Ex-Presidents

Here rest the great ex-presidents of the YUSPC, every single one since the birth of this great club, including the great founder H, who is the instructor that most of you freshers will be learning from. You have the presidents on this page before you to thank for bringing the club to what it is today.

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Neil Murray

President During : 2005/2006 Academic Year

Sings like an angel, falls like a brick! His most embarassing moment was on his 50th jump, when he crash landed into the side of a highland cow. As if that wasn't bad enough, he had just taken part in a naked skydive. Video footage of this momentous occasion is floating around skydivingmovies.com. Keep an eye out for dazed and confused cows wandering around the village of Hibaldstow.

Number of Jumps 100
Qualifications FS1, CH1, CH2, JM1
Current Training B-Licence
Most Embarrassing Moment Crashing into a less than happy highland cow...oops!
Info Last Updated 8th August 2006
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Dave Humphrey

President During : 2004/2005 Academic Year

Is it a grape? is it a plum? No, it's Dave the flying ribena berry! Rather than adopting the more traditional slow-fall technique, Dave has been known to puff up his cheeks in a futile attempt to gain more lift. When he's not boring you to death with mundane skydiving anecdotes, he can be known to 'entertain' you with a plethora of 'hilarious' jokes. Dummy Pull Dave is so anti-AFF, that he stayed on RAPS for over 60 jumps just to prove a point. Nice One Dave!

Number of Jumps 226
Qualifications CAT-8, FS1, CH1, CH2, JM1, CF1
Current Training C-Licence
Most Embarrassing Moment Dave in his 'sober' state was sat up in a stool at the bar, too tired (read drunk) after a hard day's skydiving to get up and dance, so the somewhat inebriated Jo (Burns) came to dance for Dave. The result was like getting a lap dance to the tune of the Prodigy.
Info Last Updated 8th August 2006
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Tim Lister

President During : 2003/2004 Academic Year

Tim is most remembered for trying to turn the skydiving club into Tim's Club of fun. Its not as though we didn't want to have fun, but we wanted to skydive aswell... Another memorable moment is the dance video he made during one of the freshers training weekends. Don't worry Tim, we won't ever lose that video >> Tim's Dance Video

Number of Jumps 7
Qualifications none
Current Training He constantly tells us he's going to do AFF, but then goes out and buys expensive things like an mp3 player...
Most Embarrassing Moment Trying to impress some charity tandem students from York by telling them that he's experienced a few seconds freefall while doing static line jumps. Honestly what were you thinking!!!
Info Last Updated 24th October, 2004
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Nina Barker

President During : 2002/2003 Academic Year

Notorious around the dropzone for her serious drinking abilities (although not necessarily for holding it!), Nina can most likely be found propping up the bar with her partner in crime Nikki. Various different BCPA events remain significant achievements in Nina's skydiving career: who could forget the 50 person snogging marathon at last year's Northerns, or the ice-cube game at the recent Freshers?!?

Number of Jumps 22
Qualifications ????
Current Training AFF
Info Last Updated 14th February, 2004
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Nikki Banks

President During : 2001/2002 Academic Year

Nikki is had been seeing the YUSPC god that is H, Nikki is therefore accorded some respect, even if she is Scottish.
Oh yeah, she's also in charge of the club, long live the revolution.

Number of Jumps 36
Qualifications Cat-8
Current Training WARP
Most Embarrassing Moment The "Walk of Shame"
Info Last Updated 11th March, 2002
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Beth King

President During : 2000/2001 Academic Year

For this moment, at the start of the new term, the view from Beth's perspective is promising. As an ex-president, she will be respected and revered by the Freshers, who will gaze with wide-eye astonishment. She will sit at the head of the table at the YUSPC socials like the Matriarch in "The Godfather", and when she speaks, they will all stop and listen. Committee members will turn to her for advice, and she will dispense it. She will guide the club to a bright and happy maturity.
For about a term.
After that, people will stop listening to you, Beth, and you will become a shell, a recluse. Freshers will laugh at you and call you names. You will become a caricature of your former self, I guarantee it.
After all, that's what happened to everyone else on this page... and we're all normal guys.

Number of Jumps 4(x-y) / (5 - 10/2)
Qualifications FS1, IC1 (FAI C-123456)
Current Training Beth is going to give up her skydiving in favour of her degree.
Most Embarrassing Moment INSERT ANY WORDS YOU LIKE INTO THE BLANKS Beth's most embarrassing moment was when she gave a [BLANK] to a complete [BLANKER] at the dropzone one drunken evening. The next day the [BLANKER] told everyone that Beth had [BLANKED] him, which was very awkward when it transpired she had also [BLANKED] someone else the night before.
Info Last Updated 11th October, 2001
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Robert Sharp

President During : 1999/2000 Academic Year

To everyone's surprise, Rob graduated with a 2-1 in July 2001. Now, if I may get on my high horse for just one moment, that is a travesty of the mosern education system. No way should that man have got a degree, given that he spent the entire third year intoxicated, and before that he was actually an OK skydiver. He wrote a grand total of TWO essays in his final year, blew off most of the lectures, missed several tutorials, and NEVER MET HIS SUPERVISOR THE ENTIRE TIME HE WAS AT YORK. That he should be presented with a 2-1 after blatantly taking the entire system for a ride is a grave injustice to thise that actually worked for their degree, staying home at weekends, while he swanned off to the DZ like some goddamed playboy bastard.
Moral: YOU CAN DO IT TOO KIDS. TRUST ME - YOU REALLY CAN! (Though obviously NOT if you do, like, CompSci or something)

Number of Jumps 240
Qualifications FS1, IC1 (FAI C-100781)
Current Training Launching a Meeker
Most Embarrassing Moment Tripping, crawling then rolling out the door on Noel Purcell's 500th.
Or maybe the KFC 'incident'...Mini-bus for Sharp?
Info Last Updated 11th October, 2000
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Gareth Vaughan

President During : 1998/1999 Academic Year

Gareth loiters on the Isle of Wight, a shadow of his former self. They really should round him up and put him to work picking litter off the streets or something.

Number of Jumps 170
Qualifications FS1, IC1 (FAI B-100166)
Current Training Having Fun!
Most Embarrassing Moment Getting assholed during a YUSPC social and throwing up all over the inside of a curry house in front of everybody!
Info Last Updated 15th November, 2000
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Andy "Rigga" Wright

President During : 1997/1998 Academic Year

Andy graduated from York University in the summer of 2000. He now has a cushy job down in Essex, but as secretary of the BCPA we still see him regularly, and he has a chance to bat his eyelids at impressionable freshers who think he is "sweet" and "sensitive"...

Number of Jumps 600
Qualifications FS1, IC1 (FAI D-11720)
Current Training Free-fall Camera work
Most Embarrassing Moment Getting his leg caught in the lines of his 'chute, and then having to cut it away (the chute, not his leg!!!) and then there's the story about his first round jump...ask him! Or maybe breaking his wrist right after getting his Cat-10!
Info Last Updated October 2000
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Paul "H" Hollow

President During : May-September 1995, the 1995/1996 academic year, and the 1996/1997 academic year

HP is the grand-father of the YUPSC - He founded the club at some point in the mid-nineties, when the rest of us were doing our GCSE's. H has been there, done that, seen the film, worn the T-shirt, read the book and nobbed the actress.
H still has enormous power within the YUSPC. If you cross him, he will set his ninjas upon you. However, when it comes to photos and film, he is a complete show off, and will go to any lengths to make sure he gets himself on camera.

Number of Jumps 2000+
Qualifications IC1, FS1 (FAI D-11450)
USPA Accelerated Freefall Instructor
USPA Tandem Instructor
BPA Accelerated Freefall Instructor
BPA Tandem Instructor
BPA Category System Instructor
WARP/Formation Skydiving Coach
Freefall Cameraman
Current Training Uhhhh.....is there anything left to train???
Most Embarrassing Moment Participating in a formation lingerie jump from 10,000 ft dressed only in a leather skirt and bra. Or maybe being exposed in Hibaldstow bar, in front of the entire BCPA, among others...
Info Last Updated January 2001