleyball?
08:36Yeah, I've been playing volleyball since I was in high school. I've been, I tried out
08:41at the very beginning as a freshman, didn't make it, didn't make it again as a sophomore.
08:45I finally made it as a junior. Then COVID happened and our season got cancelled before
08:51we even played a game and played out my senior year as a captain, loved it, came here to
08:56university and made the team as a freshman and became president last year.
09:03That's pretty cool. And how would you say that your training, does it differ when you're
09:07preparing for a competition like Bucks or is it pretty much the same all year round?
09:12It's around the same all year round. We have two practice sessions in the week and then
09:17we have a game on Wednesday. So it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then a massive break
09:21in between.
09:22And what do those training sessions look like?
09:24We try and change it up. So those Monday sessions are around the exact same. Every week we have
09:32a warm up and then we just play games throughout and it's with some inexperienced people and
09:37some experienced people. And then on the Tuesday sessions it's, we finish with a game, but
09:42beforehand we're doing different drills, conditioning at times. It changes every single week.
09:48Oh, and your team doesn't get to compete in varsity, unfortunately.
09:52No.
09:53But how would you feel if you got the opportunity to compete?
09:56It breaks my heart, actually, that we don't get to play varsity. I was in Canterbury this
10:01last weekend watching the volleyball teams play in varsity and it's so extravagant. You
10:07have hundreds, if not a thousand people watching the game. Everyone's really loud and there's
10:12a real sense of community, not just on the court, but off the court. We have that same
10:16sense of community here in Medway, but it's nowhere near the same level, you know, this
10:21magnitude. And that's all I really wanted coming here is, you know, to have that massive
10:28crowd chanting your name. And at times it's there, but varsity is just on such another
10:35level and I really wish I could have been a part of something like that.
10:40And going back to those compositions you play, how's your success rate?
10:44Up until this year I was 500 in every season I've played, so I've won the exact same
10:50amount of games as I lost. This year we were pretty awful. Only two players stayed on the
10:56team and we won one game, which was the very last game. So my last game ever finished on
11:01a win. So it was really fun to win a game, but I think the team was more focused on rebuilding
11:08this year.
11:09Oh, that's really interesting. I come from quite a small team myself, the UKC handle
11:12team, where we're like about five people strong. So I know the struggle of trying to build
11:18up that team.
11:19Is that even enough?
11:20Just about. We've got just enough to play in nationals coming up this weekend.
11:25Good luck.
11:26Yeah, thank you. But yeah, you've been watching Kent Student 101 live on KMTV. There's more
11:32news made just for Kent throughout the evening. Thank you for watching this week and we'll
11:37see you next week for another episode.
11:42Bye.