The women’s M&Ms football team

Sports: Report - Women's Football 2021/22

The women’s M&Ms football team has had an absolutely stellar year, involving not only weekly training sessions where we perfected our trusty old drills but also tried inventive new ones (including a complicated bow-tie-shape manoeuvre that we hope to ‘finally’ get to grips with next year) but also a number of matches against other college teams. We played plenty of friendlies and also came second in our inter-college league, securing a promotion to the next division. Several of our players (as ‘Purple Rain’, due to our funky new kit) also had great success in the 5-a-side futsal competition in Trinity. As well as this, we played several Cuppers matches, and despite being knocked out of the main competition by Saints, reached the semi-finals of the Hassan’s Cup competition.

As we look to next year, the team hopes only to improve from here, always receptive to new drill suggestions from team members, and hoping to secure even more wins. We head into next year with open arms to new recruits from any year and experience level, excited at the prospect of new teammates and hoping to do our best to fill the shoes of this year’s finalists.

We remain convinced that our relaxed and positive team spirit are the key to our success as a group. Our termly team pizza and game nights (and picnic and awards ceremony in Trinity) only help to strengthen the sense of community that we’ve built. Those of us who are staying on next year are really looking forward to another year of playing for the team, while those of us who are leaving feel assured that we have found lifelong friends within the M&Ms.

Lumi Westerlund (Mansfield, 2019) and Rachel Blackhurst (2020)
M&Ms Women’s Football Co-Captains 2021-22