By Galya Dimitrova
Varsity officially kicked off this Monday and Coventry has scored a victory over Warwick in the Ice Hockey match. Coventry’s team proved themselves worthy for the electrified crowd that came to support them at Skydome Arena and beat Warwick with 11 – 7. More about the match and the atmosphere on the arena read on the blog of our CUSU Vice Preseident Coomunication and Engagement Ryan Beasley http://cusuvpcomms.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/heat-on-the-ice-coventry-1-0-warwick/
The beginning of the Varsity also means that the journalism team who worked on the special Varsity issue can publish teir artciles now. I start now the series of posts dedicated to Varsity with the pieces I wrote for the issue. There is the first one on Snooker and Pool.
Snooker and Pool:
The Sophisticated Games
Persistence. Punctuality. Style. Hundred percent concentration. These are just a few of the qualities that define the perfect snooker player. And even though pool seems easier and more like a pastime game, it requires the same dedication if one wants to play it professionally.
Snooker and pool are part of Coventry University’s Varsity Program this year. Jamie Bridden, President of Snooker and Pool Society, says what the players are mostly expecting to gain from their performance is building on their experience from playing in the district leagues and at the Midlands Cup.
Jamie Bridden
“I myself try to practice for at least an hour or two every day, and the team meets on Tuesday nights for practice and Thursday nights to play league matches around the Coventry district.
“Many hours are being spent down at the practice tables, so hopefully we’ll do well!”, he adds.
He absolutely agrees that snooker is before everything a game of strategy:
“One of the key skills in snooker is knowing when to play safe and when to attack. By playing safe we mean leaving the cue ball in a place where your opponent cannot pot. Two players can have long safety battles, both trying to make sure they make no mistake and leave their opponent a chance to start potting.”
Computer Science student Tomas Read is amongst the contestants the Snooker Society relies the most, as they have singled him out as their star player. The highest break he has achieved so far is 83. His experience includes participation in the Coventry and District Snooker League and the Cambridge and District Snooker League.
His father was the person who introduced him to snooker and inspired him to play regularly from an early age:
“My dad had always played and took me down to the club one day. Eight years later and I’ve played every week since.”
The Snooker team is playing on March 2nd at 2.00pm at Riley’s Hertford place. They are playing Pool the next day at the same time and venue.
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