Hey all! 

The following are announcements relating to next year + relieving the memories/nightmares of the year gone by!

With the AGM being held today, The new Committee members for the 09/10 Year are as follows:

Captain- James Spencer
Treasurer- Simon Guist
Social+Webmaster- David Smith
Secretary- Declan McGilloway 

Id like to thank this years committee members for a tremendous job, Chris Scorah for his impressive organisation& running of the Irish Tennis Intervarsities, Naomi Hughes for good nights out during the year, Aidan Malone for his stylish secretarial skills and without whose epic google maps we wouldnt have made it to any district league matches, James Spencer for his treasuring (Ai Ai captain rage-eye? Peg legs+ patches for next year i think)+ driving skills (lets not forgot those memorable pyschopathic moments), & Myself - mere words cannot express how awesome i truly i am, Lets face it…im the glue that holds everything together! Like a glue made of manly gorgeousness! Ok, maybe i exaggerated that a tiny bit, but i definitely didnt scare any girls away as Aidan would tell you….Pah! Steven Smith who did….captaining? lol go steven! No-one knows exactly what Steven does….but its dangerous… Like running into a monkey inclosure and screaming obscenities about bananas…. were all glad steven would lay his life on the line like that for us.

I would like to congratulate Simon Guist and David Smith for remaining in the top spots on the respective Ladders. We win a years free membership to the club next year (Score!) Thats like….70 quids worth of booze next year! And in the current economic climate…we never sniff at free booze + NHS care for hepatic impairment (All who wish to join my crusade to contract swine flu and thus recieve a free mask, email me! I know…giving out masks for free…crazy).

 Id also like to congratulate the district league team of Steven, James, Brendan, Aidan, Rayan and I for a superb performance, and hopefully we can come first next year! Next year we plan on entering the Winter league and the Spring Doubles+singles League so it should be a very productive year so watch this space!

My final thanks goes out to our 4 Intervarsities teams and also a big thanks to all the other universities that came down and hopefully we can put up an equally strong performance in Dublin next year!

 I would also like to say a fond farewell to all those members leaving Queens this year, and i wish you all well in your future careers (this phrase seems very uncharacteristic of me…better go back to the monkeys…)

Well, Its been a brilliant year… Probably the most successful in a long while! We had our very first octopus join the squad, and man did he bring some elite aquatic skills to the table! We had our first ever district league win! and also got into the Mens Final of the intervarsities for the first time since the 1960’s! Im personally proud of our family of marine wildlife/maniacs/alcoholics  and i hope next year we will improve in our strive for alcohol fuelled perfection!….Oh…and i forgot…Never ever mention the Cat food or Cream “experience” again. Good Luck in your Exams, and Ill see Y’all next year!

Congratulations to our District league team, who played brilliantly throughout the season. We notched up some considerable wins under the belt, but unfortunately we could not claim the top spot (which went to Lurgan) But neverless it was a valiant attempt for our first time in the singles league, and a definite improvement over last years winter league performance!

And as another wee side note, Id like to persuade all you people to come down to the tennis club, even if you backed out before because it was too cold/rainy/your hair needed to be washed etc becuase as Bob Marley said “The sun is shining, the weather is sweet!” And you know you all wanna work off that easter weight, dont want all those chocolate eggs goin to your hips do you? So give those books a good kickin and come down on wednesday to join us for a wee hit!

As many of you are hoping, unfortunately this post is not about the dealing of illegal substances.

First id like to say congratulations to the District league team who had their first win on monday night! And now onto some mad tales…..

Yesterday, 4 brave and mighty queens lads took the perilous trip down to the grand city of Dublin! We journey’d far and wide on our noble steed aka “The Goldline”. As you can imagine….facilities were not in availiability and only the strongest of bladder and stomach survived. We exited the dublin tunnel into the dappled sunlight and our pale ghostlike faces took on a pearly sheen as those who rarely see this meterological phenomenon.  We wandered about for a while wondering where to go…but a chance meeting with a fellow traveller known as a taxi man guided us like a magical and witty oracle to the Lansdowne Tennis Club for the cost of 8 pieces of silver and James’ hand in marriage. 

 We availed of the bar initially, to wet our appetites for the destruction to come. The club was very nice, and people were great. We got a few games in, but under that blazing inferno it was like playing in a george foreman grill on the “Hell” setting. Our vast experience of lethal gales, and freezing blizzards and monsoon rain did not help us in the quest. Notable quotes include “Howl on there bin hoker!” and james- “POKEY POKITY POKE POKE” with traditional rage included, and the best was Brian from ucd “We got unlucky in belfast with the weather” Brendan-”I thought that was a pretty good week….it only rained…on 2 outta 3 of my matches”

 Once we finished our reign of destruction, we dandered up to TempleBar- A pretty groovy joint if your considering goin to dublin, good bars+restaurants. We sat and stuffed our gobs on the spoils of victory (and i think we downed 3 jugs of water) which….in retro spect to the upcoming bus trip maybe not such an educated decision.

We took the bus back home around 9 and some craic was had on that journey……You had to live the dream to enjoy the trip like. Lets just say…it was so lethal….its almost illegal to post it online. Fascinating discoveries made on the trip though is that Andrew has a fascination with Shoes+Bags, James has the worst memory, Im awesome (and not any of those slanderous things i was called!), and brendan….should really learn to stay away from bins.

 Id like to thank the guys that came, you were an inspiration…id also like to thank my agent……. oh and Save the dolphins…. wooo. We all had an amazing time, and id like to thank brian and the rest of ucd +trinity for letting us come down and play and we’ll see y’all soon hopefully!

Hey everyone, As some of you already know, QUBTC + DCU have been invited down to attend the colours match between Trinity and UCD.

It is on wednesday 8th of April, With the colours match beginning at 10am and lasting until 4pm. I have been informed that we can get a friendly match at around 1 or 2pm but just for the craic and your not obliged to play (although it would be good experience seeing as intervarsities will be in dublin next year. or for those of us playing district league).
At night there is black tie “Raquet ball” being held in The Radisson royal hotel on Golden Lane,  this will be like our Formals, and there will be players from all raquet sports from both UCD and Trinity attending. It begins at 7pm-11:30pm (although we are advised that food wont be served until 9pm, so we can get a few pre-drinks in and show up around 8/8:30pm). After the formal, we are heading out to a club on Harcourt Street, which is near St Stevens Green, which will last until around 3am.

 We will be staying over for one night accomodation, and leaving on Thursday 9th of April. Costs are as follows

Bus Return ticket (Belfast Central->Dublin central)= ~£17
Train Return=~£36 (For those that want to travel in style)
One nights accomodation varies between 18-25 Euro

Dinner will be provided at the formal, and you can either bring your own food for lunch, but i dont reckon it should be too expensive. Email/Text us if you would like to come, remember this is perhaps a unique occasion and hasnt been done before, so potentially is a once in a life-time opportunity! So get back to us ASAP so we can get this show on the road.

Hey everyone!

Intervarsities 09 have finished and an unforgettable time was had by all (well, im pretty sure you wont forget the taste of cat food anyway). On behalf of QUBTC id like to thank all the universities that took part in making IV09 such a success. I know many of us have had a lot of other commitments this week but im glad you all pulled to together and skivved off your lectures/labs and work with commendable ease.

Id like to congratulate the winners and runners up of the event, although im told by a certain marine creature that “i never lose” Murphy may have not that title for long. (Dead Man Walking! haha)

We have made many friends this year, and together with our teams we have all had a fantastic time (or as our southern compadres would say “It wuz deeeeaaadly!”), so id like to say a final thank you and farewell, and will see you all in Dublin for IV10! 

And Brendan, “Stop hokin nem bins!”
 

So far we have enough signed up for 3 Men’s teams and 1 Ladies teams. Those listed below, have been selected to play, so please get in contact if you have any queries

QUB Men 1sts
Mark Prenter
Adam Boyle
Simon Guist
Brian Murphy (1sts Captain)
Simon McFarland
Neil Gould
(Sub) Chris Sanlon

QUB Ladies 1sts
Lynsey McCullough
Fiona Gallagher
Kate McNulty
Eimear Wright/Clare Thompson/Laura Madill
Mairead Kelly
Kristina Walker
(Sub) Lindsay McBride

QUB Men’s 2nds
John Slowey
Darragh McCullough
Brendan Wright
Steven Smyth (Men’s Captain)
Aaron Brady
James Spencer

QUB Mens 3rds
Rayan Tall
Andrew Raffan (c)
Dave Smith
Andrew Gibson
Graeme Hayes
Chris Scorah

Have a look at the Intervarsity page for the recent updates.

Play this years ATP Bracket Challenge at: -

 http://challenge.atpworldtour.com

Win a chance for an all expenses paid trip for two to a atp tour tournament of your choice and a couple of grands worth of tennis equipment. All you have to do to win points is to predict who will win each of the matches in the draws for the masters series tournament. Last year I managed to finish 13th of 23,000 entrants, so anything is possible!

Keep an eye on the live scores with this widget. Hopefully will have the live video link up soon from bbc iplayer.

Dont worry, im not foretelling some cataclysmic apocalypse 

Since were coming near the end of the semester i thought id give you all a heads up about what were doing for the last week and what were doing tonight!

 Tonight (Wednesday 10th of december), were having our Christmas Dinner in Ryans, Make sure you come down for 7:30pm.

 Ryans is located on the lisburn road just opposite that night club Deez i think, also near the chip shop called monte carlo (formerly Taste and Sea)

Cost is £25, and even if you havent paid the deposit, you can still just show up and pay the full amount when your down there, the craic will be epic. Were also planning on going to either the box after, or gate crashing some Anthropology party… depends on how much drink is consumed. I vote on some good old fashioned gate crashing!

 The last week we will be playing a singles tournament! As the Intervarsities/District League are coming up next semester, this will be a good chance to hone your skills, and see how everything operates. All skill levels are invited, and we’ll match pairs up as evenly as possible. We’ll take everyones name down at the beginning and arrange the matches from there. Matches will be best of 3 games and should be good as this enables you to play alot of people for the experience.

 This week we had a doubles/singles tournament with the beginners and was really pleased to see you all getting on so well! Congratulations to Paul for getting the best Win/loss ratio (71%) Stuart for coming 2nd (63%) and Alfred for coming 3rd (61%) but a big well done for everyone else for participating, Especially Alison for having to put up playing with me at the end, which was obviously a horrific ordeal haha.

 As a random statistic, 1274 points were played, with Stuart and Mary playing the most points (136 each) and Alex playing the least (54), Unfortunately…no trends can be drawn from these random statistics, but just to get you maths/science people in gear for exams? I hope ive helped in my own small way.

 And Finally id like to direct you all to the Intervarsity section where Chris has done a very exciting article on the upcoming tournament.