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Annual Review 2006-2007
Annual Review 2006-2007
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Welcome from BUSA President: John Inverdale
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Welcome from BUSA Chairman: Phil Attwell
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Welcome from BUSA CEO: Jenny Brown
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BUSA Annual Awards Dinner
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BUSA Staff
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BUSA Executive Board
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Sponsorship
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Domestic, Representative and International Review (by Sport)
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Acknowledgements
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Team Ranking
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Results
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Graphs
Photographic Credits www.jamesprickett.co.uk Front Cover, Women’s Football (28 March 2007, BUSA Football Shield Final (Champions Liverpool John Moores pictured), Hertfordshire) www.eventmediauk.com Front Cover, Athletics (5-7 May 2007 Outdoor Athletics Championships, Bedford) www.adrenalineshots.co.uk Inside Front Cover, Surfing (BUSA Surfing Championships, Fistral, Newquay) www.davehphotography.co.uk Front Cover, Fencing (24 March 2007, Fencing Team Championships Finals, Sheffield) Page 4, 5, 7 (14 June 2007, BUSA Awards Dinner, One Great Georges Street) Page 17 (10-11 February 2007, BUSA Canoe Slalom Championships, Teesside) Page 18 (24 February 2007, BUSA Clay Pigeon Shooting Championships, Shropshire) Page 20 (28 October 2006, BUSA Hill Climb Championship, Derbyshire) Page 23 (9 May 2007, BUSA Football Championship Final, Loftus Road) Page 25 (14 March 2007, BUSA Hockey Championship Semi Final, Southgate) Page 28 (21 March 2007, BUSA Lacrosse Championship Final, Nottingham) Page 48 (BUSA Medals Collection 2007)
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Looking to the Future John Inverdale, BUSA President
Is it me, or do Olympic Games seem to come along with alarming rapidity these days? No sooner have we said farewell to Athens, than Beijing looms on the immediate horizon, and then it’s somewhere else four years after that. Athens was a defining Games for the relationship between sport and students. Nearly 60% of the Great Britain team were either in, or had been through Higher Education, and it’s not unreasonable to expect that figure to be matched, or even exceeded in China.
“there is now a much greater understanding of the all-round requirements of the individual once they have hung up their spikes/ boots/racket/goggles.”
The crucial point about that figure is the way it signposts that sport is not just about competing for competing’s sake, but also that there is a clear will on the part of the students themselves, and also governing bodies and universities, to ensure that it can help as a pathway to a career and give people a long-term future. It’s a balancing act, because compromising potential success in the sporting arenas of the world is not what the athlete or the sport wants, but there is now a much greater understanding of the all-round requirements of the individual once they have hung up their spikes/boots/racket/goggles.
The British University Championships are a major development for 2008, and with a new body created to oversee them, it’s a good time for student sport as a whole. Who’s to say how substantial (and critical) BUSA’s contribution will be to the success of 2012?
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An Historic Year Phil Attwell, Chairman
“We remain committed to continuous improvement, and I hope that this has been seen in all the work of the Association.”
As years go, this one has been pretty frantic, again. The pace of development continues to increase, putting staff and volunteers under increasing pressure. Despite this, the year has been a great one for the Association. At the AGM in June, the membership voted overwhelmingly to move towards the establishment of one body for sport in Higher Education. This meeting was the culmination of much work carried out by volunteers, staff, and Neil Park, employed to help as a consultant. There remains much to do to bring the new organisation to fruition in early 2008, but the decision has now been made. The organisation that begins operating fully in July 2008 will represent not only the competitive programme, but will be able to better represent the whole sector with other agencies, and will have a much broader portfolio of interests, incorporating coaching. health, professional development, recreation, and high performance (to name a few). The streamlined Executive Board has worked tirelessly to move the Association forward during the year, even with the “new organisation” issues in the background. Our marketing and communication endeavours are much improved, and there is more support for this function in the office. The investment in BUSA international teams is higher than ever before, due mostly to the hard work of Jo Kirk; the competitive programme continues to expand and improve; and our processes are under constant review, to enable us to deliver in the most professional manner to our members. For this I would like to thank all the volunteers and staff, whose tireless efforts really make a difference for the students “on the street”.
I would also like to thank Jenny Brown, who has come on board as our interim Chief Executive, following the departure of Ian Randell in January 2007. Jenny has done much more than just holding the fort, and her commitment has been much greater than anyone could have expected. And finally, a word to our students. I had the pleasure of attending our Surfing Championships, held in Newquay in February. The weather was terrible, and the geography is not great for many of the athletes. No matter though – the event was the biggest in Europe, and the commitment shown by the athletes to enjoy themselves and compete to a high standard was laudable. That students then have to drive to the furthest extremes of Scotland from Newquay is testament to how much our competitions mean to the students. We remain committed to continuous improvement, and I hope that this has been seen in all the work of the Association.
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The New Strategic Direction Jenny Brown, Chief Executive
part. BUSA will be working in partnership with the Major Events Unit of Sheffield City Council, Yorkshire South, and Yorkshire Forward as well as Fast Track, an Events, Communications and Consultancy Company, who have managed the tendering process on our behalf, to ensure the event is of an exceptionally high standard.
The past year has seen a number of changes and developments within all business areas of BUSA, including staffing. Firstly, Ian Randell left the organisation, to return to the golfing world in January 2007 handing over to myself a number of exciting developments. The agenda for the office has been led by the new Strategic Plan 2006/2009 which was finalised throughout the autumn of 2006. The plan has been built around 8 strategic aims broken down into specific objectives. At the time of writing this report all the timescales for the objectives, up to April 2007, had been met some of which I will highlight in this report. The main development has been around the creation of a BUSA British University Championships event starting in March 2008. This will bring together the finals events of 22 sports and will be the biggest multi-sport event in the UK next year and act as a sports festival for students. Following a tendering process Sheffield has been appointed as the host city for the event for 2008, 09 and 10. The city has an excellent history as a venue for BUSA events, since hosting the World Student Games in 1991, as well as having some of the most impressive sports venues in the UK and I am convinced that they will provide the best possible facilities for all the sports taking
Developments within competitions include the removal of the glass ceiling for non first teams within the league structure which both Rugby Union and Tennis are undertaking for next year and the re-establishing of the British University Games which will be hosted by Edinburgh and Heriot Watt universities. This year we have seen many of our competition reach capacity with increased numbers in many of our Individual Championships. This will see changes in the format of some sports to enable us to cope with the ever increasing demand. Individual Golf last year had to do this by introducing a regional qualifying structure culminating with the Individual Strokeplay Championships. The overall points structure was significantly altered for last season which saw for the first time teams receiving points for league finishing positions and athletes participating in our Individual Championships received more points in recognition of the standard of their competition. This year has also seen BUSA receive a grant from the Football Association which has led to the organisation employing a full time Football Development Manager specifically for the development of Higher Education football. The Marketing and Communications area has been developed with reorganisation of the staffing structure to allow 2 full time staff to work in this developing and important area. The BUSA website has grown in strength and stature since it’s re-design at the end of 2006 and has seen over 100% increase in traffic over this season. BUSA members
can access fixtures and results, news, competitions, e-newsletters and video just to name a few. BUSA is also in the process of creating an Editorial Team and a BUSA Production Team that will be launched for the 2007-2008 season. The Editorial Team will be in conjunction with our sponsors the Daily Telegraph, and will help aspiring young sports writers to gain experience in their field. The BUSA Production Teams are being created with media partners Sub.tv. This will enable enthusiastic media students and individuals to create their own footage that will be broadcast in students unions all over the country. It was a successful year for Great Britain in International University Sport. At the end of 2006 Golf and Badminton added to the medal tally for the World University Championships. In total athletes from 47 different BUSA member institutions represented Great Britain at World University Championships and won a total of 24 medals including 10 Golds. The 2007 World University Winter Games saw Great Britain take its largest ever delegation to this event with 79 athletes and officials. The Men’s Curling team was the most successful at the Games winning a silver medal. Our volunteering action plan has been moving along and at the time of going to print we will have launched our own volunteering pages on the BUSA website where BUSA, National Governing Bodies and Member Institutions will have the opportunity to post volunteering opportunities and individuals the ability to search for roles in their area. Professionalising this area is paramount to the Association, and other sporting bodies, as most sports events and programmes would not be able to run without the help of our fantastic volunteers.
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BUSA Awards Dinner 2007 14 June 2007, One Great Georges Street, London
The BUSA Awards Dinner once again celebrated the world class calibre of student athletes within Higher Education at an evening hosted by BUSA President John Inverdale and BBC Sports commentator Andrew Cotter.
Award Winners
Sports Science student Liam Tancock from Loughborough University won BUSA Sportsman of the Year on an International Stage. Tancock is the British and Commonwealth Record holder, twice World Championship bronze medallist, BBC (South West) Sportsperson of the Year 2006 and British Swimming’s Male Swimmer of the Year 2007.
BUSA Sportswoman of the Year on an International Stage Beth Tweddle, Liverpool John Moores University, Gymnastics
International Sportswoman of the Year was taken by 2006 Gymnastics World Champion Beth Tweddle. Tweddle, who is finishing her final year at Liverpool John Moores University, also came third in the 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Frank Tickner from the University of Birmingham won the National Sportsman of the Year award after winning the BUSA Cross Country Championships, which qualified him for the World Cross Country Team. Tickner not only retained his individual title this season but also led Birmingham to team gold. BUSA Individual Squash Champion Emma Beddoes, University of Nottingham, won the National Sportswoman of the Year award last night after an exceptional season. Beddoes was picked for the British Universities Squash team, and led her team to victory at the World University Squash Championships.
BUSA Sportsman of the Year on an International Stage Liam Tancock, Loughborough University, Swimming
BUSA Sportsman of the Year on a National Stage Frank Tickner, University of Birmingham, Cross Country
Beth Tweddle – BUSA Sportswoman of the Year on an International Stage
BUSA Sportswoman of the Year on a National Stage Emma Beddoes, University of Nottingham, Squash BUSA Sports Officer of the Year Quentin Sloper, Durham University BUSA Administrator of the Year Graeme Hope, University of Portsmouth BUSA Team of the Year Men’s & Women’s Squash Teams, University of Birmingham BUSA Overall Champions
Gordon Trevett – BUSA Coach of the Year
1st Loughborough 2nd Bath 3rd Birmingham BUSA Volunteer of the Year Sam Hibbs, University of Reading BUSA Most Improved University University of Essex BUSA Coach of the Year Gordon Trevett, University of Bristol, Rowing
Quentin Sloper – BUSA Sports Officer of the Year
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BUSA Staff
Chief Executive (to January 2007) Ian Randell
Chief Executive (From February 2007) Jenny Brown
Head of Sports Programmes Mark Brian
Head of Development & International Programmes Jo Kirk
Head of Marketing & Communications Camilla Mason
Head of Finance & Administration Dave Rogers
Sports Programme Manager Wes Grant
Sports Programme Manager Anna Liddell
Sports Programme Manager Aaron Campbell
Sports Programme Manager Kelly Walton
Office Manager (From May 2007) Beverley Whitbread
Football Development Manager Finance & Administration Manager (From February 2007) Marie Atkinson George Carney
Sports Programme Administrator Lorraine Hughes
Marketing & Communications Administrator Hannah Marshall
Development & International Administrator Claire Powell
Sports Administrator Rosanna Crombie
Sports Programme Manager Vikki Scott
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BUSA Executive Board
Chair Phil Attwell
Chief Executive Ian Randell (to January 2007)
Chief Executive Jenny Brown (from February 2007)
Director of Competitions Piers Jones
Director of Finance Nigel Mayglothling
Director of Development Neil Park
Director of Marketing Stuart Wade
Student Director Tim Jones
Student Director Sam Hibbs
Student Director Francesca Broadbent
Student Director Quentin Sloper
Co-opted Board Member Chris Lightfoot
Co-Opted Board Member Neil Rogers
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Associate Sponsors
The Daily Telegraph has long been a committed supporter of sports men and women at all levels. Britain’s biggest-selling quality daily supports grass-roots tournaments, initiatives and academies through Junior Sport. We are passionate about encouraging greater participation in sport regardless of age and ability, and seek to honour the unsung heroes of youth sport. The Daily Telegraph is as enthusiastic about world-class sport, as the Official Newspaper to the England Cricket team, we continue to offer the very best editorial coverage, winning the Best Newspaper Sports Coverage award at this year’s Sport Industry Awards. University sport is a vital bridge between grass roots and professional sport and The Daily Telegraph is proud to continue its support of the British Universities Sports Association. We would like to congratulate everyone who has taken part in every game, bout, match, league, competition and tournament this year and those who have worked so hard to make university sport what it is.
PwC, one of the world’s largest professional services firms and a major graduate recruiter, values the extracurricular activities and achievements that BUSA and its membership promotes. In recognition of this, in the years that PwC have been an Associate Sponsor of BUSA, the relationship has continued to grow and develop. We entertained over a hundred new graduates in April at the 2007 BUSA Rugby Union Finals in Twickenham. As well as enjoying two fantastic Finals in the Committee Box at Twickenham, our guests enjoyed some fine dining in the Invincibles restaurant before the match. PwC once again organised the Annual Softball competition between the BUSA Office, representatives from the University of London Union and PwC recruitment staff. An enjoyable day was had by all, with BUSA staff winning the event despite some stiff competition. Regular reports on BUSA Championship Events are available on PwC’s careers website at www.pwc.com/uk/careers/ where you’ll also find information about the firm’s undergraduate and graduate programmes.
It gives Vodafone great pleasure to be partnering with BUSA as Primary Sponsor. Vodafone would also like to take this opportunity to wish all BUSA members and team leaders a successful year in both sporting and academic endeavours. Vodafone. Make the most of now.
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Domestic, Representative and International Review Alphabetical, By Sport Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoe Clay Pigeon Shooting Climbing Cricket Cycling Equestrian Fencing Football Gaelic Football Gymnastics Hockey Judo Ju Jitsu Karate Korfball Lacrosse Modern Biathlon & Modern Pentathlon Netball Orienteering Eight-ball Pool Rifle Small Bore Rowing Rugby Fives Rugby League Rugby Union Sailing Snooker Snowsports Squash Surfing Swimming Table Tennis Tennis Tenpin Bowling Trampolining Triathlon Ultimate Frisbee Volleyball Water Polo Windsurfing
Archery INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP 17 March 2007, University of Leeds This year saw medals awarded for the first time to Barebow and Longbow Archers in both the experienced (Championship) and novice categories. Another change saw BUSA reorganising the point structure for the top 4 places in the Individual Championship and for the top 8 places in the Team Championship, meaning that clubs can hopefully access greater funding and support from their universities. With over 500 students wanting to shoot, Leeds had their hands full fitting as many as they could into three sessions over the day. In the end 5 records were created or broken. This year saw the gold medal winners coming from many different universities (42 took part), demonstrating the wealth of talent that exists all round the country. Jim Smyth (Plymouth) retained the Men’s Barebow title with Keiran Whitworth (Bangor) in second place. Meanwhile Mary Ann Richardson (Cardiff) broke the previous BUSA record to take the Women’s Barebow Championship title with a score of 492. In the Longbow category Owen Roberts (Swansea) took the Men’s title and Zoe Smith (Reading) took the Women’s. Meanwhile the top trophy longbow winner was Jonathan Matthews (Swansea) who also increased the record set last year to 230. Tim Nash (London) won the Men’s Compound division leaving Andrew Ward (Edinburgh) and Chris Bell (Birmingham) to settle for silver. Meanwhile Stephanie Crang (Gloucestershire) had a decisive win with a score of 582 in the Women’s Compound division. Andrew Callaway (Bournemouth) proved victorious to claim his first Individual Indoors title with a score of 582 in the Men’s
Recurve, and Jenny Jeppsson (Edinburgh) defending her Women’s title. In the Championship Team event Edinburgh took the title for the fifth year in a row and broke their record once again by two points with 2276. OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP 16 June 2007, Lilleshall National Sports Centre This year saw a change to the usual format of an Albion/Windsor. Instead, archers shot their respective FITA round and novices shot a round down. Once again, the popularity of the event meant that as many targets as possible (70) were squeezed onto the field. On the day, a total of 38 universities were in attendance, with 229 archers. It was of no surprise to see that the standard was very high and the final positions in many categories were decided by just a couple of points - most notable being Mark Vernon (Reading) and Dave Jackson (Sheffield) missing out on gold in the Barebow category by one point and Longbow by two points respectively. By the end of the competition, the worthy winners had all shot scores at or a few points off, Grand Master Bowmen which really sets the standard for future years. Ultimately, almost 20% of the experienced Recurve and compound competitors shot scores of Master Bowman level. Many of the universities had something to cheer about as the medal winners were announced. It total, 23 different universities had at least one person in the top 3 of each category.
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Ladies
Name
University
Score
Recurve Novice Recurve Compound Novice Compound Barebow Novice Barebow Longbow
Jenny Jeppsson Katherine Berggrav Danielle Brown Ali Sewell Helen Bundy Leanne Wagstaff Sarah Barnes
Edinburgh Edinburgh Leicester Edinburgh Derby Leeds Sheffield Hallam
1241 1014 1357 1143 666 443 202
Gents
Name
University
Score
Recurve Novice Recurve Compound Barebow Novice Barebow Longbow Novice Longbow
Colin Geenes Hugh Wilson Jonathan Goodman Kieran Whitworth Assum Mumtaz Matthew Fletcher Scott Penn
Coventry Edinburgh Loughborough UW Bangor Sheffield Warwick Leeds
1243 1063 1348 515 399 213 133
Team (Recurve) Edinburgh Novice Team (Recurve) Edinburgh
4830 3074
INTERNATIONAL 6TH WORLD UNIVERSITY ARCHERY CHAMPIONSHIPS 12 – 18 June 2006, Slovak Republic The 6th World University Archery Championships took place in the Slovak Republic at the earlier time of mid-June. The team consisted of Recurve archers Emma Downie (Edinburgh) and Team Captain Andrew Callaway (Bournemouth) along with compound archers Nicky Hunt (Coventry), Philippa Ascough and Rebecca Gridley (Edinburgh), Andrew Ward (Edinburgh), Neil Bowley (Nottingham Trent) and Tim Nash (St Barts & London). Support staff were Ken Bearman (coach), John Sullivan (team manager) and Liba Sheeran (physiotherapist). Half of the team had attended last year’s World University Games and were eager to improve upon their performances there, and Philippa was keen to add to the team bronze medal that she had won in the World University Championships back in 2000.
behind France and USA who took the silver and Gold respectively. The Women’s Compound team, Phillipa Ascough (Edinburgh), Rebecca Gridley (Edinburgh) and Nicola Hunt (Coventry), narrowly missed out on a medal finishing in fourth behind USA, Korea and France who took the Bronze, Silver and Gold Respectively.
Athletics CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS 3 February 2007, University of Bath The BUSA Cross Country Championships took place with 729 students making their way to the University of Bath. The event was also acting as the official trials for the Norwich Union GB Senior Team heading for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships being staged in Mombasa, Kenya, on Saturday 24 March. In the BUSA Men’s Championship Long Race Frank Tickner (Birmingham) retained his 2006 title with a time of 33.13. Frank was followed a minute later by Joe McAlister (Queens) in a time of 34.12. The bronze medal was taken by Gary Thornton (St Mary’s). Frank’s performance was outstanding and helped Birmingham Men take the Team title in the long race with finishers in 1st place, 5th place (Jon Pepper), 7th place (Ben Tickner) and 14th (Neil Burton). In the BUSA Women’s Championship Race last years winner Elle Baker (Brunel) was forced into the silver medal spot when Felicity Milton (Durham) took gold by one second with a time of 21.54. Faye Fullerton (St Mary) took bronze with a time of 22.25. In the Women’s Team event Birmingham made it a double with finishers in 4th (Andrea Woodvine), 5th (Olivia Kenney), 6th (Nicky Archer) and 10th (Lucy Mayho) place. In the Men’s B race Sam Perkins (Birmingham) took the gold with a time of 23.16, whilst team mate Tom Penfold (Birmingham) took bronze. They were separated by Dan Shane (Loughborough) who finished only a second behind Sam with a time of 23.17.
The team of Tim Nash (St Barts), Andrew Ward (Edinburgh) and Neil Bowley (Notts Trent) took bronze in the compound event Outdoor Athletics Championships 2007, Bedford
When the Norwich Union Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships was named a week later BUSA competitors strongly dominated the women’s squad of 6, with 4 having come through the BUSA Athletics Programme. Elle Baker (Brunel) was the BUSA Champion in 2006 and silver medalist in 2007 and is part of the squad to travel to Mombasa, Kenya.
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Hatti Dean (Hallamshire Harriers & ex Sheffield University) was the BUSA Champion in 2005 and participated at the World University Cross Country Championships 2006 in Algiers. Felicity Milton (Durham) won the BUSA Championship on Saturday and as a reward has been given her place in the squad. Kate Reed (ex St Mary’s) was a silver medalist at the World University Cross Country Championships and finished overall first on Saturday (as part of the UKA Senior World Trials Selection). In the 9 strong Men’s squad the 2004 BUSA Champion Chris Thompson (Aldershot, Farnham and District & ex Loughborough) will be hoping to impress in Kenya. The BUSA Cross Country Men’s Champion of 2007 & 2006, Frank Tickner (Birmingham University) was, however, a notable absentee from the 15 strong senior squad. Frank decided to concentrate on his examinations at Birmingham University, studying English and French. Frank went on to claim the 4 major domestic cross country titles in 2007, the first time one man has been so dominant since 1995, when Spencer Duval (Cannock and Stafford AC) carried all before him – and then went on to steeplechase for Britain at the following year’s Olympic Games in Atlanta. INDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 10-11 March 2007, EIS Sheffield With the Championships returning to EIS Sheffield for the third year running, A total of nine Championship Best Performances (CBP) and a Welsh National Record fell over the weekend when spectators witnessed some quality performances. The performance of the weekend belonged to Scott Simpson who beat record holder Christian North (Bath) with a height of 5.42m to claim both the Welsh National record and a new BUSA record in the Men’s Pole Vault. North came in second with a jump of 5.10, the same height as Paul Walker (Loughborough) who came in third. Two other CBP were broken on the first day of the Championships. Montel Douglas
(Brunel) set a new BUSA Championship Best Performance of 7.31 seconds in the Women’s 60m final, having previously bettered it in the heats and the semi final, almost touching that of her lifetime best of 7.28, which she ran at the European Indoor Championships. Gary White (UWIC) put in a very good sequence of jumps but saved his best till last jumping 16.00m in the final round of the Men’s Triple Jump to set a new CBP and a lifetime best performance. Elliot O’Neill (also UWIC) finished second with 15.55m and John Carr (Stirling) third with a PB of 15.20m. In the Men’s 60m, the blue ribbon event of Indoor Athletics, Simeon Williamson (Middlesex) got a fast start and upset predictions by beating Ryan Scott (Bath) by two one hundredths of a second with a time of 6.71 seconds, three hundredths of a second outside the Championship Best. The Women’s long jump went to Norwich Union GB combined events international Phyllis Agbo (Cambridge) with 5.96m. One Day 2 of the Championships the record books continued to be re-written. Hannah England (Birmingham) set a new CBP in the Women’s 1500m race with a time of 4.19.68 seconds, beating the previous CBP set by Rebecca Lyne in 2005 of 4.21.01 seconds. Gemma Bennett (Brunel) broke the CBP record she set last year in the Women’s 60m Hurdles by three hundredths of a second to set her new record of 8.25. Bennett was followed by Andrea Vinet (Loughborough) former Canadian Universities Hurdles Champion, and Louise Hazel (Birmingham) who both came in at 8.40. Garrett Johnson (Oxford), ranked 12th in the World in shot putt in 2006, broke the CBP numerous times in his performance at the Indoors. Johnson threw an astounding 20.15m, over three metres above the previous record in the qualifying rounds, and then 19.64 in the final. Kieran Kelly (Loughborough) came in second, but with a CPB of last year’s record with 16.38m.
Charlotte Best (Loughborough) ran a CBP in the Women’s 800m in a time of 2.05.32, beating the record set in 1996 of 2.07.76 by fellow Loughborough Student Hayley Parry. Rachel Thompson (Loughborough) came in second four seconds later with 2.07.10, and Natalie Shaw (Staffordshire) third with 2.13.10. Loughborough finished ahead of both Bath and UWIC in the 4 x 200m Men’s Relay with a CBP. The team was led home by Phil Taylor, gold medalist in the 4 x 200m at the recent European Indoor Championships. In the overall teams results Loughborough and UWIC tied on 88.5 points for the Men’s title with Bath coming third. Loughborough retained their title in the Women’s Championship with Brunel and UWIC placing 2nd and 3rd respectively. MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS 22 April 2007, incorporated in the London Marathon 33 athletes competed in the BUSA Marathon Championships incorporated into the Flora London Marathon for the 12th successive year. With the weather warming up, the championships were hotly contested with some strong performances from both the Men’s and Women’s races. The Men’s Championships was won by Neil Renault (Nottingham) in 2:19:16 hours and 17th position overall with Michael Bouch (Loughborough) second (for the 2nd year running) in 2:32:51 hours and Diamuid O’Seaghdha (Cambridge) third in 2.34.12. The Women’s Championship was won by Shona McIntosh (Glasgow) in 2:54:04 hours. Shona also placed first in her age groups of W20. Second place went to Jennifer Dick (Sheffield) in 3:09:45 hours and Laura Spence (Cambridge) placed third in 3:37:55 hours. OUTDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 5-7 May 2007, Bedford International Athletics Stadium With the BUSA Championships scheduled for early in the season European silver medalist Craig Pickering (Bath) started his Outdoor Athletics season in great form setting a new
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Championship Best Performance (CBP) at the start of the three day competition with a time of 10.29 seconds in the Men’s 100m. Six Championship records were set over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend at the Championships, and many performances were well within the qualifying standards for the Norwich Union UK Championships. The athletes will become even more accustomed to the Bedford International Athletic Stadium after Bedford and BUSA agreed to a three year deal to host the Championships there till 2009. Faye Harding of Loughborough knocked alumni Kim Wall out of the BUSA history books setting a new Championship record in the Women’s 400m of 52.99 seconds, trumping the 2005 record of 53.07 seconds. The win was comfortable for Harding who sprinted home ahead of Henrietta KodilinyeSims of London with a time of 54.17 seconds. The silver and bronze medals were more closely fought with third place Hayley Wills of UWIC crossing the finish line in 54.93 seconds. GB Junior International Abby Westly of Loughborough recorded a fine victory in the Women’s 800m setting a new lifetime best of 2.04.12, just outside the European under 23 qualifying guideline of 2.04.00. Somto Eruchie (Birmingham) completed a hatrick of wins, being the 2005 and 2006 defending Champion, clocking 21.15 in the Men’s 200m. Defending Outdoor Champion Kadi-Ann Thomas beat the Champion of the Indoors and fellow Brunel team mate Montell
Douglas in the Women’s 200m. Two closely matched athletes, Thomas the defending 100m Champion was beaten on Day 1 by Douglas. Emma Bailey (Loughborough), who also took bronze in the Women’s 100m, again finished third. Richard Hill, the defending 800m Champion had to settle for bronze as Andrew Osagie of St Marys timed his run to perfection as he came off the final bend to take gold in 1.50.73. A Championship Best Performance was set by Chris Kirk (Northumbria) in the Men’s Long Jump with a distance of 7.82m, beating the 2003 record set by Gable Garenamotse (UWIC) of 7.69m. Loughborough’s Steve Small finished second with a leap of 7.20m, closely followed by Elliot O’Neill (UWIC) who achieved 7.18m. In the Women’s Triple Jump Danae Matthew (Loughborough) left her best to the last round of the Final jumping 12.96m, albeit wind assisted. Dayana Octavien (Bath) won the Women’s Discus to collect her second medal of the Championships after her silver yesterday in the Hammer. Octavien forced UWIC’s Lauren Therin into second place, again Therin’s second medal after taking the title in the Women’s Javelin yesterday. Octavien threw 50.91m to Therin’s 47.24m, followed by Jade Nicholls (St Marys) with 43.83m. Loughborough claimed a clean sweep in the Team’s Championships for both Men and Women. They were closely followed by UWIC and Bath in the Men’s and UWIC and Brunel in the Women’s.
COMBINED EVENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS 30 June - 1 July 2007, Cwmbran Stadium Much like the rest of the UK the weather was pretty miserable throughout the weekend and this didn’t encourage many spectators to the Championships. The event run by Welsh Athletics and UWIC incorporated the BUSA Championships as well as the Welsh Senior, Junior, U17 and U13 Championships. 9 men started in the BUSA Championships with Patrick Halcrow (UWIC) taking 1st place with an impressive score of 6675, which places him at 13th on the UKA’s Power of 10 rankings. Tom Reynolds (Brunel) came in second with a score of 6270 while John Stacey (Northumbria) scored 5546 to secure 3rd place. Only two women started with Liz Murphy (Oxford) proving victorious with a score of 4623. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to acknowledge outstanding contribution of everyone involved in the success of the 2006-2007 Season – the Athletics SMG, all volunteers and officials, medical staff, venues and their staff and supporters of the BUSA Athletics Programme.
Badminton MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 24-25 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield In the Men’s Championship Bath cruised to a 7-1 victory over local team Sheffield Hallam to retain the Men’s Championship title. Bath continued in winning form as their second team beat rivals Loughborough 5-3. In the Shield it was Scotland versus England as Dundee took on Plymouth. Dundee came out on top with a 5-3 victory and the title. Championship Semi-Finals: University of Bath bt University of Birmingham 7-1 Sheffield Hallam University bt Loughborough University 5-3 Final: University of Bath bt Sheffield Hallam University 7-1
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Trophy Semi-Finals: Loughborough University 2nd bt Leeds University 1st 8-0 University of Bath 2nd bt University of Hertfordshire 1st 6-2 Final: University of Bath 2nd bt Loughborough University 2nd 5-3 Shield Final: University of Dundee 1st bt University of Plymouth 1st 5-3 Plate Final: City University 1st bt University of Teesside 1st 6-2 WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 24-25 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield Bath’s Women were not to be out done by the Men’s team and took the gold medal after beating Birmingham 8-0 in the Final. However, Bath’s 2nd team faced stiff competition in the Women’s Trophy and had to settle for silver as Edinburgh took gold with a 7-1 win in the Final In the Shield it was local team Sheffield that were dominant, beating London Metropolitan 7-1. Championship Semi-Finals: University of Bath bt University of Durham 8-0 University of Birmingham bt Loughborough University 5-3 Final: University of Bath bt University of Birmingham 8-0 Trophy Semi-Finals: Edinburgh University 1st bt Newcastle University 1st 6-2 University of Bath 2nd bt University of Hertfordshire 1st 5-3 Final: Edinburgh University 1st bt University of Bath 2nd 7-1 Shield Final: University of Sheffield 1st bt London Metropolitan University 1st 7-1 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 17-19 November 2006, Nottingham
The BUSA Badminton Individual Championships 2006 took place at Nottingham once again with hundreds of students arriving on the Friday morning to fight for the titles of Men’s and Women’s Singles, Men’s and Women’s Singles and Mixed Doubles. After some 600 matches it was Bath, Birmingham and Loughborough that went home with the medals. In the Men’s Singles, the number 2 seed Harry Wright (Bath) took gold beating top seed David Forbes (Edinburgh). In the Women’s event Birmingham were assured of gold with Francesca Edelmann taking on team mate Elena Johnson in the Final. In an enthralling match, Francesca took gold. In the Men’s Doubles Harry Wright (Bath) took his second gold with partner Matt Hanson, beating Loughborough’s Tom Armstrong and Grant Weir. In the Women’s Doubles Kerri Ann Sheppard and Helen Ward (Bath) beat Francesca Edelmann and Kate Lester of Birmingham to secure Bath’s third title of the weekend. The final match of the Championships saw top seeds Tom Armstrong and Jenny Day of Loughborough beat second seeds Matt Hanson and Helen Ward of Bath to take the Mixed Doubles title. Men’s Individual Championship Final: Harry Wright (Bath) bt David Forbes (Edinburgh) 21-15, 21-13 Semi Finals: Harry Wright (Bath) bt Anthony Gibson (Imperial) 21-15, 21-10 David Forbes (Edinburgh) by Ben Witham (Bath) 20-22, 21-15, 21-14 Women’s Individual Championship Final: Francesca Edelmann (Birmingham) bt Elena Johnson (Birmingham) 21-17, 21-12 Semi Finals: Francesca Edelmann (Birmingham) bt Charity Barnes (Hertfordshire) 16-21, 21-18, 21-15 Elena Johnson (Birmingham) bt Kelly Mead (Birmingham) 21-8, 21-18 Men’s Doubles Championship Final: Hanson & Wright (Bath) bt Armstrong & Weir (Loughborough) 21-20, 21-17
Semi Finals: Hanson & Wright (Bath) bt Raw & Westwood (Loughborough) 21-15, 21-10 Armstrong & Weir (Loughborough) bt Forde & Griffiths (Edinburgh) 21-15, 17-21, 23-21 Women’s Doubles Championship Final: Shepphard & Ward (Bath) bt Edelmann & Lester (Birmingham) 21-17, 21-14 Semi Finals: Shepphard & Ward (Bath) bt Lester & Walters (Birmingham) 10-21, 21-17, 21-12 Edelmann & Lester (Birmingham) bt Alexander & Holt (Liverpool) 21-7, 21-11 Mixed Doubles Championship Final: Armstrong & Day (Loughborough) bt Hanson & Ward (Bath) 21-17, 13-21, 21-15 Semi Finals: Armstrong & Day (Loughborough) bt Griffiths & Johnson (Birmingham) 21-16, 25-23 Hanson & Ward (Bath) bt Forde & Lester (Birmingham) 20-22, 21-10, 21-15 REPRESENTATIVE English Universities v British Police Won 12-3 AKNOWLEDGEMENTS The BUSA Badminton SMG work extremely hard throughout the year to ensure all Badminton events run smoothly and we are very grateful for their contributions. INTERNATIONAL World University Badminton Championships 2006 10-15 October 2006, Wuhan China Great Britain won a bronze medal in the Mixed Doubles tournament at the World University Badminton Championships in Wuhan, China in October 2006. Hayley Connor, from University of Bath, and Robert Adcock, from Sheffield Hallam, lost in the semi-final of the Mixed Doubles tournament, thus obtaining a Bronze medal. It was a nail biter of a match though as China, once again, proved too strong for the pairing. China started well with Zua Li Hua and Chen Lin taking the first game 21:16, GBR fought back and took the second game comfortably 21:11. The last game was a tight affair with China the eventual winners 21:18 setting up an all China final.
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Team Great Britian will feel aggrieved not to have come away with more medals from the Championships with Rajiv Ouseph (Loughborough) losing out in the quarterFinals of the Men’s singles to China’s Wen Kai (15:21 and 24:26). Robin Middleton (Loughborough) and Robert Adcock also lost in the quarter-finals of the Men’s doubles tournament to eventual finalists Chien Yu Hsun and Lin Yu Lang (21:19, 13:21, 17:21) from Chinese Taipei. Congratulations to the whole team on a successful and well fought tournament with special congratulations going to Robert and Hayley on a terrific bronze medal.
Basketball FINAL 8’s 9-11 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield The Basketball Final 8’s returned to the EIS in Sheffield for 2007. The venue was shared with the Athletics Championships which led to a great atmosphere all weekend. The returning Men’s Champions, Worcester, triumphed again but only after a thrilling Final against London Met, that went to overtime. In the end Worcester’s BBL experienced led them to a 100 – 93 victory. Oxford had a close game with Birmingham before running out 75-71 winners in the 3rd/4th play-off. Glasgow beat Manchester Met by 19 points to take the Trophy north of the border, and LSE had an even easier 61 point win over Bolton in the Shield Final. In the Women’s event Northumbria ran out comfortable winners over London Met 79-55, whilst Loughborough secured third with a comprehensive 77-48 defeat of MMU Cheshire. Oxford beat Leeds 62-57 in the Women’s Trophy Final, whilst Leeds Met won the shield with a 74 -67 result against St Mary’s. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Championship Final: Worcester 100 – London Met 93
Trophy Final: Glasgow 82 – Manchester Met 63 Shield Final: LSE 102 – Bolton 41 WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Championship Final: Northumbria 79 – London Met 55 Trophy Final: Oxford 62 – Leeds 57 Shield Final: Leeds Met 74 – St Mary’s 67 HOME NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 3-4 April 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh In the absence of a British Universities Games (BUGs), a Home Nations Championship was hosted at Heriot Watt University. The Scottish Men managed to ambush the English for the first time in 10 years when the won 84-79. Normal service was resumed in the Women’s competition, with the English having two very easy wins over Scotland and Wales. Wales came second beating Scotland 63-55. MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP England 79 - Wales 44 Scotland 92 - Wales 69 Scotland 84 - England 79 WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP England 131 - Wales 65 England 112 - Scotland 46 Wales 63 - Scotland 55 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank Sandy Sutherland, our Scottish rep for assisting Heriot Watt and the other volunteers in putting on an excellent event for the home countries. Finally thanks goes to Roger Harrison and his team of Referees and Claire Ormandy and her team of Table Officials with out whom our events would not take place.
Boxing BUSA CHAMPIONSHIPS 2-3 December 2006, Robert Gordon University The BUSA Boxing Championships held at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, early in December 2006, can only be described as an excellent and very well organised event. There were 67 Men and 8 Women boxers, contending over 50 bouts in 12 different categories. It was commented by many spectators and officials alike, that the standard of boxing was on par or even better than the previous few years. There were 8 Men’s Novice, 2 Women’s Novice and 2 Men’s Open Class Finals. The best Women’s Boxing award went to Kelly Barnes from Brighton University and the best Men’s boxer went to Daniel Hendry from Portsmouth University. In total, 22 universities took part in the Championships; one from Wales, 5 from Scotland and 16 from England. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The BUSA Boxing Management Group would like to thank Robert Gordon University for providing an excellent venue, the Scottish Amateur Boxing Association for their support and professionalism in officiating at the competition, and also commend all the boxers on an excellent performance. Well done everyone!
Canoe WHITE WATER RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS 11-12 November 2006, River Washburn, North Yorkshire The wind and rain did not dampen the spirits of the paddlers who participated in a great weekend of competition. The Men’s K1 saw a close fight for the top two spots between Jamie Oughton of Newcastle who was beaten by just 2 seconds by Jonathan Schofield of Loughborough. Jonathan was the big winner of the weekend collecting a haul of 4 Gold medals. The Women’s K1 was won by Gillian Mara also of Loughborough.
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In the C1 Darren Broderick of Newcastle took the Gold with Rich Gould of Loughborough taking the Silver, and Chris Browell taking the Bronze and another medal for Newcastle. The C2 saw Loughborough take the top two places with Durham snatching the bronze and stopping a Loughborough clean sweep. The Men’s K1 Team event was won by the Loughborough trio with Nottingham’s Nicola Burrell, Hannah Bailey and Julie Bright taking the Gold in the Women’s In the final BUSA event of the weekend, the Mixed team of Loughborough’s Schofield along with Robin Vasey and Women’s K1 winner Gillian Mara paddled home clear winners ahead of the Loughborough B team and Manchester in 3rd place. The Overall Team Championship saw Loughborough take the trophy for the second year in a row with a massive 280 points. The runners-up were Newcastle with 148 and Durham took the third place with 107. SLALOM CHAMPIONSHIPS 10-11 February 2007, Teesside White Water Course, Stockton-on-Tees The competition was fierce this year with over 400 entries across all the disciplines, from top Premier League paddlers to complete beginners. Some excellent performances saw Ed Kay (Nottingham) take the Gold in the Men’s K1, and Lizzie Neave (Loughborough) successfully defend her Women’s K1 title. In the C1 Marvin Rounce of Nottingham Trent took Gold, and in the C2 he partnered with Sam Critchley to take another Gold for Nottingham Trent.
triumphant at the end of the weekend, narrowly beating Durham who were leading after the first day. Loughborough were 3rd, with Nottingham and Manchester making up the remaining top 5 places.
the end of Nottingham’s reign as BUSA Open Champions. Both teams fought their hardest, but Nottingham managed to make a break up the pitch and score the golden goal to retain their title.
POLO CHAMPIONSHIPS 20-22 April 2007, Hatfield Water Park, Doncaster
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank all the organisers of the three Canoe Championships - Birmingham University Kayak Club (White Water Race), Chris Lomas and the Friends of Durham University Canoe Club (Slalom) and Jo Etheridge and Loughborough Students Canoe Club (Polo) - for all their hard work and effort in putting on such great events.
This year’s competition was bigger and better than ever before with a record 85 teams making the BUSA event the biggest Polo tournament of the year. The group stages of the competition started bright and early on Saturday morning with the BUSA Open and Women’s entering the fray. Play continued throughout the day and after 9 hours on the water the top two in each group had been decided and it was time for the knockout stages. These started early on Sunday and the teams played down to an individual position, 1st to 28th and 1st to 25th for the Open and Ladies leagues respectively. The Women’s Final saw Newcastle take on ULU. This was a close game with both teams struggling to score, until the second half when Newcastle slipped one past ULU and the game finished 1-0. In the Open Final Newcastle were in action again, this time against Nottingham. This was one of the closest Finals in recent years with both teams playing to a high standard, creating opportunities and displaying good teamwork. The well matched teams pushed the game into “golden goal” extra time with the score tied at 0-0 and the crowd on the edges of their seats, wondering if they’d see
The Team events were highly competitive with Nottingham emerging triumphant. Backhouse, Power & Kay took the Gold in the Men’s Team and Bailey, Brooks & Richards won the Mixed Team event. For the first time BUSA Points were awarded to the Overall University winners, calculated to reward both high performance and entry across all the disciplines. Newcastle were Canoe Slalom Championships 2007, Teesside
Birmingham University Kayak Club would like to thank Desperate Measures (www. desperate-measures.co.uk), The Washburn Committee (www.yorcie.org.uk/content/ view/27/42) and The GB Wild Water Racing Committee (www.wildwater.org.uk) The Friends of Durham University Canoe Club would like to thank 4Seasons at Teesside White Water Course (www.4seasons.co.uk) and all other sponsors for their support. Loughborough Students Canoe Club would like to thank Dave Brown from DBXclusive and Espan Waterfly for their ongoing support of the event. Also the Yorkshire Canoe Centre & ROHO and last but not least the staff from Hatfield Water Park for helping the event run smoothly. INTERNATIONAL World University Wild Water Canoe Championships, 7 – 10 September 2006, Krakow, Poland Loughborough University student Jonnie Schofield took Gold at the World University
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Wildwater Canoe Championships in Krakow, Poland in September 2006. Schofield came in first in the Men’s K1 category in 126.98 in front of Thomas Slovak and Dawid Knebal of the Czech Republic. Great Britain’s Grant Anderson (Loughborough) and Robin Vasey (Loughborough) took 7th and 8th position respectively. In the Women’s K1 Loughborough’s Gillian Mara (Loughborough) finished in 10th place ahead of Anna Wise (Bath) and Kat Burbeck (Loughborough) who finished in 13th and 14th. Results Women’s K1 1 Michala, Mruzkova CZE 137.53 (two runs combined ) 2 Jana Dukatova SVK 143.98 3 Lenka Lagnerova CZE 146.17 10 Gillian Mara GBR 159.18 13 Anna Wise GBR 169.13 14 Kat Burbeck GBR 173. 05 Men’s K1 1 Jonathan Schofield GBR 126.98 2 Tomas Slovak CZE 127.67 3 Dawid Knebel CZE 129.02 7 Grant Anderson GBR 134.26 8 Robin Vasey GBR 135.08
Clay Pigeon Shooting CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIPS 24 February 2007, West Midlands Shooting Ground, Shropshire
The Individual Trophy category for Men was extremely competitive and resulted in a shoot off for second and third place. Peter Connon (Durham University) took first place with 42 points with just a two point winning margin over second place John Bollard (University of Hull) on 40 points and in third place Toby Yaghooby-Mashihy (University of Hull) on 40 points. The Women’s Individual Championship proved to be a hotly contested event. Emma Bailey (University of Hull) came first with 32 points. After a another nail biting shoot off Carol Montgomery (Aberdeen University) took second place with 29 points pushing Lindsey Hickman (University of Hull) into third place, also with 29 points. The Men’s Individual Championships witnessed the third shoot off of the day. Simon Rood (Royal Agricultural College) won the title with 43 points. Peter Scotiaton (University of Reading) took second place with 40 points after defeating Robert Rockcliffe (Royal Agricultural College) into third place. The Women’s Team Championship was dominated by the University of Hull taking the title with 134 points. The University of Plymouth came second with 124 points just ahead of the Royal Veterinary College on 122 points. The Men’s Team Championships saw a new winner for 2007 with the Royal Agricultural College on 234 points. The University of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank Tom and Deb Jones and all the staff at the West Midlands Shooting Ground for their continued support in hosting the event and setting such diverse and interesting courses. BUSA would also like to thank Harper Adams Shooting Club for volunteering to help run the Championships and supplying additional prizes.
Climbing CLIMBING CHAMPIONSHIPS 10 March 2007, The Works, Sheffield This year’s competition was moved to The Works bouldering centre in the heart of Sheffield. The venue is the largest such facility in the country, and the biggest bouldering centre in the World, attracted 318 competitors from 58 universities. The competition followed the same format as previous years with both Team and Individual Championships on offer. In the Team event Sheffield dominated taking first place followed by UW Bangor in second place and Durham in third. The Individual competition saw a reverse of fortunes with David Jones from Durham edging out the two men from Sheffield, Edward Feehally (second) and Dan Varian (third) in winning the BUSA title.
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A record 250 competitors made their way to the tranquil setting of the West Midlands Shooting Ground in Shropshire for the 2007 BUSA Championships. Once again the West Midlands staff set out two courses - the Championship and Trophy to cater for the varied ability of the competitors. In the Trophy Team category the University of Reading dominated with Reading 2 taking BUSA Gold with 216 points pushing Reading 4 into second place with 209 points. Harper Adams 3 were narrowly pushed into third place with 205 points. Royal Veterinary College 2 took the Women’s title.
Reading took second place on 230 points with Harper Adams third overall on 223 points.
MEN’S INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 17 March 2007, Lords Indoor Cricket Centre This year’s Indoor Cricket Championship was the first of a new format which allowed a greater number of teams to participate. Teams participated in one of 9 regional rounds before progressing to one of the 3 Semi-Finals. The top 2 teams from each Semi-Final qualified through to the Final at Lords in March.
Clay Pigeon Shooting Championships 2007, West Midlands Shooting Ground
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Champions Leeds Met reached the Final game of the day with Exeter winning a closely fought game by 2 wickets. WOMEN’S INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 24 February 2007, Lords Indoor Cricket Centre Like the Men’s tournament, the Women’s Indoor Cricket Championship was also expanded this year with 4 regional rounds providing 8 qualifiers through to the Final. Cambridge, Loughborough, Southampton, Durham, Aberystwyth, York, Bournemouth, Cardiff came through the regional rounds to battle for the title at Lords. Cardiff and Loughborough topped the group games to contest the Final game with Loughborough defending their title in impressive style. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS It was another exciting season for BUSA Cricket with just over 180 teams entering, an increase on the previous season. The Premier League A was expanded this season to 8 teams: the 6 MCC Universities (Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Leeds/Bradford, Loughborough and Oxford) and Exeter and Southampton Solent Universities. With Championship Semi-Final places at stake, there was a close battle for the top 3 positions. Loughborough won the league with Durham in second place, but there was a 3 way tie for third place between Cambridge, Cardiff and Leeds/Bradford. Cardiff progress to the Semi-Finals with a higher net run rate to take the 3rd Semi-Final place. The last Semi-Final place was taken by Bournemouth who won the Premier B South League. Semi-Finals In the first Semi-Final Loughborough beat Bournemouth comfortably. In the second Semi, Durham beat Cardiff to set up a final between the top 2 seeds. Final 18 - 19 June 2007, Shenley Cricket Centre, Hertfordshire Having had no play on the first day, Loughborough and Durham returned to Shenley on the allocated reserve day to contest the Final.
Loughborough got off to a good start, reducing their opposition to 47 for six off 17.4 overs before a defiant Joe Buttleman (Durham) formed a healthy partnership with team mate Chris Paget taking Durham to 95 for 7. Buttleman’s impressive innings of 45 spurred on the team and enabled Durham to end their innings on 141 for 9. After the break, Loughborough started strongly and it wasn’t until the tenth over that Durham were able to breakthrough when Richard Malcolm-Hansen was caught by David Balcombe off Patrick Foster’s bowling. Player of the Final and Captain of Loughborough Matthew Spreigal led his team well scoring a further 17 runs before being out LBW in the 17th over. Durham struck again quickly as Loughborough failed to put any more runs on the board before losing their third wicket. However, the Midlands side were soon back on track with William Gifford hitting a number of fours to take his team closer to the 142 target. It was Jonathan Hughes though that hit the winning runs as Loughborough made 142 for 6 in 34.2 overs. Trophy Semi-Final Loughborough competed in both SemiFinals and were triumphant in both with the 2nd team beating Bath 1st and the 1st team beating Durham 2nd. Final 13 June 2007, Loughborough University It was always going to be a Loughborough win, as the 2nd team faced the 1st team. In a rain affected match it was the 1st team that eventually won by 13 runs after the Duckworth / Lewis method calculated the reduced target. Shield 13 June 2007, Luton Town & Indians CC It was Liverpool 1st versus Brighton 1st in the Shield Final. Whilst the rain threatened the match went ahead without problems. Liverpool batted first to score 233 for 7 of their 50 overs. After lunch Brighton went in to bat, but never quite settled and were all out for 151 giving Liverpool the title.
Plate Leeds Metropolitan 2nd had a convincing win over Kent 1st. The northern team scored 247/8 whilst Kent could only manage 180 all out in return. WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS The Women’s Competition was once again dominated by a very strong Loughborough side. In the Premier League North they amassed over 1000 runs to win the league undefeated. In the Premier League South it was Oxford that were once again undefeated in winning the league. Semi -Finals The Semi-Finals saw Loughborough and Oxford beating St Mary’s and Durham respectively. Finals 11 June 2007, The Parks, Oxford In a repeat of last year’s Final Oxford were out to make amends. Loughborough were all out for 173, however, Oxford could not equal that managing just 115 for 7. Home Nations Having been scheduled to take place in Sheffield, this year’s Home Nations Tournament was unfortunately cancelled due to the severe flooding in the area on the day before play was due to start. British Universities tour to South Africa 2007 saw the re-establishing of the British Universities Cricket Tour to South Africa. The Tour was generously supported by the MCC who provided a grant and Team Manager Peter Brown. The format for the tour was a triangular tournament including both South African Universities and the South African U19 team. The venue was moved from the traditional base of Cape Town to the high altitude High Performance Centre in Pretoria. The British Universities team drew their first match, a three day match, against the U19 but proceeded to struggle as injuries set in and altitude took its effect. As the squad size diminished, they then lost their next five one day matches, however, the team beat the U19 in the final one day match of the series.
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The touring squad was as follows: Name
University
Ruel Brathwaite
Loughborough MCCU
Edward Foster
Loughborough MCCU
Nick Lamb
Durham MCCU
Robin Lett
Oxford MCCU (Oxford Brookes)
James Morris
Durham MCCU
Richard Morris
Loughborough MCCU
Hampshire
Chris Murtagh
Loughborough MCCU
Surrey
Mark Phythian
Durham MCCU
Northamptonshire
Damian Shirazi
Loughborough MCCU
Zoeb Sharif
Cambridge MCCU (Anglia Ruskin University) Sussex
Matthew Spriegel
Loughborough MCCU
Surrey
Aaron Shingler
Cardiff UCCE
Glamorgan
Stephen Wheeler
Loughborough MCCU
Somerset
Nicholas Woods
Oxford MCCU
Lancashire
Peter Brown
Leeds / Bradford MCCE Mentor
Team Manager
Chris Scott
Cambridge MCCU Head Coach
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Worcestershire Somerset
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BUSA v SA U19 3 day Match draw
SA U19 302-9 dec and 207-2 dec BUSA 209 and 201-7
BUSA v SASSU 50 overs BUSA lost by 43 runs
SASSU 239-9 BUSA 195
BUSA v SA U19 50 overs BUSA lost by 68 runs
SA U19 260-8 BUSA 192
BUSA v SASSU 50 overs BUSA lost by 4 wkts
BUSA 247-7 SASSU 248-6
BUSA v U19 50 overs BUSA lost by 7 wkts
BUSA 251-8 SA U19 252-3
BUSA v SASSU 50 overs BUSA lost on Duckworth/Lewis
BUSA 196-9 SASSU 118-3
BUSA v U19 50 overs BUSA won by 8 wkts
SA U19 148 BUSA 154-2
HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIPS 28 October 2006, Curbar Gap, Derbyshire Tom Bailey representing Sheffield took advantage of the close proximity of the course for training to take the title in a time of 5mins 35secs at Curbar in Derbyshire, a margin of 9 seconds over 2nd place David McGaw (Oxford). Charles Taylor of Staffordshire, one of the favourites to take the title, took third. Sheffield took the team title by a slim margin of 5 seconds from Loughborough whilst Leeds, the previous winners for the last 2 years, took bronze. In the Women’s event Nicola Duggan from Bath took a convincing win with a very respectable time of 7mins 18 seconds from Mary Farrier (Leeds) nearly 30 seconds behind. Alix Chester (Manchester) took individual bronze and also along with Joanna Smith gave Manchester a nice medal haul. Special thanks to The Bridge Inn for a warm and welcoming HQ for this the largest field ever for the Championship of 130 riders.
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BUSA MOUNTAIN BIKE CHAMPIONSHIPS 24-25 March 2007, Craigvinenan, Scotland. The Championships made a welcome return to Scotland, visiting one of the most demanding downhill courses in the UK at Craigvinenan Forest, near Dunkeld. In the Men’s Individual Downhill Championship defending Champion Philip Shucksmith (Cardiff) could not match the performance of Dan Stanbridge (Bath) who posted a time over 7 seconds faster with a best run time of 2mins 12secs. Local rider Adam Stanyer claimed the bronze medal for Edinburgh. In the Women’s Downhill Sue Mahoney (Bristol) took gold for the third year in a row. In the Men’s Team competition Cardiff retained their title (Philip Shucksmith, Tudor Jones, George May) for the second year whilst Bath claimed silver with a slim margin of only 1 second over Swansea. Bristol retained the Women’s Team title thanks to Sue Mahony and Ali McKerrow. In the Cross Country Championship on Sunday, Ross Adams (Southampton) saw off any challenges early in the race and was a clear winner by a margin of over 3 minutes. Rob Friel (Sheffield) stayed clear of Anthony Salmon who led the Leeds team (Tim Burnett, David Wright) to retain their Team Title for the third year. Edinburgh (Owen Jefferies, Geoff Martin, Gavin Shirley) took silver with Swansea (Oli Holmes, Sam Smith, Euan Adams) claiming bronze. Meg Bichard (Bristol) retained her title with Nicola Duggan (Bath) just ahead of Marcie Reinhart (Oxford). Bath added to their medal haul by taking the Women’s team title (Nicola Duggan, Abi Greenaway). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks go to Extreme Paramedics who tended to many bruised and bashed bodies, Dave and Eric of NAAC Events for the results service, Christine Love (BC Official), Inver Mill Farm Campsite and the Forestry Commission for access to the venue. Also thanks to our event sponsor TickeTRbc
Equestrian CHAMPIONSHIPS 11 – 13 April 2006 Arena UK, Allington, Grantham 66 teams started in the leagues competitions. 18 teams and 36 individuals progressed to the regional qualifiers and the 6 top teams along with the top 18 individuals made to the Championships. Once there Nottingham Trent had a very successful week finishing on 53 ahead of former winners the Royal Veterinary College on 60.5. UW Aberystwyth and Manchester Metropolitan gained their best ever placings in third and fourth on 106 and 120 respectively. Defending Champions Southampton were pushed into fifth on 140 and Glasgow finished on 168 and ended up sixth with only three team members. Individually Charlotte Andrews from the Royal Veterinary College ended up on top with a final total of 7 just two points ahead of Alex Morrison from Surrey on 9 but both well ahead of the rest of the field. Third went to Annie Sharpe of Nottingham Trent on 18 just ahead of fourth placed Harriet Sinden from Hull on the same mark but Annie gained the advantage due to a better Dressage placing. Fifth went to Charlotte Humphrey on 19 one ahead of Emily Maliphant in sixth on 20. Overall a very close contest with only 10 marks separating third place to eleventh place. Dressage Team winners were Nottingham Trent and the Individual win went to Charlotte Andrews. Team jumping was won, unusually, equally by UW Aberystwyth and Nottingham Trent. Individually Sarah Blain from Manchester Metropolitan took the jumping title. TROPHY 11 - 12 April 2006 Arena UK, Allington, Grantham 56 teams started the newly christened Trophy competitions. After the league matches the top 14 teams moved into battle at the Trophy Finals and much to their surprise Kent were the victors on a score
of 26. Not to be outdone having travelled almost an equal distance from the north the Glasgow ‘C’ team also finished on 26 after a great Show-Jumping session that gave away no penalties. The Dressage swung the balance and a lower score in that phase gave Kent the victory for the first time. The Royal Veterinary College backed up their ‘A’ team well by taking third on 35. Local Team Nottingham finished fourth on 38 while Liverpool ended on 42 giving them fifth. The Glasgow ‘B’ team finished a very successful week for the Scottish teams in sixth on 45. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Massive thanks go to all the centre owners and managers who have hosted matches throughout the year and been so patient with the students, and also to the owners of the horses who have given their horses so readily. Huge thanks must also go to all the helpers and volunteers that have been at all matches from Trophy league matches up to the Championships and given their time and energy for little in return, and thanks must also go to all the Dressage judges and Show-Jumping judges that have worked to ensure success at all matches. Finally thanks need to go to the teams and the members of their clubs. Without the league matches there would be no Championship or Trophy Final. Although it is in their interests to run the matches there is essentially only one team that will win each year in each Championship. We hope that the other 120 teams each year continue to run their matches as well as they have done in 2006-2007 in the hope that they may be Champions in the future.
Fencing BUSA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 8-10 December 2006, University of Nottingham The Individual Championships again attracted a record entry of over 600 Fencers for the 3 weapons. All events were run to the traditional format of one round of pools followed by direct elimination. This ensures a full days Fencing and the final stages being hotly contested with loud encouragement from supporters.
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On Friday the Men’s Epee was won by James Thornton (Northumbria) with Xavier Muller (Birmingham) in second place. The Women’s Sabre saw Christie Waddington (Newcastle) beat Elaine Hughes (Bath) in a close match. Saturday with the Women’s Epee and Men’s Foil is the longest day with the largest number of fencers. David Alexander (Loughborough) showed his skill and calmness to beat Andrew Caldwell (Exeter) in the Men’s Final. The Women’s event saw another win for Northumbria with Kathryn Dolan taking first place ahead of Naomi Taylor (Bristol) The final day, Sunday, completes the competition with the Women’s Foil and Men’s Sabre. The Men’s Final saw an all Cambridge affair with Anthony Crutchett coming out ahead of Danny Ryan. In the Women’s Foil the first London based winner was Hannah Briers (Imperial) who beat Elaine Hughes (Bath), taking her second silver medal of the Championships. TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS 24 March 2007, EIS Sheffield Men’s Championship Semi-Finals: Northumbria 111 Oxford 135 Cambridge 134 Birmingham 102. Final: Cambridge 135 Oxford 83. Trophy Final: Reading 128 Kent 125. Shield Final: Kings College London 126 Dundee 111. Women’s Championship Semi-Final: Oxford 128 Birmingham 114 Cambridge 135 Edinburgh 96
staff for ensuring that all the equipment is set up and works throughout the event. Thanks to British Fencing for providing a high standard of hard working referees, and finally to all the organisers who ensured that we finished at a reasonable time.
Football MEN The Men’s Football competition remains the single biggest participation event in the BUSA programme with a record 472 teams taking part. This equates to over 7,000 students taking part each Wednesday. This season five knockout competitions were offered across 70 leagues, illustrating the broad pyramid of the football programme. Championship 21 March 2007, Loughborough Semi-Finals Bath 2 Swansea 1 UWE Hartpury 3 Northumbria 0 The Championship Semi-Finals took place at Loughborough University and Loughborough Dynamo FC. Both matches were closely contested and with a place at Loftus Road at stake. Despite Bath going a goal down to Swansea they showed their dominance as the game went on and secured a place in the Final with a 2-1 win. UWE Hartpury secured a comfortable victory over Northumbria winning 3-0 creating a Bath v UWE Hartpury Final. Final 9 May 2007, Loftus Road, QPR FC University of Bath 0 UWE Hartpury 1
Trophy Final: The University of Manchester 135 Exeter University 104.
With the raining pouring down and the flood lights on the two teams anxiously took the field for the finale of a long and competitive season. With the Championship trophy at stake both sides understandably played out a tentative first half.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank the University of Nottingham and the Sports Centre staff for hosting the event and providing such great support. Also special thanks to the armoury
The deadlock was broken when Hartpury took a shock lead in the 28th minute with Bath conceding an own goal by Matt Taylor following a cross by Matt Shaxton against the run of play. The second half saw little
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reaction from Bath, with the main threats for the second goal of the game coming from Hartpury. Bath’s best chance came when Hartpury’s Goalkeeper Paul Tassell made a potentially match winning save in the 55th minute, followed by an excellent block by Captain Matt Smith to take the game to safety. Hartpury were unlucky to not go further ahead with several chances to double their lead. Bath had a good late run in the last 10 minutes with a close attempt at goal, scaring the Hartpury bench with the promise of an equaliser. However, the one way traffic of the match was too much for Bath to overcome, leaving the score 1-0 to Hartpury at the final whistle. Before Captain Matt Smith could lift the Championship trophy, the midfielder was awarded with the Player of the Match. This ended what was a great day for Football, with some excellent performances indicating a growing pool of talent at the University level. Hartpury now look forward to a 2007-2008 season in the BUSA Premier League, where Bath will be looking to gain their revenge and regaining the title they had in 2005. Trophy Final 28 March 2007, Sheffield United Academy University of Manchester 1 University of Leeds 0 The Trophy Final was contested between Manchester and Leeds at the superb grounds of the Sheffield United Academy. Both teams started strong put few goal scoring opportunities were present. There was little between the teams and after full time the score remained 0-0. Manchester eventually got the better of Leeds by scoring in the second half of extra time. Shield Final 28 March 2007, University of Hertfordshire University of Hull 2 University of Exeter 1 The Men’s Football Shield Final proved to be an entertaining and exciting game which was well received by the many spectators at Hertfordshire University. The fantastic
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conditions and facilities paved the way for a high quality Football match. In the end it was Hull who incredibly completed their 100% record in BUSA for the 2006/07 season, but not without a fight from Exeter. In a closely contested match Hull went on to lift the Men’s Football BUSA Shield for the first time in their history beating Exeter 2-1. Plate Final 28 March 2007, Bournemouth University Bournemouth University 3 University of Sunderland 0 Bournemouth Men’s 1st’s 3, Sunderland Men’s 1st’s 0; Ian McIntosh, Richard Bentley and Chris Kennedy scored the extra time goals to give Bournemouth University the 2007 BUSA Men’s Football Plate. WOMEN Championship Semi-Finals 21 March 2007, University of Hertfordshire Northumbria University 1 University of Brighton 4 Loughborough 5 UWIC 2 The Championship Semi-Finals took place at the University of Hertfordshire. Both matches were closely contested and with a place at Loftus Road at stake. In a reply of last years Final Loughborough played UWIC in a hotly contested match. Loughborough showed their dominance and paved their way to the Final with a 5-2 win over UWIC. On the adjacent pitch Brighton dominated the play and defeated Northumbria 4-1 to get to the Final for the first time. Championship Final 9 May 2007, Loftus Rd, QPR FC Loughborough 4 Brighton 2 In an exciting second half that saw four goals, Loughborough’s strength and consistency was too much for Brighton. The defending Champions were unfortunate not to go in at the break 1-0 ahead but conceded a late goal in the last minute before half time. After a back and forth second half Loughborough left it late to confirm their strength, taking the game 4-2,
and bringing the BUSA Trophy back to the Midlands for the second year in a row. Trophy Final Manchester v Cardiff
Development Plan can be met. The Advisory Group is also finalising the arrangements for the role out of Futsal as a sanctioned BUSA sport for the 2007-2008 season.
Sadly Manchester failed to field a team and conceded a walkover to Cardiff. Shield Final 28 March 2007, University of Hertfordshire Liverpool John Moores 5 UWIC 2nds 2 The Liverpool John Moore’s team imposed themselves on their UWIC opponents from the off, but couldn’t turn possession into goals and as UWIC soaked up the pressure they took the lead with a classic counter attack. John Moores survived the onslaught and showed great determination and fitness to eventually defeat UWIC 5-2.
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ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES England Universities took the honours on Wednesday 16 May 2007 with a victory against the Combined Services, highlighting the strength of competition in BUSA Football.
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Every player in the squad of 18 were given a minimum of 45 minutes and this freshness was vital as Mike Symons (UWE Hartpury) with a penalty and Colin Illey (Teesside) scoring the goals to take the game 2-0.
Liverpool John Moores remain the top University team in Britain after a deserved seven-point victory over Edinburgh’s Napier University in this season’s Men’s Championships. A superb individual display from inspirational captain Paudie Finnegan played a significant part in taking the cup back to Merseyside for another season. However, it would be most unfair to suggest that John Moores’ latest triumph was merely a one-man show after the holders took an early command in midfield.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A huge and a sincere thank you to all the players, coaches and staff who commit so much of their time to the organisation of BUSA Football. We are especially grateful to those institutions who hosted the Plate & Vase Finals, to Bryn Clarke at Hertfordshire, James Ellis at Loughborough and George Harrison at Sheffield Academy for hosting the Trophy, Shield and Championship Semi-Finals. Special thanks also to the help and support we received from Neil Mosley, Director of Sport at Imperial College and Steve Pike at QPR for all their support in organising the Championship Finals. This is an extremely exciting time for BUSA Football. The ongoing support from the FA, Umbro sponsorship and the formation of the BUSA Football HE Advisory Group means that the objectives of the BUSA Football
BUSA MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS 16-18 February 2007, Tir Chonaill Park, Greenford, London.
While Finnegan’s personal tally of 18, including 1-1 from play, contributed handsomely to the Liverpool team’s success, it was their teamwork, determination and spirit that finally saw off the efforts of a gallant Napier team. Both sides struggled to find any kind of early rhythm but as the half progressed the holders were noticeably beginning to get on top. In the second half Napier had the advantage of the slope but the real question was would they be able to make better use of it than the favourites did in the first half.
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Both sides also made one substitution at the interval. Kieran Porter (John Moores) and Matt Geraghty (Napier) both played significant roles in a much improved second half which almost exploded into life in the opening minute when John Moore’s forced a ’45. However, a Tommy Fitpatrick point after just three minutes left just the minimum between the sides as the game became much more open. Within a minute a Paudie Finnegan free had regained John Moores’ two-point margin before two more unanswered points opened up a four-point lead for the holders within seven minutes of the re-start. Although Napier substitute Matt Geraghty had a fine point for the Edinburgh team two minutes later, a superb goal from Paudie Finnegan at the end of a fourman passing movement appeared to be a decisive strike for the holders after fifty minutes. The final quarter belonged to the holders who were determined not to allow the Napier team back into the game. John Moores’ domination was truly reflected on the scoreboard as they outscored their opponents by 0-5 to 0-1 to deservedly retain their title on a score of 1-15 to 2-5. Championship Semi-Finals: Liverpool John Moores 0-10 v Liverpool Hope 0-7 Napier 4-5 v Aberdeen 0-5 Final: Liverpool John Moores 1-15 v Napier 2-5 Player of the Tournament: Kieran Connolly (Liverpool John Moores) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank Pete Mossey and Shane McCann for their organisation of this year’s competition.
Golf MATCHPLAY 8 – 9 May 2007, Royal Liverpool Golf Club 84 teams competed in 13 conference leagues in an attempt to reach the prestigious Finals staged at the wonderful Royal Liverpool Golf Club host to The Open
2006. Despite the traditional Hoylake blustery and wet conditions, the players handled it well and spectators were treated to some excellent golf Championship The fast greens didn’t stop Stirling make it three in a row as they convincingly beat Dundee in the semi-final 8 ½ - ½ and then meet worthy finalists Exeter for a close match 5 ½ - 3 ½. Exeter had beaten St Andrew’s 5 ½ - 3 ½ on the previous day. The player of the Championships was James White from Stirling. Trophy Stirling’s 2nd team displayed the same excellent form in the Trophy, winning 5-4 in a close match against UHI Millennium. Shield Leeds Metropolitan was victorious in the Shield competition beating Northampton and taking the title home to the North East. MEN’S INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 13 - 15 June 2007, De Vere Slaley Hall & Seaton Carew Golf Club 54 Men qualified from Regional tournaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and England & Wales to play in the 72 hole Strokeplay Championships. They lined up in what can only be described as atrocious golfing conditions with non stop rain for the 3 days. Play was delayed on Day 1 with players only managing to play 18 holes on a rain drenched Slaley Hall but it was local player Craig Wilkinson (Northumbria) who took a 3 stroke lead over his nearest rival Gavin Dear (Stirling). With the rain continuing to fall, the organiser made the decision to move to a nearby links course Seaton Carew for the second and third days play, with four par 5’s this was going to be challenging for the Men. U21 England Player, Ian Winstanley (Leeds) put the marker down in the first round of the day shooting a great 74, the best round on the course over the 3 rounds. Not to be left behind David Booth, Paul Betty and Karl Shephard (all from Stirling) all had solid rounds in the afternoon scoring 75, 76 and
77 respectively. After the 3 rounds Wilkinson held a 4 stroke lead over the consistent and improving Booth. For the final round just when it was thought the conditions couldn’t get worse they did, with the rain coming in horizontally and mist setting in, it was truly a day for only the most hardened golfers. The conditions took their toll with only 20 of the original 54 golfers finishing the round and some high scores for those that did finish. The overnight leaders continued their duel with Wilkinson ultimately proving the victor. Booth did his utmost to make the title his but Wilkinson did enough to be the leader by the narrowest of margins 1 shot. Congratulations to Craig and Bournemouth University who took the Team Strokeplay Title. WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 5-6 July 2007, De Vere Slaley Hall Chloe Rogers (Buckingham Chilterns) overcame her much fancied rivals to claim the Women’s Individual Strokeplay title for 2007. The final year Sports Management & Golf Studies student played consistently over the 2 days placing in the top 3 for all 3 rounds. Heading into the final round Rogers was tied on 158 with Laura Murray (Robert Gordon) and Claire Marie Carlton (Stirling). Shooting 4 over on the 7th seemed to stall Rogers title aspirations but 5 birdies put her one stroke ahead of Murray for the title. Murray tied for overall second place with Lucinda Davies (Birmingham) who had a storming final round of 79 that put her back in title contention after a poor round the day before. Players were not helped by the conditions with showers, a strong breeze and a soaked course to contend with. With 50% of the field first and second year students the competition will be even stronger the next few years as rivalries are formed between universities. REPRESENTATIVE In a close fixture, British Universities won against Durham Counties 10-8, a close 3.52.5 in the foursomes and 6.5-5.5 in the singles.
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England Universities lost 9-3 to Midlands Counties. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The BUSA Golf programme relives heavily on support from the R&A, the Home Unions and Ladies Golfing Associations and the goodwill of host venues and volunteers. In addition, thanks are extended to Greg Norman Clothing, Sunderland of Scotland and Vision Outsourcing for supporting the competitive programme.
Gymnastics CHAMPIONSHIPS 3 March 2007, Lilleshall National Sports Centre The Championships once again had a record number of entries for the 20062007 season, and despite the event running for 12 hours (with the intension of splitting it to 2 days for next season), it ran smoothly throughout the day. The high quality Championship (Grade 1) competition was closely fought in both the Men’s and Women’s categories. Leeds Metropolitan dominated the Men’s competition, with Steven Jehu edging past team mate Thomas Rawlinson to take the title. In the Women’s competition, Vicki Johns from Leeds produced a series of excellent routines to beat Felicity Barwell (Nottingham Trent) and Megan Lane (UWIC). Loughborough dominated the Men’s and Women’s Trophy (Grade 2) events, with Matthew Pike and Samantha Davies taking the titles for the Midlands University. In the Team competitions, Leeds Metropolitan once again took both the Men’s and Women’s Championship titles back to Yorkshire, and this was followed up by completing the clean sweep of Team titles, when the Leeds Metropolitan second team also took home the Team Trophy title. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Championship 1st Leeds Metropolitan 2nd Loughborough 3rd Portsmouth
WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Championship 1st Leeds Metropolitan 2nd UWIC 3rd Loughborough Trophy 1st 2nd 3rd
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MEN’S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP Championship 1st Steven Jehu (Leeds Metropolitan) 2nd Thomas Rawlinson (Leeds Metropolitan) 3rd Robert Payne (Loughborough) Trophy 1st Matthew Pike (Loughborough) 2nd Matthew Maletroit (Cardiff) 3rd Faraz Khosravi-Mardakheh (Birmingham) WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP Championship 1st Vicki Johns (Leeds) 2nd Felicity Barwell (Nottingham Trent) 3rd Megan Lane (UWIC) Trophy 1st 2nd 3rd
Samantha Davies (Loughborough) Maia Hunnex (UW Bangor) Alison Mercer (Leeds Metropolitan)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thanks Maria McLoughlin, Julian Niven Reed, Gareth Irwin, Ian Greenhill and Mitch Fenner for their continuing support for University Gymnastics.
was equally close, with Durham having to twice come from behind before winning in extra time 3-2. The Trophy Finals were both dominated by the Midlands conference, with the Men’s Final mirroring the Championship and Loughborough 2nd comfortably beating Birmingham 2nd 4-1. The Women’s Trophy Final saw Loughborough 2nd beating Loughborough 3rd 6-0. The Shield matches saw some more equally matched teams, with both the Men’s and Women’s matches being won by late goals. In the Men’s Shield Final, Stirling maintained their 100% winning record throughout the season by beating Exeter 2nd 3-2. The Women’s Shield Final was a North v South match, with Newcastle beating Kent 2-1. Away from Beeston HC, the Plate Finals were played at Southampton Solent and Bath. In the Men’s Plate, Oxford beat Solent 2-1 in another closely fought match, but the Women’s Plate was more one-sided, with Loughborough 4th overwhelming Bath 4th 9-0. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Championship Semi-Finals: Bath 1-6 Loughborough Birmingham 6-5 London Metropolitan Final: Loughborough 2-1 Birmingham Trophy Semi-Finals: Birmingham 2nd 6-4 Glasgow 1st UWIC 1st 3-4 Loughborough 2nd Final: Birmingham 2nd 1-4 Loughborough 2nd
Hockey OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 28 March 2007, Beeston HC, Nottingham The Hockey Finals at Beeston Hockey Club saw some excellent and closely fought Championship and Shield Finals, with the Trophy Finals being a little more one-sided. The Men’s Championship Final brought together Midlands rivals Loughborough and Birmingham and they played out a tentative match, with Loughborough just winning 2-1. The Women’s Championship match
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Shield Final: Exeter 2nd 2-3 Stirling 1st Plate Final: Southampton Solent 1st 1-2 Oxford 1st WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Championship Semi-Finals: Oxford 2-5 Durham Loughborough 0-1 Birmingham Final: Durham 3-2 Birmingham (AET) Trophy Semi-Finals: London Metropolitan 1st 2-3 Loughborough 3rd Loughborough 2nd 7-1 Brighton 1st Final: Loughborough 2nd 6-0 Loughborough 3rd Shield Final: Kent 1st 1-2 Newcastle 1st Plate Final: Bath 4th 0-9 Loughborough 4th ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank both Liz Moss at Southgate HC and Graham Griffiths at Beeston HC for acting as hosts for the Championship Semi-Finals and Finals respectively, both once again proving to be excellent hosts. BUSA would also like to pass on their thanks to Colin Barthorpe for all the NPUA umpires that were appointed to all the Championships Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and all the Finals. Thanks are also given to Ken Lochhead and Ros Marsh for acting at TD’s at both the Semi-Finals and Finals.
Judo CHAMPIONSHIP 17-18 March 2007 – University of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus The great thing about university sport is that we see so many talented sports people come through our doors and this year was no different. While last years Championships were dominated by competitors retaining their titles this year from 237 competitors
only 4 were able to defend their titles – Lee Shinkin (Brunel) Dan Grade U73kg, Danny Murphy (Bath) Dan Grade Over100kg, Dan Cartlidge (Loughborough) Kyu Grade U90kg and Gemma Lawton (London) Kyu Grade U78kg. Bath retained its hold on the Team Championship winning this convincingly. A new wave of top class judo competitors have entered the university ranks and this can only be good for our sport. INTERNATIONAL World University Judo Championships 17 – 20 December 2006, Suwon, Korea Great Britain performed well in the individual events at the 18th World University Judo Championships with the home nation of Korea, Hungary and France proving to be the hardest to beat. The best performance from Great Britain came in the Women’s Under 78kg event as Sian Wilson (Bath) finished in a respectable 5th place, losing in the quarter finals to eventual Gold Medallist Jung Gyeong Mi (Korea). Andrew Burns (Bath) also lost in the quarter finals to Mongolian Tuvshin Nayar in the Men’s under 100kg event. Another notable performance came in the Men’s under 73kg event as Lee Shinkin (Brunel) narrowly lost to Spaniard Romero Miguel in the second round. In the Men’s Team event Great Britain had an unlucky break in the draw as they lost to the much favoured France Team (who dominated the individual competition) in the last 8 of the competition, France went on to gain gold in the Team Competition ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to the tournament Director Jill West, Malcolm Limrick, the BJA Midlands area and Walsall Sports Centre staff who continue to support the event.
Ju Jitsu CHAMPIONSHIPS 18-19 November 2006, Aston Villa Leisure Centre The 2006 Jitsu Foundation Atemi National Competitions were proud for the second time to be part of the BUSA domestic programme. The event, which took place at
Aston Villa Leisure centre and Woodcock Sports Centre, Aston University on 18-19 November, involved 971 jitsuka, it was just short of the illusive 1000, but was again the biggest in the event’s history. The competition was described by the chairman of tertiary board, Sensei John Hamer as ‘a roaring success. The whole weekend sparkled with an atmosphere of warmth and friendliness, tinged with friendly rivalry and mutual respect, people came from all over the country to learn, share and enjoy the practice of Jitsu with each other’ 758 jitsuka competed in the 8 competition grade categories and also provided the largest competition the event has had, which proved to be one of the most entertaining and thrilling. The 2nd BUSA JuJitsu Championships had 609 competitors competing from 52 BUSA member institutions. Every aspect of the event was well received and enthusiastically enjoyed by all who participated. Many of the BUSA winners also won the categories overall, with Adam Slawson (Northumbria University) in the Yellow Belt category, Mikhail Vishnyakov (University of Bristol) in the Orange Belt category, Nicola Richardson (University of Bath) in the Green Belt category, Fredric Stains (Napier University) and Oliver Strother (University of Nottingham) all winning both the BUSA and TJF titles. Oliver Strother’s win in the Brown Belt category helped the University of Nottingham to the BUSA Team Championship, but University of Nottingham Jitsu Club had to take second place to Leeds Jitsu Club for the TJF club shield. We look forward to breaking the magic thousand barrier at the 2007 TJF Atemi Nationals Competitions and continuing to hold BUSA’s largest martial arts competition. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to the competition organisers and event organisers, referees, first aid team, St John Ambulance team, Birmingham College of Food sports massage and Aston Villa Leisure Centre Staff.
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Karate CHAMPIONSHIPS 14-15 April 2007, University of Bath This year’s Championships headed to the South West with the University of Bath Karate Club playing host to hundreds of eager competitors. The first day of competition began with the Kata competitions. The Women’s novice title was taken by Jenni Garamuolgyi (Birmingham) who beat Charlotte McCallum (Royal Holloway) in the Final. Tammy Lo (London) beat her team mate Ulrika Pohlmann (London) to take gold in the intermediate event. In the Dan Grade competition Caroline Price (Brunel) won gold with Mairi Kerin (Loughborough) taking the silver. Jason Blee (Brunel) won gold in the Men’s Novice having faced team mate Chong Phi Vong (Brunel) in the Final. Matthew Davies (Swansea Institute) won the intermediate category beating home competitor Adrian Ward-Cherrier (Bath) in the Final. The Dan Grade gold medal was won by David Woods (Glasgow Caledonian) who beat Grant Wyper (Glasgow). In a repeat of last year’s Final Cambridge took on Edinburgh for the Team Kata Final, with Cambridge making amends and taking the gold medal. The Open Weight Kumite event Melissa Lewis (Nottingham) beat Danica Popielas to take the gold medal. Popielas’ team mate Calum Robb (Heriot Watt) retained his open weight title beating Vincent O’Hara (Manchester). Day two of competition began with the Novice Kumite competitions. Louise Ogden (Bath) beat compatriot Olivia Riddle (Bath) to take win the lightweight category. Another “same institution” Final took place in the middleweight event with Edinburgh’s Alison Martin taking the title ahead of Emma Clayton. Bath took another gold medal in the heavyweight competition with Danielle Hancock overcoming Jennifer Kerrison (Middlesex).
In the Men’s Novice competition Bath featured frequently. Justin van Rhyn (Bath) beat Jeffrey Shum (Bath) to win the lightweight title. Team mate Jasper Chow (Bath) took a gold medal in the middleweight competition beating Daniel Seymour-Smith (Loughborough). Bath, however, missed out on the clean sweep as Andrew Kabakwu (Middlesex) beat Jeremy Springall (Bath) to win the heavyweight title. Competition was fierce in the senior events. In the women’s -53kg Sam Jones (Cardiff) took gold ahead of Lisa Cairns (Glasgow Caledonian). Home competition Natalie Atkinson (Bath) won the -60kg with Zara Phang (Edinburgh) taking the silver medal. Melissa Lewis (Nottingham) added another medal to her collection winning the +60kg title with Sarah Leakey (Roehampton) taking silver. Jonny Morgan (Lancaster) beat Euan Tracey (Edinburgh) to take the -60kg Men’s title. The -65kg title went to Rhys Jones (Swansea) who beat Ryu Ikeda (Dundee) in the Final. Ian MacLeod (Cambridge) beat Joe Hart (Manchester) to take the -70kg gold medal. Middlesex claimed another gold medal in the -75kg as Ehab Abdrabou (Middlesex) beat James Brooks (Bath). Vincent O’Hara (Manchester) took another medal, this time gold, in the -80kg beating Alan Worsley (Edinburgh). Calum Robb (Heriot Watt) took a second gold medal in the +80kg beating rival Dean Draper (Swansea Institute). In the Team Kumite events, the Men’s title went to Bath with silver going to Manchester. Bath’s Women couldn’t quite emulate the Men as they lost out to Edinburgh. However, Bath’s strength in depth proved invaluable as they ran away with the Overall Team title, beating Edinburgh and Nottingham respectively. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA are indebted to the work of Tom Crick and his colleagues within the University of Bath Karate Club who ensured such a smooth running Championships. Thanks also to BUSA Karate Chair Steve Coupland for all his technical advice and appointment of officials.
Korfball CHAMPIONSHIPS 3-4 March 2007, University of Nottingham The Regional rounds of the BUSA event were held over the weekend of the 25 – 26 March 2006 with the University of Sheffield winning the Northern round and Oxford University winning the Southern round. 16 teams qualified through to the final which returned to the long standing final venue at the University of Nottingham. The finals did not see the form teams being placed in the top two, with, the University of East Anglia being crowned BUSA Korfball Champions 2007 and Sheffield Hallam runners up.
Lacrosse The 2006-2007 Women’s Championships saw 48 teams enter the leagues, a slight increase on the previous season and the standard throughout, particularly in the Championship Final was very high. The University of Edinburgh achieved a great double taking both the Championship and Trophy titles. This season also saw the introduction of a Men’s Championship into the BUSA Calendar for the first time with St Andrew’s being crowned the first ever BUSA Men’s Champions. MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 29 April 2007, Brooklands Hulmeians Lacrosse Club, Sale Four regional tournaments took place early on in the season with 26 teams battling it out. The winners from each tournament (St Andrew’s, Nottingham, UWIC and ULU) went through to a Semis and Final weekend in April. After a withdrawal from ULU and with UWIC beaten in the Semi-Final, the inaugural Men’s Championship Final saw Nottingham take on St Andrews. The first quarter saw St Andrews come out on top and take a 0-2 lead with the help of Kevin Land and George Macdonald. They went on to make it 0-3 in the second quarter. The third quarter belonged to Nottingham and saw them scoring twice without reply. Into the final 20 minutes the play changed possession
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frequently. In a nail-biting last minute Nottingham took the lead for the first time only to see St Andrew’s equalising before the final whistle. Into extra time St Andrew’s dug deep and found the strength required finally taking the title 8-5. The Most Valuable Player award went to Pat Cronin, Nottingham’s goalkeeper. WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals 14 March 2007, University of Nottingham Two great Semi-Finals took place in Nottingham. The first saw Oxford lose 9-12 to Birmingham and the second had supporters on the edge of their seats as Edinburgh took on Cambridge. The score was 11-11 at full time but Edinburgh powered through in extra time taking the match 13-12. Final 21 March 2007, Timperley Lacrosse Club, Manchester A gloriously sunny day saw Birmingham take on Edinburgh in Manchester. Birmingham got off to the best possible start getting on the score sheet after just 11 seconds with a great goal from Rebecca Roberts-Gawen. The rest of the first half saw possession split between the teams and the score at 2-2 going into half time. In the second half the first 15 minutes saw both team’s scoring but in the final 15 minutes the Edinburgh
side stretched their lead and despite a late run from Birmingham they could not catch Edinburgh and the final score was 7-5. The Most Valuable Player award was shared between Rebecca Roberts-Gawen (Birmingham) and Louise Verall (Edinburgh). WOMEN’S TROPHY 21 March 2007, Timperley Lacrosse Club, Manchester The Trophy Final saw an exceptionally close battle between the Edinburgh 2nd team and Warwick. Edinburgh 2nd took an early two goal lead before Warwick got themselves on the score sheet with some fantastic play in particular from Millie Reid. At half time the score was 7-4 to Edinburgh 2 but Warwick came out in the second half with guns blazing and 3 goals bringing the game to 7-7. Into the last minute extra time was looking likely but with 13 seconds left on the clock Edinburgh 2nd’s Nicola Buckmaster struck the back of the net, scoring her side’s only goal of the second half right when it mattered, creating an 8-7 final score. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to Timperley Lacrosse Club for hosting the Women’s Finals at late notice and to all officials involved in both the Women’s and Men’s competitions. A special mention goes to Emma Mooney of the English Lacrosse Association for her help in organising the Men’s competition.
Modern Biathlon & Modern Pentathlon MODERN BIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS 2 March 2007, Oxford Heather Jackson (Loughborough) improved on last year’s result by taking the gold medal a comfortable 152 points clear of Louise Helyer (Bath). Stacie-Jo (Wellsbury) Birmingham took the bronze. In the Team competition Bath (Louise Helyer, Lucy Ferguson and Fleur Ross-Harris) took the gold medal ahead of Birmingham (Sophie Reynolds, Stacie-Jo Wellsbury and Abbey Newman) and Loughborough (Heather Jackson, Louise Appleby and Stacey Leigh). In the Men’s competition Matt Sandell (Birmingham) took the gold medal having finished 2nd and 3rd in the swim and run events respectively. Steve Worthington (Leeds Met) took the silver medal ahead of Jonathan Worcester (Loughborough). The team title went to Loughborough (Jonathan Worcester, Mark matthews and Greg Cherry), with Birmingham (Paul Wilson, Matt Sandell and Simon Richards) taking the silver and Durham (Nick Zissler, Matt Seegelaar and Tom Kirk) the bronze. MODERN PENTATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS 2-3 March 2007, Oxford Louise Highton (Manchester Metropolitan) took the Women’s title ahead of Polly Mosley (Chichester). Last year’s winner Sarah Gomersall (Bath) had to settle for the bronze medal. Henry Kruczko (UWE Hartpury) improved on last year’s performance to take the title in 5276 points. Nick Zissler (Birmingham) took the silver medal with the bronze going to David Atkinson (Liverpool). In the Team competition, a mixed event, the Women from Bath (Louise Helyer, Laura Gomersall and Sarah Gomersall) defended their title of 2006. Henry Kruczko’s Individual title helped Hartpury (Kruczko, Russell North and Lee Ormerod) claim the silver medal. The bronze medal also headed
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to Bath (Neil Larkin, Lucy Ferguson, Fleur Ross-Harris) following a closely fought team event. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to James Corbet Burcher and his colleagues at Oxford for their organisation of the BUSA Modern Biathlon and Modern Pentathlon Championships.
Netball This season’s Netball competitions saw more teams enter than previous years, with 319 teams participating in the leagues. The standard of the game is constantly improving, especially in the Premier Leagues where Northumbria took the Northern title and Bath the Southern. The University of Edinburgh triumphed in a closely fought playoff game against Newcastle which resulted in the Scottish side being promoted into the Northern Premier League for the first time. CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals 14 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield Two nail biting Semi-Final matches resulted in wins for UWIC and last season’s Champions Loughborough but it was by no means an easy feat for either side. The first Semi-Final saw last year’s runners up Northumbria take on UWIC in what proved to be a tactical, low scoring match where UWIC edged ahead and took the victory by 26 goals to 21. In the second Semi-Final Loughborough took on Bath. There was some excellent Netball being played and extra time looked likely with the score tied with 6 minutes to go. In the final minutes Loughborough dug deep and edged ahead finally winning by 45 goals to 41. Final 25 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield The Championship Final saw defending Champions Loughborough retain their title, beating UWIC 52-24. The score does not
reflect the quality of the match and the UWIC side provided some tough competition for parts of the game, however, could not overcome the all-round strength of the Loughborough side. Loughborough’s GD Kara Luck was voted Player of the Final.
The lead they established in the first quarter was added to every quarter thereafter but not easily, as the Scottish side never gave up and although forced by the English to shoot from the edge of the semi circle, they began sinking incredible shots.
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They broke through the English Zone defence, but the English team were individually stronger and found it easier to play down the court than the Scottish team who were fighting the Zone.
The Trophy Final between Oxford University 1sts and University of Bath 2nds saw a thrilling contest where Oxford held their nerve to take the title 37-33. Shield Final 25 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield The Shield Final between Loughborough University 3rds and Southampton University 1sts saw some fantastic action from both teams. Despite great play from Southampton in the third quarter the Loughborough 3rds proved too strong and the final score was 47-30. Plate Final 21 March 2007, Cardiff University, Cardiff Cardiff Medics beat the University of Manchester 49 -35. REPRESENTATIVE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES V ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES 3 April 2007, University of Edinburgh After this fixture last year the Scottish Universities side got close to a win over the English Universities team, there was a belief in the Scottish side that this could be their year, but the English team was strong and fresh from their close defeat by the National team of Scotland. The Scottish Universities scored the first goal of the game, but it was hard fought and although the first 5 minutes were close, the English Universities side pulled away with a convincing first quarter lead.
The final score was 58-25 to the English Universities team. Teams: Scottish Universities: Lesley Turnbull (c) (Strathclyde), Cheryl McEwan (Edinburgh), Terri-Claire McWaters (Edinburgh), Shona Jenkins (Edinburgh), Claire Brownie (Edinburgh), Nicola Jarvie (Napier), Emily Rendall (Heriot Watt), Catrina Campbell (Glasgow), Gill Stefaniuk (Edinburgh), Julia Mullin (Edinburgh), Rachel Edwards (Strathclyde), Siobhan Doogan (Edinburgh). English Universities: Heather Clarke (Coventry), Michelle Langley (Sheffield Hallam), Elizabeth George (Canterbury Christchurch), Elizabeth Bundy (Canterbury Christchurch), Lucy Cadge (Bedfordshire), Adele Modeste (Bath), Rose MorganSmith (Bath), Amie Whittal (UWE), Natasha Hampshire (Loughborough), Sally Boyd (Durham), Suubi Mduga (Brunel), Emily Rose (Bath). OTHER NEWS This season saw the re-creation of a Netball Sports Management Group. The group, Chaired by Jon Linford, will look at the development of the BUSA Netball programme and ways in which BUSA’s second largest sport can be moved forward. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank England Netball, and in particular Jan Burke, for their appointment of officials for the Semi-Finals and Finals. BUSA would also like to thank Sarah Gandon for her hard work in arranging the representative fixture in Edinburgh.
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Orienteering INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 31 March 2007, Arncliffe Woods and Scarth Wood Moor, Northallerton Oli Johnson (Sheffield) made amends for 2006 by taking the gold medal in a time of 54 minutes and 41 seconds. In second place was Oleg Chepelin (Edinburgh), just over 2 minutes behind, with Johnson’s team mate Marcus Pinker (Sheffield) in third place. The Women’s title was retained by the 2006 Champion Rachel Elder (Sheffield) ahead of Rebecca Robert (Loughborough) and Lizzie Adams (Sheffield Hallam) respectively. RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 April 2007, Durham University and Houghall Woods, Durham Edinburgh (Douglas Tullie, Oleg Chepelin and Duncan Coombs) took the Men’s relay title ahead of Sheffield (Robert Little, Marcus Pinker and Oliver Johnson) and Sheffield’s second team (David Hodkinson, Andrew Llewellyn and John Rocke). Edinburgh also took the Women’s title, winning it for the second year running, with a team of Kirsten Strain, Jessica Hallida and Becky Carlyle. In second place were Sheffield (Elizabeth Britton, Hazel Tan and, Rachael Elder) and in third were Birmingham (Ekaterina Orekhova, Helen Gardner and Ruth Holmes). Edinburgh’s individual performances earned them the Overall title, with Sheffield in second and Cambridge in third. REPRESENTATIVE MATCH: BUSA V COMBINED 1 April 2007, Durham The annual BUSA v Combined Services fixture was combined with the BUSA Championships with individual performances contributing to the overall result. The BUSA team were dominant with nearly 4 minutes clear ahead of the Combined Services team. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA are very grateful of the work from the Durham University Orienteering Club and
in particular Richard Bean for ensuring an excellent Championship took place.
Eight-ball Pool BUSA CHAMPIONSHIPS 23-25 February 2007, Spondon Team Championship Holders Essex performed well through to the Semi-Finals. However, their dream of being the only team ever to retain the Championship was ended by tournament surprise package Gloucestershire who won their Semi-Final meeting 6-3. In the other Semi-Final, the University of Ulster (Coleraine) who had been progressing well through the tournament beat York 6-0. Although Gloucestershire had numerous chances to take key frames it was not to be and Ulster marched to their first title with a 6-3 victory. Team Trophy The Semi-Finals of the Team Trophy were both exceptionally tight affairs with the University of the West of England 1st scraping past Essex 2nd 6-4. The second Semi-Final was tighter and went to a shoot out with Durham 2nd edging out York 2nd 7-6. In the Final UWE proved too strong, running out convincing winners 6-2 over Durham 2nd. Individual Championship Nottingham’s Paul Edwards took the Individual Championship, his third title in four years, an outstanding achievement. Edwards met Martin Pratt (Durham) in the first Semi-Final. It was a fantastic contest which Edwards edged 5-4. The second Semi-Final was also a tight affair with former BUSA Snooker Champion Pritesh Patel (Bristol) overcoming impressive debutant Nick Whitelaw (Central Lancs) 5-3. The Final was to prove a more one-sided affair as Paul Edwards punished every single mistake made by his opponent and ran away with the match 5-0. BUSA SHIELD 9-11 February 2007, Spondon The Shield was a new competition for season 2006-2007 and it was a team new
to University Pool that took the honours. Keele University emerged undefeated from the weekend’s competition and ended the event with a comprehensive 6-1 defeat of one of the pre-tournament favourites St Andrews in the Final. REPRESENTATIVE Home Nations Championships 20-21 April 2007, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds England retained the Home Nations beating Wales in a one-sided Final. The round robin stage began with both England and Wales progressing well until Scotland beat England 11-10 in a tense match. This set up a virtual ‘winner takes all’ match against Wales – the winners progressing to the Final. Wales won 11-10 with chances missed on both sides in the nervy final frame. In the Final itself England got away to a 6-1 lead which proved far too much for Wales eventually wining 7-2 to retain their title. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks go to the Universities Pool Council Board Members for their hard work, Jonathan Shapland for his work as EightBall Pool Championships Head Referee and England Team Manager for the Home Nations, and Welsh Team Manager Huw Stapleton.
Rifle SMALL BORE CHAMPIONSHIPS 28 April 2007, Appleton Rifle Range, Cheshire The BUSA Small Bore Rifle Championships again attracted a large number of competitors to compete in the six traditional categories Team, Quartet, Pairs, Triad, Open & Ladies. The event was hosted at the Appleton Rifle Ranges on the 28 April 2007. The Team event was won by the University of Southampton followed in second place by the University of Edinburgh and in third the University of Newcastle. The Pairs saw Edinburgh reverse their second place in the team and win the Pairs, with London in second and Newcastle in third. Southampton again won the Quartet
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category with again Edinburgh in second and London in third. The Triad was won by London, Southampton in second and the University of Durham in third. The Open category was won by Edinburgh, Robert Gordon next and London in third. Finally Robert Gordon took the Ladies Championship, Reading in second and Newcastle in third place. FULL BORE CHAMPIONSHIPS 12 May 2007, National Rifle Centre, Bisley The BUSA Full Bore Championships were held at the National Rifle Centre in Bisley. London had a clean sweep across all categories, winning the Men’s and Women’s Individuals and the Team Championships.
Rowing British Universities Rowing again enjoyed a hugely successful season, running the largest regatta ever held in Britain with over 1,000 crews and 4,450 athletes taking part, increased participation in Beginner Rowing, Umpires and Officials Training days and BUR enjoying great success at International level. INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 18 November 2006, National Indoor Arena, Birmingham Over 2,500 athletes turned out at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham for the Concept2 British Indoor Championships, comfortably the biggest Indoor sports event in the UK and in BUSA terms one of the largest week-end tournaments on the BUSA calendar. The 653-strong BUSA entry featured over 150 Freshers taking part in the First Round of the “Chase For The Eight”; racing was phenomenally tight both in the four BUSA Individual categories raced over 2kms and in the four-person 1km team races. Most of the “stars” of Indoor are closely connected with British Universities, the GB World Champions Mens 4- racing against World Champion Graham Benton (now learning to row at Reading University)… it was great to see current stars who learned to row at University (Hodge at Staffs and Reed at UWE) and BUSA multi-medallists (Partridge
and Williams with Brookes) putting their reputations on the line. The C2 Indoor Overall BUSA Championship (based on the best athletes in each category) overall Ladies Team (best eight finishers) went to Oxford and the Men’s Team to Cambridge SMALL BOATS HEAD OF THE RIVER 28 October 2006, River Trent, Nottingham Imperial and Newcastle brought their star GB athletes to the River Trent to contest the first “stand-alone” running of the BUR BUSA Small Boats Championship. The size of entry for the 2006 February Championship Head necessitated a rethink on the format of the BUR BUSA Head Races for this season and the decision to run the Small Boats separately was rewarded with an increase in entries to 81 boats. “Perhaps hard to know when in the season to best run this, but this fitted pretty well all things considered and was a well-run, high quality Head…. the ideal opportunity to chase the BUSA Points our Director of Sport wants” commented Imperial College guru Simon Cox, who brought his full senior squad to contest most of the twelve categories on offer. HEAD OF THE RIVER CHAMPIONSHIP 25 February 2007, River Trent, Nottingham Supported by Oarsport, Concept2 and Godfrey Sports Over 1,300 athletes in 365 crews contested the BUR BUSA Championship Head, now the largest University Head race in the world in only its fourth year. Racing was exciting and fast on the quick Trent stream, with several dead heats and, for the first time overseas, opposition coming to compete in the shape of the Faculty of Economics crew from Zagreb University in Croatia, led by Josip Kostelic. Several changes had been made to the format of this event for 2007 in an attempt to create a better racing environment for the crews travelling from 42 Universities as far as Lancaster, Teesside, London and Plymouth to race on the Trent in Nottingham. Just two divisions of racing with a larger recovery gap over lunchtime helped crews recover and boat safely, thus also promoting better racing for all.
Durham again picked up the Concept2 Fresher’s points with their Men’s Eight again leading home Newcastle. It will be fascinating at the Regatta to see how squads will play the final roll of the dice, with Durham needing to win all four remaining C2 races to take the WinTech. In all 11 Universities took home medals, at Gold level Oxford Brookes (4 Gold’s) being the most successful, although Durham’s overall haul (2G, 4S, 2B) is also well worth a mention. CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA 5-7 May 2007, National Water Sports Centre Nottingham The biggest Rowing Regatta in Britain and biggest BUSA Championship, the 2007 Regatta hosted over 1,000 crews (a milestone for British Rowing) with over 4,450 athleteseats from 60 Universities contesting over 250 races Saturday saw some very tight racing, Bristol rallying in the last few strokes of the M4- to beat Newcastle on the line by 0.2 of a second, Brookes taking the equivalent (and effectively GB U23 trail) ladies event. A strong Reading squad started off their campaign by winning Men’s Coxed Fours and Singles, whilst Queens Belfast made a first-ever appearance at the Regatta in Women’s Singles. With the Concept2 Fresher’s Challenge in its final rounds tension was very high on the Sunday, as was the freshening wind. The key race of the event came in the morning 2km races when the Newcastle Women, many of whom had won Novice eights the day before, pulled past their Durham opponents in the second half of the course to make the Fresher’s event, and their reward of a new eight, safe. The Sprints, flat out over 500m attracted a very large, high class entry. Reading “international quads” took both Sprint-Quads titles, Southampton defended their Ladies Sprint Eights title and London just beat IC in the Men’s Sprint Eights. The large Novice fields were headed by Birmingham Ladies (who also went on to 2km glory on the Monday) and the IC Men, with impressive International-squad scullers from Bath (M1x) and Imperial (W1x) picking up Sprint-Singles glory.
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Monday was windy but rowable, IC picking up both Lightweight Sculls trophies to again start their day well. Aberdeen were popular winners of the W2x. In the Ladies Eights races the full Cambridge Blue and Reserve (Blondie) crews dominated both categories, whilst Oxford Brookes were only narrowly thwarted on a clean sweep in Men’s Junior eights when Durham just overhauled the Brookes fourth eight to take a bronze, behind the Brookes Novices who had won Novice eights the day before, and the Brookes second eight. Durham’s points here ensured they retained the VL Halladay Bowl. The Men’s Eights is often incorrectly viewed as the main race of the Regatta, but this year saw one of the closest and best ever races. Newcastle narrowly failed in a fantastic challenge to overturn a magnificent Brookes eight crammed full of GB Internationals, they managed to hold off Newcastle by under a second, largely due to a phenomenal push after 500m gone that gave Brookes the winning margin that they then clung on to for the final mile! 32 Universities achieved BUSA Championship points at what may well be the last BUSA Regatta held at Nottingham. The venue for 2008 is still under discussion, but will probably see the Regatta leave its traditional home after 15 years of tremendous growth. The BUR event team would like to thank everyone who has volunteered, competed or supported the event over the years. EUSA ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 - 3 September 2006, Brive, France The BUR Team successfully defended their European Title in September, capturing the EUSA Salver ahead of 12 other nations at the 2nd EUSA Regatta, becoming the most successful British Rowing Team competing this summer. The EUSA Regatta increased in size and quality from its Cardiff beginnings in 2005, with numerous World Under 23 medallists and Senior World Championship competitors enjoying excellent racing conditions.
Rugby Fives BUSA CHAMPIONSHIPS 24-26 November 2006, Oundle School, Oundle, Nr. Peterborough With 48 entries in the singles and 26 for the doubles, the 2006 Rugby Fives Championships once more had a strong turn out. The singles competition saw players from 6 different Universities reach the quarterfinals. Beverly (Cambridge) had a hard first game against Mogford (SOAS) but won the second easily as his opponent tired. Brooks (Cambridge) and Korris (Leeds) were well matched, Brooks winning narrowly in the third game. Grant (UCL) and Pendergrass (Oxford) contested one of the best matches of the competition, with the result in doubt until the very end, while Lee (Durham) defeated Gibbor (UCL) comparatively easily. Beverly had a comfortable victory over his doubles partner Brooks in the first Semi-Final, while Lee detained Grant in a lengthy battle which the UCL man finally won in the third game. In the Final the next morning, Grant was always under pressure from Beverly’s forceful hitting and well-judged length, and the Cambridge number one ran out a deserved winner. The doubles competition had fewer close matches in the latter stages, although the second round showed the considerable depth of University talent this year. The Semi-Finals saw the fancied Cambridge pair of Beverly and Brooks defeat the scratch London duo of Ellison and Hardyment without having to be at their best, while Durham (Lee & Mohammed) were given a much closer match by Korris and Marshall of Leeds, who faded in the second game. The Final was one-sided, with Cambridge in full flow while Durham strove in vain to stem the tide. There was some excellent Fives in the Plate events, including the match of the Championships in the Final between UCL (Gibbor & Pleming) and Durham (Hay & Midmer). Hawke (Southampton) won the singles Plate for the second year running – an unusual if not unique achievement.
Championship Singles Semi-Final: Beverly (Cambridge) bt. Brooks (Cambridge) – 15-6, 15-8 Semi-Final: Grant (UCL) bt. Lee (Durham) – 15-16, 15-8, 15-8 Final: Beverly (Cambridge) bt. Grant (UCL) – 15-4, 15-6 Championship Doubles Semi-Final: Beverly/Brooks (Cambridge) bt. Hardyment/Ellison (London) – 15-3, 15-8 Semi-Final: Lee/Mohammed (Durham) bt. Korris/Marshall (Leeds) – 15-12, 15-8 Final: Beverly/Brooks (Cambridge) v Lee/ Mohammed (Durham) – 15-4, 15-2 Plate Singles Final: Hawke (Southampton) bt. Pleming (UCL) – 15-7, 15-3 Plate Doubles Final: Gibbor/Pleming (UCL) bt Midmer/Hay (Durham) – 16-15, 13-15, 15-13 REPRESENTATIVE RUGBY FIVES ASSOCIATION (RFA) v BUSA 4 February 2007, Christ’s Hospital, Horsham The RFA emerged victorious from this annual clash with the BUSA side made up of the best Rugby Fives students in the country. The teams of six took to the courts of Christ’s Hospital and the RFA immediately seized the advantage, winning all six singles matches to take a 53-point advantage into the doubles. Here, however, the games were much closer, and eventually shared equally between the two teams. Indeed, so close was the competition that no one pair from either side won all its four games. For BUSA, the pairing of Dan Grant and Will Ellison was the most successful, winning three of their games, while the RFA’s Dave Hebden teamed up with Ed Fuller, also winning three of their four games. Although the BUSA team secured a ten-point advantage over the 12 games of doubles, the damage had already been done in the singles, and the RFA team’s experience ensured they held on for a deserved overall victory. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Our thanks go to Oundle School, in particular to Tony Burrows, for allowing BUSA the use of their excellent facilities and for assistance and co-operation both before and during the Championships. Thanks are also due to Chris Horrocks, Deputy President of the RFA and David Barnes. We are very grateful to Christ’s Hospital for the use of their courts and facilities, and to Team Managers, Alex Wilson (RFA) and Chris Jones (BUSA). BUSA would like to give a special thank you to David Gardner for his continued hard work in the organisation and execution of the Championships.
Rugby League CHAMPIONSHIP 28 March 2007, Headingley Stadium, Leeds Leeds Metropolitan University continued their dominance of student Rugby League this season with a double success. Their First team demolished a spirited, but ultimately outgunned St Mary’s outfit 66–10 in the Championship Final with their second team matching them with a 34–14 success of their own against Sheffield Hallam in the Final of the Shield. Whilst flying winger Rob Worency took the accolades with a four try haul, including a breath taking length of the field effort, it was Captain Marvel, Jon Nicholls who earned the Man of the Match Award with an all action display, his last for the Met, before graduation this summer. This was by no means a one sided affair, St Mary’s hardly put a foot wrong in the first half and with a crafty half back pairing of Steve Owen and Peter Madigan probing away when ever their forwards had found them space the Met were always tested. It was the Yorkshiremen who struck first, however, when Tom Tsang, standing in for Ian Gordon who was on Carnegie Challenge Cup duty with Batley Bulldogs, crossed first. A swift handling move to the left made the space for the pacey full back to dive over in the left corner before McKinley pushed the conversion attempt wide.
Worency and Giblin posted quick fire try’s of their own with McKinley finding his range to take the score out to 16–0 before St Mary’s had even had a real attacking chance. Good work by Coogan and Madden in the forwards set up the position for Price to feed Brunskill who piled through the Met defence close to line to keep the Londoners in with a sniff. When John Sullivan burst over from acting half back and McTaggert tagged on the extras the raucous Simmies crowd sensed a come back was on the cards. Nicky Walker had other ideas, however, when on the stroke of half time the big centre crashed through a weak tackle and raced 20 metres to the line to put the Met back in the ascendancy at 22–10 at half time. Met came back after half time with an almost perfect second half display. With a 90% completion rate, the Leeds outfit were almost unstoppable with Worency cutting the defence up every time he touched the ball. The most noticeable of his second half hat trick was his final try where he picked up in his own ten, danced in field before breaking the defensive line and heading on a 90 metre run to the try line to cross under the posts. George Coogan and Dave McMeekan kept battling for St Mary’s but the Met’s defence held firm and further tries from Clarke, Garside, Carbutt and Moore along with McKinley’s 5 conversions kept the scoreboard ticking over. It was fitting that the final try of the night went to Leeds Metropolitan’s John Nicholls who supported a Carbutt break to sign off his Student Rugby League career in style by placing the ball down over the line after rounding the St Mary’s full back. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Championship Semi-Final: Leeds Metropolitan 60–12 Edge Hill College St Mary’s 37–4 Loughborough Final: Leeds Metropolitan 66–10 St Mary’s Trophy Semi-Final: Leeds Metropolitan A 40–4 Exeter Sheffield Hallam 34–12 St Martins
Final: Leeds Metropolitan A 34–14 Sheffield Hallam REPRESENTATIVE EUROPEAN STUDENT CHAMPIONSHIPS 19 April 2007, Halton Stadium, Widnes An impressive second half display, which saw them run in five unanswered tries, gave England the European Student Championships as they defeated Ireland 36–4 in the Final at Halton Stadium, Widnes. The opening quarter was typically robust and uncompromising but with few clear chances; second row Joe Flaherty opening the scoring in the 23rd minute for the Irish after following a neat break by Tom Gaffney. One of England’s players of the tournament, Kevin Till, replied with one of his trade mark short range bursts and on the half hour mark Mike Johnson gave the Red and Whites the lead that they never relinquished. After the break England showed the greater composure as they took control of the game. Mark McKinley and Danny Garside posted tries in back to back sets to establish their dominance and the English finished impressively. A well worked move saw Tom Lever power over followed by Danny Wilson’s 80 metre effort before Garside completed the scoring when he pounced on a well placed kick to finish with a personal haul of ten points.
Rugby Union This season has seen an increase in the number of fixtures played in the Domestic Championships and more players participating at all levels of the game. The Rugby Football Union has been particularly supportive of university rugby and gave financial assistance to over 100 universities who submitted Development Plans. Numerous universities also initiated coaching, refereeing and volunteer recruitment projects. MEN Championship Final 25 April 2007, RFU Twickenham
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279 teams competed in the Domestic Championships, and in order to provide more fixtures for an increasing number of players, the number of teams in the majority of leagues was increased. It is difficult to achieve parity at all levels, although, generally, the majority of fixtures were evenly contested. Northumbria won Premiership North A, Leeds Metropolitan won Premiership North B. The Durham home fixture against the University of Nottingham was again played on a Wednesday evening in front of approximately 4,000 spectators with all proceeds going to charity. UWE Hartpury won Premiership South A St Mary’s University College won Premiership South B Semi-Finals Northumbria 13 v UWIC 39 Exeter 7 v UWE Hartpury 28 Final Twickenham 25th April 2007 UWIC 14 v UWE Hartpury 27
UWE Hartpury were crowned Champions of the BUSA Men’s Championship for the first time. Scorers: UWE Hartpury Tries: Tom Jarvis, Daniel Hondo, Peter Swatkins Conversions: Timothy Stevenson (3) Penalties: Timothy Stevenson (2) UWIC Tries: Johnny Webber Conversions: Penalties: Sam Osbourne (2), Matt McLean The high standard of play below the Men’s Championships is evidence that University rugby is going from strength to strength. Trophy Semi-Finals Manchester 36 v Swansea 15
Plate UWIC 4th 27 v Leeds Met 2nd 15 Vase Newcastle 3rd 38 v UWE Hartpury 12 WOMEN’S Championship Final 25 April 2007, RFU Twickenham A total of 97 teams competed in the Domestic Championship. A few Universities still tend to dominate the Women’s game and it is difficult to envisage a change in the near future. A total of 11 teams played in the Premier Leagues. Loughborough won Premier League North and UWIC won Premier League South.
Oxford Brookes 26 v Worcester 9
Semi-Finals Chichester 0 v Loughborough 57 Leeds Metropolitan 3 v UWIC 27
Final Manchester 18 v Oxford Brookes 5
Final Loughborough 5 v UWIC 27
Shield Durham 2nd 23 v UWE Hartpury 2nd 24
UWIC Ladies defended their BUSA Championship crown in style. Scorers: UWIC Tries: Helen Amos (2), Shelley Barr (2) Conversions: Aimee Young Loughborough Tries: Phillipa Whittingham Trophy Semi-Finals Sheffield 31 v Exeter 24 Aberdeen 0 v St Mary’s University College 71 Final Sheffield 5 v St Mary’s University College 24 Shield Semi-Finals MMU Cheshire 32 v Liverpool John Moores 27 Harper Adams 5 v Glamorgan 17
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Final MMU Cheshire 5 v Glamorgan 20 A Students RFU/BUSA/RFUW Rugby Union Conference was held at Twickenham on the Tuesday and Wednesday morning before the BUSA Women’s/Men’s Finals and was an excellent opportunity to review the 2006-2007 season and to gain feedback from the students. Sincere thanks to Peter Bath – RFU National Students Development Manager. RUGBY UNION SEVENS CHAMPIONSHIPS 29 April 2007, Southampton The BUSA 7’s Championships were held at Trojans FC, Southampton, in memory of Derek Prout. It was probably the most successful 7’s to date, and particular thanks to Dave Steventon, Mike Barfoot and every member involved from Trojans FC. The conditions were ideal for 7’s and we were delighted that the trophies were presented by Bob Hiller (England and British Lions). Men’s UWIC bt. Durham (31 – 28) Women’s Loughborough bt. Exeter REPRESENTATIVE The English Universities side had 2 fixtures this season against Irish Universities and the Combined Services Irish Universities v English Universities 9 March 2007, Dublin The Irish fixture was played in typical Dublin weather of high wind, snow, sleet, rain and bright sunshine, and despite leading for most of the game the strong Irish team scored twice in the last 10 minutes to win 21-10. England had the edge in the forwards but the experienced Irish backline posed more threat throughout the game. Combined Services U23 v English Universities U23 5 May 2007, RFU Twickenham The team showed minor changes from Ireland and clearly benefited from an extra day’s preparation. This was displayed on
the pitch in a comfortable 39-6 victory containing some really good Rugby and one of the best tries of the season. Credit must go to the Combined Services for their extra efforts in the promotion of this fixture; they also were good hosts and provided an impressive trophy and sponsorship for the match. OTHER NEWS Ted Wood, a stalwart of Durham University Rugby, from time immemorial, has retired from his involvement with university rugby. His contribution and commitment to the student cause has been immense and he was honoured as a ‘Value the Volunteer’ guest of the RFU at the England v France fixture at Twickenham. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Several individuals contributed to the organisation of BUSA and student related Rugby events throughout the season, with special thanks to Andrew Scoular (RFU Community Rugby Director), Peter Bath (RFU National Students’ Development Manager), John Owen (Chairman RFU Community Rugby Standing Committee), Terry Burwell (RFU Tournaments and Competitions Director), Douglas Sommerville (Scottish Universities Rugby Union Chairman), Bob Reeves (SRFU Chairman), Derek Morgan (SRFU President/ Treasurer), Tony Lanaway (England Students Team Manager), Ian Elvin (SRFU Development Sub-Committee Chairman) and the entire BUSA Rugby Union Sports Management Group. BUSA Rugby Union is indebted to Keith, Paul and Phil, a fantastic medical team of Angela and Andy who continue to provide a level of expertise of the highest level, Peter Bath, the National Students’ Manager of the RFU and his secretary Kim Rutherford for their help and support in the organisation of fixtures and travel arrangements. Sincere thanks to Mike Wall (UWIC). His contribution to University Rugby in Wales is very much appreciated. University Rugby is fundamentally important to keeping players in the game and BUSA is keen to support the RFU in their World Cup Recruitment Year.
Sailing FLEET RACING CHAMPIONSHIP 5 November 2006, Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy Over 300 sailors competed in four fleets (Laser, Laser II, Firefly and Handicap) over the 2 days, in light winds, with four races being completed. Southampton University won the team prize having won the firefly and gaining a first and third in the handicap fleets. MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIP 17 March 2007, Queen Mary Sailing Club (QMSC), Staines 20 teams were reduced to 10 through Northern and Southern qualifiers, racing against each other in identical J/80s. 10 teams attended the finals and were greeted with a forecast of wild winds. The race committee was keen to get as many flights in as possible on the Saturday, eventually managing 10 flights, with all teams racing at least four matches. The overnight leader was Nick Cherry of Southampton with six wins and no losses. He was closely followed by Robbie Allam helming for Cardiff with four wins and one loss, Jon Pinner of Cambridge with ‘three and a half’ wins and one loss (having been docked half a point for damage) and Stephen Powell of Exeter 1 with five wins and two losses. As the teams rigged the boats on Sunday, the committee boat was already on the water measuring gusts of over 30 knots. Even with reefed sails the two teams that attempted to sail struggled in the building breeze and racing was postponed and all crews sent ashore. After three hours of waiting the wind still continued to build and racing was abandoned for the day. As a full round robin was not completed the results were taken from the percentage of wins. Winner and runner-up Cherry and Allam were also invited to attend the RYA National Match Racing Finals at Weymouth on October 12-14. Results: 1st Nick Cherry, Will Morgan, Oscar Henderson, Andrew Mackay (Southampton)
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2nd Robbie Allam, Maia Walsh, Olly Burdall, Olly Bennett, Pete Bentley (Cardiff) 3rd Jon Pinner, Tom Heywood, Tom Smedley, Rachel Wigmore, Bethan Carden (Cambridge) STUDENT YACHTING NATIONALS 2 April 2007, Royal Southern Yacht Club, Hamble Near perfect sunny skies and a brisk northeasterly breeze greeted competitors as they took to the Solent for the first days racing with 31 identical boats fighting for position on the line. A good start from Southampton Solent saw them win the first race and set the standard that the other competitors would have to match. Showing southern dominance, Southampton University finished the first day, close behind their local rivals Southampton Solent University. The Southampton teams continued to sail with prowess and by the end of the third day they had emerged ahead of the rest of the fleet as the challengers for the BUSA title. Going into the last day with two races scheduled Southampton 1 knew they needed to beat Solent A in both races to claim victory. Gradient wind caused a postponement and added to the tension between the two leading boats. The race committee managed to get one race in. Solent A led for most of the race but Southampton managed to get passed them on the last run. Overall results saw Solent A finish first with Southampton University in second and third. Southampton Solent held on to their crown for a third year in a row. TEAM RACING CHAMPIONSHIP (MIXED) 11 April 2007, Bartley Sailing Club, hosted by the University of Birmingham The final event of the year was the Team Racing. Competitors arrived at Bartley reservoir on the first day to find glorious sunshine but no wind. On the water the light airs meant following wind shifts was very important and led to many changes in position up the last beat as some competitors found themselves stuck in windless holes whilst others read the shifts successfully and managed to get through from the back of the fleet. By the end of the group stages
Oxford emerged top of their group not losing a race, with Bristol and Southampton also top of their groups. Strong sailing in the quarter-finals saw the three group winners and London progress to the Semi-Finals. Southampton sailed well and came within touching distance of claiming the title. In the end, however, they had to settle for second place behind the Bristol team. Bristol went on the represent BUSA at the Wilson Trophy on the 12-13th May. REPRESENTATIVE Irish Invitational Team Racing 14 October 2006, Royal St George Yacht Club, Dublin BUSA Women achieved 2nd place out of 11 teams. Jo Brigg (Southampton) and Nicky Macgregor (Bournemouth) Claire Paramore (London) and Katie Lowndes-Toole (Oxford) Ellen Milner (Oxford) and Bethan Carden (Cambridge) Women’s European University Match Racing Cup 11 May 2007, Société des Régates Rochelaises, La Rochelle, France BUSA Women achieved 9th place out of 10 teams. Charlotte Lawrence (Edinburgh University) Mary Rook (Exeter University) Colette Blair (Southampton University) Lauren Martel (Bath University) Ali Haylett (Bristol University)
Officials and championships host clubs: WPNSA, QMSC, RSYC, Bartley Sailing Club and the University of Birmingham. INTERNATIONAL World University Match Racing Championships 19 – 24 September 2006, Palma de Mallorca Spain Great Britain took 5th place at the World University Match Racing Championships held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in September. Jonathon Pinner, the University of Cambridge skipper was paired against John Loe of the USA in the competition for 5th and 6th place who he beat 2-0. The Great Britain team consisted of Jonathon Pinner and Tom Heywood of the University of Cambridge and University of Bristol students Matthew Pinner and Chris Carden. The final standings saw Australia take gold, in front of Spain and France.
Snooker BUSA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 9–11 March 2007, Willie Thorne Snooker Centre, Leicester
The Wilson Trophy 12 May 2007, West Kirby Sailing Club, UK Mixed Team from Bristol University, finished 8th out of 32 teams. Paul Davies and Harriet Aughy Athol King and Andy Lam Ed Green and Jacintha Love Ladies team, finished 24th out of 32 teams. Jo Brigg (Southampton) and Nicky Macgregor (Bournemouth) Sophie Harrison (Southampton) and Penny Jeffcoate (Manchester) Anneka Smith (Oxford) and Maria Stanley (University of the West of England)
This year’s Individual Championship (Senior) comprised an entry of more than 90 students from 21 Universities, as the new structure for team events had led to insufficient entries into the Individual Trophy. Eight players were seeded on the basis of last year’s Championship and Home Nations Festival. Continuing the trend of first-year students doing very well, Paul Williams became Durham’s first-ever medallist at BUSA by defeating James Leung of Nottingham in the Final (3-0). While Williams played quite well, Leung did not play as strongly as he had when defeating former winner Pritesh Patel of Bristol in the Semi-Final (2-0). In his SemiFinal, Williams eliminated surprise package Tom Foley of Southampton in straight frames.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA Sailing Management Group, RYA, Race
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TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 9–11 March 2007, Willie Thorne Snooker Centre, Leicester
Third Place Play-off Cardiff 2 had an impressive 6-3 victory over Loughborough to win the bronze medals.
CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals Both matches were nip and tuck, with perennial challengers Queen’s holding off Glasgow 6-4 to make it a hat-trick of final appearances, while a talented Nottingham team, many people’s favourites, found themselves in struggling with Bristol. This match went to 5-5 and a play-off frame between Patel and Paul Edwards. In the end the former prevailed to take Bristol into their fifth British Final but first since 1998.
Final Durham proved a little too strong for Bristol 2 in the Final, winning 3-1 in matches (7-5 in frames). Still, Bristol 2 put up a very good fight and clearly proved themselves the strongest of this year’s second teams. Durham’s win meant a title going to the north-east in only their second season in BUSA.
Third Place Play-off Nottingham gained some consolation for their semi-final reverse by holding off Glasgow 6-5, after yet another play-off frame.
York 2 won the inaugural BUSA Shield with a hard-fought 6-4 victory over Nottingham 2 in the Final. Warwick 3 won bronze.
Final In a very close match, Queen’s University Belfast came from 1-0 down, after Patel edged out Cillian McMulkin on the pink, to win 3-1 (8-6), all matches going to the colours in the final frame. Queen’s fifth player was also on the point of victory when the end came. Overall Queen’s, the only undefeated team, were deserving Champions and now move ahead of Southampton at the top of the all-time list (7 British titles). Trophy For the first time, the Trophy included four first teams (Durham, Loughborough, Exeter and Imperial) that had come through qualifying to join the four top-ranked second teams. However, Imperial were unable to field a team at Finals, making life very difficult for the organisers, and are therefore relegated to the Shield. Semi-Finals Durham and Loughborough had made their way through the two groups to the SemiFinals, where they faced each other, while Bristol 2 and Cardiff 2 contested the other match. Durham recorded a narrow victory to reach the decider, whereas Bristol 2 had a comfortable passage to the Final.
Shield 17 February 2007, Willie Thorne Snooker Centre, Leicester
Plate York had the consolation of winning the Plate after a close match with Warwick 2 (6-4).
England also won the parallel HE Home Internationals in which Ireland participates. Five players won all of their matches, one from England and two each from N. Ireland and Scotland, with home captain Gavin McGuire (Abertay) having a 66 clearance to head the breaks board. OTHER NEWS The membership appears strongly in favour of holding the Shield at Finals weekend, to add to everyone’s enjoyment of that unique weekend. 2006-07 also marks the end of the qualifying events, as teams are now allocated to one of the three team events based on their ranking. The top two seeds for next season in each event are: Queen’s 1 and Bristol 1; Southampton 1 and Bristol 2; Exeter and Imperial.
The Shield saw some very good breaks by York players, particularly Andrew Whyatt’s 43.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Snooker Management Group would like to thank Riley’s Ltd and Matt King, general manager of the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre, for hosting the qualifying rounds and Championships this year. BUSA is also grateful to Mr James Tuck, formerly of the SMG and Nottingham, for conducting the qualifying tournament. We are also delighted that Mr Brian Keenan, former captain of Queen’s 2nds, continues to act as assistant Championship organiser. The Snooker SMG Chair would like to thank Jamie Thompson of Imperial, who provided great assistance at this year’s Finals and who has confirmed that he will continue to serve on the SMG.
REPRESENTATIVE Home Nations Festival 13-14 April 2007, GUU, Glasgow
Finally, we must acknowledge the hospitality of the Board of the GUU for hosting this year’s Home Nations Festival in Glasgow.
The Home International returned to the GUU in Glasgow, considered the “spiritual home” of the event. Northern Ireland were attempting to win an unprecedented four consecutive BUSA titles but were edged out by England on an 8-10 scoreline after a titanic battle. Scotland finished in third place. The all-Cardiff Welsh team struggled but never gave up. As ever, this competitive event proved very popular with the players and will be held in N. Ireland next time.
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Breaks The overall standard of play and strength in the three team events was even better than last year, which had been the pick of recent times. In the Senior, 36 breaks over 40 were recorded, with ten over 50, double last year’s. Andy Hutchinson of Queen’s took the laurels with a nice 59, bettering Graeme Pringle of Glasgow by one point. The quality of breaks in the Trophy events was above average, with seven over 30.
DRYSLOPE CHAMPIONSHIPS 10-11 November 2007, Hillend, Edinburgh Local student David Harrison (Edinburgh) won the Ski Slalom event with Newcastle team mates Dan Wyatt and Matthew Bruton taking silver and bronze respectively. Rachael Adcock (Newcastle) took gold in the Women’s event ahead of Gail Ross
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(Edinburgh) and Amanda Hedley-Lewis (Bristol). Campbell Beaton (UWE) took the gold in the Ski Giant Slalom, with Dan Wyatt (Newcastle) having to settle for silver once more. Scott Bryson (Northumbria) took bronze. Rachel Adcock (Newcaslte) won her second title of the weekend in the Women’s Ski Giant Slalom with Amanda Hedley-Lewis (Bristol) this time taking the silver medal ahead of Gail Ross (Edinburgh). In the Snowboard Giant Slalom Mike Bates (Edinburgh) won gold with Eugine Dodd (Swansea) in second place and Duncan Sabiston (Sussex) in third. Edinburgh took a clean sweep in the Snowboard event with Maya Doiuglas (Edinburgh) winning the Women’s title ahead of Carla McGlynn (Napier) and Laura Harvey (Reading). Edinburgh’s medal winning performances were enough to secure them the Overall Team title. ALPINE CHAMPIONSHIPS Les Deux Alpes, 24-31 March 2007 The Men’s Ski Slalom event was won by Scott Bryon (Northumbria), adding to the Dryslope medal he won in November. Silver was won by Daniel Holdaway (Bristol) with Matt Bruton (Newcastle) taking the Bronze. In the Women’s event, Gemma Barnes (Cardiff) took gold with Dryslope medallists Rachael Adcock (Newcastle) and Amanda Hedley-Lewis (Bristol) taking silver and bronze respectively. Matt Bruton (Newcaslte) improved in the Giant Slalom to take the gold medal, with Richard Coupe (Sheffield Hallam) in second place and Phill Harris (Loughborough) in third. Claire Robb (Aberdeen) won the Women’s Giant Slalom ahead of fellow Scot Kat Smart (Heriot Watt) in the silver medal spot with Rachel Adcock (Newcastle) adding the bronze medal to her collection. Phil Harris (Loughborough) took another medal, this time the gold, in the Men’s Super G event with Scott Bryson (Northumbria) taking silver and Richard Coupe (Sheffield Hallam) the bronze. In the Women’s event it
was a repeat of the Giant Slalom with Claire Robb (Aberdeen) taking the title ahead of Kat Smart (Heriot Watt) and Rachael Adcock (Newcastle). In the Snowboard Giant Slalom Matthew Higgin (Nottingham) took the Men’s gold medal with silver going to Rowan Branreth (Bristol) and bronze to Mathew Collins (UWE). The Women’s event Newcastle dominated taking all three medal positions with Ivy Taylor in first, Emily Willis in second and Kaz Krawchuk in third. Newcastle’s consistent performances earned them the overall team title, with Bristol in second and Edinburgh in third. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks must be extended to the BUSC team at Edinburgh for all their hard work of the 2006-2007 season, ensuring not only the BUSA Championships take place, but also a significant number of other events, all adding to the calendar for student skiers and boarders.
Squash This season certainly had an exciting start and an exciting finish in what was an exceptional season for BUSA squash. The unprecedented success of the GB team at the World University Championships in Hungary in early September (see report below) was recognised with the team being presented on court during the Finals of the British Open. The only significant change to the format of events was the standardisation of Women’s team size to 4 players, so a 2-2 to encourage more female teams, although participation in Women’s squash in HE is still well above the national average for female participation. The Individual Championships have maintained higher entry levels of the previous 2 years, operating at maximum capacity for the 7-court venue over 3 days. The Women’s Team Final produced another new contender for the title, with new
title-holders Birmingham facing Leeds. The new 4-string format produced an exciting climax: 2-2 draw in matches with Birmingham winning 7-6 on game countback to retain its title for the 2nd year with a team which remains intact for another year. No-one really dared predict the outcome of the Men’s Team Final between Loughborough, winners of the Premier League, and Birmingham going for its 4th consecutive title. A match generally scheduled for 2½ hours maximum, two critical individual matches each lasted just under 2 hours, both finishing 9-7 in the 5th game in Birmingham’s favour to clinch them the title. Congratulations to Birmingham for achieving the double (Men’s and Women’s Championships) for 2 consecutive years. Finally, congratulations to Birmingham’s Squash Team for being awarded BUSA Team of the Year, and to Emma Beddoes (Nottingham) for her award of BUSA Sportswoman of the Year awarded at the BUSA Awards Dinner. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Championship Semi-Finals: Loughborough beat UWIC 4-1; Birmingham beat Manchester 5-0 Final: Birmingham beat Loughborough 3-2 Trophy Final: Loughborough 2nd beat Southampton 1st 5-0 Shield Final: Loughborough 3rd beat Cardiff 1st 5-0 WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Championship Semi-Final: Birmingham beat Bath 3-1; Leeds beat UWIC 4-0 Final: Birmingham beat Leeds 2-2 (Bham won 7-6 on games) Trophy Final: Glasgow beat Southampton 3-1 Shield Final: Leeds Met beat Liverpool 3-1
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MEN’S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP Championship Semi-Finals: Jethro Binns (Lboro) beat Nick Bradley (Lboro) 3-1 Peter Creed (UWIC) beat Harry Leitch (Cambridge) 3-0 Final: Jethro Binns (Lboro) beat Peter Creed (UWIC) 3-1 Men’s B Semi-Final: Jon Barnes (Manch) beat David Price (Bath) 3-1 Neil Rossin (Notts) beat Neil Waller (Lboro) 3-1 Final: Jon Barnes (Manch) beat Neil Rossin (Notts) 3-1 Men’s C Final: Mark Tomason (Notts Trent) beat Daniel Lawrence (Sheffield Hallam) 3-2 Men’s D Final: Alireza Sanaei (Kings) beat Mark Knights (Lboro) 3-2 WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP Championship Semi-Final: Emma Beddoes (Notts) beat Carrie Hastings (Bham) 3-0 Leonie Holt (Bham) beat Sarah Bowles (Leeds) 3-2 Final: Emma Beddoes (Notts) beat Leonie Holt (Bham) 3-0 Women’s B Semi-Final: Sarah Blakey (Oxford) beat Jade Holt (Exeter) 3-0 Emma Ford (Glasgow) beat Joanna Scrivens (UEA) 3-0 Final: Emma Ford (Glasgow) beat Sarah Blakey (Oxford) 3-0 WORLD UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS 29 Aug – 3 Sept 2006, Szeged, Hungary Team GBR: Men: Chris Ryder (Lboro), Jonathan Harford (Bham), Joel Hinds (Bham) Women: Lauren Siddall (Leeds), Emma Beddoes (Notts) Management: Keir Worth (Coach), Ian Robinson (Manager), Rachel Burgin (Physiotherapist)
Unusually, the hosts played the team event first, with Team GBR top seeds, reflecting its strength in depth. Team GBR won its group matches comfortably beating Austria and Germany, followed by a 2-1 win in the quarter-final against Hong Kong (both GBR Men won very easily). Team GBR beat South Africa 3-0 in the Semi-Final to set up a Final against old adversaries France, winners on 2 previous occasions. With wins from Lauren and Chris, it meant Jonathan’s dead rubber 1-2 result was irrelevant as Team GBR clinched team gold. Both Men’s and Women’s draws were very unkind to the British players, with both Lauren and Emma in the same quarter of the Women’s draw and the 3 Men in the same half of their draw. Nevertheless, the Team GBR earned huge respect from their fellow players as they fought their way through the draw, Joel Hinds beating the 2nd seed in round 2 and Jonny Harford in the quarterfinal before falling to Chris Ryder who went on to beat Mark Krajcsak (ranked 60 places higher in the world rankings) to claim the World Individual title to complement his earlier Team gold. Joel Hinds (unseeded) claimed bronze. In the Women’s event, Lauren and Emma unfortunately met in the quarter-finals, with Lauren winning 3-1 to progress to win bronze in a comfortable 3-0 win in the play-off. Team GBR have never failed to achieve at least one medal at these Championships, including Team gold in 1996 and Individual gold in 1998. But 2006 is the most successful medal trawl yet. Congratulations to the players and to the management team. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A special thank you to Linda Davie in her first year as Championship Director for running such an efficient event across 3 long days, and to Ann Wilson and Simon Tunley for their loyal support of this event over many years. Thanks also to England Squash and its Performance Director Peter Hirst, for their continued support, especially of TASS and Team GBR.
Surfing CHAMPIONSHIPS 3-4 March 2007, Fistral Beach, Newquay Plymouth University once again proved it is a force to contend with after the Men’s team won the BUSA Surfing Championships for the sixth time in seven years. The contest, staged at Fistral Beach, Newquay, has become an annual closelyfought competition between South West universities. With 3 of their 4 team members making the Final, the win by Plymouth was an outstanding achievement. Ludovic Henry (Plymouth) also took to the podium when he won the Men’s Individual Championship. The event, supported by Brittany Ferries, Skinners Brewery and GUL, attracted around 450 students from as far away as Ulster and Aberdeen. Conditions varied from perfect surf on the first day to tough onshore waves on day two. The Finals were met with consistent 3-4 ft, clean surf which made for great contestable waves. Swansea Institute also had plenty to celebrate, as Jo Dennison won the Women’s Individual Championship and competed alone in the Women’s Team event, coming a respectable eighth place for the Institute. There was a close contest for the Individual title between Jo and last year’s winner Shauna Ward (Ulster), who also gave a great performance. University of the West of England scooped first place for the Women’s team. University College Falmouth entered a team for the first time this year. Its Women’s team was awarded third place and contender Emma Vardy was thrilled to have a place at the Women’s podium. The BUSA Surfing Championships is one of the largest events of its kind in the world, with 78 teams from Universities across the UK competing. For over 20 years the event has grown and now has more than 435 surfers battling it out in the surf for both Team and Individual titles.
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MEN’S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP 1 – Ludovic Henry (Plymouth A) 2 – Luke Parkhouse (Plymouth A) 3 – Matt Le Maitre (Plymouth A) 4 – Luke Havemann (Aberdeen) WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP 1 – Jo Dennison (Swansea Institute) 2 – Shauna Ward (Ulster) 3 – Bethan Cara-Price (Swansea University) 4 – Sarah Street (Cambridge) MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 1 – Plymouth A (101) 2 – Aberdeen (70) 3 – Swansea Institute A (54) WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 1 – University of the West of England (41) 2 – Swansea University (40) 3 – Falmouth (25.5) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank-you to the British Surfing Association (BSA) and especially Karen Walton (BSA National Director) for continually making the BUSA Surfing Championships one the best events on the calendar.
Swimming SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 17-19 November 2006, Ponds Forge, Sheffield A capacity entry signed up for the 2006 Short Course Championships for the 3 day event which started on the Friday evening with the heats of 2 of the relays, the Women’s 800m Freestyle and the Men’s 1500m Freestyle. More heats followed on the Saturday and Sunday mornings and the Saturday afternoon with Finals taking place on the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Over the three days 18 new Championships Records were set - Andy Hunter (Stirling) won the 200m and 400m Freestyle in record times of 1:46.20 and 3:46.70, Zoë Baker (Bath) set records to win the 50m Breaststroke (30.49) and 50m Butterfly (26.95) and Darren Mew (Bath) set records to win the 50m and 100m Breaststroke in 27.30 and 59.37. Bath also set records of
1:30.20, 1:39.36 and 1:51.34 to win the Men’s 200m Freestyle and 200m Medley relays and the Women’s 200m Medley relay. Sarah Patton (Bath) was the only swimmer to take three titles at the Championships when she won the 400m and 800 Freestyle in 4:15.61 and 8:37.10 respectively along with the 200m Butterfly in 2:10.31. Her team-mate Karen Lee took two of the Backstroke titles – the 100m in 1:01.51 and the 200m in 2:11.68. The results of the Short Course Championship Trophies were: Men’s 1st =2nd =2nd
Loughborough 180 Bath 166 Stirling 166
Women’s 1st 2nd 3rd
Loughborough 178 Bath 169 Manchester 110
Overall 1st 2nd 3rd
Loughborough 358 Bath 335 Stirling 263
The Top Athletes were: Darren Mew, Bath 100m Breaststroke Zoë Baker, Bath 50m Breaststroke LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 16-18 February 2007 Ponds Forge, Sheffield The Long Course Championships follow the same format as the Short Course Championships with the simple difference of using the longer, 50-metre pool instead of the 25-metre pool. Over the three days 7 new Championships Records were set. Caitlin McClatchey (Loughborough) set a record of 4:12.03 to the 400m Freestyle and also won the 200m Freestyle (2:00.83) and 800m Freestyle (8:44.12) whilst her teammate Melanie Marshall set a record to win the 50 Backstroke (29.83) and took a second
title in the 100m Backstroke with a time of 1:02.73. Bath’s Darren Mew also won two gold medals: the first came with a record time of 28.30 in the 50m Breaststroke and second was in the 100m Breaststroke with a time of 1:01.68. The other record breakers, all of whom won their events, were: The results of the Long Course Championship Trophies were: Men’s 1st 2nd 3rd
Loughborough 187 Stirling 176 Bath 164
Women’s 1st 2nd 3rd
Loughborough 187 Bath 167 Manchester 116
Overall 1st 2nd 3rd
Loughborough 374 Bath 331 Stirling 259
The Top Athletes were: Liam Tancock, Loughborough 50m Backstroke Janne Schaefer, Bath 50 Breaststroke SWIMMING TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 28 March 2007, Nottingham The first round, which is a knockout round, of the Team Championship, took place in Bath and Birmingham in November 2006. 22 teams travelled to Bath for Southern Rounds of Championship and Shield competitions with a further 25 teams heading for the Northern Rounds in Birmingham. Our thanks to both Universities for hosting the two rounds. The top three teams in each of the Championships Rounds progressed to the Final where they were joined by the top two teams from the Scottish League whilst the top four teams from the Shield Rounds made it to Nottingham Final on 28 April 2007. This year the Championship Final featured Bath, Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh,
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Hertfordshire, Loughborough, Manchester and Stirling whilst the Shield Final featured Bath 2, Birmingham 2, Exeter, Leeds Metropolitan, Loughborough Triathlon, Newcastle, Plymouth and Southampton 2. The final results were: Division One Speedo Cup 1
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OTHER NEWS Swimming Racing Loughborough’s Liam Tancock won bronze in the Men’s 50m and 100m Backstroke at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne. Earlier, at the 2006 European Championships in Budapest Melanie Marshall (Loughborough) was part of the gold medal winning British Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Team. Andy Hunter (Stirling) was a member of the Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay. Melanie Marshall (Loughborough) took bronze in the Women’s 200m Backstroke, Caitlin McClatchey (Loughborough) won bronze in the Women’s 400m Freestyle and Liam Tancock (Loughborough) and Todd Cooper (Stirling) were part of the British bronze medal winning Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Team.
Sports Management Group Swimming Chair, Dave Fletcher, was appointed by the European Governing Body (LEN) as the announcer for the Diving and Synchronised Swimming competitions at the at the 2006 European Championships. Robin Butterfield won a place as one of the Starters of the “Pre-FINA List” and is now working towards nomination for international appointment. Ciaran O’Brien won a place on the UK Sports Coach Training programme.
from last year with Adam Bleakley and Stephen Denny (Leeds) taking the title 1614 in the fifth game.
Sad News The Association is saddened to record that Southampton Solent student and diver Gavin Brown was killed in a road accident. Gavin had been nominated for membership of 2007 World University Games team and his death is a loss to both diving and student diving. Our deepest sympathies go to his family and team-mates.
There was a reversal of the seeding in the Women’s Singles where the number 2 seed Abigail Embling (Essex) beat the number 1 seed Egle Adomelyte (Middlesex) over 4 games. Abigail took the Women’s Doubles with Grace Brown with a win over Liz May and Zuzanna Ximny of Plymouth.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA is grateful to the band of swimming volunteers who gave unstintingly of their time to help us stage this year’s Championships. The sports management group would particularly like to thank Rod Briggs who recruited the band of officials for the championships in Sheffield.
Marples had a better run in the Men’s Singles beating Chris Brown (UWIC) in 5 games in the Final. The number 2 seed Greg Baker had withdrawn through injury and the number 1 seed Adam Bleakley lost in 5 games to Chris Brown at the quarterfinal stage.
Adomelyte had better luck in the Mixed Doubles proving victorious with partner Jade Blasse over Harry Cutler and Liz May (Plymouth). In the inaugural Plate event Blasse took home the Men’s award, with Nan Lian of Imperial triumphing in the Women’s.
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Men’s Individual Championship Championship Singles: Shaun Marples (Sheffield Hallam) bt Chris Brown (UWIC) 7, -8, 5, -9, 6
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Doubles: Adam Bleakley and Stephen Denny (Leeds) bt Shaun Marples and Craig Gascoyne (Sheffield Hallam) 4, -4, 4, -3, 14
There was an increase in entrants to almost 170 this year, giving the need to increase the number of tables to 18. Another change from previous years was the introduction of a Plate event for the Men’s and Women’s Singles. This was added after a player survey highlighted a desire for those knocked out in the group stages to have an alternative competition to maintain their involvement in proceedings on the second day.
Plate Singles: Jade Blasse (Middlesex) bt Christoffer Willsher (Oxford)
There were entrants from 40 Universities with players from 10 countries in addition to all the Home Countries being represented.
Plate Singles: Nan Luan (Imperial) bt Penelope Sawa (Southampton)
In the Men’s Doubles Shaun Marples and Craig Gascoyne (Sheffield Hallam) were thwarted in their attempt to retain the trophy
Mixed Doubles: Egle Adomelyte and Jade Blasse (Middlesex) bt Harry Cutler and Liz May (Plymouth) 12, -7, 4, 6
Women’s Individual Championship Singles: Abigail Embling (Essex) bt Egle Adomelyte (Middlesex) 9, -5, 11, 11 Doubles: Grace Brown and Abigail Embling (Essex) bt Liz May and Zuzanna Ximny (Plymouth) 6, 3, 8
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BUSA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 25 March 2007, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield
against the AELTC, the EUSA Championships in Eindhoven, with a US tour and WUGs to come over the summer.
Men’s Championship Semi-Finals: Loughborough bt Middlesex 9-3 Cambridge bt Northumbria 11-6
Work is ongoing to develop plans with the LTA and many thanks are due to those on the Management Group for their continuing support.
Final: Loughborough bt Cambridge 9-6 Player of the Final: Mark Armstrong (Loughborough)
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 15 – 19 December 2006, Loughborough University
Men’s Trophy Newcastle bt Leeds 9-7
This year’s event saw entries from 26 Universities and over 150 matches were played over 5 days. Barclays provided all catering and giveaways and helped to raise the profile of the event around the campus. Colin Fleming from Stirling University won the Men’s singles beating Alex Miotto in the Semis and defending Champion, Mat Jurman from London Met in the Final 7-6, 6-1.
Women’s Championship Semi-Finals: Loughborough bt Nottingham 5-3 Middlesex w/o Southampton Final: Middlesex bt Loughborough 6-3 Player of the Final: Egle Adomylete (Middlesex) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BUSA would like to thank the University of Nottingham for their assistance in the organisation of the BUSA Individual Table Tennis Championships for 2007 particularly Stephen Farey and Nigel Mayglothling. BUSA also wishes to thank all the officials who gave up their free time for all their hard work. Sincere thanks must go to SMG Chair and Tournament Referee Mike Payne, his wife Lillian and Mike Smith for all their help, knowledge and experience. Thanks also go to Brian Lloyd for his great organisational skills in running event control at the Individuals.
Tennis In October 2005, BUSA secured a three year sponsorship deal with Barclays, to help support University tennis. In this second year of the contract, the benefits in terms of increased profile and greater levels of participation are really starting to kick in. It has been a busy year for BUSA tennis – with 230 teams playing in the merit leagues, 5 new Barclays British Universities Tennis Events, the Individual Championships at Loughborough University, the Finals weekend at Stirling, a representative match
In the Women’s Final, Georgina Hingley from LSE beat Helen Fritche from UWIC 6-2, 6-0. Georgina beat Katharine Baker from Bath in the Semis and Helen won through having beaten Katy Shaw from Loughborough Matjaz Jurman secured his revenge on Colin in the Men’s doubles, taking the title to London Met 6-4, 6-4. Results Men’s Singles – Colin Fleming (Stirling) beat Matjaz Jurman ( London Met. ) 7-6, 6-1 Women’s Singles – Georgina Hingley (LSE) beat Helen Fritche (UWIC) 6-2, 6-0 Men’s Doubles – Matjaz Jurman & Gasper Pavli (London Met) beat Colin Fleming & Matt Lott (Stirling) – 6-4, 6-4 Women’s Doubles – Katharine Baker & Amelia Frendo (Bath) beat Amanda Cox & Katy Shaw ( Loughborough) – 6-2, 6-0 MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006-2007 showed 142 teams playing in 20 leagues (an increase of 10% in number of teams on last year). Congratulations to London Met. who retained their title with some very strong performances and beat strong competition
from Bath, Loughborough and Stirling. CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals 17 March 2006, University of Stirling London Met bt. Loughborough Stirling bt. Bath Final 18 March 2006, University of Stirling London Met. bt. Stirling Trophy Final 18 March 2006, University of Stirling London Met (II) bt. Stirling (II) Sield 18 March 2006, University of Stirling Cambridge bt. Exeter WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS In 2006-2007, there were 88 Women’s teams playing in 14 leagues (an increase of at least 6 from the previous season). Congratulations to London Met, who’s Women responded to the challenge set by the Men and won their league en route to dominating the Finals weekend. CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals 17 March 2006, University of Stirling London Met bt. Cambridge Bath bt. Loughboro Final 18 March 2006, University of Stirling London Met. bt. Bath Trophy Final 18 March 2006, University of Stirling Bath bt. Loughborough Shield 18 March 2006, University of Stirling Robert Gordon bt. Northumbria OTHER NEWS
Barclays Sponsorship The BUSA team is continuing to work closely
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with Barclays to promote the Championships and participation in the leagues. In this the second year of the sponsorship, the Barclays support at BUSA events has been much more targeted and has helped to raise the profile of the organisation. The Barclays funding – as last year – has been directed to Championship winners and to increasing the number of competitive opportunities by running a series of new Challenge Events. New Barclays BUSA Tennis Challenge Events These events are run by Institutions to help provide additional competitive opportunities. The series of 5 new events provided a new competitive playing opportunity for top level individuals throughout the BUSA league system. This season the Challenge events were hosted by Stirling, Exeter, Loughborough, Bath and Bournemouth. EUSA CHAMPIONSHIPS July 2 - 9, 2006, European University Eindhoven, The Netherlands The EUSA Championships 2006 took place in Eindhoven alongside the Volleyball, Football, and the Water Polo Cup. London Met Men represented BUSA and won the title – beating the home side in the Final. 16 teams from 12 countries participated in the Men’s Championship and 11 teams from 8 countries in the Women’s Championship. There were 6 Men with current ATP ranking (the highest at 660) and 2 Women with current WTA ranking (the highest 664). Results MEN 1. London Metropolitan University I, GBR 2. Eindhoven University of Technology, NED 3. University of Fribourg, SUI BUSA vs. AELTC 29 April 2007, Wimbledon It went right down to the last point of the last tiebreak of the last match on court – but sadly the BUSA team were pipped at the post losing to a strong team from the AELTC – the final result AELTC : 7 - BUSA : 5. A great match, close and a big thanks to the team and to John Whiteford who arranged
the fixture, selected the team and supported them on the day. BUSA team : Alex Miotto, Colin Fleming, Tom Pocock, David Culshaw, Georgina Hingley, Katy Shaw, Kat Baker, Frances Hendry. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank all of those in office who contributed to a very successful year for student tennis and to the Tennis Management Group and the LTA – in particular John Whiteford, Carl Baldwin, Euan McGinn, Jon Pankhurst, Will McNally, and Venetia Cosier for their unfailing support and enthusiasm. Barclays Sponsorship We are delighted that Barclays PLC is continuing to be our tennis sponsor for the second year running. Their investment supports more than 1,000 students at approximately 150 universities. Barclays aim is to raise the profile of University Tennis, increase overall participation and attract top quality players to the competitions. In addition, it also gives a professional edge to our competitions, adds general credibility and enables us to create new competitions, for example, The Challenge Tour which took place last year at Bath, Bournemouth, Exeter, Loughborough and Stirling universities. We are very excited to have Barclays on board for the upcoming season.
Tenpin Bowling BUSA CHAMPIONSHIPS 3-4 February 2007, AMF Bowl, Nottingham The high number of entries that Bowling has enjoyed in recent years, continued again this year necessitating the Championships to be scheduled over two days. There were entries from 25 Universities, with 16 Women’s teams, 29 Men’s teams, and 24 Individual competitors. MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP The Men’s Championship, Nottingham-A repeated their performance from last year and led after the first round having broken
the Men’s Team Doubles record by 49 pins. 98 pins behind in second place were last year’s winners, Surrey-A, and a further 330 pins behind were Sheffield-A. Nottingham-A started well on Sunday, setting a new Men’s Trio’s record, however, Surrey-A put in two good series to break the Men’s Team Trios record, which had stood since 1997, and moved to within 12 pins. In the Final round, Surrey-A took the lead after the singles with a 596 to Nottingham-A’s 436. In the Men’s Fives, Nottingham-A scored higher than Sheffield, but the extra 100 pins they scored were not sufficient. So Surrey-B finished as Champions for the third year in succession, and set a new Championship Total, by just 5 pins, 10,283 pins (190.4 average). Nottingham-A were just 48 pins behind on 10,235 (189.5 average) and Sheffield-A retained third with 9,505 pins (176.0 average) to ensure a repeat of last year’s top 3. WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP In the Women’s team event, the end of the first day saw Sheffield break the Women’s Doubles record which had stood since 1992 and take a commanding lead of 216 pins over second place Hull, and just a further 27 pins to Sheffield Hallam, last year’s Champions. In the first event on Sunday, Sheffield Hallam put in a record breaking total to move into second place, but they were eclipsed by Sheffield who broke the record by 172 pins. In the Final event, Sheffield continued their outstanding domination breaking the 1996 Ladies Trios record by 103 pins, and added 505 pins to the Ladies Total Pinfall record to become Champions with a total of 5,087 pins (188.4 average). Sheffield Hallam managed to maintain their second place and finished on 4,504 pins (166.8 average), with Hull finishing in third with 4,380 pins (162.2 average). INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP This year saw strong performances in the Women’s Individual Championship with the top eight scoring higher than last year’s third place, with the top three scores all beating last year’s winning total. In third place this year was Katie Jowsey from Hull
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who scored 1,739 (193.2 average), with Rebecca Trevor from Sheffield Hallam rolling 1794 (199.3 average), which beat the 1997 record. However, first place honours and the new Women’s Championship record went to Hui Yiang Tay from Sheffield, who retained her lead from start to finish, with 1,881 pins (209.0 average).
Matt finished 13th in Regular A Doubles, Kate was 6th in the Women’s A Singles, and Rebecca Trevor was 5th in the Women’s B All Events, whilst the Women’s Team won the Women’s B division. Rebecca’s performance also put her in contention for the European Gold Cup, and has since been invited to play for England in Cyprus this May.
The Men’s Individual competition was closely fought with Chris Manders from Surrey leading after the first event, but after the second event the lead was held by Steve Medley from Leeds, although neither finished in the top three. Third place went to Will Rogers from Nottingham with 1,870 (207.8 average), and just 12 pins in front was Doug Stafford from Northampton 1882 (209.1 average). This years Men’s Individual Champion with a pinfall of 1,918 (213.11 average) was Matt Robinson from Nottingham.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A big thank you must be given to the staff of AMF Nottingham bowl for their continued support, and to all those who helped make the Championships a brilliant success: Kris and Emily Wright, Rob Pullinger, Tom Slatter, Dave “Shameful” Livingston and photography by James “Thumper” Larkin.
REPRESENTATIVE BTBA Nationals March 2007, Bradford The Representative squad was chosen from the individual performances in the tournament plus any results from previous Championships, previous selection for BUSA, along with any available information from other Student Tenpin Bowling events. The Women’s Squad was captained by Cath Todd from Sheffield, with Gemma Dick from Sheffield Hallam as her vice-captain. Hui Yiang Tay (Sheffield), Rebecca Trevor (Sheffield Hallam), Katie Jowsey (Hull), Kate Wicklow (Anglia Ruskin), Roxanne Turner (Manchester), Cat Chesney (Sheffield), Emma Scott (Nottingham Trent) & Louise Parker (Sheffield Hallam) completing the 10 strong team. The Men’s Squad was captained by Chris Manders from Surrey, with Steve Medley from Leeds as his vice-captain. Doug Stafford (Northampton). Matt Robinson (Nottingham), Will Nodes (Reading), Jez Knight (Sheffield), Scott Maciver (Nottingham Trent), Mat Fitzsimon (Nottingham Trent), Tom Slatter (Sheffield) & Will Rogers (Nottingham) completing the 10 strong team. Both teams played well again, placing in the prizes for the second year running. Steve and
Trampolining, Bert Scales and Rob Walker, who presented the major awards. The growth and success of BUSA Trampolining was commented upon and especially to recognize that many students are currently represented in the National Teams. Tim Smith commented that in 1980 there were only 22 male competitors in total! Elite Men: Simon Milnes (Manchester) Elite Women: Lisa Blackburn (Manchester) Advance Men Ben: Calderhead (Glasgow) Advance Women: Sophie Rankin (Central Lancs) Intermediate Men: Darryl Tott (Surrey)
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Novice Women: Laura Robson (Leeds Met)
With record number of entries (655) for the Championships, the prospects for the Regional Championships looked daunting but both Manchester and Loughborough introduced 3 panels and had a full compliment of judges and therefore the events took place successfully and within time. Congratulations to Tristan Matthias from Loughborough and John from Manchester and especially Alison Cross, Superior judge who co-ordinated the Regional and the Finals. The University of Surrey has been a traditional venue for the Championships for many years for the Finals. An outstanding panel of national and international judges ensured that the event was professional and smooth running. The Mayor of Guildford joined the Surrey team and the Pro Vice Chancellor to enjoy a stunning performance from the 63 elite (National) performers and the Final qualifiers for the novice, intermediate and advanced competitions The day culminated with presentations for the individual awards and Team Trophy which was won by Manchester, 2nd UWIC and 3rd Bath. The day was made even more special by the attendance of the ‘founding fathers’ of British
Novice Men: Charlie Shearer (Stirling) Team: Manchester ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Tim Smith, Darryl Tott, Alison Cross and Tony Stone who were driving the organizing committee together with Sally Edie who steps down as Chair of the BUSA Trampoline SMG this year.
Triathlon CHAMPIONSHIPS 4 May 2007, St Mary’s School, Calne, Wiltshire A record 221 competitors took part in the 2006-2007 Triathlon Championships, which were once again held at St Mary’s School. Loughborough sent a huge squad of 38 competitors, but saw a number of their top Men disqualified due to ‘drafting’ in the cycling section. This allowed James Third (Cambridge) to hold off the challenge of both Tom Room (Bath) and Oliver Stanley (Loughborough) to take the Men’s title. The Women’s competition was a close race, with the top three competitors involved in a sprint to the finish. It was Abbie Thorrington (Essex) who had the best speed and stamina at the end, just edging out Carol Bridge (Loughborough) and Alice Hector (Stirling).
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA would like to thank the staff at St Mary’s School for once again running such a successful event. BUSA would also like to express their gratitude to Margaret Nolan at British Cycling for all her hard work in the run up to the Championships. Finally, BUSA would like to thank John Mills from British Cycling for his continuing support for BUSA Triathlon through his role as SMG Chair.
Ultimate Frisbee Ultimate Frisbee was new to the BUSA programme this season. Regional rounds took place in both the Indoor and Outdoor Championships prior to the top teams congregating over a weekend to determine the BUSA Champion. INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2-3 December 2006, Concord Centre, Sheffield Following a series of qualifying events within each playing conference, the top 15 teams from across the country made the trip to Sheffield. After a weekend of fierce competition, it was Edinburgh that took the first BUSA Indoor Ultimate Frisbee title, beating Exeter in the Final. St Andrew’s took the bronze medal. OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 5-6 May 2007, Llanrumney Sports Field, Cardiff Ultimate Frisbee made the trip to Wales for the Outdoor Championships with everyone
hopeful of some good weather. Having taken the Indoor title back in December Edinburgh proved their worth by dominating proceedings to take the Outdoor Championships as well. Bristol took the silver medal with Exeter this time having to settle for bronze. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to Ed Blockley and his colleagues on the UK Ultimate Association University Committee for their organisation of the regional and national competitions.
Volleyball FINAL 8’S CHAMPIONSHIPS 9-11 March 2007, Loughborough University Over 150 teams entered the 39th BUSA Volleyball Final 8’s Championships, a journey that started last October. Five months, and at least ten games later, the top eight Men’s and Women’s teams progressed to the concluding stages of the Championship. The Championship Finals began with teams split into pools of four playing three matches to qualify for the Semi-Finals. In the Women’s Championship Semi-Finals, London was too strong for Cambridge, winning in straight sets. In the second SemiFinal, Bath were forced to work hard against Manchester going to the tie break set but eventually securing their place in the Final. The Women’s Championship Final saw defending Champions London control the opening set, winning 25-16. The second set was much closer with the lead changing hands several times before Vicki Palmer (Bath) hit and then served winners to take the set 25-22. Strong Bath serving, and controlled passing from Palmer and Mulling put them in the box seat in the deciding set, winning comfortably 15-5. This is the first time Bath University has won the Women’s Volleyball Championships. Loughborough faced defending Champions London in the first Men’s Championship Semi-Final and dominated the early
exchanges, controlling the net and taking the first set 25-18. London raised their game and Dockland’s Nik Ruh distributed the ball with accuracy and purpose enabling London to take the second set 25-18. The tie break was desperately close with never more than a point between the teams. Excellent hitting was matched by spirited defence leading to enthralling rallies before two big hits from Dockland’s Albrecht Glitz have London the vital breakthrough to edge the match 19-17. In the second Men’s Semi-Final Sheffield Hallam faced Bournemouth. The evenly matched teams traded point for point in the early stages, but the game swung when the Bournemouth setter broke a finger blocking Wayne Davies (Sheffield Hallam). This was pivotal and Bournemouth was not able to sustain their challenge and Sheffield Hallam ran out comfortable winners 25-16, 25-11. The Final was watched by around 150 people banging drums, with air horns and creating a great atmosphere with the teams rising to the occasion. London held an early lead but Hallam clawed back level by the high teens, only for Glizt and Massous to strike and give London a 22 - 20 lead. Another twist, a service error, passing error and a miraculous pick up by Mike Melbourne saw Hallam take the first set 25-22. London came back strongly with Glitz in awesome form hitting and jump serving, taking and holding a lead all the way through to take the second set 25-18. Another tie break to the delight of the crowd. Hallam started strongly and a power hit and roof block by Tom Ward saw them 85 up at the turn. London tried to come back but the damage was done, Hallam keeping the upper hand to win 15-12. This is Sheffield Hallam fourth Men’s Championship title in the competitions 39 year history. The win takes them to third place in overall winning with only Leeds and Manchester (6 titles each) ahead.
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MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Championship Semi-Final - London 2-1 Loughborough, Sheffield Hallam 2-0 Bournemouth Final - Sheffield Hallam 2-1 London Trophy Semi-Final - Sheffield 3-0 MMU Cheshire, Sussex 3-2 Loughborough 2 Final - Sheffield 3-0 Sussex Shield Final – Bradford 3-0 St Mary’s WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Championship Semi-Final - Bath 2-1Manchester, London 2-0 Cambridge Final - Bath 2-1 London Trophy Semi-Final - UWIC 3-0 Birmingham, Lincoln 3-0 Strathclyde Final - UWIC 3-0 Lincoln HOME NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 17-18 March 2007, University of Manchester Representative student teams from Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and English Universities competed for the title, with additional matches against guest sides Oxbridge and Republic of Ireland Students (Men) and Tameside and Chester & Ellesmere Port (Women). The round robin event produced many close and enthralling matches over the weekend. Matches were highly competitive, with players showing high levels of commitment and energy. The partisan spectators only added to the atmosphere. In the end English Universities completed a win double. The Women retained their title with solid displays, controlling all their matches and closing out when required. The Men regained the title after a two year gap thanks to a dramatic Final game win over Scotland.
Scotland took an early lead in the first set, increasing it to six points by the mid teens before holding off the England fight back to close on 25-23. The second set saw England come back into the game and dominate with string hitting from Ward and Punnackl to take it 25-21. At one set all the match was to be decided in the 3rd set. Nip and tuck, 8-7 at the change over. A quick break by England to take a two point lead, but Scotland would not let go and clawed back to 11 all. Points traded, big hits, spectacular defence and wholehearted commitment got the crowd on their feet. Scotland lead, England have match point, Scotland block to level. England hit another winner and then get a transition ball forcing an error to win 19-17 to unleash celebrations from the players and their supporters. OTHER NEWS The BUSA Volleyball Development Programme continued its success in 200607. From the funds raised by the England Volleyball Affiliation Scheme, BUSA were able to provide each English team with a new Gala Volleyball. More importantly a number of coaching and officiating courses were delivered across the UK specifically for universities.
competitors. Six Universities had both Men’s and Women’s qualified and it was possible to ensure that both teams played on the same day. The first day the Men’s competition was dominated by London who had little difficulty in winning all their matches. Manchester had closer results with Bristol and Newcastle, but were still able to qualify for the Finals fairly easily. In the Women’s competition Loughborough won two of their matches easily but had a close 8-6 win over Manchester. Unfortunately Manchester were unable to play as well again and lost to London 10-8 in a close match. London then defeated Newcastle 8-6 to qualify. On the second day, apart from a few matches, the results were closer. Cardiff were the strongest team in the Men’s competition and Edinburgh produced their best results ever to proceed to the Finals. In the Women’s event Cardiff played well to defeat Edinburgh 6-1, but both teams then won their remaining matches to proceed to the Finals. Southampton and Sheffield had a great match with the latter, behind by 5 goals at the end of the third period to level the scores in a 10-10 draw.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA are indebted to the tireless work of the Volleyball SMG who not only deliver quality events but maintain excellent links with their NGB and have been leading the way in delivering the BUSA Volleyball Development Programme. Thank-you also to the volunteers who assisted at the Championships – without you there would be none.
Final 17-18 March 2007, University of Nottingham
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The London Men’s team were strengthened by the return of their GB player and defeated Manchester 13-8, Cardiff 15-6, Edinburgh 19-6 to retain the Championship. The matches between the other teams were closer with Manchester defeating Cardiff 107 and Edinburgh 8-6 to take second place.
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 3 - 4 March 2007, Walsall Gala Baths The Semi-Finals of the Men’s and Women’s were held at Walsall Gala Baths over the week-end of 3/4 March, 2007. This season saw the introduction of 4 x 5 minute periods of play which was well received by all
The Finals were held at the University of Nottingham pool with the usual enthusiasm and noise. Unusually three universities, London, Cardiff and Edinburgh had qualified with Men’s and Women’s teams and were joined by Manchester in the Men’s and Loughborough in the Women’s events.
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Cardiff winning 9-5 followed by an exciting match with Edinburgh finally winning by 8-6 to take the Championship. Cardiff then defeated Edinburgh 8-67in another good match to be runners up. Trophy 17-18 March 2007, University of Nottingham The Trophy Finals were also played at Nottingham and produced interesting results. The Women’s match was a long match with many goals with Birmingham finally defeating Dundee 19-10 whilst the Men had the closest Final ever when Warwick overcame St Andrews 4-3. REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS The build up to the 2012 Olympics has benefited BUSA Water Polo considerably. Funding has been provided to train the potential team for the Olympics and as part of the development plan GB have provided funds to send a student team to the World Student Games this year. The last time BUSA competed in the water polo was in 1987. Hopefully this can be extended to both Men’s and Women’s teams in future years. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It has become customary for the students of Haberdashers Askes School to provide the table officials at all these events as part of their ASA training. BUSA is grateful for the excellent support they have given over many years.
Windsurfing BUSA CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007 21-22 April 2007, Calshot Activity Centre, Southampton The BUSA Championships have been the finale to the student Windsurfing season for the last 13 years and is traditionally the toughest of all the core events. With light winds predicted for the whole weekend, race officer Pete Boustred set 3 testing course races in the morning which did well to spread the fleet. The wind got up to a light F4 and some of the shortboarders managed to do well in the conditions. It was clear though, after the first set of races that
the longboarders had the advantage as top UK racer Hugh Sims-Williams (Bristol) and James Bullied (Exeter) came home 1 and 2 in each of the races. In the afternoon the upwind buoy was abandoned and a figure of 8 slalom course was set, by this time the winds had dropped slightly and the longboarders still had the advantage. In the end Sims-Williams came out on top followed by Bullied and Seb Graham of Southampton took the 3rd place. Dylan Watt of Southampton ended up on equal points with Seb but lost out on 3rd due to his higher discards.
Men’s Individual Championship Division One 1 - Hugh Sims-Williams (Bristol) 2 - James Bulleid (Exeter) 3 - Sebastian Graham (Southampton) Division Two 1 - David Coulthurst (Bristol) 2 - Giles Munro-Faure (Southampton) 3 - Steve Clareboets (Cardiff) Division Three 1 - Andy Hart (Bath) 2 - Mike Perkins (York) 3 - Phil Benton (UWE)
In the Women’s competition there was a very close battle for the top spots, with last year’s Champion Tanya Saleh (Bristol) battling it out with Imperial’s Alice Monk and SWA series leader Erica Phillips of York. Once again Saleh came out on top followed by York, with Monk in third. This was a very close run thing with only a few points separating the top 5 Women.
Women’s Individual Championship Division One 1 - Tanya Saleh (Bristol) 2 - Alice Monk (Imperial) 3 - Erica Phillips (York)
In the second division racing was held in the lagoon at Calshot. Some quality racing took place and Dave Coulthurst of Bristol came out on top, followed by Giles Munro-Faure of Southampton and Steve Clareboats of Cardiff. Jess Bennett of Southampton did extremely well to finish 9th overall and first in the Women’s. Gemma Onslow of Nottingham came 2nd with S Pongu of Birmingham claiming 3rd.
Division Three 1 - Rachel Newstead (York) 2 - Alexia Ward (Southampton) 3 - Liss Earle (Exeter)
On the Sunday Team Racing was the order of the day and the decider for the Overall University title. 13 teams in all entered which is a record and considering the light winds they all did exceptionally well. The big battle was between Bristol and Southampton, and Bristol started well winning the first race with Southampton in second and Oxford in third. Bristol needed to win the remaining two races to secure the Overall Championship title but the superior pumping tactics of the Southampton team came through and they took the next two races and the title. Bristol came second and Cambridge managed to beat their old rivals Oxford into third.
Division Two 1 - Jessica Bennett (Southampton) 2 - Gemma Onslow (Nottingham) 3 - S Pongu (Birmingham)
Team Championship 1. Southampton A 2. Bristol 3. Cambridge A Overall University 1. Southhampton 2. Bristol 3. Cambridge ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks must go to the University of Southampton and especially Chris Tuffill for his excellent organisation of the event, the University of Southampton Windsurf Club and in particular Dave Dawson. Laurence Barber, Head of Business Services at the University of Southampton, the SWA volunteers for running the racing and scoring throughout the weekend, the boat crews, Calshot Activities Centre for once again hosting the event and finally to all the event sponsors.
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International WORLD UNIVERSITY BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 21-26 October 2006, Tianjin China The GB team played strongly at the 3rd World University Bridge Championship, in Tianjin, China, coming 17th place overall. The host team won the Championships, an achievement that was the result of team members’ strenuous efforts of concentrated training and analysis. Silver went to Team USA and bronze went to Team Poland B. LUCOZADE SPORT
BUSA athletes have continued to benefit from the partnership with Lucozade Sport throughout 2007. Highlights from this year include the visit of the Lucozade Sport Science Academy (LSSA) Experiential
Vehicle to the Indoor Athletics and Basketball Final 8’s and the Outdoor Games. The vehicle - manned by 2 of the LSSA’s sport scientists – offered both athletes and spectators the opportunity to increase their knowledge on all aspects of nutrition and hydration, and to sample products from the LSSA’s High Performance Range. The interactive vehicle will be visiting events throughout 07-08 so look out for it at your university! The specialist products that Lucozade Sport has to offer via the LSSA also played an integral role in BUSA training camps and competitions throughout the world, helping to give student athletes the edge. Chris Ryder (Loughborough) was fuelled by the LSSA’s high performance product range at the World University Squash Championships in Hungary where he won both individual and team gold medals. ‘Having access to Lucozade Sport, and the additional nutritional support, was a great help during the tournament. Playing twice a day I used Body Fuel (2-3 per day), Hydrate and Energy bars. The Energy Bars in particular are great during tournaments as you can have them
half an hour before a match and not feel weighed down. This definitely helped give me the edge on court.” The nutritional support available to BUSA also continued throughout 2007 in the form of advice and services to BUSA’s elite coaches and medical staff, who with direct access to Lucozade Sport dietitians, were able to access relevant sports nutrition and hydration advice that could be easily translated into practical solutions for their athletes. All of the above support will continue throughout 2007-08 and all athletes can benefit from the LSSA’s expertise by visiting their online educational resource at www.thelssa.com and can access a 15% discount on Lucozade Sport products by visiting www.lucozadesportshop.com and entering BUSA’s unique code BU05.
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Acknowledgements BUSA competitions are planned and run with the help and advice of the Sports Management Groups (SMG) and other volunteers, who give up their time to ensure the success of university sport. This Annual Report was written with advice and contributions from the following individuals.
Archery Association Football Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoeing – Polo Canoeing – Slalom Canoeing – Whitewater Climbing Cricket Cycling Equestrian Fencing Fives Gaelic Football Golf Gymnastics Hockey Judo Ju Jitsu Karate Korfball Lacrosse Modern Biathlon / Pentathlon Netball Orienteering Pool Rifle – Full Bore Rifle – Small Bore Rowing Rugby League Rugby Union Sailing Snooker Snowsports Squash Surfing Swimming & Diving Table Tennis Tennis Tenpin Bowling Trampolining Triathlon Ultimate Frisbee Volleyball Water Polo Windsurfing
John Sullivan (SMG) David Williams (SMG) Peter Bovill (SMG) Alison Odell (SMG) Trevor Pountain (SMG) Bill Sharkey (SMG) Jo Etheridge (Loughborough University) Friends of Durham University Birmingham University Kayak Club Mike Brightwell (SMG) Keir Hopley (SMG) Paddy Hill (SMG) Hannah Westropp (SMG) John Crouch (SMG) David Gardner (SMG) Dr. Peter Mossey (SMG) Raleigh Gowrie (SMG) Mitch Fenner (SMG) Vince Mayne (SMG) Malcolm Limrick (SMG) Gareth Horgan Steve Coupland (SMG) British Student Korfball Association Iain Johnson (SMG) Oxbridge Pentathlon Jon Linford (SMG) David Rosen (SMG) Iorwerth Griffiths (SMG) Henry Jeens Geoff Doe Nigel Mayglothling (SMG) Matt Jeffery Vaughan Williams (SMG) Steve Gibson (SMG) Patrick McWilliams (SMG) Duncan Freshwater (SMG) Zena Wooldridge (SMG) Karen Walton Dave Fletcher (SMG) Mike Payne (SMG) Fiona Rennie (SMG) Kris Wright (SMG) Sally Edie (SMG) John Mills (SMG) Ed Blockley Lenny Barry (SMG) Dr. Mike Clark (SMG) University of Southampton
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3291.5 2137.5 1260 1078.5 915.75 874.5 1021 909.25 801 638 629 786 617 573 438 447 683 397.75 536 513 378 272 352 336 211 272 261 156 334 328 182 114 270 173 241 142 135.5 198 436.5 98 124 185 150 120.5 175.5 104 90 151
1724 1368 1341 1081.5 1169.5 1039 856.2 918.5 851 1002 873 702 853 798.5 870.5 801.2 561 798 616.5 590 622.5 725 574 524 598 531 502 592 401.5 377 498 542 368 428.5 357.5 450 454 389 149 464.5 436 367 400.5 426 368 432 421 359
49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 92 94 95 96
48.75 145 133 81 48 107 74 57.5 127 64 59 140 51 64 19 96 92 100 171 49 117 82 83 55 79 30 46 20 21 38 36 27 101 23 21 0 45 45 16 43 19 36 30 15 16 20 0 40
443.5 316 316.5 309.5 325 262 294 304.5 233 294.5 295 202 287.6 272.5 316 238 238.5 224.5 144 256.5 180.5 205 195 219 194.5 215 189.5 209 197.5 173.5 175 171 96 164.5 162.5 183 137 130.5 150.5 122 144.5 123.5 129 125 124 119.5 138 97.5
Loughborough Bath Birmingham Edinburgh Nottingham Durham UWIC Oxford Newcastle Exeter Manchester Cambridge Bristol Leeds Metropolitan Leeds Cardiff Stirling Northumbria Southampton Sheffield Hallam Sheffield Warwick Brunel West London Swansea St Andrews Glasgow Reading Aberdeen Imperial College St Marys Brighton Liverpool London Metropolitan Dundee West of England Gloucestershire Oxford Brookes Bournemouth London UCL Kent Essex Nottingham Trent Lancaster Plymouth Heriot Watt Portsmouth York
5015.5 3505.5 2601 2160 2085.25 1913.5 1877.2 1827.75 1652 1640 1502 1488 1470 1371.5 1308.5 1248.2 1244 1195.75 1152.5 1103 1000.5 997 926 860 809 803 763 748 735.5 705 680 656 638 601.5 598.5 592 589.5 587 585.5 562.5 560 552 550.5 546.5 543.5 536 511 510
Strathclyde Hertfordshire Worcester Kings College Sussex Liverpool John Moores MMU Cheshire Central Lancashire Coventry Chichester St Mark & St John Middlesex Glamorgan LSE Royal Holloway East Anglia Manchester Met Hull UWE Hartpury College UW Aberystwyth Napier Southampton Solent Robert Gordon Keele Surrey Lincoln Staffordshire Aston Sunderland Glasgow Caledonian Kingston Leicester UW Bangor Queen Mary UL Chester (Chester) Bedfordshire (Bedford) Edge Hill Northampton York St John St Martins College Canterbury Christ Church UC Teesside Salford Greenwich London South Bank Bradford Kings Medicals Wolverhampton
492.25 461 449.5 390.5 373 369 368 362 360 358.5 354 342 338.6 336.5 335 334 330.5 324.5 315 305.5 297.5 287 278 274 273.5 245 235.5 229 218.5 211.5 211 198 197 187.5 183.5 183 182 175.5 166.5 165 163.5 159.5 159 140 140 139.5 138 137.5
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97 Bucks Chiltern 28 98 Roehampton 30 99 Abertay 19 100 Harper Adams 36 100 RVC 71 102 DMU Leicester 3 103 Central England 33 104 Imperial Medicals 16 105 Winchester 0 106 Cardiff Medics 15 107 Bolton 18 107 Liverpool Hope 24 109 Queens Belfast 96 110 Huddersfield 14 111 RUMS 9 112 Anglia Ruskin 5 112 Derby 20 114 St Georges 0 115 City 17 116 Ulster (Coleraine) 68 117 UW College Newport 12 118 St Barts 2 119 Queen Maragret 0 120 Trinity & All Saints College 5 121 RAC 40 121 Swansea Institute 37 123 Westminster 14 124 Thames Valley 27 125 UHI Millennium Institute 21 126 Bedfordshire (Luton) 0 127 Paisley 0 128 Goldsmiths 8 129 Birmingham FTC 2 130 Trinity College Carmarthen 9 131 NEWI 0 131 Newman 0 131 SOAS 12 131 University of the Arts 12 135 Cranfield (Beds) 6 136 Writtle College 0 137 Falmouth Arts College 12 138 East London 0 139 Chester (Warrington) 0 140 Bath Spa 0 141 Bradford College 0 141 Buckingham 0 Defence Academy of the UK 0 141 141 Imperial College at Wye 0 141 Leeds School of Music 0 141 Lincoln (Hull) 0 141 Ulster (Jordanstown) 0 141 UW Lampeter 0 Total 28108
League Total Points 96.5 93.5 101 79 44 110 75.5 92 106 90 83 77 0 78 74 76 61 74.5 57 0 54 60 57.5 50 13 16 35 15.5 20 38 34 23.5 23 15 22 22 10 10 15 14 0 10 7 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
124.5 123.5 120 115 115 113 108.5 108 106 105 101 101 96 92 83 81 81 74.5 74 68 66 62 57.5 55 53 53 49 42.5 41 38 34 31.5 25 24 22 22 22 22 21 14 12 10 7 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Archery Indoor Men’s Recurve (Champ) Andrew Callaway Colin Geenes Sam Perkins Bournemouth Coventry Kent Men’s Recurve (Trophy) Phil Middleton Charlie Bacon Ivan Hoo Loughborough Birmingham Cambridge Women’s Recurve (Champ) Jenny Jeppsson Jacqueline Gould Madelaine Lane Edinburgh Greenwich Coventry Women’s Recurve (Trophy) Stephanie Scott Kyshiea Steele Nathalie Gough Aberdeen Edinburgh Aberdeen Team (Champ) Edinburgh Warwick Cambridge Team (Trophy) Edinburgh Cambridge Aberdeen Men’s Compound (Champ) Timothy Nash Ward / Bell London Edinburgh / Birmingham Women’s Compound (Champ) Stephanie Crang Ali Sewell Sarah York Gloucestershire Edinburgh Edinburgh Archery Outdoor Men’s Recurve (Champ) Colin Gennes Thomas Kemp Alexander Lamb Coventry Warwick Edinburgh Men’s Recurve (Trophy) Hugh Wilson Martin Davis Phil Middleton Edinburgh Southampton Loughborough Women’s Recurve (Champ) Jenny Jeppsson Emma Downie Christina Malyon Edinburgh Edinburgh Notts Trent Women’s Recurve (Trophy) Katherine Berggrav Kyshiea Steele Ruth Bedder Edinburgh Edinburgh Durham Men’s Compound (Champ) Jonathan Goodman Justin Gibbs Chris Bell Loughborough Northampton Birmingham Women’s Compound (Champ) Danielle Brown Stephanie Crang Rebecca Gridley Leicester Gloucestershire Keele Men’s Barebow (Champ) Kieran Whitworth Craig Waling Leon Osborne UW Bangor Lancaster Bath Men’s Barebow (Trophy) Assum Mumtaz Mark Vernon Lloyd Woolard Sheffield Reading Lancaster Women’s Barebow (Champ) Helen Bundy Marie McCarthy Laura Eden Derby Reading Reading Women’s Barebow (Trophy) Leanne Wagstaff Helen Vowles Emma Aldridge Leeds Reading Leeds Men’s Longbow (Champ) Matthew Fletcher Simon Fern Alfredo Da Silva Warwick Reading UW Bangor Men’s Longbow (Trophy) Scott Penn Dave Jackson N/A Leeds Sheffield Women’s Longbow (Champ) Sarah Barnes Zoe Smith Katie Tipping Sheffield Hallam Reading Liverpool Team (Champ) Edinburgh Cambridge Imperial Team (Trophy) Edinburgh Imperial Cambridge Association Football Championship Men’s UWE Hartpury Bath Northumbria/Swansea Women’s Loughborough Brighton UWIC/Northumbria Shield Men’s Hull 1st Exeter 1st Brighton 2nd/Lancaster Women’s John Moores 1st UWIC 2nd Worcester/Sunderland Plate Men’s Bournemouth 1st Sunderland 1st UWIC 3rd/ Loughborough 4th Women’s Liverpool 1st University of Keele/Sheffield Central England 1st Trophy Men’s Manchester 1st Leeds 1st Kingston/Worcester Women’s Cardiff 1st Manchester 1st Loughborough/Exeter Athletics Indoor Championships Men’s 60m Simeon Williamson Ryan Scott Lloyd Rice Middlesex Bath Bath Women’s 60m Montell Douglas Emma Bailey Natalie Bartley Brunel Loughborough St Mary’s Men’s 200m Paul Judson Bruce Tasker Phil Taylor Loughborough Bath Loughborough Women’s 200m Montell Douglas Emma Bailey Melanie Stephenson Brunel Loughborough UW Newport Men’s 400m Steven Green David Greene Daniel Cossins Bath UWIC Bath
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Women’s 400m Rebecca Sweeney Hayley Wills Anwen Reece Salford UWIC Loughborough Men’s 800m Richard Hill Andrew Osagie Daniel Stepney UWIC St Marys Brighton Women’s 800m Charlotte Best Rachel Thompson Natalie Shaw Loughborough Loughborough Staffordshire Men’s 1500m Lee Emanuel Richard Weir Tom Penfold Sheffield Hallam Staffordshire Birmingham Women’s 1500m Hannah England Hayley Beard Kate Buchan Birmingham Birmingham Loughborough Men’s 3000m David Bishop Ross Toole Sean Durraine UWIC Strathclyde Leeds Met Women’s 3000m Susie Hignett Olivia Kenny Sarah Maude Bath Birmingham Loughborough Men’s 60m Hurdles Charlie Kavanagh Patrick Halcrow Roger Skedd Loughborough UWIC Thames Valley Women’s 60m Hurdles Gemma Bennett Andrea Vinet Louise Hazel Brunel Loughborough Birmingham Men’s Long Jump Chris Kirk Elliot O’Neill Steven Small Northumbria UWIC Loughborough Women’s Long Jump Phyllis Agbo Louise Hazel Amy Woodman Cambridge Birmingham UWIC Men’s High Jump Mark Crowley Robbie Grabarz Matt Roberts Nottingham Loughborough Uni of the Arts, London Women’s High Jump Sharon Heveran Katia Lannon Kay Humberstone UWIC Brunel Salford Men’s Triple Jump Gary white Elliot O’Neill John Carr UWIC UWIC Stirling Women’s Triple Jump Sinead Gutzmore Julia Straker Imogen Miles Birmingham Durham Cardiff Men’s Shot Put Garrett Johnson Kieren Kelly Roger Skedd Oxford Loughborough Thames Valley Women’s Shot Put Dayana Octavien Rachel Cork Louise Watkins Bath UWIC Loughborough Men’s Pole Vault Scott Simpson Christian North Paul Walker UWIC Bath Loughborough Women’s Pole Vault Louise Butterworth Emma Lyons Kimberley Skinner UWIC UWIC Stirling Men’s 4x200m Loughborough Bath UWIC Women’s 4x200m Brunel Loughborough UWIC Athletics Outdoor Championships Men’s 100m Craig Pickering Ryan Scott Simon Farenden Bath Bath Leeds Met Women’s 100m Montell Douglas Kadi-Ann Thomas Emma Bailey Brunel Brunel Loughborough Men’s 200m Somto Eruchie Paul Judson Seyi Smith Birmingham Loughborough Loughborough Women’s 200m Kadi-Ann Thomas Montell Douglas Emma Bailey Brunel Brunel Loughborough Men’s 400m David Greene John Kelley Bruce Tasker UWIC Sheffield Hallam Bath Women’s 400m Faye Harding Henrietta Hayley Wills Kodilinye-Sims Loughborough Loughborough UWIC Men’s 800m Andrew Osagie Chris Reynolds Richard Hill St Mary’s Swansea UWIC Women’s 800m Abi Westley Emma Jackson Rachel Thompson Loughborough Keele Loughborough Men’s 1500m Mike Coltherd Mark Burgess Lee Emanuel Loughborough St Mary’s Sheffield Hallam Women’s 1500m Linzi Snow Hannah England Harriet Scott St Mary’s Birmingham Imperial Men’s 5000m Ben Warren James Kelly Chris Parr Sussex Cambridge Loughborough Women’s 5000m Laura Kenny Brigit Cooke Nicola Bamford Loughborough Manchester Sheffield Hallam Men’s 10000m Gary Thornton Jonathon Thewlis Matthew Janes St Mary’s Nottingham Westminster Women’s 10000m Sarah Maude Andrea Woodvine Claire Willer Loughborough Birmingham Bristol Men’s 3000m Chris Hart Stephen Lisgo Richard Williams
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Steeplechase St Mary’s Leeds Met Women’s 2000m Ruth Senior Emily Brown Steeplechase Loughborough UWIC Men’s 110m Hurdles Wiliiam Sharman Jordan Fleary Loughborough Loughborough Women’s 100m Hurdles Andrea Vinet Gemma Werrett Loughborough Loughborough Men’s 400m Hurdles Steve Green Ben Carne Bath Cambridge Women’s 400m Hurdles Eilidh Child Anwen Rees Edinburgh Loughborough Men’s Long Jump Christopher Kirk Steve Small Northumbria Loughborough Women’s Long Jump Aimee Palmer Amy Woodman Central England UWIC Men’s High Jump Simon Phelan Mark Crowley Bath Nottingham Women’s High Jump Sharon Heveran Sophie Hines UWIC Loughborough Men’s Triple Jump Elliot O’Neill Jeremy Odamatey UWIC Birmingham Women’s Triple Jump Denae Matthew Julia Straker Loughborough Durham Men’s Shot Put Kieran Kelly Ryan Spencer-Jones Loughborough UWIC Women’s Shot Put Rebecca Peake Dayana Octavien Loughborough Bath Men’s Pole Vault Paul Walker Christian North Loughborough Bath Women’s Pole Vault Louise Butterworth Emma Lyons UWIC UWIC Men’s Javelin Lee Doran James Campbell UWIC Leeds Met Women’s Javelin Lauren Therin Lianne Clarke UWIC UWIC Men’s Discus Simon Cooke Jeremy Harper Bath Ulster Women’s Discus Dayana Octavien Lauren Therin Bath UWIC Men’s Hammer Alex Smith Amir Williamson Loughborough St Mary’s Women’s Hammer Zoe Derham Dayana Octavien Gloucestershire Bath Men’s 4x100m Bath Loughborough Women’s 4x100m Brunel UWIC Men’s 4x400m UWIC Bath Women’s 4x400m Loughborough UWIC Men’s Overall Team Loughborough Bath Women’s Overall Team Loughborough UWIC Badminton Team Championship Men’s Bath Sheffield Hallam Women’s Bath Birmingham Shield Men’s Dundee Plymouth Women’s Sheffield London Met Plate Men’s City University London Teesside Trophy Men’s Bath 2 Loughborough 2 Women’s Edinburgh Bath 2 Individual Men’s Singles Harry Wright David Forbes Bath Edinburgh Women’s Singles Francesca Edelmann Elena Johnson Birmingham Birmingham Men’s Doubles Wright / Hanson Armstrong / Weir Bath Loughborough Women’s Doubles Sheppard / Ward Edelmann / Lester Bath Birmingham Mixed Doubles Armstrong / Day Hanson / Ward Loughborough Bath Basketball Championship Men’s Worcester London Met Women’s Northumbria London Met Shield Men’s LSE Bolton Women’s Leeds Met St Mary’s Plate Men’s Roehampton Huddersfield
Bronze Bristol Jenna Hill St Mary’s Iwan Peperrell Bath Stephanie Walker Edinburgh Rick Yates Leeds Justine Kinney Loughborough Elliot O’Neil Loughborough Nadine Okyere UWIC Matthew Roberts University of the Arts Lucy Hodgins Cardiff Tomide Isinkaye Brighton Anna Kelly Staffordshire Jeremy Harper Ulster Rachel Cork UWIC Keith Higham Loughborough Jenny Truelove Brunel Felix Hatton Sheffield Laura Whittingham Bath Chris Scott Loughborough Jade Nicholls St Mary’s Matt Lambley Loughborough Victoria Thomas Kingston Birmingham Loughborough Loughborough Birmingham UWIC Brunel
Birmingham / Loughborough Durham / Loughborough York / Southampton Lincoln / Sheffield Hallam Bolton / Hertfordshire 2 Leeds / Hertfordshire Newcastle / Hertfordshire Gibson / Witham Imperial / Bath Mead / Barnes Birmingham / Hertfordshire Birmingham / Loughborough Liverpool / Birmingham Birmingham / Birmingham
Birmingham / Oxford Loughborough / Cheshire Teesside / Surrey Stirling / Central England St. Martins Lancaster / City University London
Sport
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Women’s Queen Mary London York Trophy Men’s Glasgow Manchester Met Women’s Oxford Leeds Boxing Men’s Featherweight Manjeyn Yougendram Butho Siwela Portsmouth UWE Lightweight Luis Chamberlain Piers Maughn Edinburgh UWE Light Welterweight Tom Jaques Ross Howie LSE Dundee Welterweight Richard Pickering Kelvin Fawaz Staffordshire Brunel Middle Heavyweight Harvey Clear Steve Adedoyan Leeds Brunel Light Heavyweight Daniel Hendy Mohammed Shoaram Portsmouth Dundee Heavyweight Paul Harrison Daniel Weiderman Edinburgh Portsmouth Super Heavyweight Mizengo Sicombe Graeme Caithness Sheffield Hal Edinburgh Open Class Light Welterweight Andrew Rowe Adam Myton Robert Garden Worcester Open Class Light Welterweight Fred Brown Afsheen Pangelizehah Oxford Brighton Open Class Welterweight Sam Kynoch Glasgow Open Class Heavyweight John Lydon Cardiff Women’s Light Welterweight Kelly Barnes Kate Stinson Brighton Oxford Middleweight Kaleen Love Gemma Brodie Oxford Strathclyde Canoeing Canoe Polo Open Nottingham Newcastle Women’s Open Newcastle ULU Canoe Slalom K1 Men Ed Kay David Backhouse Nottingham Nottingham K1 Women Lizzie Neave Heather Corrie Loughborough Loughborough C1 Individual Marvin Rounce David Backhouse Nottingham Trent Nottingham C2 Individual Rounce & Critchley Hollis & Browell Nottingham Trent Newcastle Overall Team Nottingham Loughborough White Water Racing K1 Individual Men’s Jonathan Schofield Jamie Oughton Loughborough Newcastle K1 Individual Women’s Gillian Mara Heather Corrie Loughborough Loughborough K1 Men’s Team Loughborough Durham K1 Women’s Team Nottingham Loughborough Mixed Team Loughborough Loughborough C1 Individual Darren Broderick Rich Gould Newcastle Loughborough C2 Individual Schofield / Vasey Corrie / Willett Loughborough Loughborough Overall Team Loughborough Newcastle Clay Pigeon Shooting Men’s Individual Simon Rood Peter Scotiation RAC Reading Women’s Individual Emma Bailey Carol Montgomery Hull Aberdeen Men’s Team RAC Reading Women’s Team Hull Plymouth Men’s Trophy Reading 2 Reading 4 Climbing WMixed Team Sheffield UW Bangor Men’s Individual David Jones Edward Feehally Durham Sheffield Women’s Individual Lily Fitzgibbon Jemma Powell Sheffield UW Bangor
Bronze Teesside / Roehampton UWE / East Anglia Southampton / Hertfordshire
Warwick Durham Andy Hadfield Loughborough Hannah Bailey Nottingham Sam Critchley Nottingham Trent Russell-Johnson & Coombs Durham Nottingham Trent Michael Mason Teesside Caroline Riesenmey Cranfield Newcastle Birmingham Manchester Chris Browell Newcastle Corke / Carrivick Durham Durham
Robert Rockcliffe RAC Lindsey Hickman Hull Harper Adams Royal Vetinary College Harper Adams 3
Newcastle Dan Varian Sheffield Emma Tyyford Sheffield Hallam
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Cricket Championship Men’s Loughborough UCCE Durham UCCE Women’s Loughborough UCCE Oxford UCCE Shield Men’s Liverpool 1 Brighton 1 Plate Men’s Bolton Institute Cardiff 2 Trophy Men’s Loughborough 2 Loughborough 1 Women’s Leeds 1 Brighton 1 Indoor Men’s Exeter Leeds Met Women’s Loughborough Cardiff Cross Country Men’s Long Race Frank Tickner Joe McAlister Birmingham Queens Women’s Long Race Felicity Milton Elle Baker Durham Brunel Men’s B Race Sam Perkins Dan Shane Birmingham Loughborough Men’s Team Birmingham Loughborough Women’s Team Birmingham Loughborough Cycling Cyclo Cross Men Ross Adams Mark Thwaites Southampton Leeds Met Women Abbie Therrington Vivien Thorrington Essex Exeter Men’s Team Swansea Leeds Met Women’s Team Essex Cambridge Hill Climb Men’s Tom Bailey David McGaw Sheffield Oxford Women’s Nicola Duggan Mary Farrier Bath Leeds Men’s Team Sheffield Loughborough Women’s Team Manchester Oxford Mountain Bike Men’s Down Hill Dan Stanbridge Philip Shucksmith Bath Cardiff Women’s Down Hill Sue Mahony Rachael Robinson Bristol Glasgow Caledonian Team Cardiff Bath Men’s Cross Country Ross Adams Robert Friel Southampton Sheffield Hallam Women’s Cross Country Meggie Bichard Nicola Duggan Bristol Bath Team Leeds Edinburgh 10 Mile Time Trial Individual Men Gethin Butler David McGaw Central Lancashire Oxford Individual Women Rachel Hughes Abbie Thorrington Oxford Essex Men’s Team Oxford Leeds Women’s Team Oxford Essex 25 Mile Time Trial Individual Men Gethin Butler Dean Robson Central Lancashire Oxford Individual Women Rachel Hughes Katie King Oxford Oxford Men’s Team Oxford Cambridge Women’s Team Oxford Cambridge Road Race Stephan Wolfer David McLean Loughborough Nottingham Equestrian Dressage Charlotte Andrews Emily Maliphant Royal Vet College Nottingham Trent Show Jumping Sarah Blain Charlotte Humphrey Manchester Met Cardiff Individual Overall Charlotte Andrews Alex Morrison Royal Vet College Surrey Team Overall Nottingham Trent Royal Vet College Trophy Kent Glasgow C Fencing Championship Men’s Cambridge Oxford Women’s Cambridge Oxford Shield Men’s Kings Dundee
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Bournemoth / Cardiff MCCU St Mary’s 1 / Durham MCCU Gloucestershire 1 / Aberdeen 1 St Martin’s Lancaster / Warwick 2 Bath 1 / Durham 2 Leeds Met / Exeter
Gary Thornton St Marys Faye Fullerton St Marys Tom Penfold Birmingham St Marys Sheffield Hallam
Ben Simmons Newport Rachel Fenton Cambridge Leeds
Charles Taylor Staffordshire Alix Chester Manchester Leeds Leeds Met Adam Stanyer Edinburgh Ali McKerrow Bristol Swansea Anthony Salmon Leeds Marcie Reinhart Oxford Swansea Dean Robson Oxford Alice Hector Stirling Loughborough Cambridge David McGaw Oxford Sabrina Verjee Cambridge Southampton Thomas Murray Sheffield Hallam Suzy Bohm Royal Vet College Alex Morrison Surrey Annie Sharpe Nottingham Trent UW Aberystwyth Royal Vets College
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Trophy Men’s Reading Kent Women’s Manchester Exeter Epee Men’s James Thornton Xavier Muller Northumbria Birmingham Women’s Kathryn Dolan Naomi Taylor Northumbria Bristol Foil Men’s David Alexander Andrew Caldwell Loughborough Oxford Women’s Hannah Bryars Elaine Hughes Imperial Bath Sabre Men’s Anthony Crutchett Danny Ryan Cambridge Cambridge Women’s Christie Waddington Elaine Hughes Newcastle Bath Gaelic Football Championship Liverpool John Moores Napier Golf Championship Stirling Exeter Shield Leeds Met UC Northampton Trophy Stirling 2 UHI Millenium Strokeplay Men’s Individual Craig Wilkinson David Booth Northumbria Stirling Women’s Individual Chloe Rogers Laura Murray Bucks Chilterns Robert Gordon Men’s Team Bournemouth Gymnastics Team Men’s Leeds Met Loughborough Women’s Leeds Met UWIC Individual Grade One Men’s Steven Jehu Tom Rawlinson Leeds Met Leeds Met Women’s Vicki Johns Felicity Barwell Leeds Met Nottingham Trent Individual Grade Two Men’s Matthew Pike Matthew Maletroit Loughborough Cardiff Women’s Samantha Davies Maia Hunnex Loughborough UW Bangor Hockey Championship Men’s Loughborough Birmingham Women’s Durham Birmingham Shield Men’s Stirling Exeter 2 Women’s Newcastle Kent Plate Men’s Oxford Southampton Solent Women’s Loughborough 4 Bath 4 Trophy Men’s Loughborough 2 Birmingham 2 Women’s Loughborough 2 Loughborough 3 Ju Jitsu Championships Novice Ben Cooper James Horsted Nottingham UCL Yellow Belt Adam Slawson Ian Bradley Northumbria Queen Mary London Orange Belt Mikhail Vishnyakov Andrew Cadden Bristol LSE Green Belt Nicola Richardson Honor Baldry Bath Leeds Purple Belt Susan Lower Keira Hazen Imperial Bristol Light Blue Belt Fredric Stains Ary Dias Napier Kings College Dark Blue Belt Rydell Caesar Nick Barley London South Bank Swansea Brown Belt Oliver Strother Bevis Man Nottingham Goldsmith Overall University Nottingham Swansea
Bronze
Bennett / Coleman Royal Holloway / Loughborough Gracey / Prior St Andrews / Birmingham Emery / Loggie Birmingham / St Andrews McDerment / Osborne Edinburgh / Oxford Brenda / Olphin Leicester / Birmingham Aw / Maubon Oxford / Nottingham
Liverpool Hope/Aberdeen
St Andrews / Dundee Sheffield Hallam 2 / Gloucestershire Birmingham 2 / Exeter 2 Roberto Laino Durham Lucinda Davies Birmingham
Portsmouth Loughborough Robert Payne Loughborough Megan Lane UWIC Faraz Khosravi-Mardakheh Birmingham Alison Mercer Leeds Met
London Met / Bath Oxford / Loughborough St Georges / Coventry Exeter 2 / Birmingham 3 Essex / Salford Royal Free / Abertay Glasgow / UWIC London Met / Brighton
Harry Horlock Plymouth Miroslav Milewski UCL Colin Dewey Hertfordshire Christopher Wilding York Jaime Vorster Brunel Keith Newman Brunel Franklin Lewis Swansea Liam Cadman UCL UCL
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Judo Dan Grade Men’s U60Kg Brett Caswell John Spencer Bath Soton Solent Men’s U66Kg Marcus Bascombe Dylan Cave Bath Bath Men’s U 73Kg Lee Shinkin Douglas Heller Brunel Oxford Brookes Men’s U81Kg Tom Reed David Groom Bath Manchester Met Men’s U90Kg Stuart Austin John Kunzi Coventry Chichester Men’s U100Kg Eamonn Leacy Fergus Dullahan Brunel Bangor Men’s O100Kg Danny Murphy Paul Haines Bath Glamorgan Women’s U48Kg No Competitors Women’s U52Kg Charlotte Farbon Bath Women’s U57Kg Sionbhan O’Niell Rebecca Bayliss Bath Oxford Women’s U63Kg Rosie Felton Hannah Sinfield Worcester Bath Women’s U70Kg Gemma Gibbons Sarah Jones Bath Glasgow Cal Women’s U78Kg Sian Wilson Bath Women’s O78Kg Corinne Vannatta Abi Dempsey Cambridge Bath Kyu Grade Men’s U60Kg Nickiwe Cairns Durham Men’s U66Kg Alexandra Gosiewski Sean Ng Sussex Loughborough Men’s U73Kg Julien d’Aboville Mark Comer Southampton Solent Bath Men’s U81Kg Ross Ward Johnson Lee Loughborough Sheffield Men’s U90Kg Daniel Cartlidge David Ord Loughborough Glasgow Men’s U100Kg Harry Pascall James Lacey Durham Bangor Women’s U52Kg Carlene Hill Bangor Women’s U57Kg Carlene Hill Jessica Fairall Bangor Manchester Women’s U63Kg Gemma Lawton Sarah Scully London Bangor Women’s U70Kg Ellie Dewdney Alexie Frize-Williams Loughborough Loughborough Women’s U78Kg Julie Iversen Danielle Van’t Zand London Edinburgh Women’s Over 78Kg Julie Iversen Danielle Van’t Zand London Edinburgh Karate Kata Novice Men’s Jason Blee Chong Phi Vong Brunel Brunel Novice Women’s Jenni Garamuolgyi Charlotte McCallum Birmingham Royal Holloway Intermediate Men’s Matthew Davies Adrian Ward Swansea Bath Intermediate Women’s Tammy Lo Ulrika Pohlmann London London Dan Grade Men David Woods Grant Wyper Glasgow Caledonian Glasgow Dan Grade Women Caroline Price Mairi Kerin Brunel Loughborough Team Bath Edinburgh Kumite-Men’s Novice Lightweight Justin van Rhyn Jeffrey Shum Bath Bath Novice Middleweight Jasper Chow Daniel Seymour-Smith Bath Loughborough Novice Heavyweight A ndrew Kabakwu Jeremy Springall Middlesex Bath Senior U60Kg Jonny Morgan Euan Tracey Lancaster Edinburgh Senior U65Kg Rhys Jones Ryu Ikeda Swansea Dundee Senior U70Kg Ian MacLeod Joe Hart
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McColl / Varey Strathclyde / Bath Webb / Bose Wolverhampton/London Jan Gosiewski Bath Clark / Gilmore Sheffield / Brunel Capel / Tandoi Oxford / Soton James McClements Bath Luke Struthers St Martins
Sumner / Morgan Bath / London SB Solier / Mueller London / St Andrews Harbisson / Jack Glasgow/Edinburgh
Mattison / Capala St Andrews / Manchester Fry / Drumm London / Bath Fisher / Portman Newcastle Nadal / Varndell Cambridge / Southampton Stephen Lindsay Newcastle
Hanney / Kuriger York / Durham Cooley / Cowie Warwick / Sheffield Stevens / Parker Glasgow / Manchester
Sarah Knight Bristol
Proctor / Kabakwu Edinburgh / Middlesex Miao / Lam Birmingham / Bath Salem / George Edinburgh / London Hawke / Smedberg Manchester / Liverpool McCann / Clairet Glasgow Cal / Royal Hol Fanning / Costi Brighton / Bath Nottingham V. Roosmalem / Thomson Edinburgh / Bath Lee / Crawford Bath / Cardiff Lukaj / White London / Nottingham Carkett / Itani Bath / Oxford Clairet / Kwong Royal Hol / Leeds Duncan / Krsteff
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Cambridge Manchester Senior U75Kg Ehab Abdrabou James Brooks Middlesex Bath Senior U80Kg Vincent O’Hara Alan Worsley Manchester Edinburgh Senior +80Kg Calum Robb Dean Draper Heriot Watt Swansea Senior Open Weight Calum Robb Vincent O’Horo Heriot Watt Manchester Kumite- Women’s Novice Lightweight Louise Ogden Olivia Riddle Bath Bath Novice Middleweight Alison Martin Emma Clayton Edinburgh Edinburgh Novice Heavyweight Danielle Hancock Jennifer Kerrison Bath Middlesex Senior U53Kg Sam Jones Lisa Cairns Cardiff Glasgow Caledonian Senior U60Kg Natalie Atkinson Zara Phang Bath Edinburgh Senior + 60Kg Melissa Lewis Sarah Leakey Nottingham Roehampton Senior Open Weight Melissa Lewis Danica Popielas Nottingham Heriot Watt Men’s Team Bath Manchester Women’s Team Edinburgh Bath Korfball Championships East Anglia Sheffield Hallam Lacrosse Championship (Women’s) Edinburgh Birmingham Trophy (Women’s) Edinburgh 2 Warwick CChampionship (Men’s) St Andrews Nottingham Marathon Men’s Neil Renault Michael Boucher Nottingham Loughborough Women’s Shona McIntosh Jennifer Dick Glasgow Sheffield Modern Biathlon Men’s Matt Sandell Steve Worthington Birmingham Leeds Met Women’s Heather Jackson Louise Helyer Loughborough Bath Men’s Team Loughborough Birmingham Women’s Team Bath Birmingham Modern Pentathlon Men’s Henry Krucsko Nick Zissler UWE Hartpury Durham Women’s Louise Highton Polly Mosley Manchester Met Chichester Team Bath A UWE Hartpury Netball Championship Loughborough UWIC Shield Loughborough 3 Southampton Plate Cardiff Medics Manchester 2 Trophy Oxford Bath 2 Orienteering Individual Men’s A Oli Johnson Oleg Chepelin Sheffield Hallam Edinburgh Women’s A Rachel Elder Rebecca Roberts Sheffield Hallam Loughborough Men’s B Alexander Fullbrook Mark Tarrant Edinburgh Durham Women’s B Sarah Henry Rebecca Taylor Newcastle Newcastle Men’s C Benjamin Weiss London Relay Men’s Edinburgh Sheffield Hallam Women’s Edinburgh Sheffield Hallam Pool Championship Individual Paul Edwards Pritesh Patel Nottingham Bristol Team Ulster Gloucestershire Trophy
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Bronze Bournemouth / Glasgow Bertie / Offer Bournemouth / Nottingham Kelly / McNiven Liverpool / Edinburgh Andre / Healey Heriot Watt / Bath Mohammed / Draper Oxford / Swansea Kouati / Herlihy Brunel / Swansea Khachatryan / Mason Nottingham / Nottingham Bellingham / McTighe Bath / Cambridge Pheely / Enomoto Edinburgh / London Fanning / Clarke Brighton / Lancaster Thomas / McLeod Nott Trent / Napier Cairns / McLeod Glasgow Cal / Napier Edinburgh / Lancaster Loughborough / London
Nottingham
Oxford / Cambridge Nottingham 2 / UWIC UWIC
Diarmuid O’Seaghdha Cambridge Laura Spence Cambridge
Jonathan Worcester Loughborough Stacie-Jo Wellsbury Birmingham Durham Loughborough
David Atkinson Liverpool Sarah Gomersall Bath Bath B
Northumbria / Bath Manchester Met / Loughborough 2 Brunel 2 / East Anglia Manchester / Portsmouth
Marcus Pinker Sheffield Hallam Lizzie Adams Sheffield Hallam Robert Buckby Warwick Laura Clough Birmingham
Sheffield Hallam 2 Birmingham
Whitelaw / Pratt Central Lancs / Durham York / Essex
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Team West of England Durham Shield Team Keele St Andrews Rifle Shooting Small Bore Inter-University Teams Southampton Edinburgh Quartet Southampton Edinburgh Ladies Triads London Southampton Pairs Edinburgh London Ladies Indiv Champs E. Cole-Hamilton S. Bond Robert Gordon Reading Open Indiv Champ M. Thomson E. Cole-Hamilton Edinburgh Robert Gordon
Bronze York / Essex Carmathen / Abertay
Newcastle London Durham Newcastle L. Coneyworth Newcastle T. Hunter London
Rowing Indoor Open Heavyweight Men’s Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge Women’s Bath Nottingham Loughborough Open Lightweight Men’s Oxford Birmingham Oxford Women’s Cambridge Bristol Cambridge Rowing Outdoor Men’s Quad Sculls Reading Newcastle Durham Men’s Coxless Pairs London Nottingham Durham Men’s 8s Oxford Brookes Newcastle London Men’s Single Sculls Reading Newcastle Imperial Men’s Coxless 4s Bristol Newcastle Durham Men’s Coxed 4s Reading Bristol Exeter Men’s Double Sculls Reading Imperial Durham Women’s Single Sculls Loughborough Nottingham Bath Women’s Coxless 4s Oxford Brookes Durham Reading Women’s Coxed 4s Oxford Southampton Edinburgh Women’s Double Scull Aberdeen Newcastle Bath Women’s Quad Sculls Durham Reading Imperial Women’s Coxless 2s Durham Bath Newcastle Women’s 8s Cambridge Oxford Durham Men’s LWT sing sculls Imperial Reading Kingston Men’s LWT doub sculls Imperial London Heriot Watt Men’s LWT 4- Durham Birmingham Birmingham Men’s LWT 2- Durham Loughborough London Women’s LWT 2- London Oxford Birmingham Women’s LWT 4- Cambridge Birmingham UWE Women’s LWT 1x Imperial Cambridge Queens Belfast Women’s LWT 2x Durham Exeter UWE Women’s LWT 4x Durham UWE Loughborough Overall Team Durham Newcastle Birmingham Rowing - BUSA Head of the River Women’s 8 Durham Oxford Brookes Southampton Men’s 8 Oxford Brookes Durham Imperial Women’s Coxless 4 Oxford Brookes Durham Birmingham Men’s Coxless 4 Imperial Durham Birmingham Women’s 4 Southampton Reading Birmingham Men’s 4 Bristol Nottingham Exeter Men’s 4x Imperial Newcastle Reading Women’s 4x UWE Imperial Loughborough Men’s 2- Imperial Newcastle Nottingham Men’s 2x Newcastle Imperial Newcastle Women’s 2x Imperial Birmingham Newcastle Men’s Sculls Newcastle Imperial Newcastle Men’s Lwt 2- Newcastle Birmingham Women’s C2- Imperial Loughborough UWE Women’s Lwt 2- Imperial Nottingham Nottingham Men’s Lwt 2x Imperial Newcastle Loughborough Men’s Lwt 1x Imperial Birmingham Birmingham Women’s Sculls Imperial Newcastle UWE Women’s Lwt 1x Imperial Nottingham UWE Women’s Lwt 2x Imperial Loughborough Birmingham Rugby League Championship Men’s Leeds Met Sheffield Hallam Exeter / St Martin’s Rugby Union Championship Men’s UWE Hartpury UWIC Northumbria / Exeter Women’s UWIC Loughborough Chichester / Leeds Met Shield Men’s UWE Hartpury 2 Durham 2 Newcastle 2 / UWIC 2 Women’s Glamorgan MMU Cheshire John Moores / Harper Adams Plate Men’s UWIC 4 Leeds Met 2 Nottingham 3 / Bath 2
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Silver
Trophy Men’s Manchester Oxford Brookes Women’s St Mary’s Sheffield Rugby Sevens Championship Men’s UWIC Durham Women’s Loughborough Exeter Rugby Fives Men’s Singles Beverly Grant Cambridge UCL Men’s Doubles Brooks / Beverly Lee / Muhammed Cambridge Durham Sailing Fleet Racing Laser Nick Thompson Stephen Powell Exeter Exeter Firefly Brigg / Willows Davis / Leon Southampton Birmingham Laser 2 Greenfield / Stockbridge Williams / Kness Bath Surrey Handicap Fleet Dobson / Restall White / Tozer Southampton Exeter Match Racing Southampton Cardiff Team Racing Southampton Oxford Yacht Racing Southampton Solent B Southampton 1 Snowsports Dry Slope Slalom Men’s David Harrison Dan Wyatt Edinburgh Newcastle Women’s Laura Swaine Rachael Adcock UCD Newcastle Giant Slalom Men’s Campbell Beaton Dan Wyatt UWE Newcastle Women’s Rachael Adcock Laura Swaine Newcastle UCD Snowboard Giant Slalom Men’s Mike Bates Eugine Dodd Edinburgh Swansea Women’s Maya Douglas Carla McGlynn Edinburgh Napier Alpine Slalom Men’s Scott Bryson Daniel Holdaway Northumbria Bristol Women’s Jemima Barnes Rachael Adcock Cardiff Newcastle Snooker Individual Paul Williams James Leung Championship Durham Nottingham Team Championship Queen’s, Belfast Bristol Trophy Durham Bristol Shield York 2 Nottingham 2 Squash Team Championship Men’s Birmingham Loughborough Women’s Birmingham Leeds Shield Men’s Loughborough 3 Cardiff Women’s Leeds Liverpool Plate Men’s Leeds Met 2 Imperial College 2 Trophy Men’s Loughborough 2 Southampton Women’s Glasgow Southampton Individual Men’s Jethro Binns Peter Creed Loughborough UWIC Women’s Emma Beddoes Leonie Holt Nottingham Birmingham
Bronze Swansea / Worcester Aberdeen / Exeter
St Mary’s / Leeds Met UWIC / Bath
Brooks / Lee Cambridge / Durham Leeds / London
Sean Evans Swansea Talbot / Haylett Bristol Townsend / Parritt Bath Catt / Stubbs Southampton Cambridge Edinburgh Southampton 2
Matthew Bruton Newcastle Gail Ross Edinburgh Scott Bryson Northumbria Amanda Hedley-Lewis Bristol Duncan Sabiston Sussex Laura Harvey Reading
Matt Bruton Newcastle Maz Hedley Lewis Bristol Foley / Patel Southampton / Bristol
Nottingham Cardifff Warwick 3
UWIC / Manchester Bath / UWIC Napier / Essex
Kings College 2 Heriot-Watt / Birmingham 2 Surrey / Birmingham 2 Leitch/Bradley Cambridge/Loughborough Hastings/Bowles Birmingham/Leeds
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Sport
Gold
Silver
Surfing Individual Men’s Ludovic Henry Luke Parkhouse Plymouth Plymouth Women’s Jo Dennison Sarah Street Swansea Cambridge Team Men’s Plymouth Aberdeen Women’s West of England Swansea Swimming Long Course Freestyle 50m Men’s Matt Tutty Chris Cozens Nottingham Bath Women’s Amy Smith Terina Taite Loughborough Bath Freestyle 100m Men’s Chris Cozens Craig Houston Bath Stirling Women’s Julia Beckett Katherine Wyld Loughborough Nottingham Freestyle 200m Men’s Euan Dale Andrew Hunter Loughborough Stirling Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Katherine Wyld Loughborough Nottingham Freestyle 400m Men’s Michael Unsworth Andy Hunter Loughborough Stirling Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Sarah Paton Loughborough Bath Freestyle 800m Men’s Liam Smith Daniel Fogg Leeds Met Loughborough Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Sarah Paton Loughborough Bath Freestyle 1500m Men’s Michael Unsworth Bret Ferguson Loughborough Hertfordshire Women’s Natalie Prince Stephanie Biller Loughborough Bath Backstroke 50m Men’s Liam Tancock Andrew Shephard Loughborough Sheffield Hallam Women’s Melanie Marshall Cecilia Razeto Loughborough Bath Backstroke 100m Men’s Liam Tancock Scott Houston Loughborough Stirling Women’s Melanie Marshall Karen Lee Loughborough Bath Backstroke 200m Men’s Scott Houston Billy Purnell Stirling Edinburgh Women’s Karen Lee Melanie Marshall Bath Loughborough Breaststroke 50m Men’s Darren Mew Chris Watkinson Bath Loughborough Women’s Janne Schaefer Fiona Booth Bath Napier Breaststroke 100m Men’s Darren Mew Chris Watkinson Bath Loughborough Women’s Joanne Schaefer Debbie Hall Bath Sheffield Hallam Breaststroke 200m Men’s Chris Watkinson Euan Dale Loughborough Loughborough Women’s Debbie Hall Ciara Farrell Sheffield Hallam Loughborough Butterfly 50m Men’s Todd Cooper Michael Rock Stirling Manchester Women’s Louise Pate Stephanie Hill Edinburgh Manchester Butterfly 100m Men’s Todd Cooper Michael Rock Stirling Manchester Women’s Terri Dunning Louise Pate Wolverhampton Edinburgh Butterfly 200m Men’s Michael Rock Todd Cooper Manchester Stirling
Bronze
Matt Le Maitre Plymouth Bethan Cara-Price Swansea Swansea UC Falmouth
Craig Houston Stirling Julia Beckett Loughborough Andy Hunter Stirling Terina Taite Bath Daniel Hester Bath Julia Beckett Loughborough Bret Ferguson Hertfordshire Bethan Coole Swansea Bret Ferguson Hertfordshire Bethan Coole Swansea Jamie Forrest Bath Erica Brown Manchester Scott Houston Stirling Katherine Wyld Nottingham Billy Purnell Edinburgh Chantal Clavaud UWIC Jon Sargent Hertfordshire Lauren Willcox Warwick Andrei Cross Bath Ciara Farrell Loughborough Craig Elliot Loughborough Ciara Farrell Loughborough Richard Webb Bath Louise Henley Swansea Ben Hutchinson Loughborough Terina Taite Bath Andrew Mayor Northumbria Stephanie Hill Manchester Joe Roebuck Loughborough
Sport
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Silver
Women’s Sarah Paton Hana Capstick Bath Loughborough Individual Medley 200m Men’s Euan Dale Ben Higson Loughborough Stirling Women’s Jess Sylvester Sophie Caul Nottingham Coventry Individual Medley 400m Men’s Joe Roebuck Ben Ward Loughborough Loughborough Women’s Terri Dunning Laura Chase Wolverhampton Stirling Medley Relay 4x100m Men’s Loughborough Stirling Women’s Bath Loughborough Freestyle Relay 4x100m Men’s Stirling Bath Women’s Loughborough Bath Overall Team Men’s Loughborough Stirling Women’s Loughborough Bath Swimming Short Course Freestyle 50m Men’s Matthew Tutty Chris Cozens Bath Bath Women’s Michelle Engelsman Amy Smith Bath Loughborough Freestyle 100m Men’s Chris Cozens Ben Hutchinson Bath Loughborough Women’s Amy Smith Michelle Engelman Loughborough Bath Freestyle 200m Men’s Andy Hunter Euan Dale Stirling Loughborough Women’s Katherine Wyld Jess Sylvester Nottingham Nottingham Freestyle 400m Men’s Andy Hunter Michael Unsworth Stirling Loughborough Women’s Sarah Paton Natalie Prince Bath Loughborough Freestyle 800m Men’s Daniel Fogg David Proud Loughborough Manchester Women’s Sarah Paton Sophie Caul Bath Coventry Freestyle 1500m Men’s Michael Unsworth Andy Hunter Loughborough Stirling Women’s Natalie Prince Izzi Newman Loughborough Swansea Backstroke 50m Men’s Todd Cooper Andrew Shephard Stirling Sheffield Hallam Women’s Sarah Rickwood Kathryn Wyld Loughborough Nottingham Backstroke 100m Men’s Cameron Gibson Scott Houston Bath Stirling Women’s Karen Lee Sarah Rickwood Bath Loughborough Backstroke 200m Men’s Scott Houston Andrew Hodgson Stirling Swansea Women’s Karen Lee Sophie Casson Bath Stirling Breaststroke 50m Men’s Darren Mew Chris Watkinson Bath Loughborough Women’s Zoe Baker Janne Schaefer Bath Bath Breaststroke 100m Men’s Darren Mew Craig Elliot Bath Loughborough Women’s Janne Schaefer Debbie Hall Bath Sheffield Hallam Breaststroke 200m Men’s Chris Watkinson Euan Dale Loughborough Loughborough Women’s Debbie Hall Ciara Farrell Sheffield Hallam Loughborough
Bronze Rebecca Shaw Loughborough Richard Webb Bath Debbie Hall Sheffield Hallam Ben Higson Stirling Sophie Caul Coventry Bath Manchester Loughborough Manchester Bath Manchester
Ben Hutchinson Loughborough Jenni Kilgallon Edinburgh Andrew Hodgson Swansea Jess Sylvester Nottingham Daniel Hester Bath Bethan Coole Swansea Lee Forster Bath Laura Chase Stirling Tom Hollingsworth East Anglia Jill Nesbit Manchester Lee Forster Bath Erica Brown Manchester Jon Sargent Hertford Natasha Crawley Stirling Andrew Shephard Sheffield Hallam Kathryn Wyld Nottingham Billy Purnell Edinburgh Bethan Coole Swansea Craig Elliot Loughborough Fiona Booth Napier Chris Watkinson Loughborough Fiona Booth Napier Jamie Griffiths Stirling Viki Beaney Durham
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Sport
Gold
Silver
Butterfly 50m Men’s Ben Hutchinson Michael Rock Loughborough Manchester Women’s Zoe Baker Fiona Booth Bath Napier Butterfly 100m Men’s Todd Cooper Andrew Mayor Stirling Northumbria Women’s Hana Capstick Stephanie Hill Loughborough Manchester Butterfly 200m Men’s Joe Roebuck Andrew Mayor Loughborough Northumbria Women’s Sarah Paton Rebecca Shaw Bath Loughborough Individual Medley 200m Men’s Euan Dale Ed Downes Loughborough Loughborough Women’s Jess Sylvester Sophie Caul Nottingham Coventry Individual Medley 400m Men’s Joe Roebuck Ed Downes Loughborough Loughborough Women’s Sophie Caul Debbie Hall Coventry Sheffield Hallam Medley Relay 4x50m Men’s Bath Stirling Women’s Bath Loughborough Freestyle Relay 4x50m Men’s Bath Stirling Women’s Loughborough Bath Overall Team Men’s Loughborough Bath / Stirling Women’s Loughborough Bath Table Tennis Championship Men’s Loughborough Cambridge Women’s Middlesex Loughborough Trophy Men’s Newcastle Leeds Singles Men’s Shaun Marples Chris Brown Sheffield Hallam UWIC Women’s Abigail Embling Egle Adomelyte Essex Middlesex Doubles Men’s Bleakley / Denny Marples / Gascoyne Leeds Sheffield Hallam Women’s Brown / Embling May / Ximny Essex Plymouth Mixed Adomelyte / Blasse Cutler / May Middlesex Plymouth Plate Men’s Singles Jade Blasse Chris Willsher Middlesex Oxford Women’s Singles Nan Luan Penelope Saws Imperial Southampton Tennis Championship Men’s London Met Stirling Women’s London Met Bath Shield Men’s Cambridge Exeter 2 Women’s Robert Gordon Northumbria Plate Men’s School of Oriental & African Studies Roehampton Trophy Men’s London Met 2 Stirling 2 Women’s Bath 2 Loughborough 2 Individual-Singles Men’s Colin Fleming Matjaz Jurman Stirling London Metropolitan Women’s Georgina Hingley Helen Fritche LSE UWIC Individual-Doubles Men’s Jurman / Pavli Fleming / Lott London Metropolitan Stirling Women’s Baker / Frendo Cox / Shaw Bath Loughborough
Bronze Josh Ker Loughborough Stephanie Hill Manchester Michael Rock Manchester Clare Dawson Stirling
Sport
Gold
Silver
Tenpin Bowling Individual Men’s Matthew Robinson Doug Stafford Nottingham Northampton Women’s Hui Yiang Tay Rebecca Trevor Sheffield Sheffield Hallam Team Men’s Surrey Nottingham Women’s Sheffield Sheffield Hallam
Trampolining Novice Men’s Charlie Shearer Andrew Richardson Stirling Newcastle Women’s Laura Robson Kathryn Williams Leeds Met Cardiff Intermediate Billy Purnell Men’s Darryl Tott Nicholas Thompson Edinburgh Surrey Cantebury CC Rebecca Shaw Women’s Naomi Ellis Tanya Srokosz Loughborough Cardiff Birmingham Advanced Ben Higson Men’s Ben Calderhead Ross Woodrow Stirling Glasgow Bath Laura Chase Women’s Sophie Rankin Jaclyn Butler Stirling Central Lancashire Brighton Elite Loughborough Men’s Simon Milnes Phil Dodson Nottingham Manchester Hertfordshire Women’s Lisa Blackburn Hannah Frost Loughborough Manchester Bournemouth Manchester Open Team Manchester UWIC Bath / Stirling Triathlon Manchester Men’s James Third Tom Room Cambridge Bath Women’s Abbie Thorrington Carol Bridge Middlesex / Northumbria Essex Loughborough Nottingham / Southampton Team Loughborough Stirling Ultimate Frisbee LSE / Aston Indoor Championships Edinburgh Exeter Outdoor Championships Edinburgh Bristol Noutsch / Denny Leeds Volleyball Radford / Baldi Championship Sheffield / Sheffield Hallam Men’s Sheffield Hallam London Brown/Gertsen / Armstrong/Atkins Women’s Bath London UWIC / Loughborough Trophy Meads/Lightowler / Men’s Sheffield Sussex Seneviratne/Luan Women’s UWIC Lincoln Loughborough / Imperial Shield To/Zhang / Wilson/White Men’s Bradford St Mary’s College Cambridge / Newcastle Waterpolo Championship Men’s London Manchester Women’s Loughborough Cardiff Trophy Men’s Warwick St Andrew’s Women’s Birmingham Dundee Windsurfing Loughborough / Bath Division One Cambridge / Loughborough Men’s Hugh Sims-Williams James Bulleid Bristol Exeter Kings College / St Andrews Brunel / Bournemouth Women’s Tanya Saleh Alice Monk Bristol Imperial York Lancaster 2 / Division Two Men’s Dave Coulthurst Giles Munro-Faure Loughborough 2 / Bath 2 Bristol Southampton Gloucestershire / Aberdeen Women’s Jess Bennett Gemma Onslow Southampton Nottingham Lott / Miotto Division 3 Stirling / Bath Men’s Andy Hart Mike Perkins Shaw / Baker Bath York Loughborough / Bath Women’s Rachel Newstead Alexia Ward York Southampton Team Southampton Bristol Bath / Cambridge Michael Rock Manchester Hana Capstick Loughborough
UWIC / London Metropolitan
Bronze
Will Rogers Nottingham Katie Joswey Hull Sheffield Hull
Gavin Singleton Central Lancashire Naomi Phillips Cardiff Richard Jopson Hull Toni Britain Bolton Fred Campbell-Jones Plymouth Laura McMahon Birmingham Mark Samuals UWIC Asha Bayliss Bath Bath
Oliver Stanley Loughborough Alice Hector Stirling Bath
St Andrew’s Exeter
Loughborough Manchester Loughborough Birmingham
Cardiff Edinburgh
Graham / Watt Southampton / Southampton Erica Phillips York Steve Clareboets Cardiff S Pongu Birmingham Phil Benton UWE Liss Earle Exeter Cambridge
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