My name is Alice and I'm a third year Biochemistry student and I've started rowing since I came to uni, um, even though I decided I wasn't going to start rowing at all. I learnt that at my college level and then since then I've moved on to doing the development squad for a University level sport.

So with most sports you can either compete within your college quite casually or you can um do it at a higher level (particularly if you come in knowing how to do it, which I didn't with rowing) which is a more elite level sport and you sort of work towards competing against Cambridge as a blue.

Apart from doing rowing I've done a lot of college level sports so I played netball last week and I'm playing water polo tomorrow,
I've got a rounders match on Sunday, I've done football - none of which I had done, um, I haven't done them at uni but I did at my high school in Australia.

There's also Aussie Rules football um I think that's more of a passion project of some of the people at um the Australia / New Zealand Society.

But there's loads of other things so there's a Frisbee society I think um who compete across the whole university, and yeah it's a really great way - with any society or sports but I think particularly team sports - to meet people who aren't doing your course or at your college,  and I've got some great friends from doing the sports that I've done for the past few years.

Particularly with the competitions that are quite special, so rowing is a typically Oxford thing  and at the end of the summer term we have
this competition called Summer Eights where all the college boats line up along the river then you have to race to overtake the boat in front of you - it's called 'bumps racing' - and the college come down and cheers along and everyone gets very excited and you throw one member of the crew into the river at the end, and it's a great way to make lots of nice memories, particularly when it's sunny.