UOG Darts b-team player Billy Taylor explains that darts is a flourishing sport in todays society, and how this is beneficial for the University society and their aspirations for the season.
The darts community is ever-growing with more engagement in the media and ticket sales constantly increasing, this is reflected in TV views. The media coverage of young darts players after Luke Littler’s success gives the University team plenty of interest and prospect in a sport they enjoy, after such a young player received high recognition for his achievements.
“You can see it just from the society as a whole, we had a really good freshers fare.
“Outside of the society as well it’s constantly growing, you can see that from the World Championships, with the prize money constantly going up. It helps not only the sport but also us as a society.” Billy says.
University’s all over the country have society’s for all different kind of things with the sole purpose to bring together individuals with shared interests.
The b-team player is currently social secretary, with his role ensuring that the group are able to build friendships and strengthen bonds with one another whilst enjoying playing the sport they love.
“We host socials every Wednesday, with the whole point being to keep people entertained.”
Billy then added, “As part of my role I have to try and keep people engaged, and I feel like this year we’ve definitely done that. The turnouts this year have been great which we aim to keep going.”
The society also run brilliant campaigns throughout the calendar and are have a brilliant ‘dartathon’ in collaboration with Movember to raise money for men’s mental health.
When questioned on his teams ambitions for the season he admitted, “It’s been a bit of a disappointing start to the season for the b-team, but I’m hoping we can get some freshers playing a bit better which we are seeing.”
Billy finally concluded with his best game he’s played during his time at university was against UOG’s local rival, “It was actually a friendly against Worcester we actually swept them 4-0.”
He smiled, before adding, “Even if it didn’t really count it was a great day out, with it being a lot of the freshers first game it was a really good one to win for their first game.”
