40 Years of the BCPA
The British Collegiate Parachute Association (BCPA) recently celebrated 40 successful years of bringing university skydiving clubs together and developing generations of skydivers. In this talk, Catherine Diffy and Amber Padfield will be taking a look back into the history of the organisation, sharing the magic of how it all works, and hearing from some alumni who have gone on to become national champions and instructors.
Catherine (Chair) and Amber (Vice Chair) both joined the sport back in 2016 as university students, where Catherine built her university club from scratch and Amber has been joined and began running her society. They fully immersed themselves into the British Collegiate Parachute Association (BCPA) from the beginning and have since been inspired to run the organisation that got them so involved and connected with the sport and it’s community.
With less than 200 jumps, Catherine has already completed formations up to 39-way and began her journey into CRW and can usually be found in her onesie (no, not the jumpsuit, the bedtime type!) at her home dropzone, Dunkeswell.
After achieving her long standing goal of getting her FS1, Amber is now fully committed to her training in carnage jumps and a-little-too-big-way formations, spending most of her time on bad weather days talking about packing.