Meet the KCL Athletics team who’ll be zooming way ahead UCL this Varsity series

Come on down to Parliament Hill Field Athletics Track on March 14th at 14:00 with some binoculars, foam fingers, fire crackers, blow horns, and…pints, and watch the firey red jerseys wiz through the track with such rigor that their purple counterparts will be left in overwhelming hamstring awe!

KCL, is confident on winning this year, after losing to UCL last year by a meager point… it's time to win back our honour!

Harry Browning

Event: 4x100m Relay, 400m Medley Relay
Crisis management skills: Excellent
Risk of stress induced cardiac arrest: High
Biggest outgoing monthly expenditure: Bulkpowders

Chloe Hocking

Event: 100m, 4x100m Relay, 400m Medley Relay
Training aspiration: Tokyo 2020
Hair Inspiration: Max Joseph from Catfish
Sit-ups/day: 1000
Six-pack status: Imaginary
Looks up to: Harry Browning

Pierre ‘kmt’ Walker

Event: 100m, 200m Medley Relay
Never seen without: Headwear
Passions: fighting, shoes & dead jokes
Best moment: Running a 50.0 400m for the Nottingham BUCS team (no evidence)
Calf Size: Could wrap your hand around

Fran Ashworth

Event: 800m
Position: Distance Captain
Dislikes: long runs
Best quality: 50% Asics staff discount
Arch-Nemesis: NHH Library Security Guards (they gave her stitches)

Obi Ezi

Event: 100m, 4x100m Relay
Hobbies: Bidets
Best race at King’s so far: Fresher’s Welcome Event

Amy Mat

Event: 100m, 4x100m Relay
Likelihood to complete a training session: Low
Special Talent: Has the entire powerof10 database downloaded straight to her brain

Ben Dunscombe

Event: 800m
Recent achievements: Girlfriend
Recent races/training attendance: N/A

Emma Rowland

Event: 3000m
Illict Love-Affair with: Battersea Track
Bonus Item: Has a car

Max Nicholls

Event: 800m Medley Relay
Running style: Dangerous
Sad Truth: Better on mountains than on a track

Urszula Krajinska

Event: 3000m
Course: Nursing
Vest Size: Too big
Speed-to-size ratio: 7

Max Leners

Event: 800m
Course: International Business Law
Strengths: Hair
Level of class: Luxembourger

Isabel Pillman

Event: 800m
Favourite Cuisine: French
Injury Status: Permanent shin splints

Joss Barber

Event: 3000m
Reason to watch him race: Curtains stay in perfect position whilst he runs
Usual Running Route: Into PI

Kerstin Pohlmann

Event: High Jump & Long Jump
Fist fights had with high jump bar: one recorded incident (bar lost)
Unofficial Status: Field Captain

Alexander Tan

Event: High Jump & Long Jump
Social status: Still plays pokemon go
Expert: In medical anatomy despite having never touched a female body

Marie Tarawallie

Event: 4x100m
Countries visited: All
Insta photos posted: Many
Track sessions attended: Few

Kareem Selman-Jackson

Event: 4x100m
Course: Medicine
Mis-allocated priorities: Rehearsals
Pre-Race Stress: Zen

Megan Powell

President of: Triathlon
Event: 800m Medley Relay
Superpower: Doesn’t feel pain
Bad Habit: Work a Waitrose shift after coming first in a national race

Cameron Touron

Event: High Jump
Coat Taste: Intense
Special skill: Psychoanalysis of the competition

Berenice Van Moere

Event: 4x100m and 400m Medley Relay
Training attendance: 0%
Likelihood she makes the team: 100%

Will Marshall

Event: 3000m
Employment: Part time athlete, full time fresher
Toilet roll preference: Wrapped around body

Gina Meile

Event: Long Jump
In another life: Hockey player
Niche passion: Photography of buildings

Tom Boutelle

Event: Long Jump
Identifies as: A Sprinter
Best event: Long jump

Sarah Jordan

Event: High Jump
Student style: Mature
Interests outside of training: Her boyfriend

David Alexander

Event: 4x100m
Plays: American Football
Prefers: Athletics

Wish you could get more exercise than running for the bus? Head to Parliament Hill Athletics Track on Wed 14th and witness proper running. Tickets can be found here.