Media Officer Newsletter - January Edition
Hello and welcome to the first Media Officer Newsletter of 2023!
I am Telfer Gray your Sports Union Media Officer.
Please read on below to discover some sporting media updates here at Edinburgh!
IM ALL Stars
Our yearly IM ALL Stars competition kicked off our proceedings for 2023.
The weather fell victim to our Hockey game, though we were greeted to five other matches featuring our squash,netball,football,basketball and rugby clubs.
Our livestreaming viewers were treated to an entertaining affair involving our IM and club basketball squads. Although the club works closely with the IM teams this didn't stop any competitive spirits. Held in Pleasance sports hall a crowd of up to 50 people witnessed the scoreline switching back and forth with the intensity of a BUCS Trophy Final. Congratulations go to our Intramural outfit which came out on top with 68-52 victory.
At Peffermill astroturf our EUAFC walked off to a convincing 6-2 win vs the ALL Stars, and on the grass EURFC won 29 – 17 vs IM.
The squash courts witnessed our Club team win 3 games to 2, and EUNC won 51-14 in the netball.
Semester 2 livestreams:
Our live-stream schedule is continuing in semester 2. Keep up to date with our Focus Fixtures on our Social Media to watch live or rewatch your match via our YouTube channel. Below is a list of the clubs we are featuring in the coming weeks.
1st February: Womens Basketball - A tight affair vs Durham culminating in a 80 - 71 loss at St Leonards Land.
8th February: Women’s Football vs University of St Andrews
15th February: Women’s Rugby vs University of Exeter
22nd February: Trophy Week (TBC)
Club Training Project:
The Media Team is launching a new Club Training Project this semester.
We are targeting clubs that students may know less information about or clubs that are lower on membership numbers, helping increase visibility to your sport and club within University.
What the project entails is a few media team volunteers would attend a normal club training session and film some footage from our video camera, plus a presenter interview style feature with each club answering 5 set questions about their club. We would then create an Instagram reel and Highlight section, with the opportunity for a mini-YouTube video later in the semester focusing on your club. Adittionally we would provide the chance for some photography to be snapped up!
I have contacted clubs via email that I think would be good to cover, so please let me know if your club is interested!
Alternatively if your club believes they would benefit get in touch with me as well.
Club of the Week
Club of the Week is back up and running.
Remember to nominate your club via the link in the Instagram Linktree.
Congratulations to the following clubs for winning this accolade so far:
- Women’s Football
- Women’s Rugby
- Netball
- Basketball
- Engineers RFC
- Sailing
- Fencing
- Touch Rugby
- Kickboxing
- American Football
Podcast:
Listen in to the sportED podcasts concerning all things student sport at Edinburgh.
Stay tuned for our latest episode highlighting Inclusivity campaigns launched by our Mountaineering Club + learn about the history of the club including where their nickname “Yummicks” came from.
Listen in via Spotify at sportED: https://open.spotify.com/show/17WcdIw0KGNHpP5CZ4upqm?si=9e19665471424dca
Future Video Projects
The team is keen to launch another video project which will be shown at Blues and Colours. Keep an eye out from me in the coming weeks asking for club members to participate in.
We are particularly keen to theme the video on historic Edinburgh city landmarks, for example Calton Hill, Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle etc. This project will likely only require a couple of club members to participate in.
Sports Ball filming video clips are currently being sent over to clubs Microsoft Teams channels – Please feel free to use for club or personal use.
Photography
Photographed any good sporting photos from fixtures and training?
Please send them over via email and we will happily share & credit on our Social Media channels.
You might even see your photo on our Instagram story Photography Poll competition.
Also a reminder that there is a Flickr account which has individual photo albums of clubs which are free to download at @UoE Sports Union
Upcoming Media Workshop
Calling all Media & Publicity Officers, you are invited to attend a Media Workshop held on Tuesday the 14th of February from 4 - 5pm.
We will be covering everything best practice on social media content, inclusion campaigns, opportunities to expand club visibility and ways your club can become involved in Sports Union media projects.
We reccomend that current publicity officers or those who are wishing to run for future Publicity roles in their club or within the Sports Union attend this workshop.
It would be great to see as many people in attendance, helping us engage in conversations to receive feedback, as well as giving you the chance to learn from others.
Location of Workshop TBC, but please keep the date and time in your diary and sign up using this link so we can manage numbers SIGN UP FORM HERE!
Stay Keen, Stay Green (or red)
All the best,
Your Media Officer
Telfer Gray (He/Him)