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Soup and sailing with Murray MacDonald

Murray MacDonald tells me there are two sides to him. The ‘social media’ side of Murray – amiable, chipper, and perhaps “too confident,” he claims, in a hail-fellow-well-met sort of way – is most likely the Murray known to the Edinburgh locals that make up the Facebook group The Meadows Share, an online free exchange […]

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Archery club hit the bullseye in this week’s round up

The Edinburgh University Archery Club took part in the BUCS Indoors National Final in Bristol. All Senior Archers seeded in the top 32, which meant they all qualified for the head-to-heads (‘H2H’s). During the qualifying rounds, compound Sarah Prieels and Hope Greenwood, barebow Jessica Nilsson, and longbow Jessica Nirkko all set BUCS records in their […]

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Trampoline club jump for joy in this week’s round-up

The Edinburgh University Trampoline club hosted the Scottish Student Trampoline Open with Edinburgh dominating in several categories: 1st Intermediate ladies, 1st and 2nd Intervanced Ladies, 3rd Intervanced Men, 1st Advanced Men, 3rd Elite ladies, 1st Level 2 Synchro, 2nd Level 3 Synchro, 2nd Intervanced DMT and Highest overall form. EUTC also took 2nd Team in […]

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Netball club flying high in this week’s round up

Edinburgh University Netball Club had a fantastic four out of four wins at their home matches two Saturdays ago. EUNC 1s finished with a great result of 56-20 against the University of Glasgow 1s. The 2s faced the University of Strathclyde 1s, finishing with a 55-37 win. The 5s won convincingly, 59-15, against the University […]

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Edinburgh’s archers toast success in the latest round-up

Edinburgh University Archery Club hosted a Scottish Student Sport League match last weekend, which saw senior and novice teams taking the win. In Ireland at the Indoor Open Competition, two compound archers, Harrisson Ooi and Jordan Mitchell, earned gold and silver. Elsewhere, Sarah Prieels and Hope Greenwood travelled to Luxembourg for the GT Indoor Open […]

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Shotokan Karate put up a fight in this week’s round-up

Edinburgh University Shotokan Karate Club had a successful day at the Scottish Student Sport Cup. In the Kumite category, the club’s Women’s Novice Team and the Women’s Open Weight Team picked up bronze and the Male Novice team took home silver, while in the Kata category, the Novice Team walked away with bronze. Six of […]

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Strong showing from Edinburgh sailors despite calm seas

Forecasted for low winds all weekend and not much hope for sailing, three Edinburgh teams headed to Bardowie Loch for the first of 3 Scottish Student Sailing League weekends. Surprising to most, the wind kept and provided some very good team races. To start the league the three Edinburgh teams were pooled against three Dundee […]