September 2002
News

Sports Clubs Success

As the new academic begins UBU Sports clubs can look back at a number of successes over the past year.

The Indoor Cricket team are currently 3rd in the country having reached the final of their BUSA competition at Lords. They were also awarded with 'Club of the Year' at the sports colours awards dinner in March.

The Men's' Volleyball team came 5th in the student cup and 3rd in the BUSA shield competition. Not to be outdone the Women's volleyball team came ninth in the student cup competition whilst continuing to play in the top northern conference level of competition.

Victoria Adams won Bronze in the BUSA judo competition and was duly rewarded with sportswoman of the year at the Colours awards dinner. In a further individual competition Jeff Kapp came 7th in the BUSA 10mile time trial competition.

Swimming and women's football both performed excellently in new competitions they entered. Swimming reached the final of the Team Championships whilst women's football won its BUSA and Yorkshire league tiers.

In the Rugby Union, the University won best Varsity match in the country last year for its annual match against Huddersfield, which was presented at Twickenham. Unfortunately, the success was not repeated this year when they drew Huddersfield.

A highly successful basketball tournament over the Mayday bank holiday weekend saw 300 basketballers descend on Bradford for four days. The Bradford old girls team remained women's champions whilst the University men's team reached the semi final.

Sports and societies officer, Colin Leeman, said: " I was very pleased with the competitive successes of so many clubs this year especially with swimming, women's football and cricket being in competitions they had entered for the first time. On the participation front, equal success can be seen with a 15 per cent increase in members of sports clubs."

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