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REPORTS<br />
Foxes Women’s Football<br />
by Emilia Quinn<br />
The Foxes have had a triumphant<br />
season. We won the Hassan’s<br />
Cup with an 8–0 victory over St<br />
Hugh’s under the lights at Iffley. We topped<br />
the Women’s First Division league, winning<br />
all six of our games. We also topped the<br />
Futsal league, winning nine out of ten games,<br />
and won the Futsal Cuppers by being<br />
undefeated throughout the tournament.<br />
During Trinity we enjoyed casual five-asides<br />
at University clubs, and look forward<br />
to building and developing our team for<br />
<strong>2019</strong>/20.<br />
Wolfson Goodenough<br />
Exchange<br />
by Kerstin Frie and Jenny<br />
Vafeiadou<br />
Goodenough <strong>College</strong> is an educational<br />
charity rather like an Oxford or Cambridge<br />
postgraduate college in providing residential<br />
accommodation for talented British and<br />
international postgraduates and their families<br />
studying in London. It is a vibrant 700-strong<br />
international community drawn from 77<br />
countries, with dozens of sporting and<br />
cultural clubs, a library, a dining hall and a bar,<br />
which provides its members with much the<br />
same study experience as Wolfson does, but<br />
in London.<br />
This year we established a new bidirectional<br />
exchange with Goodenough, which in<br />
May brought ten of its students to Oxford<br />
for the day, and in June took ten of us to<br />
London for the day. The afternoon in Oxford<br />
included a tour around the city centre and<br />
Wolfson, followed by a well-deserved break<br />
for coffee and cake. We had a lovely punting<br />
trip to the Victoria Arms in the afternoon<br />
and a delicious formal dinner at Wolfson in<br />
the evening.<br />
Our itinerary in London included a tour<br />
around Goodenough itself and Bloomsbury,<br />
which allowed us to explore the college<br />
and its surroundings. We also had a picnic<br />
and played a game of croquet in the college<br />
quad. This was followed by a coffee break,<br />
featuring an impressive homemade Wolfson<br />
/ Goodenough-themed cake. The day was<br />
topped off with some prosecco and music<br />
in the quad and a delicious dinner in their<br />
Great Hall.<br />
On both days Wolfson and Goodenough<br />
students mingled and got to know each<br />
other; we all had a lot of fun. The exchange<br />
was an invaluable opportunity to meet<br />
postgraduate students in London, and to<br />
find out whether Goodenough might be a<br />
good place for further studies. We hope to<br />
repeat the exchange next year.<br />
Inter-Collegiate Quiz<br />
by Claire Jones<br />
The annual Inter-Collegiate<br />
Quiz is run by the University<br />
Quiz Society and features teams<br />
of four from different colleges competing<br />
at University Challenge-style questions.<br />
This year’s ICQ began in Hilary and ended<br />
with the semi-finals and final in Week 3 of<br />
Trinity. The three-person team from Wolfson<br />
– Mary Caple, Claire Jones and Grigore<br />
Gafencu – proved that reduced numbers<br />
were no handicap when they won their<br />
group outright by defeating Hertford A and<br />
Corpus Christi B, and were then awarded<br />
a bye in the first knockout round thanks<br />
to their excellent bonus conversion. After<br />
cruising past Lincoln and Magdalen A in<br />
the next two rounds, they faced last year’s<br />
champions, Merton A, in the semi-final; but<br />
a few incorrect answers from the other<br />
side meant that Mary’s decisive buzz on the<br />
final starter question sealed things for the<br />
Wolves, who went on to defeat Merton B<br />
in the final. For Mary and Claire, ICQ was<br />
48<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
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