Last season’s women’s hockey champions Murray Edwards were handed a relatively kind draw in the first round of this year’s Cuppers competition, having been asked to face Second Division outfit Emmanuel. New Hall will be extremely confident of victory having had an excellent season last year, narrowly missing out on the Division 1 title and winning Cuppers scoring eight goals in the last three rounds. Last year’s runners up St John’s have been handed a tougher tie against Division 1 team Robinson. The tie of the first round, however, will be played between last year’s Division 1 champions Pembroke and fifth-placed Jesus. Whilst Pembroke should enter the game favourites, their poor performance in last year’s competition where they did not even make the quarter finals will be a cause for concern. Elsewhere, Caius will be facing the team that knocked them out last year in St Catharine’s. St Catharine’s narrowly missed out on the title on goal difference last year and will be confident of reaching the second round. Meanwhile Trinity, last year’s worst team who completed the entire season in Division 3 without notching up one victory, will be relieved to have received a bye through to a second round tie with either Corpus or Downing.

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