Boar Sport Power Rankings: October
Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the Boar Sport Power Rankings are back. If there’s one thing that offsets the never-ending pile of essays/lab reports/tutorials for members of our university’s sports clubs, its those wonderful Warwick Wednesdays. Playing the sport you love and then celebrating or commiserating as you get spangled at circle – what’s not to like? But it’s only those who have spent the first few Wednesdays of term one celebrating who made it on to our list. We took the time to deliberate, compare and eventually finalise our top ten. Did your club make it? Time to find out…
Boar Sport Power Rankings
Results run from: 12 October – 26 October 2016
10. Men’s Badminton 2s W2 D0 L0
These guys played so well in their first two games that they had to take a week off to recover.
9. Men’s Squash 1s W2 D0 L1
A tight 3-2 defeat to Leicester was followed by two 4-1 wins: the Squash boys are back in business.
8. Women’s Basketball 1s W2 D0 LO
Played two, Goal Difference 84 says everything you need to know.
7. Men’s Lacrosse 1s W2 D0 LO
Men’s Lacrosse must have thought it couldn’t get better than beating the 2s 11-2, but a 17-1 mauling of Staffordshire 1s begs to differ.
6. Women’s Volleyball 2s W2 D0 L1
Won 3-0 away, lost 3-0 at home, won 3-0 away…there seems to be a pattern emerging.
5. Men’s Rugby Union 3s W2 D0 L1
Impressive victories at BCU 1s and Staffordshire 1s earn the 3s a place on our list.
4. Men’s Basketball 1s W3 D0 L0
Winning margins of fewer than 10 points in their first and third matches shows that Men’s Basketball know how to pull it out of the bag.
3. Women’s Volleyball 1s W3 D0 L0
Three 3-1 wins in a row is about as consistent as it gets.
2. Women’s Tennis 1s W3 D0 L0
Any team that starts the year with a 10-2 win over Coventry is going to be pretty high on our list.
And the first team to top our Power Rankings this year is…
- Women’s Squash 1s W3 D0 L0
It’s a general rule in sport that newly promoted teams tend to struggle in their first season in a higher division. Adapting to a higher performance level takes time, with mid-table considered a success. Try telling this to Women’s Squash 1s, who are well and truly making their mark on Midlands 1A. Played three, won three, three opponents unable to put up a fight. Oxford 1s in week two were the only team to win a match; since then, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent’s’ first teams have both been swatted aside 4-0. A clash with joint league leaders Nottingham 2s awaits on 9 November – if the Squash girls take the win, they can realistically harbour aspirations of a second league title in a row.
Image: Warwick Squash
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