QUB Paddlesports Club

‼️NEW SEASON 2026/27‼️

We’re glad to be back at the start of the new academic year, looking forward to filling our semester with fun on and off the river🌊

Membership forms are now open, you can find them on out linktree 🔗Link in Bio🔗

‼️MEET THE COMMITTEE‼️

We’ve got some big things planned for this year, come get to know our committee members for this year!

We’ll be here for any of your kayaking and paddling needs this year 🛶

PRESIDENT- Madeline Sumpter

Degree:
Geography
Fun Fact:
I have worked guiding multi-day sea kayak expeditions in Maine for the past 2 summers

VICE PRESIDENT- Cameron Kilcoyne

Degree:
Maths and Statistics
Fun Fact:
A zoo with only one dog is a S**t Zhu

SECRETARY-Ritchie Larmour
(Also the PR officer, social sec and merch sec)

Degree:
Marine Biology
Fun Fact:
The clubs number 1 passenger princess

TREASURER- John Goyvaerts

Degree:
Computer Engineering

SAFETY OFFICER- Sammy Schofield

Degree:
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Fun Fact:
Somehow surprised that driving a full hatchback down bumpy tracks whilst overloaded with kayaks is bad for his suspension

WELLBEING OFFICER- Freya Beers

Degree:
Medicine
Fun Fact:
One of my front teeth isn’t real 😶

POLO SEC- Ruby Newell

Degree:
Civil Engineering
Fun Fact:
My mum is Australian

ASSOCIATE REP- Cat Graham

Degree:
Graduated but did study Ecological Management and Conservation Biology MSc
Fun Fact:
I get to drive about identifying birds and bats for work

KIT SECRETARY- Oran McGonagle

Degree:
Aerospace Engineering
Fun Fact:
Can play 2 instruments

Here’s our clubs training times this year, DM us if you’d like to come along to one of our sessions to give kayaking a go!

River trips are ran at the weekends and are weather dependent, these will be advertised to club members when they’re happening.

Irish Open 🇮🇪

Had a great weekend competing at this years Irish open, got great results with our div 3 open team coming 5th/10 and 3rd/6 in the women’s division, congrats to all those competing!

Improvise, adapt, overcome 🫵

When the kayaking trip gets cancelled, go on a hike up the mournes!

🌊Pipsqueaks🌊

Chill end of year paddle along the six mile, great way to wrap up the 25/26 season!

And congrats to everyone that won our end of year awards 🏆
Paddler of the year 🛶

Fresher of the year 🚣

Swimmer of the year 🤿

Polo player of the year 🏐

☠️ICUPs 2026☠️

Great results from last week!

Our gold team QUBeaters placed 2nd 🥈
Our women’s team the Queen Bees placed 1st 🥇
And the QUB-team played some really great matches across the weekend

The Outdoor Partnership NI are currently working on a survey to find out more about participation and barriers in relation to outdoor activities- please fill in the survey and share to help us continue our work in NI - https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=klGYMwUntki6Vg7R-qwx3465GWFWBeFJqU9PZ93XG5pUNVhLVE1HUDBVOFdMQk40TjJNVDZVWEFINi4u&route=shorturl

🔥Women’s WW development day🔥

Had some of our club competing at the international canoe polo dzukija cup this past weekend! team came 4th overall and team came 7th with great support from reffing across the weekend!