QuidditchUK are thrilled to announce that Beck Throup, coined as 'the meme queen' by some, is taking on the role as Media Director and leading her new team into next season as we get to work with rebooting quidditch in the United Kingdom. 

Beck started her quidditch career playing for Bristol Quidditch Club from 2019, competing with the Brizzlepuffs at both 2019's British Quidditch Cup & Southern Cup before the rest of the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the first lockdown, Throup was elected as Bristol's Social Media Officer (but we're not convinced it was actually called that in the committee elections!) The Meme Monarch played an essential driving force in making Bristol's presence on social media an outstanding example of how to do it right, with a myriad of open socials, workshops, trainings and guidance on returning to play with restrictions still in place. She also got stuck in (literally!) with our take on Taskmaster, assisting Bristol's successful 2nd place finish in the competition earlier this year. 

Whilst this is her first role within QuidditchUK, we were particularly impressed by Beck's enthusiasm and delivery for creating content  for her previously affiliated quidditch club as well as her managerial experience for taking on executive positions with a number of societies during her time at the University of Bristol - including Bristol's inclusive LGBT+ society. 

In addition to this announcement, and similar to previous double whammy posts that I've written, it would be criminal not to highlight the successful recruitment of Beck's new assistant who is a returning face for QuidditchUK and we're super excited about them coming back! 

Without the title of this section literally saying it all: I am grateful to not only write about my successor but also an additional 'Senior' ranked volunteer joining the team. Jaelithe Swan will be joining team Media as the new Assistant Media Director. 

Jaelithe started playing quidditch in 2016 with the Portsmouth Horntail Strikers. She captained Portsmouth at the start of the 2018-19 season before transferring to the Oxford Mammoths, and now plays for Southsea Quidditch - who made their debut at Southern Cup 2019 and managed to get to the European Qualifier Tournament at the beginning of 2020 after a tense playoff match against Werewolves of London Seconds. 

Swan has volunteered with QUK in the past on temporary projects including transferring content for the new website last summer as well as assisting with the Events department and Fran Morris with developing pre-production for events behind the scenes. At club level, Jaelithe manages Southsea Quidditch and spearheads the South Coast Cup, with their first event is taking place later this month! 

Jaelithe Swan Becomes The Assistant Media Director! 

QuidditchUK would like to wish both Beck and Jaelithe the upmost congratulations towards their appointment of their respected roles, we're really looking forward to seeing what this new Media team can do for the future of the sport. Please join us in welcoming them to the organisation! 

If you're keen to get involved with working for QuidditchUK, we have a number of roles live on our volunteer page including Junior, Senior and Executive positions that are up for grabs - full list of roles are available here.

QuidditchUK are thrilled to announce that Beck Throup, coined as 'the meme queen' by some, is taking on the role as Media Director and leading her new team into next season as we get to work with rebooting quidditch in the United Kingdom.

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Beck Throup Takes Helm As New Media Director