BUSA Annual Review 2005

British Universities Sports Association 

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Contents 

4 Welcome from BUSA President: John Inverdale 

5 Welcome from BUSA Chairman: Phil Attwell 

6 Welcome from BUSA CEO: Ian Randell 

7 BUSA Annual Awards Dinner 

8 BUSA Staff 

9 BUSA Officers 

10 Sponsorship 

11 Domestic and Representative Review (by Sport) 

40 British University Games 

43 International Review (by Sport) 

47 Acknowledgements 

48 Universities 

49 Overall Championship Points 

50 Results 

59 Graphs 

62 

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The Diversity of 

Student Sport 

John Inverdale, President 

A Year of Change 

and Progress 

Phil Attwell, Chairman 

The public perception of university sport is 

a generational thing. The older the person 

you ask, the more they're likely to recall 

post-match parties rather than the match 

itself. It's only in recent years that the 

infrastructure of student sport has been 

seen as, and used as, a key stepping 

stone in the development of top-level 

performance athletes across a wide range 

of campuses, and not just a chosen few. 

The gulf between the sporting 'haves' 

and 'have-nots' will always be there, but 

there's a wider understanding now that 

success on the playing fields of Britain and 

abroad benefits not just the individual, but 

the university or college they represent. 

You only have to look at the catalogue 

of success over the past 12 months to 

realise how at the top level, if you took 

away the contribution of BUSA athletes, 

the cupboard would have a distinctly 

bare look. At the Commonwealth Games 

in Melbourne, more than 50 of the 110 

medals won by British athletes were 

claimed by current or former BUSA 

competitors. Two swimming medallists, 

Liam Tancock and Caitlin McClatchey , 

who are both at Loughborough, were 

BUSA's Sportsman and Woman of the 

year. You can place them alongside 

successful teams in the World University 

Championships in Cross-Country, 

Equestrianism and Archery, not to mention 

the new folk-hero of English cricket, Monty 

Panesar. 

One of the single most enjoyable occasions 

of the sporting year for me was to be 

at Twickenham on BUSA Rugby Finals 

Day - an afternoon that combines most 

elements of the student sporting life, 

mixing high quality performance with 

sometimes even higher quality socialising. 

And within the players involved, both 

men and women, there are some who 

want sport to play a part in their future 

careers, and others for whom it is, and will 

remain, just a glorious form of relaxation 

and release. 

Which highlights both sides of the student 

sport coin. If we look back on the past 

12 months, it's with a huge amount of 

pride at the way that BUSA members are 

helping to shape the sporting destiny of 

the home countries, but at the same time, 

it's to understand that for every top-level 

athlete, there are hundreds who want 

to hit shuttlecocks or squash balls, kick 

footballs or rugby balls, just for the sheer 

hell of it. And then it comes down to 

getting the balance right on funding and 

facilities, coaching and time-tables. All 

those involved at BUSA are trying to juggle 

all those balls with as much dexterity as 

possible. 

For a young organisation (it was formed 

from an amalgamation of several student 

organisations in 1994) BUSA has already 

seen significant growth and change 

– member and staff growth, move to merit 

leagues from block fixtures, introduction 

of premier leagues, development of lower 

tier competition – the list goes on. The 

past year has seen further, and some 

of the most significant, changes in the 

development of the Association. 

The AGM in June saw the BUSA 

membership approve some fundamental 

changes to the way that the Association 

operates and governs itself and the 

findings of a Strategic Review that had 

been conducted throughout the year. 

The review, in my view, was the most 

consultative process in BUSA history…. 

perhaps the 63-3 vote margin at General 

Council in January was a reflection of how 

much the members have been involved 

in the process and we will endeavour to 

ensure that this consultative approach 

continues under the new governance. 

Some of the changes that have, or will, 

take place as a result of the review are 

summarised below: 

• The Chair and CEO now sit on an 

Executive Board with four elected 

students, four Directors with 

responsibility for business areas 

(Competitions, Development, Marketing 

and Finance and Administration) and 

two co-opted positions. I would like 

to take this opportunity to welcome 

the new Directors and also thank the 

previous Officer group, particularly the 

three student vice-chairs, Ed Blockley, 

Jeannie Ivanov and Phil Wood, who have 

each done a great deal in advancing the 

Association during their term in office; 

• There is a Management Board of senior 

BUSA staff, who are empowered to 

make decisions within policy guidelines; 

• There will be consultative e-networks, to 

help guide decision-making at all levels; 

• A student Divisional Chairs Forum has 

been introduced, which will be used 

by the four student on the Board to 

gauge the opinion of the membership on 

pertinent issues; 

• The AGM will be a valuable forward 

planning meeting, rather than a 

rubber-stamping retrospective, which 

could slow down (or even reverse) the 

decision-making process. 

All of these should enable us to adapt 

and facilitate progress more quickly and 

effectively and ensure that the service that 

we provide to our members as efficient as 

possible. 

After 11 years at the helm of BUSA 

(and its predecessor body UAU) Greg 

Gregory Jones retired from active service 

during the year. Greg’s contribution 

to the organisation has been massive; 

he nurtured the organisation in London 

including the inspired purchase of the 

Union Street office, and oversaw the 

development of the team of staff we see 

today. He has helped to guide four BUSA 

chairs through the difficult landscape, 

has supported many successful FISU 

campaigns, and ensured that the wheels 

of the BUSA machine always remained 

well oiled. BUSA is well-respected partner 

in high places largely thanks to Greg’s 

stewardship and the organisation wishes 

him a long a healthy retirement. 

Our Patron, Her Royal Highness The 

Princess Royal officially opened the new 

BUSA offices in March and a new Chief 

Executive, Ian Randell was appointed. 

All in all the Association is an a healthy 

and vibrant position to ensure that the 

quality of our sporting programme and 

service to our members continues to 

improve and I look forward to working 

with the membership and the many 

volunteers who contribute so much to 

BUSA to ensure that we meet our on-going 

commitment to progress and improvement.



Making Student Sport 

Better for Students 

BUSA 2006 Annual 

Awards Dinner 

Ian Randell, Chief Executive 

Having begun my tenure as Chief Executive 

halfway through the year, I am excited by 

the changes that have been put into place 

and the direction that the Association 

is taking to ensure that university sport 

is firmly established as an integral part 

of the national sporting framework. The 

findings of the Strategic Review and the 

membership’s overwhelming support 

for the changes proposed within it have 

provided the opportunity for us to now 

drive the vision of “Making Student Sport 

Better for Students” and take the next 

steps to raise both the quality and profile of 

our sporting offering and those competing 

within it and ensure excellence in the 

service that we offer to our members. 

The Association continues to grow both 

in terms of the size of our membership 

and the number of sports included within 

the domestic programme. 2006/2007 

will see a further two institutions joining 

the Association taking the membership 

to 149 competing in 49 different sports 

ranging from Archery to Windsurfing. 

Events within the programme continue to 

attract more and more competitors and 

set new records. The Rowing Regatta 

at Nottingham’s Holmepierrepoint is 

established as the country’s largest regatta 

attracting 960 boats over three days and 

the BUSA Short-Course Championships 

and Outdoor Athletics attracted 2187 

swimmers and 1866 athletes respectively. 

Internationally we enjoyed unprecedented 

success. Following on from the 

achievements of the Great Britain team at 

the World University Games in 2005, the 

Great Britain teams attending this year’s 

various World University Championships 

have continued the success. At the time 

of going to print 9 out of 13 Great Britain 

teams have won medals at the 2006 World 

University Championships. Furthermore, at 

the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 

BUSA athletes, past and present achieved 

50 medals out of the total of 110 won by 

Great Britain. 

On the staffing front a number of 

internal promotions have taken place 

in establishing a Management Board 

that is equipped to meet the additional 

responsibilities and authority that now 

rests with the staff of the Association. Jo 

Kirk has been promoted from International 

Programme Manager to the newly 

created role of Head of Development and 

International Programmes and Camilla 

Mason has been promoted to Head 

of Marketing & Communication. They 

join Dave Rogers (Head of Finance & 

Administration) and Mark Brian (Head 

of Sports Programmes) in making up the 

Management Board and I look forward to 

working with them and the rest of our staff 

in facilitating the programme and driving 

the Association’s development. 

The new governance structure provides 

the opportunity for us to take a longer 

term and more holistic view to strategic 

planning and a three-year rolling strategic 

plan will be shared with the membership 

later in the year. Central strands of this 

will include greater emphasis placed on 

effective communication both within 

the student community and to a wider 

audience, raising the quality and profile of 

the top-level of our competitions including 

progressing towards an inaugural BUSA 

National Finals event that will bring 

together 25-30 of our sporting events in 

one place at one time in 2008, increasing 

our value and level of investment 

from external sources and getting the 

students involved in supporting as many 

of our activities as possible. With the 

structure that is now in place and the 

enthusiasm that I have encountered from 

our membership I am confident that the 

coming years will see BUSA and university 

sport as a whole fulfil its potential and gain 

the profile and recognition that it richly 

deserves. 

Trevor Smith Trevor Smith Trevor Smith 

The 2006 Annual Awards Dinner was held 

at Sheffield Hallam University on Thursday 

15 June. 

The award winners were as follows: 

BUSA Sportsman of the Year 2006 

Liam Tancock – Loughborough University 

Swimming Club 

• Winner BUSA 2006 Swimming 

Short Course 50m Backstroke, 100m 

Backstroke (Championship Record) 

and 200m Backstroke (Championship 

Record) 

• Winner BUSA 2006 Swimming Long 

Course 50m Backstroke and 100m 

Backstroke (Championship Record) 

• World University Games – Gold 50m 

Backstroke 

• Commonwealth Games – Gold 100m 

Backstroke, Silver 50m Backstroke 

BUSA Sportswoman of the Year 2006 

Caitlin McClatchey – Loughborough 

University Swimming Club 

• Winner BUSA Short course 200m 

Freestyle (Championship Record), 400m 

Freestyle (Championship Record) and 

800m Freestyle (Championship Record) 

• Winner BUSA Long Course 200m 

Freestyle (Championship Record), 400m 

Freestyle and 800m Freestyle 

• World University Games 2005 – a 

member of the squad but unfortunately 

broke her arm on the opening day of the 

Games 

• Commonwealth Games – won 3 gold 

medals for Scotland in 200m, 400m and 

800m Freestyle 

BUSA Team of the Year 2006 

University of Birmingham Cross Country 

• BUSA Men’s and Women’s Team Cross 

Country Champions (Men’s 1st, 4th, 

5th and 13th, Women’s 6th,8th, 10th 

individual finishes) 

• Winners of Birmingham Men’s Cross 

Country league, a competitive open 

league 

• Winners of Women’s University Relay 

series (6 Relays over road and Cross 

Country) 

BUSA Contributor of the Year 2006 

Jeannie Ivanov 

• Vice Chair (Student) 

• Executive Board Member 

• National Committee Member 

• Points Review Working Party 

• Student Delegate at the FISU Forum 

BUSA Overall Champions 2006 

Loughborough University 

BUSA Most Improved University 2006 

Keele University



BUSA Staff 

BUSA Officers 

Chief Executive 

to January 2006 

Greg Gregory Jones 

Chief Executive 

Ian Randell 

Chair 

Phil Attwell 

Head of Sports 

Programmes 

Mark Brian 

Head of Development & 

International Programmes 

Jo Kirk 

Head of Marketing & Communication 

Mairi Irvine 

(to November 2005) 

Camilla Mason 

Head of Finance & 

Administration 

Dave Rodgers 

Vice Chair 

Neil Rodgers 

Vice Chair 

Al MacEwen 

Vice Chair 

Nigel Mayglothling 

Sports Programme 

Manager 

Kelly Walton 

Sports Programme Manager 

to December 2005 

Lucy Crickmore 


Manager 

Wes Grant 


Manager 

Anna Liddell 


Manager 

Marie Atkinson 

Sports Programme Manager 

to December 2005 

Radha Balani 

Sports Administrator 

Lorraine Hughes 

Vice Chair 

Ed Blockley 

Vice Chair (Student) 

Phil Wood 

Vice Chair (Student) 

Jeannie Ivanov 

Executive Administrator 

to January 2006 

Sunder Kanji 

Executive Administrator 

Hannah Marshall 

Communications 

Administrator 

Claire Powell 

Finance Administrator 

Barry Hamilton



Associate Sponsors 

The Daily Telegraph has been an Associate 

Sponsor of BUSA for a decade and has 

been committed to promoting sporting 

excellence, at all levels, during this time. 

Discount vouchers for The Daily Telegraph 

continued to be available from the BUSA 

website, with newspapers available 

from as little as 20p for BUSA members. 

Leaflets advertising this discount were also 

distributed at BUSA events in 2005-2006. 

The Daily Telegraph is Britain's best-selling 

quality daily newspaper; featuring worldclass 

columnists include Alan Hansen, 

Henry Winter, Mark Nicholas, Geoffrey 

Boycott and Brian Moore in a separate 

dedicated sport section every day. 

The 2005-2006 academic year marks the 

start of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ eighth 

year of sponsorship of BUSA. 

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 2006 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. 

In addition to being an Associate Sponsor 

of BUSA, PwC also supported the BUSA 

Equity Seminar which explored the 

growing need for inclusivity in society and 

what the Higher Education sector could do 

to improve this. 

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. 

Domestic and 

Representative 

Review 

Alphabetical, by sport 

ARCHERY 

ATHLETICS 

TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS 

BADMINTON 

BASKETBALL 

Boxing 

CANOE 

CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING 

CLIMBING 

CRICKET 

CYCLING 

EQUESTRIAN CHAMPIONSHIP 

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 

TAEKWONDO 

TENNIS 

TENPIN BOWLING 

TRAMPOLINING 

TRIATHLON 

VOLLEYBALL 

WATER POLO 

WINDSURFING 

BRITISH UNIVERSITY GAMES 

ARCHERY 

INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP 

4 March 2006, Exeter 

With almost 400 entrants from 38 

Universities, this was the biggest one day 

indoor shoot of the year. 

Every year, the standard of competition is 

very high, and this year was no exception 

as 4 records were changed and one 

equalled. 

In the Recurve division, Tim Mundon 

(Edinburgh) won with a score of 588 

- equalling the 10 year record set by 

Matt Gray. With another gold as well as 

silver for the Ladies, and gold in novice 

Men’s, Edinburgh unsurprisingly took the 

honours in the team event - breaking the 

8 year record set by Loughborough. This 

meant that, of the 6 possible records for 

Compound and Recurve archers (both 

Indoor and Outdoor), Tim Mundon became 

the current holder of 5 (and previous holder 

of the remaining) and took his tally of 

medals to 16 (12 gold) over 11 years. 

Alex Lyne (Loughborough) showed 

breathtaking potential in his second year 

of Archery - last year’s Novice Champion 

- took Recurve bronze, while the new 

SMG Student Rep, Matthew Johnson 

(Cambridge), had a long and nerve-racking 

wait from his first round lead to eventually 

end with silver. The next three places 

were all tied on score and it was only the 

number of golds which separated them, 

and with 17 archers all scoring above 550 

it was a well fought competition. 

Although not recognised for medals yet, 

a growing number of archers were keen 

to contest the Barebow and Longbow 

categories with a record number of 

Archers shooting in these categories 

– 21 Barebow and 8 Longbow (and only a 

quarter from Wales!). 

The Compound Men’s competition was 

incredibly tough, with the top 10 breaking 

the 570 barrier and all three medal winners 

scoring over 580. In the Women’s, 

Rebecca Gridley (Edinburgh) made the 

transition from Recurve to Compound look 

easy being the outright winner with 559. 

OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP 

17 June 2006, Lilleshall National Sports 

Centre 

Over 300 archers entered the individual 

competition and nearly 60 teams entered 

the Championship and Shield. 

Tim Mundon (Edinburgh) and Jacqui Gould 

(Greenwich) took gold in the Recurve 

competition and Robert Gruar (Liverpool) 

and Kirsty Sutton (Bradford) took the titles 

in the Compound. 

The Team events saw Cambridge retaining 

the Championship title and Edinburgh 

retaining the Shield title. 

OTHER NEWS 

This year saw Andrew Somers step down 

from the SMG, whilst Michael Ward joined 

at the beginning of the year, and Matthew 

Johnson (Cambridge) volunteered his 

services as Student Representative. 

For full results, records, SMG meeting 

minutes and surveys carried out, see the 

BUSA website. A survey was carried out in 

2005, and with 217 responses the results 

are being used to develop university 

Archery. The 2007 Outdoor Championships 

will be a trial run of a FITA round (from the 

current Albion for Men’s and Compound 

Archers and Windsor for the rest of the 

Women’s). 

For a report on the World University 

Championships please see the International 

section. 

ATHLETICS 

CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS 

4 February 2006, University of Stirling 

67 Universities made the trip to Scotland 

for the Cross-Country Championships, 

with over 700 athletes taking part. These 

included the athletes warming up for 

victory later in the month in the English 

Cross Country Championships (see below). 

Frank Tickner led the Birmingham Men’s 

team to victory over St Mary’s and 

Loughborough in the Men’s Long Race. 

Andi Jones (Manchester Met) and Andy 

Vernon (St Mary’s) took the minor places. 

Eleanor Baker and Lizzie Hall won gold 

and silver for Brunel in the Women’s Long 

Race, with Laura Kenny (Loughborough) 

third. Birmingham won another close 

race in the team competition, beating 

Loughborough Women’s by one point, with 

Heriot Watt in third place. 

Jon Blackledge (Oxford) edged Mark 

Buckingham (Sheffield Hallam) on the 

final hill, to win the Men’s Short Race, 

with Tom Snow (Brunel) finishing third. 

Eleanor Sherrard-Smith (Cardiff) saw off 

Abby Westley and Laura Finucane (both 

Loughborough) in the Women’s Short 

Race. 

Loughborough Men gained revenge over 

St Mary’s in the Men’s B race, to win the 

team title. 

Special thanks goes to the staff at Stirling 

University, Stirling Athletic Union and 

Athletics Club for their tireless efforts in 

organising the event. The Scottish Officials, 

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Joe Lee (results), first aiders and BUSA 

volunteers all contributed to a successful 

day which we would like to thanks them 

for. 



section. 

TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS 

Whereas the 2005 Athletics 

Championships were notable for 

the record number of Championship 

Best Performances (CBPs) the 2006 

Championships generated an even higher 

level of participation than in the previous 

(record) year. Participation levels have 

increased steadily over the last 5 years 

and involved 813 in the Indoor and 1,251 

individuals in the Outdoor Championships. 

Eighty Universities were represented in 

each of the Championships. 

INDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 

25-26 February, EIS Sheffield 

Despite the absence of some of the 

athletes who were bound for the 

Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, 

and the clash with the English Cross- 

Country Championships, the level of 

performance was again high, with five 

new Championship Best Performances 

(CBP) being set. This depth of quality in 

University Athletics was also illustrated by 

victories for Lizzie Hall (Brunel) and Andy 

Vernon (St Mary’s) in the English Cross 

Country Championships. 

Craig Pickereing (Bath), the European 

Junior 100m Champion, took his first 

BUSA title in the 60m with some ease, 

whilst another promising first year student 

Montell Douglas (Brunel), ranked 3rd in 

European U20 lists for 2005 over 100m, 

set a new PB in taking the Women’s 

60m title. A highlight of the weekend 

was undoubtedly the appearance of 

Colin McCourt, who had been selected 

for the World Indoor Championships in 

the 1500m. In what proved to be a fine 

800m race he was beaten by the rapidly 

improving Richard Hill in a new CBP time 

of 1.49.20. David Greene, the European 

Junior 400mH silver Medallist, and a late 

addition to the Welsh Commonwealth 

Games team, took the 400m title. Mark 

Buckingham (Sheffield Hallam) who was 

fourth in the steeplechase at the European 

U23 Championships, won the 3000m. 

Another member of the GB team at the 

European U23 Championships Gemma 

Bennett (Birmingham) set a new CBP of 

8.28s in the 60mH. Rachel Thompson 

(Loughborough), a member of the ‘On 

Camp with Kelly Holmes’ initiative, won 

a thrilling 800m race, defeating the 2005 

champion Lizzy Brathwaite (Oxford). 

In the Field events the 2004 

Commonwealth Youth Games silver 

Medallist in the high jump Nick 

Stanisavljevic (Brunel) made his BUSA 

debut. Kabelo Mmono (Botswana/UWIC), 

however, took the title in a jump off 

before he flew out to Melbourne for the 

Commonwealth Games. Scott Simpson, 

also bound for Australia to represent 

Wales, had to settle for second place in the 

Pole Vault behind Christian North. Kirsty 

Maguire took the Women’s Pole Vault title 

before she too departed for Melbourne 

to represent Scotland. Karlene Turner 

(Brunel) set a new CBP of 13.02m in the 

Triple Jump whilst in the Women’s shot 

European U23 representative Rebecca 

Peake (Loughborough) battled it out with 

the AAA senior Indoor Champion Alison 

Rodger (Strathclyde) and European Junior 

GB team member Sally Hinds (UWIC) 

before Rodger came out on top. 

Loughborough won both the Men’s and 

Women’s team titles, defeating Bath 

and UWIC in the former and Brunel and 

Birmingham in the latter competitions. 

MARATHON 

23 April 2006, incorporated in the London 

Marathon 

For the eleventh successive year the BUSA 

Men’s and Women’s Individual Marathon 

Championships were held within the 

Flora London Marathon. BUSA eligibility 

standards were set once again at 3 hours 

for Men and 3 hours 15 minutes for 

Women. The Men’s Championship was 

won by Andy Jones (Manchester Met) in 

2:19:16 hours and 25th position overall, 

with Michael Boucher (Loughborough) 

second in 2.29.35 hours and Paul Harper 

(Bristol) third in 2.32.29 hours. The 

Women’s Championship was won by 

Nicole Archer (Birmingham) in 2.53.52 

hours and 715th position overall, with 

Angharad Care (ULU) second in 2.56.03 

hours and Jane McWilliams (UWE) third in 

2.57.02 hours. 

OUTDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 

29 April – 1 May 2006, Alexander Stadium, 

Birmingham 

The 2006 Championships were launched 

in dramatic style when, in the first event 

on the first day, a new CBP of 61.94m 

was set in the Hammer by the UK’s best 

ever female thrower, Lorraine Shaw 

(Gloucestershire), who was competing 

for the first time since she won bronze at 

the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, 

thereby adding to the silver which she won 

in 1998 and the gold in Manchester 2002. 

This fine performance also marked her 

retirement. Zoe Derham (Gloucestershire), 

who is coached by Lorraine Shaw, also 

broke the previous CBP in taking the silver 

Medal on her return from Melbourne. 

Craig Pickering (Bath), reigning European 

Junior 100m Champion and member of 

the 4 x 100m squad in Melbourne, made 

his BUSA Outdoor debut and did not 

disappoint, winning the blue ribbon 100m 

with a time 10.42 and beating Somto 

Eruchie (Birmingham), who narrowly failed 

to defend the title he took in Glasgow in 

2005. Kadi-Ann Thomas (Brunel) took the 

Women’s sprint double with gold in the 

100m on Sunday and victory in the 200m 

on Monday. 

The European Junior silver Medallist David 

Greene (UWIC) won the 400m hurdles in 

great style setting a new PB of 50.53s and 

coming very close to Chris Rawlinson’s 

CBP of 50.29s. 

The Women’s Long Jump saw a thrilling 

sixth and final round. Louise Bloor 

(Loughborough) took the title with her 

final jump, a new life time best of 6.17m 

and the first time she had been over 

6.00m. The silver and bronze Medallists 

Karlene Turner (Brunel) and Louise Hazel 

(Birmingham) also jumped in excess of 

6.00m. Turner, too, saved her best until 

last, jumping 6.13m, another life time best 

in the sixth round. Turner went on to win 

the Triple Jump on Monday again saving 

her best effort for the final round. 

Lauren Therin (UWIC), on her return from 

the Commonweal th Games, won 

gold in the Javelin whilst Christian North 

(Bath) claimed gold in the Pole Vault, only 

narrowly missing a clearance at 5.22m 

which would have been a CBP. Scott 

Simpson (UWIC) came third in his first PV 

event in the UK since competing in the 

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Commonwealth Games, where he finished 

sixth. 

Katrina Wooton (Coventry), who 

represented GB at the World Indoor 

Championships in Moscow, took the 

5,000m title ahead of Lizzy Hall (Brunel), 

the reigning English National XC Champion 

and GB World XC representative. 

The curtain was brought down in tradition 

style on the Monday with Loughborough, 

who had just previously won the Women’s 

4 x 400m relay, winning the 4 x 400m 

Men’s relay. Included in the latter quartet 

were UK Junior 400m record holder and 

Melbourne finalist Martyn Rooney and 

European U23 400m Hurdles champion 

Rhys Williams. 

Not surprisingly, and by decisive margins, 

Loughborough won both the Men’s team 

Championship, from UWIC and St. Mary’s, 

and the Women’s Championship from 

UWIC and Birmingham. 

COMBINED EVENTS 

29-30 July 2006, UWIC 

The BUSA combined-events (CE) 

Championship was an encouraging 

meeting. The partnership between BUSA, 

UWIC and Welsh Athletics worked well 

in an area of the summer Track & Field 

programme which does not have an 

abundance of competitions. 

Despite the low numbers and often 

detrimental weather conditions, 

performances were generally good with 

5 Men scoring over 6000 points and 2 

Women scoring 4500points. Individual 

event highlights in the Men’s Decathlon 

included Franklin Opara’s 11.46s run in the 

100m into a -2.9 headwind, John Stacey’s 

6.93m Long Jump, Craig Baker’s clearance 

at 2.01m in the High Jump and subsequent 

attempts at 2.07m that were very close 

and finally Chris Hughff in the Javelin with 

a great throw of 56.26m. In the Women’s 

Heptathlon, solid performances by Helen 

Morton in the 100mHurdles (15.74s into - 

2.5 headwind), High Jump (1.60m) and the 

Javelin (40.08m) secured her the Individual 

title. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

In addition to all the athletes who 

competed, there are a whole host of 

people who need to be thanked for the part 

that they played a in a successful meeting, 

the UWIC authorities and groundstaff, plus 

Scott Simpson and Sean Power, Derek 

Crowder, the technical officials and Welsh 

Athletics Vice Chairman Gwilym Evans and 

his wife Pat. 

BADMINTON 

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 

18-20 November 2005, University of 

Nottingham 

Entries were once again in very high 

numbers and of an impressive standard. 

There were full 128 draws in the Men’s 

Singles and Mixed Doubles with reserve 

lists running! The Men’s Doubles had 127 

entries with the Women’s events also well 

supported with 113 competitors in the 

Singles and 103 pairings in the Doubles. 

The event turned into a family affair 

with Stuart Gilliland (Glasgow) winning 

the Men’s singles, a feat his father had 

achieved in the equivalent BUSF event. 

It was nearly a family double when sister 

Jaclyn, also of Glasgow, finished runner up 

in the Women’s Singles to Jenny Day of 

Loughborough. Jenny then combined with 

brother Steven to win the Mixed Doubles. 

MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 

The Indoor Finals were held for the first 

time at the English Institute of Sport (EIS) 

– Sheffield that provided a great venue for 

the finals. 

146 teams entered the Team 

Championships of which 40 were 2nd 

teams and 12 were 3rd Teams. 

Premier League – In the North there 

was a close battle between the winners 

Loughborough and Birmingham and 

in the south Bath dominated winning 

comfortably. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

26 March 2006, Indoor Finals, EIS- 

Sheffield 

Semi-Finals 

In the Semi-Finals Loughborough beat 

Sheffield Hallam 8-0 and Bath beat 

Birmingham 5-3. 

Final 

In the Championship Final Bath defeated 

Loughborough 5-3. Player of the 

tournament was Bath’s Neil White who 

looked in total control as he easily won 

both his Singles. 

TROPHY 

After an influx of 2nd Teams to the Team 

Championship this year the standard was 

much stronger than in previous years. 

Semi-Finals 

In the Semi-Finals Northumbria just beat 

Loughborough 2nds on sets after the 

match had been drawn 4-4 and Brunel 

narrowly beat Birmingham 2nds 5-3. 

Final 

25 March 2006, Indoor Finals, EIS-Sheffield 

In the Final Northumbria defeated Brunel 

7-1 

SHIELD 

The Shield Final was contested between 

Bath 2nds and Sunderland with Bath 

emulating their first team winning 5-3 and 

gaining a second Trophy. 

PLATE 

The Plate Final was contested between 

Keele and Essex. Keele did not take 

advantage of their home draw losing to 

Essex 6-2. 

VASE 

The Vase Final was contested between 

Newcastle 2nds and Royal Holloway, 

with another win for a second team as 

Newcastle 2nds scored an easy 7-1 

victory. 

WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 

As with the Men’s Championship the 

Indoor Finals were also held for the first 

time at the EIS – Sheffield. 

There were 84 teams entered in the Team 

Championships, 82 1st teams and Bath 

and Strathclyde including second teams. 

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Premier League – In the North there was a 

close battle between the eventual winners 

Loughborough and Birmingham who were 

both a long way ahead of the third placed 

team. In the south Bath dominated winning 

comfortably. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 


Sheffield 

Semi-Finals 

In the Semi-Finals Loughborough beat 

Strathclyde 7-1 and Bath beat Birmingham 

by the same score. 

Final 

In an exciting Final Bath completed 

a notable double when they defeated 

Loughborough on sets on sets after the 

match score finished at 4-4. The player of 

the tournament was Philippa Kirby of Bath 

who pushed her higher ranked opponent 

Caroline Smith from Loughborough all the 

way eventually losing a close 3 setter 11-9 

in the third which gave Bath the additional 

set they needed to win the title. 

TROPHY 

The knockout section of this event 

provided some of the closest matches in 

the entire Championship. 

Semi-Finals 

In the Semi’s Swansea beat Reading 6-2, 

whilst Newcastle and Lancaster had an 

exciting 4-4 draw with Newcastle winning 

narrowly on sets. 

Final 


Sheffield 

The Final was also close but Swansea 

gained the vital match to beat Newcastle 

5-3. 

SHIELD 

Semi-Finals 

In the semis Manchester beat Leeds Met 

6-2, and Bedford De Montford overcame 

Warwick by the same score. 

Final 


Sheffield 

In the final Manchester were denied their 

opportunity to take part in their first Indoor 

Finals for a long time when disappointingly 

Bedford withdrew and conceded. 

ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES v BRITISH 

POLICE 

22 March 2006, University of Birmingham 

British Police is one of the strongest 

service based teams in the UK and 

again gave English Universities a good 

run out, witnessed by the number of 

doubles matches which went to three. 

Sheffield EIS 

However, the Universities were dominant 

in the Men’s Singles and Mixed Doubles 

especially and won out eventually at 12-3. 

For this representative fixture BUSA was 

very grateful to Dave Eddy for managing 

the teams. 

OTHER NEWS 

During the year Elliot Stuart unfortunately 

had to step down from his role as GB team 

coach and also from the management 

group – on behalf of everyone we would 

like to thank him for his valued contribution 

over several years to student Badminton. 

For reports on the British University Games 

Badminton competition please see the 

British Universities Games section. 


BUSA is indebted to the Badminton 

Association of England for its support in 

sending a team to the World University 

Championships in 2006, and to the 

Umpires Association for supplying an 

official into this arena too. 

BASKETBALL 

With 240 Men’s and Women’s teams 

competing in all competitions on 

Wednesday afternoons and evenings, 

basketball continues to be one of the most 

competitive team sports on the BUSA 

calendar. With Melbourne 2006 including 

Basketball, and London 2012 beckoning, 

the interest and development of the sport 

at University level is at an all time high. 

MEN 

Premier League - A high level of 

competition both in the North and South. 

In the Men’s competition Worcester 

dominated the North winning all their 

matches, is this the start of a new 

dynasty Loughborough came second with 

three losses. In the south Middlesex with 

Basketball Final 8’s 

2 defeats pipped Brunel who had 3 losses. 

The next three teams all lost 5 in a very 

tight division. 

WOMEN 

Premier League - Loughborough 

tied with Northumbria in the north with 

one defeat each. The decision going to 

Loughborough on points difference. UWIC 

dominated the Women’s Southern Premier 

league winning all of their league matches. 

Kings and Sussex finished second and third 

on 3 losses each. 

Final 8’s 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

10 –12 March 2006, EIS, Sheffield 

In the men’s Worcester became 

Champions for the second year, when 

they defeated the surprise package of the 

tournament London Met in the final. Highly 

fancied Loughborough were third with 

Birmingham in 4 th place. 

Loughborough women went one step 

further this year and won in the final 

overcoming Northumbria in an all north 

match. Last years Champions Sheffield 

Hallam secured third place with a win over 

Wolverhampton. 

TROPHY 

11 March 2006, EIS, Sheffield 

Manchester won the Men’s Trophy 

defeating Hertfordshire in the Final and 

Cambridge Women defeated Cardiff in the 

Women’s Trophy. 

SHIELD 

11 March 2006, EIS, Sheffield 

London South Bank and Sheffield took the 

respective Men’s and Women’s shields 

from Nottingham Trent and St Mary’s. 


Basketball competition please see the 

British Universities Games section. 

Boxing 


10-11 December 2005, Talybont Sports 

Center, Cardiff 

There was a record entry of 135 but due 

to travel and accommodation difficulties, 

including an appearance of Oasis, the final 

number of boxers weighing in was 64. 

All weights from Featherweight (57Kg) 

through to Super-heavyweight (91+ Kg) 

were contested at Student Level (less than 

10 previous bouts). Four weights at 60kg, 

69kg, 75kg and 90kg were contested in the 

Open Category. 

There were 42 Student bouts and 5 Open 

class bouts. At Student level in the Light 

Heavyweight and Middleweights there 

were preliminary bouts to the Quarter 

Final stages with Semi-Final bout at 

Open class welterweight (69Kg) and light 

Welterweight (64kg). 

There was a very wide scatter of 12 Gold 

Medals with only Oxford and Kingston 

collecting two each. Joseph Hilton being 

the only representative from the home 

institution put on a class performance to 

take gold at Heavyweight (90kg). 

The Standard of boxing was very good, 

particularly in the Open Class and the 

standards of boxing in all divisions are 

improving year on year. 

The organisation and facilities provided 

by Cardiff University, considering it was 

their first boxing championships, has 

to be commended on both in terms of 

organisation and facilities over the whole 

event. 

The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association 

are to be commended on their refereeing 

and judging, although it has to be said that 

they were somewhat overwhelmed by 

both the quality and quantity of the boxing 

on show. This was particularly the case 

with the Women students. 

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY SPORTS 

(SUS BOXING) 

As is usual the Scottish Universities 

Boxing Championships was held at 

Glasgow University during the second 

weekend of February 2006 and on this 

occasion we had the use of the Great 

Debating Chamber of the Students Union. 

There were 36 entrants weighed in 

including every weight from Featherweight 

(57kg) to Superheavyweight (91kg) plus 6 

Women’s entries. The Championships were 

held over a single day with two Finals at 

Lightwelterweights and Middleweight 

being boxed off at a local show. This option 

was only available due to an unusual 

uniformity in numbers of entrants at each 

weight. 

BRITISH & IRISH UNIVERSITIES & 

HOSPITAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 

These Championships had to be transferred 

from Coventry to Dublin at the last minute. 

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association 

allowed us the use of the National Stadium 

in Dublin. 

The Four Nations were fully represented 

at all weights from Featherweight (57kg) 

to Superheavyweight (91+kg) including 

for the first time a full team from the 

Jordanstown campus of the University 

of Ulster. The open class of more than 14 

bouts was at the top end in the European 

Championship standards. 

OTHER NEWS 

Over the year both in England and Scotland 

there were a number of Inter – Varsity 

shows organised by various institutions. In 

both countries combined training courses 

were held. 

In Scotland the Universities took up 

the option of attending official ABS ltd. 

coaching courses and a special course for 

female boxers. 

CANOE 

WHITE WATER RACING CHAMPIONSHIP 

19-20 November 2005, River Washburn, 

North Yorkshire 

The weekend of the 19/20 November the 

River Washburn played host to the annual 

BUSA White Water Racing Championships 

for the second time. The event, one of 

the four big annual student competitions, 

the first of the three BUSA recognised 

events, saw over 200 competitors from 17 

universities competing in nine events. 

Despite a bitterly cold start, Saturday 

witnessed a packed day of competitive 

racing, pure determination, swims and 

broken boats in the Men’s and Women’s 

K1, C1 and C2 classes. The race requires 

top-speed paddling down the River 

Washburn, as well as manoeuvring around 

numerous rocks, trees and rapids, and 

shooting several weirs! Completion of the 

course is no mean feat - the largest weir, 

a huge drop followed by a large wave, 

ended many competitors' races as they 

swam from their kayaks and were unable 

to continue. 

Sunday started early with the Open event 

and the fiercely contested ‘head to head’ 

Duo races. The team events followed 

before some frantic calculation of results 

and prize giving. After their narrow defeat 

last year, Loughborough put in a strong all 

round performance to top the points table 

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CANOE POLO 

21-23 April 2006, Hatfield Water Park, 

Doncaster 

In the Open event defending Champions 

Nottingham retained their title over 

Loughborough. Warwick took the bronze 

beating UWE. 

In the Ladies event London also retained 

their title beating Durham. Newcastle 

picked up bronze over Birmingham. 

CANOE SLALOM 

18-19 February 2006, Teesside 

The K1 Men’s event was won by 

Loughborough University’s Andy Hadfield, 

silver and bronze positions went to 

Nottingham students Rob Neave and David 

Backhouse. 

In the K1 Women’s category, Lizzie Neave 

of Loughborough was first, with Heather 

Corrie (Loughborough) and Rebecca Shea 

(Teesside) second and third respectively. 

The C1 class saw Marvin Rounce 

(Nottingham Trent), coming in ahead of 

Toby Scott (Nottingham) and Alexandre 

Lismonde (Edinburgh). 

Nottingham’s Fraser Florence and David 

Backhouse went on to take the title in the 

C2 event. 

A points system devised to reward 

success and participation placed 

Loughborough as Overall University 

Champions followed by Nottingham and 

Durham. 


Thanks must go to: 

Birmingham University Kayak Club for 

organising the event 

(http://www.bukc.org.uk ) 

Desperate Measures 

(http://www.desperate-measures.co.uk ) 

Grimsby and Cleethorpes District Scouts 

Catering Team 

The Washburn Committee (http://www. 

bcu.org.uk/yorkshire/washburn.htm) 

The GB Wild Water Racing Committee 

(http://www.wildwater.org.uk) 

BUSA would like to take this opportunity 

to thank the Friends of Durham University 

Canoe Club, in particular Chris Lomas, who 

ran an exemplary Championships on the 

Association’s behalf. 

CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

25 February 2006, West Midlands 

Shooting Ground, Hodnet, Shropshire. 

A record 243 competitors descended 

on the beautiful setting of the West 

Midlands Shooting Ground for the 2006 

Championships. This year saw the 

continuation of two courses being offered 

to cater for both novice and experienced 

competitors including the numerous guests 

in the Graduate category. 

After the morning mist had cleared the 

competitors set out onto the course and 

headed for their favoured starting points. 

The Men’s Team Championship saw a 

new line up of Medallists this year with 

Hull taking gold with 211 points followed 

closely by Reading on 210 ahead of RAC 

on 205. 

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Harper Adams showed the strength and 

depth in the Men’s Trophy competition 

with their 3rd team taking joint 1st with 

Reading on 176 points and Harper Adams 

2nd team wining bronze with 171 points. 

The Women’s Team Championships 

was another close fought competition 

with Harper Adams just beating Hull 

into 1st place with 128 and 126 points 

respectively. Royal Agricultural College 

picked up bronze Medals with 115 points. 

Individual success was enjoyed by Royal 

Agricultural College’s Simon Rood who 

shot 42 just edging out Paul Peacock 

(Bishop Burton) on 41 with Philip Masters 

and Paul Clark (Northumbria) 40. 

The Women’s Individual title was taken by 

Lucy Righton (Harper Adams) who shot 29 

with a three way tie for second place going 

to Ellie Tomlinson (RAC), Emily Browne 

(Bristol) and Amanda Coward (Bishop 

Burton) all shooting 26. 


BUSA would like to thank Tom Jones and 

his staff at the West Midlands Shooting 

Ground for once again offering such a 

warm welcome to everyone and providing 

such excellent facilities. BUSA would 

also like to thank the volunteers from 

Harper Adams whose assistance with 

registration, results and presentations is 

much appreciated. 

CLIMBING 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

11 March 2006, Craggy Island Climbing 

Centre 

A record entry of 197 Men and 97 

Women took part in the 2005-2005 BUSA 

Bouldering Championships, Craggy 

Island Climbing Centre, Guildford 

Bouldering Championships. With entries 

up by just under a third from the previous 

year’s competition Craggy Island was 

bustling with spectators, judges and 

competitors. 

The Individual Men’s competition 

was closely contested with Tim Gore 

(Nottingham) taking gold with 250 points 

followed closely by Anthony Simpson 

(Derby) on 247 points ahead of last years 

winner Tom Lawrence (Manchester) and 

Dave Goodman (Swansea) who tied for 

bronze on 235 points. 

The Individual Women’s competition 

resulted in a tie between last years winner 

Emma Twyford (Sheffield Hallam) and 

Jemma Powell (UW Bangor) both scoring 

197 points to take gold. Lucy Griffiths 

(Leeds), last year’s silver Medallist, took 

bronze with 189 points. 

The Team competition, which consists 

of three competitors, was won by UW 

Bangor with a total of 653 points beating 

Manchester 2 into second place with 634 

and Swansea into third place with 606. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

BUSA would like to thank Mark Pretty (Zippy) 

for once again setting some challenging 

routes, Maz Cox, Route Judge Co-ordinator 

and to the Route Judge volunteers from each 

institution without whom the event would 

not be possible. A special thanks also to 

Craggy Island Climbing Centre for hosting 

such a great event. 

CRICKET 

MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 

It was another exciting season for BUSA 

cricket with just short of 180 teams 

entering, an increase on the previous 

season. 

The Premier League A comprised of 7 

teams: 5 MCC Universities (Cambridge, 

Cardiff, Durham, Loughborough and Oxford) 

and Exeter and Nottingham Universities. 

With Championship Semi-Final places at 

stake, there was a close battle for the top 

3 positions with only 2 points between 

the teams, but it was Cardiff who finished 

top ahead of Loughborough and Durham 

respectively. 

As winners of the North and South Premier 

League Bs, UWIC and Loughborough 1st 

played off for the remaining Championship 

Semi-Final place. It was Loughborough 

who were able to build on their wins from 

the league and book their place against 

Cardiff UCCE. 

Semi-Finals 

In the first Semi-Final between 

Loughborough UCCE and Durham UCCE, 

Nigel Farrow 

Cricket Championship Finals, Derby CCC 

play followed form with Loughborough 

winning comfortably. In the second Semi- 

Final, hampered by rain, Loughborough 

1st took an unexpected win against 

Premier League A Champions to book their 

place in the Final against their University 

colleagues. 

Final 

15 June 2006, The County Ground, 

Derbyshire 

In a match that should have seen the 

Loughborough UCCE team victorious it 

turned out to be one of the most thrilling 

Finals the BUSA Cricket Championships 

had enjoyed for a number of years. 

Loughborough 1st won the toss and put 

their compatriots in to bat. The UCCE 

team scored 201, a substantial score for 

the wicket and would prove a challenging 

run chase for the 1st team to reach. A 

number of good batting partnerships 

saw the total required reducing but with 

wickets being lost a thrilling finish seemed 

in prospect. This remained the case until 

the last three overs of the match when 

the Loughborough 1sts seemed unwilling 

to accept defeat. Requiring six an over to 

win for much of the innings, a partnership 

between Liam Lewis and Barbar Kahn 

edged the first team nearer to their target. 

The Loughborough crowd were at the 

edge of their seat in the closing overs of 

the game, but BUSA Player of the Final 

Babar Kahn eased their nerves striking the 

winning runs to complete a superb innings 

of 41 not out. Also significant for the 

victorious Loughborough 1st team was 55 

by captain Johnny Hughes. 

TROPHY 

In the first Semi-Final Bradford/Leeds UCCE 

overcame UWIC comfortably to win by 

9 wickets. Bournemouth had an equally 

comfortable victory, beating Northumbria 

by 160 runs. 

Final 

12 June, Luton Town & Indians CC 

Bradford/Leeds UCCE scored 262/7 from 

their innings which was too much for 

Bournemouth who were all out for 195. 

SHIELD 

12 June, Bawtry Road, Sheffield 

Loughborough’s strength in depth was 

evident as their 2nd team beat Durham 2nd 

by 13 runs. 

PLATE 

Bolton University 1st were on fine form, 

capitalising on their home advantage, to 

beat Cardiff 2nd by 107 runs. 

WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 

Loughborough once again won the 

Northern Premier League, being 

undefeated on their way to the knock outs. 

In the South Oxford were triumphant, also 

winning all of their matches. 

Semi -Finals 

The Semi -Finals went to form with 

Loughborough and Oxford winning 

comfortably beating Bath and Cambridge 

respectively. 

Finals 

12 June 2006, The Parks, Oxford 

Having eased relatively smoothly into the 

Finals, both teams faced their toughest 

opponents of the season. Despite the 

competition, Loughborough were able to 

retain their trophy once again to confirm 

their position as the number one University 

in Women’s Cricket. 

TROPHY 

Last years runners up, Leeds, managed 

to contain Durham to 77 for 2 off their 

allocated overs and made amends for the 

previous season by scoring 78 of just over 

15 overs and taking the title. 

MEN’S INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 

The Men’s Indoor Championship is 

restricted to 36 teams in order to produce 

a tournament with six heats and a Final 

comprising the six heat winners. Heats 

at The Rosebowl, Bawtry Road, The Oval, 

Old Trafford, Glamorgan National Cricket 

Centre and the Newcastle Cricket Centre 

culminated in an excellent Finals day at 

Lord’s on 11 March. In the Final, Warwick 

overcame Leeds Metropolitan to take the 

title. 

WOMEN’S INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 

The Women’s Indoor Championship 

consisted of 2 regional groups of 8 with 

the Final being held at Edgbaston on 4 

March. Loughborough retained their title, 

beating Oxford in the Final. 

HOME NATIONS TOURNAMENT 

This year’s Home Nations was held 

in Belfast, with matches being held at 

the RUC ground at Newforge and the 

impressive Stormont ground which had 

recently hosted a one day International 

fixture. 

Despite threatening clouds, the weather 

held up for some fine fixtures with the 

all to play for on the last day. Battling it 

out for the title were the holders English 

Universities and the host Irish Universities. 

After some solid batting from both Bassett 

and Khan, English Universities were 

triumphant winning by 8 wickets. The 

Welsh Universities beat the Scottish in 

their final match to take 3rd place. 

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES V SRI LANKA 

24-26 April 2006, Fenners, Cambridge 

In a valiant three day match, British 

Universities secured a draw against the 

experienced Sri Lankans in the first match 

of their tour. 

Despite finding themselves 6 for 3, an 

impressive comeback allowed the visitors 

to declare at lunch on the second day, 

setting the BUSA side 421 for victory 

and giving themselves two sessions to 

bowl out the students. David Balcombe 

(Durham) took 3 for 67in 18 overs whilst 

Sri Lanka’s Thilan Samaraweera scored 

114. 

Paul Harrison (Loughborough) and 

Balcombe ultimately saved the game 

batting out the last 15 overs for the draw. 

Another notable performance came from 

Damian Shirazi (Loughborough) who batted 

throughout the first session. 

CYCLING 

HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIPS 

29 October 2005, Curbar Gap, Nr Baslow, 

Derbyshire 

With a record entry of 117 riders it was all 

down to the last rider Matt Clinton to clinch 

the title for Leeds who posted the fastest 

time of 5.43.8. Leeds retained their Team 

title from last year whilst Loughborough 

took the Women’s title but missed out on 

Individual gold taken by Rachel Hughes 

(Oxford). Guest appearance by Jimmy 

Saville and a unicycle all added to make 

this a Hill climb time trial with a difference. 

Special thanks go to the landlord of The 

Bridge Inn for providing an excellent 

headquarters and suitable refreshments. 

CYCLO-CROSS CHAMPIONSHIPS 

29 January 2006, Hagley Park School, 

Rugeley 

On a fine if not cold day Mark Thwaites 

(Leeds Met) took the BUSA title in a 

convincing win over Ben Simmons 

(Newport) with Dan Harding (Warwick) 

taking bronze. Will Simmons (Leeds) 

the defending Champion led home the 

Leeds Team with Matt Clinton and 

Antony Salmon to retain their team title. 

In the Women's Championship Abbie 

Thorrington (Essex) took gold, Anna 

Watson from Birmingham took silver 

whilst Chloe Parrington took bronze but 

also scooped the team gold with Eva 

Brevchova for Loughborough. Thanks to 

Chris Ife for organising the event. 

MOUNTAIN BIKE CHAMPIONSHIPS 

18-19 March 2006, Eastridge 

In stark contrast to last years sunny 

weather in Scotland this year’s event 

suffered the worst weather ever 

experienced for the Championships with 

freezing temperatures adding to the wet 

and muddy location. Despite this over 450 

competitors representing over 50 different 

Universities descended on Eastridge to 

contest both Downhill and Cross Country 

titles over the long weekend. 

With 2 timed runs and the best to count 

in the Downhill Championship Philip 

Shucksmith (Cardiff) took the title by 

a comfortable margin of just under 3 

seconds from Mike Gray (Bristol).In the 

Team Championship, where the aggregate 

of 3 riders times count, Cardiff took gold 

with Manchester taking silver and closely 

followed by Swansea. 

Sue Mahony (Bristol) was overjoyed in 

taking the title for the 2nd year running 

in the Women’s event with Jaymie Mart 

(Glasgow Caledonian) a former Champion in 

2004 having to settle for Silver. Bristol also 

claimed the Women’s team downhill title. 

The following day’s cross country course 

included some very steep muddy sections 

coupled with single track weaving 

through and over the Eastridge Hills.Will 

Simmons (Leeds) took the Championship 

in a close battle with Mansour Youssef 

(Loughborough) with only a margin of 27 

seconds after nearly 2 hours racing. Leeds 

retained team victory over Edinburgh with 

Loughborough pushed into bronze. Meg 

Bichard (Bristol) rode a confident race 

to add to the Bristol medal tally in the 

Women’s event also scooping the team 

award with Zoe Schnepp. 


Acknowledgements go to Steve Parr and 

‘gang’ for organising on the ground, Jamie 

Todd & Crew from Extreme Medical for 

dealing with all the casualties and Pearce 

Cycles for an excellent results service 

which all added to make this quality event 

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of National Standing. Many thanks also 

go to Descent World for sponsoring the 

Downhill Championship and for Si Patton 

for providing commentary at the event. 

Special thanks to Phil ‘the farmer’ whom 

without his efforts the event would have 

been cancelled. 

TEAM TIME TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 

8 April 2006, Oxford 

A total of 12 teams competed over 50 km 

for the Team Time Trial Championship. 

Oxford University's team were favourites 

but a strong ride by Leeds gave them a 

winning margin of nearly 6 minutes. Many 

thanks to Ralph Dadswell (Antelope RT) for 

organising the event. 

25 MILE TIME TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 

6 May 2006, Oxford 

Oxford took home a huge medal haul 

from the 10 & 25 Mile events with Danny 

Axford and Rachel Hughes taking Individual 

Championships and both leading their 

respective teams to victory. 

Many thanks to Oxford and Cambridge 

Universities for organising the events. 

ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS 

4 June 2006, Clows Top 

Stephan Wolfer (Loughborough) was the 

winner of the BUSA championships when 

he sprinted away up the final climb to win 

from Dave Maclean (Nottingham) and 

Thomas Murray (Sheffield Hallam). Prior 

to that final sprint, a break of three, Tom 

Crouch (Sheffield), Dave McClean and 

Stephan Wolfer got away on the first lap 

and built up a lead of about 45 seconds. 

The break happened when Wolfer went 

off the front on the first climb east of 

Lindridge, looked back to see who would 

go with him and luckily a few managed 

to get up to him and in turn increased the 

lead per lap. He was joined by Euan Adams 

(Swansea),Thomas Murray and William 

Smith (Liverpool). Euan suffered knee 

problems and drifted back to the bunch 

on the penultimate lap with Ian Guffick 

(Gloucestershire) breaking away from the 

bunch, then more than 3 minutes behind. 

Thanks again go to Paul Jose and the 

Midlands Division of British Cycling for 

assistance in running this event. 

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section. 

EQUESTRIAN 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

19-21 April 2006, Uttoxeter 

71 Teams started competing in league 

matches in December running through to 

March. Winning teams (18) and highest 

scoring individuals (2) from each league 

progressed to Regional rounds, one held in 

each region. From each regional round the 

winning Team and the three highest placed 

individuals not on the winning team moved 

on to the Championships. 

Equestrian Championship Finals, 

Uttoxeter 

The Equestrian Championships were held 

at Field House Equestrian, Uttoxeter for 

the 24th and final time. 6 teams and 18 

individuals contested but Southampton 

came away victorious overall with 

Birmingham chasing. The Aberdeen team 

won the Dressage phase as a team while 

Birmingham took the spoils in the team 

Show-Jumping. 

Individually overall, Samantha Cutts 

(Cambridge) was the runaway winner 

with Jenny Morris (Southampton) in 

second. Samantha also won the Individual 

Dressage phase while Tracey McRae 

(Bradford) won Individual Show-Jumping. 

SHIELD 

29 March 2006, Wellington 

55 Teams began the competition. Each 

team held their league match and the team 

with the most points from each league (14) 

progressed directly to the largest Shield 

Final BUSA had held. 

The Shield Final was held on 29 March 

at Wellington Equestrian, Hampshire. 

Edinburgh consolidated the long drive with 

a win, while Southampton 2 and Glasgow 

had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively. 

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FENCING 


9-11 December 2005, Nottingham 

University 

The Individual Championships attracted 

a record 554 entries across the three 

weapons (Foil, Sabre and Epee). The 

Championships has continued to grow 

in popularity each year outlining the 

popularity of student fencing. 

The Championships began on Friday with 

the Men’s Epee and Women’s Sabre 

events. The pool stages were as hotly 

contested as ever. Each competitor 

advanced to the exciting direct elimination 

stages on a seeded basis ensuring an 

eventful day for everyone. In a repeat 

of the 2004 final, Tom Bennett (Royal 

Holloway) fought Tristan Lane (Imperial). 

Bennett reversed the Medals this year 

though and took the gold Medal. The 

Women’s Sabre title was won by Jenna 

Ashton (Durham) beating Ellie Collier 

(Sheffield) in the Final. 

Women's Sabre & Men's Epee 

Friday 9 December 2005 

Saturday was the longest day as the Men’s 

Foil and Women’s Epee events got under 

way. World University Games student 

Laurence Halsted (Sussex) defeated 

Andrew Amery (Birmingham) in a closely 

contested final. Jayne Crook (Kingston) 

retained her title by defeating Hannah 

Chenneour-Cocking (Birmingham) in a hard 

fought Final. 

Sunday bought the event to a close with 

the Women’s Foil and Men’s Sabre. The 

Foil Final was a tough encounter Claire 

Bennett (Durham) beat the Epee gold 

Medal winner Jayne Crook (Kingston). In a 

thrilling climax to the Championships, the 

high quality Men’s Sabre Final between 

Harry Moncreiff (St Andrews) and Julian 

Nelis (Bristol). Nelis, aiming to retain his 

title was eventually beaten by Moncrieff 

who took gold in front of the crowds of 

spectators. 

BUSA would like to thank the University of 

Fencing Individual Championships, 

University of Nottingham 

Nottingham and the Sports Centre staff for 

hosting and supporting the event so well. 

A special thanks also to all of the high level 

referee’s and volunteers that assisted at 

the Individuals. 

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 

59 teams in the Men’s competition and 

53 teams in the Women’s competition 

entered into the leagues this season. The 

league stages provided qualifiers to the 

Championship, Trophy, and Shield knockout 

competition. 

INDOOR FINALS 

25 March 2006, EIS Sheffield 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Semi Finals and Finals 

The Semi-Finals were St Andrews v Bristol 

and Cambridge v Oxford. Both matches 

were hotly contested with a place in the 

Final that afternoon at stake. St Andrews 

and Oxford came out triumphant in each 

contest leaving themselves just a few 

hours to prepare for the Final. The crowds 

of supporters grabbed the best viewing 

point and settled to watch a classic Final 

which saw Oxford victorious defeating St 

Andrews by 135-112. 

TROPHY 

Finals 

The strength and depth of Fencing at 

Oxford University was illustrated with their 

second team reaching the Finals of the 

Men’s Trophy competition. Unfortunately 

for them the University of London proved 

to be too strong defeating Oxford by 135- 

113. In the Women’s Final Exeter were 

delighted to take gold by beating Liverpool 

by 135-100. 

SHIELD 

Finals 

The Shield Finals were won by Aberdeen 

who demonstrated their dominance over 

Surrey, comfortably beating them 135-88. 

The Sheffield EIS proved to be an excellent 

venue for the Finals and allowed the ever 

increasing number of spectators to enjoy 

the best of university fencing. BUSA would 

once again like to thank the referees for 

their continued involvement and support 

for student fencing. 

FOOTBALL 

MEN 

The Men’s Football competition remains 

the single biggest participation event in the 

BUSA programme with a record 434 teams 

taking part. This equates to over 7,000 

students taking part each Wednesday. This 

season four knockout competitions were 

offered across 69 leagues, illustrating the 

broad pyramid of the football programme. 

Loughborough Men’s Football Champions, QPR FC, Loftus Road 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Semi-Finals 

Bath 5 Warwick 2 

MMU Cheshire 0 Loughborough 1 

The Championship Semi-Finals took place 

at Coventry University. Both matches 

were closely contested and with a place 

at Loftus Road on offer. After a period of 

extra time Bath defeated Warwick to set 

up a repeat of last years Final against 

Loughborough. 

Final 

3 May 2006, Loftus Road 

With the Championship Trophy at stake 

both sides understandably played out 

a tentative first half with both teams 

appearing reluctant to push forward in 

search of the opening goal. Both sides 

were undoubtedly totally committed to the 

cause, with clattering challenges being 

made by both sides. So at half time the 

scores remained 0-0. The second half was 

more open and in the 60 th minute Bath 

took the lead through Sean Canham from 

the penalty spot. Bath were undoubtedly 

playing the better football at this stage. 

However, within the next 10 minutes 

a bizarre turn of events saw the game 

reverse somewhat with the title suddenly 

heading towards the west Midlands. The 

Loughborough centre forward, Robbie 

Simpson, equalised with a header from 

close range but then needlessly got himself 

sent off for a second caution for deliberate 

handball when at one time it looked as if 

he was heading for the Player of the Final 

award. The sending off seemed to inspire 

Loughborough to a new level and Bath 

seemingly losing concentration conceded 

a second goal a few minutes later scored 

by Simon Doleman. Having taken the lead 

Loughborough kept 10 men behind the 

ball and despite a concerted effort from 

Bath, Loughborough managed to hold on 

to secure the victory 2-1. There was some 

consolation for Bath as the Player of the 

Final was awarded to Kes Metiri. 

Play-offs 

Next year’s Premier Leagues will be 

bolstered by the inclusion of two excellent 

sides; Leeds Metropolitan in the North and 

Brighton in the South. 

TROPHY 

Final 

5 April 2006, Hertfordshire University 

The Trophy Final was contested between 

UWE Hartpury and St Mary’s College. 

The timing of the Final could hardly have 

been worse for St. Mary’s. The team were 

on tour in Spain but one can only admire 

their determination and commitment as 

they interrupted their tour to fly in on the 

morning of the game and fly back out 

immediately afterwards. Unfortunately 

they ran into a very strong and powerful 

Hartpury side many of whom had played 

in the previous years Shield Final against 

MMU, and who had already tasted victory. 

The game was effectively won in the 

first 20 minutes with Hartpury scoring 4 

goals. It looked as if St Marys might stage 

a comeback when they scored just after 

half time, but Hartpury went on to score 

another two goals taking the score to 6-1. 

SHIELD 

Final 

5 April 2006, Coventry University 

Both finalists had played some tough 

matches in the knock-out stages of the 

Shield competition and the Final proved 

to be no exception. De Montfort (Bedford) 

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scored the only goal of the game taking 

victory over Cardiff. 

PLATE 

Final 

26 April 2006, University of Essex 

This was the first time an Essex side had 

reached a BUSA Final and no stone was 

left unturned to ensure that this would 

indeed be a memorable occasion. The 

arrival of Leeds Met to the home venue 

of Essex was eagerly anticipated and a 

throng of Essex supporters gathered to 

cheer on the home side. Leeds made the 

better start and their superior height was 

used to good effect when they scored 

form a corner. Unperturbed Essex carried 

the fight to the Leeds side but couldn’t 

equalise before half time. From the restart 

Essex pulled out all the stops in search 

of an equaliser and for 20 minutes Essex 

were definitely the better side and their 

endeavour was finally rewarded when they 

scored a well deserved equaliser. However, 

without a game in five weeks Essex’s lack 

of match fitness and a couple of enforced 

substitutions Leeds Met managed to 

regain the match. Another set piece saw 

Leeds score a second goal a few minutes 

from the end and Essex could not recover 

in time. 

WOMEN 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Final 

3 May 2006, Loftus Rd 

Loughborough reached the final but 

unlike the previous 3 Finals this year 

they met UWIC and not Bath. This was 

a very open game with both sides eager 

to push forward in search of the opening 

goal. Unquestionably Loughborough had 

the better of the opening exchanges and 

it was no surprise when they took the 

lead through Milly Durrant. The lead was 

not held for long though. Miranda Hall 

scored a controversial equaliser when 

the Loughborough keeper could only half 

save a speculative shot only to see it drop 

agonisingly over the line. The assistant 

referee was in prime position and the 

consensus in the stands was that the 

correct decision was made. This set back 

only seemed to galvanise Loughborough to 

a new level and they increasingly imposed 

themselves on the game. Ultimately the 

pressure told on a creaking UWIC defence 

and Loughborough ran out deserved 3- 1 

winners with goals from Amber Cook and 

Anna Renkin. Loughborough had several 

outstanding players on display but Annie 

Barratt was awarded Player of the Final. 

TROPHY 

Final 

5 April, 2006 Hertfordshire University 

Loughborough demonstrated their strength 

and depth in Women’s Football by their 

second team successfully making it 

through to the Final. Both teams gave 

very little away in the first half with few 

scoring opportunities. Half way through 

the second half, just when it looked like 

extra time may be imminent Cardiff scored 

and took the glory away from the holders 

Loughborough. 

SHIELD 

Final 

5 April 2006, Coventry University 

With Liverpool Hope fielding a weakened 

side due to touring commitments, UWE 

dominated the game and put away 13 

goals in a one sided Final. 

PLATE 

Final 

1 March 2006, University of Sunderland 

Sunderland 3 Manchester Metropolitan 0 

Play-offs 

Next year’s Premier Leagues will be 

bolstered by the inclusion of two excellent 

sides; Sheffield Hallam in the North who 

narrowly missed out on a place in the 

Championship Final and in the Bristol in 

the South. 

OTHER NEWS 


Football competition please see the British 

Universities Games section. 


A massive 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 

finals, to Bryn Clarke at Hertfordshire and 

Alan Moore at Coventry 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 who 

was so influential in securing QPR’s ground 

for the Championship final at QPR. 

GAELIC FOOTBALL 

MENS 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

10-12 February 2006, Birmingham 

Semi-Finals 

The draw kept the two Liverpool’s sides 

apart in their respective Semi-Finals, and 

both against Scottish opposition with 

Liverpool Hope up against the conquerors 

of St Mary’s, Robert Gordon while 

Liverpool John Moore’s confronted Napier. 

The first Semi-Final saw Liverpool John 

Moore’s take an early lead over Napier, 

who soon fought back, but LJM came back 

in the second half to win on a score line of 

2-4 to 0-8. 

In the second Semi-Final Liverpool Hope 

eased their way to victory against St Mary’s 

with a winning score line of 1-6 to 0-2. 

Final 

The scene was set for the spectacle of 

a local Liverpool Derby to decide the 

British Championships and direct entry 

to the Semi-Final of the Trench Cup 

Championship. 

Hope had bettered John Moores in the 

regional qualifiers by 2 points in November, 

but the Moores team had been training 

hard under the guidance of former player, 

and University All-Star, Shane McCann 

(Tyrone). 

John Moore’s applied the early pressure 

but the Hope defence was up to the 

challenge and their keeper looked safe 

under the high ball. John Moore’s took 

an early lead after some great play by 

captain Paudie Finnegan, supported by 

his forwards, Breslin and Traynor. Colm 

McFadden of Liverpool Hope scored from 

a free and they came more into the game 

and the half time score was LJM 0-4, 

Liverpool Hope 0-3. 

On the re-start Hope came out on fire 

recording the first score of the second 

half to bring themselves level. There were 

few scoring opportunities for Hope as 

the Moores defence was allowing few 

chances. They continued to battle right up 

until the final whistle and in an intensive 

last few minutes Liverpool John Moore’s 

defence were not giving an inch and were 

able to handle everything that Hope could 

throw at them and held out until the final 

whistle for a very impressive victory, 0-7 

to 0-5. 

This was the 3 rd British title won by 

Liverpool John Moore’s in the 15 years 

of the tournament with their previous 

victories coming in 1996 and 1999. After 

the celebrations on the pitch Team Captain 

Paudie Finnegan (Monaghan) accepted the 

trophy from GAA six times All-Star Peter 

Canavan and dedicated the win to his two 

team mates who could not take part in 

the Final due to injury and illness and also 

accepted the Player of the Final Award. 

Liverpool John Moores went on to 

represent the British Universities in the 

Semi-Finals of the Trench Cup, which took 

place at UCD on February 24 th , where 

they played valiantly but eventually lost to 

tournament winners UCD. 

DIVISION 2 FINALS 

6 teams contested the second division 

Finals which was played between Glasgow 

and Preston. Preston hit their points early 

and built up a good lead entering half-time. 

Glasgow battled back in the 2 nd half, but 

Preston were the deserved champions 

winning on the scoreline: Preston 3-9 

Glasgow 0-10. 

THE PLATE 

The 2006 Plate (3 rd Division) saw an 

all-time high of 13 teams compete. For 

the first time Chester and Sunderland met 

in the Final. Sunderland dominated play 

in the first half, lead by their impressive 

half forward, Paul Close of Antrim. As 

was the case in many of the matches this 

weekend, the final was won on goals, 

Sunderland 2-7 to Chester 0-7. 

A unique feature of the 2006 Plate 

tournament was the participation of a team 

from Rhennes in France who played 6 Plate 

matches and in one of these they managed 

a draw against their Irish counterparts. 

WOMEN’S 

DIVISION 1 CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL 

In a repeat of the last 3 year’s Finals, 

St. Mary’s would look to retain the title 

they have owned since the inception of 

this tournament 10 years ago. Hope having 

been the bridesmaid so many times were 

determined to do what no other team had 

done, beat St. Mary’s in the Final. 

Under the guidance of Paul Mullane, the 

Women had been training hard for months. 

Many of the St. Mary’s players were from 

the London GAA scene as they play for 

2005 championship winners Fr. Murphys. 

As the referee sounded his whistle to 

signal the start of the match, a large crowd 

of spectators gathered to take in this 

Championship Final. St Mary’s were strong 

in the first half, but Hope burst back with 

a beauty of a goal from full-forward Ciara 

Hayes (Armagh). Hope would add to their 

tally and go into the half-time leading 1-4 

to 1-2. 

On the re-start Hope picked-up where 

they left off, recording the first point of the 

second half, then adding a second before 

St Mary’s found their form. The result 

was a series of frees were awarded to St. 

Mary’s in their own end, however, they 

could not convert them into badly needed 

scores. Hope finally were able to work the 

ball back down the field, and as the result 

of a poor kick-out from the St. Mary’s 

keeper, recorded yet another score. 

New champions were crowned in 

Teesside, Liverpool Hope. Final score 1-6 

to 1-3. 

Liverpool Hope full forward, Ciara Hayes 

was named Player of the Final. 

GOLF 

The 2005-2006 season proved once 

again to be popular amongst students 

and Universities. A Strokeplay Order of 

Merit, consisting of results from 4 distinct 

tournaments, was implemented for the 

second time alongside the traditional team 

Matchplay and Strokeplay Championships 

and the International Representative 

programme. More than 500 students from 

75 different Universities participated in the 

BUSA Golf programme over the past 12 

months. 

MATCHPLAY 

9 -10 May, Woodhall Spa 

87 teams competed in 13 conference 

leagues in an attempt to reach the 

prestigious Finals staged at the excellent 

Woodhall Spa home of the English Golf 

Union. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

In a strong Final series Birmingham, Exeter, 

Northumbria and Stirling played off in the 

Semi-Finals. Birmingham overcame a 

determined Northumbria in an extra hole 

playoff while Stirling accounted for Exeter. 

In a closely fought Final, Stirling triumphed 

for the second consecutive year. 

TROPHY 

Loughborough and Heriot Watt qualified for 

the Trophy Final after the last-4 victories 

over Plymouth and Aberdeen. In the Trophy 

Final, Loughborough dominated the match 

winning 7-2 against Heriot Watt. 

SHIELD 

Exeter 2nds and Liverpool qualified to the 

Final. Unfortunately, Liverpool forfeited the 

match with Exeter 2nds taking the Shield 

title. 

COMPETITION 

BUSA Team Matchplay Championship 

BUSA Team Matchplay Trophy 

BUSA Team Matchplay Trophy 

BUSA Team Strokeplay Championship 

BUSA Strokeplay Championship 

Order of Merit Round 1: 

St. Andrews Bay Resort 


Rudding Park GC 


De Vere Mottram Hall 


Tytherington & De Vere Mottram Hall 

Order of Merit Overall 

Matchplay Championships, Woodhall 

Spa Golf Club 

INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM STROKEPLAY 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

12-14 June 2006, The Tytherington Club & 

De Vere Mottram Hall 

Over 90 Men and 14 Women took part 

in the 72-hole strokeplay event played 

over the over the two courses. The team 

tournament was decided after 36-holes, 

with Stirling emerging triumphant on 441, 

followed by Northumbria (446) and Stirling 

2nds (459). 

The Men’s Individual event was closely 

contested with Birmingham’s Ed Parker 

finishing on a 1-over par total of 289 

to win by two shots from Sean Heads 

(Northumbria, 291). In the Women’s event, 

Janet Phipps (Exeter, 315) came home 

strongly posting 3-under over the final 36 

holes to win by 8 shots from Abertay’s 

Kerri Harper (323). 

WINNERS 

Stirling 

Loughborough 

Exeter 

Stirling 

Men: Ed Parker (Birmingham University) 

Women: Janet Phipps (Exeter University) 

Men: Paul Betty(Stirling) 

Women: Kylie Walker (Stirling) 

Men: Nick Scholey (Northumbria) & 

Billy Hemstock (Cardiff) 

Women: Olivia Briggs (Stirling) 

Men: Ed Parker (Birmingham) 

Women: Olivia Briggs (Stirling) 


Women: Janet Phipps (Exeter) 


Women: Janet Phipps (Exeter) 

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ORDER OF MERIT 

Collated points totals from individual 

events hosted by St. Andrews Bay Resort, 

Rudding Park & Cookridge Hall, De Vere 

Mottram Hall and The Tytherington Club 

Golf Courses saw Birmingham’s Ed Parker 

and Exeter’s Janet Phipps triumphant in 

the inaugural Men’s and Women’s Order of 

Merit events. 

A full list of BUSA Golf prize winners is 

listed below: 

REPRESENTATIVE 

In a close fixture, British Universities won 

against Durham Counties 10-8, 4-2 in the 

foursomes and a fighting 6-6 in the singles. 

England Universities lost 8.5-3.5 to 

Midlands Counties. 

HOME INTERNATIONALS 

22-24 August 2006, Dudsbury Golf Club, 

Bournemouth 

The R&A sponsored British Universities 

Golf Home Internationals were 2006 staged 

at Dudsbury Golf Club, Bournemouth 

on 22-24 August 2006. Four Men’s and 

three Women’s team competed over the 

three days with England successfully 

winning both the Men’s and Women’s 

trophies. There were many notable 

individual performances, none more so 

than Kerry Harper (Scotland) who set the 

course record then equalled the record in 

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OTHER NEWS 

Congratulations are extended to Richard 

Ramsay (Stirling) on his victory at the US 

Amateur Championship and for selection 

for Europe in the Bonnallack Trophy and 

the Palmer Cup. 


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 

11 March 2006, Lilleshall National Sports 

Centre 

This year’s Championships saw a record 

number of entries into both the Men’s and 

Women’s grade 1 and grade 2 categories. 

The morning of the Championships saw 

the grade 1 and grade 2 Individual events 

contested and then the Team events 

followed in the afternoon. 

At grade 1, six Men and two Women 

contested the Men’s and Women’s 

Championships respectively. Sam Buck 

(Loughborough) won the Men’s event 

while Gloucestershire’s Carolyn Fyfe won 

the Women’s event. 

At grade 2 some 43 Women and 17 Men 

contested the titles. Matthew Bullimore 

(Oxford) took the Men’s title and Kate 

Moran (Leeds) won the Women’s. 

In the team events in the afternoon, the 

Men’s Championship proved to be very 

exciting with Leeds Met A taking the title 

from last year’s winners Loughborough. 

UWIC A took the bronze. 

In the Women’s Championship the 

favourites UWIC fought off a strong 

challenge again this year by Leeds Met to 

take the gold. Birmingham took bronze. 

HOCKEY 

MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 

2005/2006 has seen another season of 

high quality hockey across the leagues. 

254 Men’s teams entered the BUSA 

competition and produced some exciting 

encounters and a host of goals. 

Premier League - In the Men’s Premier 

League North Birmingham emerged as the 

dominant force winning all but two of their 

games (Nottingham and Loughborough 

away). Loughborough were second with 

Nottingham University showing well in 

third place. In Men’s Premier League South 

London Metropolitan again proved too 

strong for the rest of the competition but 

obviously don’t travel well as they lost 

to Exeter and drew with Bath away from 

home. Exeter and Bath were second and 

third respectively. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

The Championships again provided 

a wealth of top quality competition. 

Loughborough, Exeter, London Met. 

and Birmingham again made it through 

into the Semi-Final draw. Loughborough 

overcame Liverpool JMU and Edinburgh, 

Exeter beating both Nottingham Trent 

University and Nottingham University 4-3, 

London Met. beat Kent and Bristol quite 

comfortably and Birmingham beat Dundee 

and Bath. 

Semi-Finals 

15 March 2006 

Semi-Final 1: Loughborough 4 London 

Metropolitan University 1 

Semi-Final 2: Exeter 4 Birmingham 2 

Final 

22 March 2006, Highfields Hockey Centre, 

Beeston 

Loughborough 1 Exeter 3 

Player of the Final: Jordache Rawson 

(Exeter) 

BUSA Hockey SMG would also like to 

extend its thanks to Raminder Dhanda 

and the other umpires who provided such 

invaluable service throughout the leagues 

and Championships without whom the 

tournaments simply would not be able to 

take place. Additionally we would like to 

thank Ken Lockhead, the Technical Director 

for the Finals for their efforts in keeping 

everything on track. 

We would also like to thank Highfields 

Hockey stadium for hosting the Finals 

again. 

TROPHY 

The Trophy competition was again a hard 

fought event with some very close results, 

Hockey Championship Finals, Highfields Hockey Centre, Nottingham 

the University of Southampton beating 

the College of St Mark and St John 4 – 3 

in one Semi-Final and Newcastle beating 

Sheffield University 5 – 4 in the other 

before losing out 4 – 3 in the Final. 

Semi-Finals 

Semi-Final 1: Southampton University 4 

College of St Mark and St John 3 

Semi-Final 2: Newcastle 5 Sheffield 

University 4 

Final 


Beeston 

Southampton v Newcastle. Southampton 

won 4-3 

SHIELD 


Beeston 

Oxford Brookes v Durham. Oxford Brookes 

won 3-2 after golden goal 

PLATE 

29 March 2006, Manchester University 

Manchester University 7 University of 

Glamorgan 1 


264 teams entered the Women’s 

Championships and also provided some 

high quality performances across the 

competitive structure. 

Premier League - In the Women’s 

Premier League North Loughborough 

and Birmingham again battled it out 

at the top with Birmingham this time 

emerging victorious only losing away to 

Loughborough and Durham, who finished 

third. In Women’s Premier League South 

Exeter were dominant finishing 5 points 

clear of Oxford in second place. Bath 

finished third. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Another series of high quality matches 

played out across the country saw Brunel, 

Durham, Birmingham and Loughborough 

successfully reach the semi-final stage. 

Brunel had narrow wins against Exeter 

and Bristol whilst Durham overcame UWIC 

and Oxford in equally close matches. 

Loughborough beat Leeds Met and Leeds 

Uni whilst Birmingham beat Dundee and 

Bath quite convincingly. 

Semi-Finals 

15 March 2006, Southgate Hockey Club 

Semi-Final 1: Brunel 1 Durham 1, Brunel 

won on penalty flicks 

Semi-Final 2: Birmingham 1 Loughborough 5 

Final 


Beeston 

Brunel 0 Loughborough 3 

Player of the Final: Wendy Strong (Brunel) 

TROPHY 

The Trophy competition was closely 

contested throughout and provided some 

really entertaining matches. Loughborough, 

Birmingham, Manchester and Cardiff all 

made it through to the Semi-Finals with 

some strong results in qualifying. 

Semi-Finals 

Semi-Final 1: Loughborough 2 Manchester 

0 

Semi-Final 2: Cardiff 4 Birmingham 2 

Final 


Beeston 

Loughborough 3 Cardiff 2, Loughborough 

won 3-2 on penalty flicks. 

SHIELD 

Final 


Beeston 

Sheffield Hallam 3 Loughborough 4 

PLATE 

Final 

29 March 2006, Newcastle University 

Newcastle University 4 College of St Mark 

and St John 0 

OTHER NEWS 

Further meetings have taken place with 

England Hockey which will bring about 

improved support for hockey in Higher 

Education. Affiliation will be streamlined 

such that BUSA will collect all affiliation 

fees for English Universities and provide an 

improved package of services to members. 

Some additional funding will be retained 

by BUSA from this to again improve the 

services to hockey members. Discussions 

are on-going about the role of HE sport in 

England and GB Hockey’s performance 

pathway and the potential exists for some 

exciting and interesting developments in 

this area. 


Hockey competition please see the British 


JUDO 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

18-19 March – University of 

Wolverhampton Walsall Campus 

The 2006 Championships saw an increase 

in overall entries to 237 competitors. 

Many of the competitors were returning 

Champions looking to retain their titles. 

Steven Rogan (Dan Grade, U60kg), Andy 

Burns (Dan Grade, U90kg), Rhonda 

Sturley (Dan Grade, Over78kg) and 

Faye Wilkinson (Kyu Grade, U78kg) all 

successfully retained their title and took 

gold for a second year running. In the 

Men’s Kyu Grade U66kg category a rivalry 

is forming between Mark Comer of Bath 

and Tariq Sasso of Brunel, for the second 

year running these competitors met in the 

Final. In a reversal of the result from 2005, 

Mark Comer took the title this year and it 

will be a category to watch next year in 

anticipation of a third Championship title 

fight between these two. Karen Harrison 

(Bath) and Kate Rennie (Bath) both 

dropped down a weight category and were 

unable to defend their titles from 2005, 

however both won in their new categories. 


Thanks to the tournament Director Jill West, 

Malcolm Limrick and the BJA Midlands area 

who continue to support the event. 

JU JITSU 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

12-13 November 2005, Aston Villa Leisure 

Centre & Great Bar Leisure Centre 

713 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 

inaugural BUSA JuJitsu Championships 

had 489 competitors competing from 43 

BUSA Universities. 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 Dean Wong 

winning against almost 300 other 

competitors to win both the BUSA 

and TJF gold in the highly contested 

novice category. In addition both Natalie 

Ju Jitsu Chapionships, Aston Villa 

Leisure Centre 

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James Robertson (Photography Competition Runner Up) 

Lockyer, orange belt category, and 

Suzannah Merchant, purple belt category, 

won the BUSA and TJF titles, but in the 

other categories competition from non 

BUSA jitsuka was a little too hot to handle 

and the TJF titles and BUSA titles went to 

different people. 

At brown belt, the blue ribbon category, 

the BUSA title was won by Liam Cadman. 

Liam Cadman has been a star of the TJF 

junior atemi national competition for many 

years and it’s great for him to progress this 

into the BUSA gold at the senior event in 

this prestigious category in his first year 

at University College London. He achieved 

runners up position for the TJF title. 

Maybe next year Liam will bring it 

home for BUSA and UC London. Liam's 

performance also helped UC London retain 

the TJF overall club Shield as well 

as gaining the title of 2005 BUSA JuJitsu 

Club Champions. 

KARATE 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

11-12 February 2006, The Pleasance, 

University of Edinburgh 

The 2006 Championships were held 

at the Karate stronghold of University 

of Edinburgh and the newly renovated 

facilities at The Pleasance were well 

received by competitors and officials alike. 

Considering the distances some of the 

teams travelled there was a commendable 

turn out of around 330 athletes competing 

over two days in both Kata (forms) and 

Kumite (sparring). 

The first day’s competition started with 

Kata. The Men’s senior Kata Final between 

Martin Douglas (Glasgow) and Neil Jerome 

(Manchester) was of the highest calibre 

with Martin just edging it and taking the 

title for the second year in a row. Suzanne 

Karate Championships, The Pleasance 

O’Connell (Glasgow) also made it back to 

back titles by beating Cory Smith (Exeter) 

in the Women’s senior Kata. The home 

team, Edinburgh, also got off to a good 

start by beating Cambridge in the Final of 

the Team Kata. 

Team Kumite events then followed, which 

are always provide spectators with some 

great action. Cardiff beat Bath for the 

Women’s title and Heriot Watt claimed the 

Men’s title over Edinburgh in the Men’s 

Team Final. 

The Individual Kumite events took place 

the next day. This year’s event saw the 

introduction of more weight categories 

bringing the Championship in line with 

world WKF/FISU events. 

Callum Robb (Heriot Watt) added to his 

gold Medals from last year and retained 

the under 80kg title and the Open weight 

title. For the second year running he beat 

Dean Draper (Swansea) for the Open weight 

title creating a competitive rivalry between 

these two heavyweights. 

Alton Brown from South bank (World 

University Championships and European 

silver Medallist) beat Vincent O’Hara in the 

Senior U75kg category, one of the busiest 

categories with almost 30 fighters. 

Notable Women’s performances came 

from Melissa Lewis (Nottingham) who 

retained her +60kg title and Sam Jones 

(Cardiff) who remains undefeated in the 

past few years in both the under 53kg and 

open weight category, a great achievement 

in any sport. Bergonnia Peno (Edinburgh) 

also performed admirably by stepping up 

a weight category only to lose the gold to 

defending Champion Melissa Lewis. 

In summary the 2006 Championships proved 

a success in terms of participation levels 

and also in terms of performance quality. 

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Finally we should acknowledge the work 

of the referee’s and officials, particularly 

the volunteer table officials. Also a special 

thanks to Steve Coupland, the Edinburgh 

Karate Club (in particular Sinead Bennett), 

James from Edinburgh Athletic Union 

and Jim Atkins and his staff who worked 

tirelessly to ensure the smooth running of 

another successful Championships. 

KORFBALL 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

4-5 March 2006, Sugden Centre, 

Manchester 

The BUSA Korfball Championships were 

once again organised by the British 

Student Korfball Association (BSKA). 

The University of East Anglia managed to 

retain their title beating Edinburgh in the 

Final 9-6, with Sheffield finishing in the 

bronze Medal position. 

Thanks must go to Andrew Barkwith who 

stepped down as the BSKA Chairman after 

a number of years of dedicated service to 

the game. 

LACROSSE 

Nearly 50 teams took part in the Lacrosse 

Championships. The Premier League 

North was dominated by Edinburgh who 

won all 10 of their matches. In the South, 

Oxford took the title winning 9 of their 10 

matches. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Semi-Finals 

8 March 2006, Lilleshall National Sports 

Centre 

Edinburgh 6 Birmingham 4 

Durham 8 Oxford 5 

Final 

15 March 2006, Withington Girls School, 

Manchester 

Edinburgh and Durham battled it out for the 

Championship title in a closely contested 

game. The final score saw Edinburgh win 

5-4 over Durham. 

TROPHY 

Semi-Finals 

8 March 2006 

Cambridge 2 nd 11 Southampton 2 

Birmingham 2 nd 8 Edinburgh 2 nd 5 

Lacrosse Championship Finals, 

Manchester 

Final 

15 March 2006, Withington Girls School, 

Manchester 

Cambridge 2 were crowned BUSA Trophy 

Champions with a 10-3 victory over 

Birmingham 2. 

ACKNOWLEDGENTS 

BUSA would like to thank Withington Girls 

School for once again hosting both finals. 

MODERN BIATHLON 

4 March 2006, Oxford 

Maria Bennett (Liverpool) took the 

Women’s title by 42 points ahead of 

Heather Jackson (Loughborough). 

Louise Helyer (Bath) added the Modern 

Biathlon bronze Medal to her Modern 

Pentathlon Medal. The team title was 

won by Loughborough, ahead of Bath and 

Birmingham 

In the Men’s event Mike Cornes 

(Birmingham) improved on his silver 

of 2005 to take the gold Medal ahead 

of the defending Champion James 

Lock (Loughborough). Toby Banfield 

(Loughborough) once again took the 

bronze. Lock and Banfield’s Individual 

performances helped steer Loughborough 

to the Team title ahead of Birmingham and 

UWIC as in 2005. 


Thanks must be extended to Alex Rothman 

who, with his team of volunteers from 

Oxford, co-ordinated the Championships 

so well. 

MODERN PENTATHLON 

3-4 March 2006, Oxford 

The University of Bath dominated the 

Women’s competition with Sarah 

David Griffiths 

Gomersall defending her title. Her team 

mates Laura Gomersall and Louise 

Helyer took the silver and bronze medals 

respectively. 

In the Men’s competition, Oliver Rees- 

Jones (Oxford) improved on his second 

position of 2005 to take the gold, with 

last years bronze Medallist Gareth Evans 

(UWIC) also going one better this year 

to take the silver. Henry Kruczko (UWE 

Hartpury) took the bronze. 

Bath’s performance in the Women’s 

competition ensured that the team title 

(mixed team) was also their, with UWIC 

taking the silver and Edinburgh the bronze. 

NETBALL 

311 teams competed in this year’s Netball 

competition making this BUSA’s second 

largest team competition behind Men’s 

Football. Loughborough University won 

Premier League North winning nine out of 

ten of their matches, whilst the University 

of Bath took the Southern title, also 

winning nine matches. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Semi-Finals 

The strength of the BUSA Netball 

competition was evident from the close 

Semi-Finals. Loughborough beat Birmingham 

38-33 while Northumbria battled to the 

very end beating defending Champions 

Bath 45-44 in the last minute of play. 

Final 

26 March 2006, English Institute of Sport, 

Sheffield 

After the close Semi-Finals, the Final did not 

disappoint. However, Loughborough were 

triumphant closing out the match in the final 

quarter to beat Northumbria 38-29. 

Netball Championship Finals, 

Sheffield EIS 

TROPHY 

Final 


Sheffield 

UC Chichester beat the University of the 

West of England 41-27 to take the gold 

Medals. 

SHIELD 

Final 


Sheffield 

In a thrilling Final, Leeds University 2 nd beat 

Reading 1 st 40-39 to clinch the title. 

PLATE 

University of Birmingham 3 rd beat Brunel 

University West London 2 nd 40-26. 


BRITISH UNIVERSITIES V COMBINED 

SERVICES 

10 June 2006 

On a scorching hot day in June, the 

players assembled to take the court 

against a very fit Combined Services team. 

Lesley Turnbull was captain and made an 

assertive start with a dominant sprint out 

for the first centre pass. 

The first quarter was quite even with the 

BUSA team struggling to defend a tall 

athletic shooter. The score was 9 – 9 at 

the end of the quarter, but all players felt 

they had yet to produce their best form. 

Two substitutions at the start of the second 

quarter saw some changes in the centre 

court. This proved effective and the BUSA 

side pulled ahead due to excellent shooting 

by Gemma and Suzanne. However, the 

defence were still being challenged at 

the other end of the court by the height 

and athleticism of the circle players who 

managed to pull the score back to within 

one goal to finish the half 23-22. 

Another change round and substitution at 

half time saw the BUSA team start to assert 

themselves. Some excellent defending in the 

centre court by Kerry and Kate allowed the 

BUSA side to pull away and keep their lead. 

Play in the last quarter suffered from the 

effects of the heat. The BUSA side managed 

to hold their own and continue their 

dominance in the centre court with Bekki 

at last managing to get the best of the tall 

shooter. The game finished 50 – 44 to BUSA. 

All players are to be congratulated on their 

commitment and outstanding standard of 

play in challenging conditions. They were 

a credit to their Universities and the British 

Universities Sports Association 

Team: Lesley Turnbull (Captain), Alison 

Fildes (Scotland), Zoe John (Wales), Kerry 

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Walsh, Kate Murphy, Gemma Wiseman, 

Suzanne Gardner, Bekki Sweet, Rebecca 

Hayward (England) 

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Netball competition please see the British 



BUSA would like to thank England Netball 

for their appointment of officials during 

the season. BUSA would also like to thank 

all representative team officials for their 

commitment to the programme. 

ORIENTEERING 

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP 

11 March 2006, Aberfeldy, Scotland 

This year’s Championships were ably 

organised by Edinburgh University with 

generous help from the local orienteering 

clubs. It was held in term time which 

resulted in a slightly increased turn-out of 

157 competitors from 22 Universities. The 

Achray forest is a tough one with plenty 

of climb and rough underfoot conditions. 

The courses featured a spectator control 

where the competitors started a tricky final 

section on a 1:5000 scale map. 

Sheffield’s Rachael Elder won the Women’s 

race by over 5 minutes from Helen Palmer 

of Paisley. The Men’s race was closer 

with Edinburgh’s Murray Strain beating 

Oli Johnson from Sheffield by only 40 

seconds. 

RELAY CHAMPIONSHIP 

12 March 2006, Kinneil Wood, Scotland 

Overnight snow failed to prevent the 

staging of this event. As expected, the 

Men’s race was a close-fought battle 

between Edinburgh and Sheffield. Matt 

Crane ran an excellent second leg to give 

Sheffield a 2 minute lead when handing 

over to Oli Johnson. Murray Strain chased 

hard but by the end was still 90 seconds 

behind. 

Edinburgh got their revenge in the 

Women’s race winning by 20 minutes 

ahead of Durham. Sheffield were 

unfortunately disqualified because their 

second leg lost her electronic control card 

in the snow when sliding down a slope and 

was unable to find it again. 

The Overall Team Trophy went to 

Edinburgh. 

REPRESENTATIVE MATCH: BUSA V 

COMBINED SERVICES V BOF 

11 March 2006, Aberfeldy, Scotland 

This year the match was incorporated into 

the BUSA Championships. Unfortunately, 

Combined Services could only field a 

Men’s team. Many of the British Squad are 

currently students so it was no surprise 

that BUSA were clear winners, retaining 

the Antlers Trophy. 

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BUSA is indebted to the British 

Orienteering Federation for its support in 

sending a team to the World University 

Championships in Slovakia in August 2006. 

POOL 

UPC-BRITISH UNIVERSITIES EIGHT- 

BALL POOL CHAMPIONSHIP 

24-26 February, 2006, McClusky’s, 

Spondon, Derbyshire 

The first ever Universities Pool Council 

Eight-ball Pool Championship recognised 

by BUSA attracted 67 teams representing 

36 Universities. Qualifying reduced the field 

to 24 Championship teams and 16 Trophy 

teams for the Finals. University of Essex, 

skippered by Chris Moorman, beat Cardiff 

6-3 to take the title. Essex were always 

in control of the Final and built up a 3-0 

lead early on. A determined Cardiff side 

pulled back to within one frame at 4-3 but 

Essex showed their class by closing the 

match out 6-3. In the Semi-Finals Essex 

came from 3-0 down to overhaul a strong 

University of Ulster Coleraine side and win 

6-4. Joint bronze Medallists were York 

who were comprehensively beaten 6-0 in 

the Semi-Finals by Cardiff despite having 

played well in the tournament up to that 

point. An honourable mention must go 

to debutants Aberystwyth in making the 

Quarter-Finals. 

Strathclyde’s Mark McCulloch is the 

Individual Championship. His opponent in 

the Final was Aberystwyth’s David Binding 

and the match was locked 2-2 early on. 

McCulloch eventually showed his class 

moving away and winning 5-2. McCulloch 

moved through the draw with ease until 

the Semi-Finals when he met Carl Caney. 

In a great match McCulloch prevailed to 

win 5-3. The other Semi-Final was an 

altogether more one-sided affair with 

Binding disposing of Wolverhampton’s 

Joseph Tonkin 5-0. It was, however, a 

great effort by both Tonkin and Caney in 

taking bronze. 

Queen’s University 2 nd team monopolised 

the Trophy events. Their team was a class 

apart beating surprise Finalists Warwick 

3rds. And it was a Queen’s 2 nd s player 

Martin Anderson who won the Individual 

Trophy beating York’s Luke Fleet. 

RIFLE SMALL BORE 

UNIVERSITIES WINTER POSTAL 

LEAGUE 

In this season’s competition, 14 

Universities were represented by 16 

teams, shooting in 4 divisions over ten 

rounds. This represented a 40% increase 

of Universities on the 2004- 2005 entry. 

The winner of Division 1 was Southampton 

A followed by Durham A. Oxford won 

Division 2 beating Durham B. Aberdeen 

was successful in Division 3 beating 

Southampton B and Division 4 was won by 

Exeter who beat Southampton C. 

UNIVERSITIES TEAM KNOCKOUT 

COMPETITION. 

This year’s competition showed an 

increased team entry, up to 32, but 

the number of Universities taking part 

remained at 10. This year’s winner was 

Newcastle A and the Final stage with 

a score of 785, beating London A and 

Aberdeen A with scores of 783 and 777 

respectively. 

UNIVERSITIES INDIVIDUAL ‘TOP XX’ 

COMPETITION. 

The overall entry this year was up from 

last year, being 181 against the previous 

171, with 63 failing to return scores. Once 

again, the scores were of a high standard 

with Griff Morgan (Aston) winning with 

an excellent score of 798. The Top XX for 

2005/2006 was G Morgan (Aston) with a 

score of 798, beating G Cox (Aberdeen) 

and T Hunter (London) with scores of 793 

and 790 respectively. 

UNIVERSITY SMALL-BORE RIFLE 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

6 May 2006, Appleton Rifle Club Ranges, 

Warrington. 

This year’s Championship Meeting had 

a record of 122 entries received from 13 

Universities. As usual the day went well 

with some good shooting. Southampton 

repeated their 2005 successes in the 

Inter-University Team and Women’s Triad 

Matches, and Edinburgh theirs in the Pairs 

Match. 

Emma Cole-Hamilton (Robert Gordon) 

had a good day, taking both Individual 

Championships. Special mention should 

also be made of Matthew Thomson 

of Edinburgh A, who in July this year, 

became the Junior Men Prone Rifle World 

Champion. 

Thanks are again due to the members 

of the Appleton Rifle Club, for their 

hard work in ensuring the smooth and 

efficient running of the meeting. Medals 

and trophies were presented by Peter 

Ainsworth, a member of the NSRA Pistol, 

Airgun and Crossbow Committee. 

THE UNIVERSITIES HOME COUNTRIES 

INTERNATIONAL MATCH 

The International Match was held for the 

third year, with the contest once again 

being between England and Scotland. 

Unfortunately those taking part omitted to 

put their names on their targets and we 

can only therefore report the final total 

scores which were England 1944 and 

Scotland 1913, giving England their first 

victory in this match. 

ROWING 

CONCEPT 2 BUR BUSA INDOOR 

ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS 

20 November 2005, National Indoor Arena, 

Birmingham 

The annual “meeting of mountains” took 

place at the Birmingham NIA with some of 

the fastest rego-pullers on the planet. With 

World & Olympic Champions racing this is 

certainly the highest standard entry of any 

BUSA Championships, yet still encourages 

mass participation by all university rowers, 

even those in their first few weeks of 

training who get to race against their 

sporting idols. 

Medals in the Women’s Lightweight event 

(under 61.5Kg) were shared between 

three Universities, Hannah Peel winning 

for Cambridge (7m19.9), Lucy Aukett 

(Southampton, 7m24.7), and Kaarin 

Scanlan (Bristol 7m27.7) repeated her 

2004 Medal success with a Bronze in a 

promising field of 47 racers, the biggest 

entry to date. The Lightweight Ladies 

future hopes look safe in their hands. 

The Ladies Open was a bit of an Oxford 

Rowing Regatta, Holme Pierrepont 

party, but as EUSA Women’s Eights 

Champions we should perhaps expect a 

good showing. FISU 2004 bronze Medallist 

(W4-) Hilary Powell led the Oxford 

celebration, breaking the major 7-minute 

barrier with 6m57.3 with a start-to-finish 

victory, chased home by team-mate Naomi 

Pollock (7m02.6). Former top junior paddler 

Tracey Matthews, now based with the GB 

development squad at Thames Rowing 

Club, turned out for Brunel to take Bronze 

(7m06.) just ahead of Jackie Moore 

(Salford 7m08.0). With 134 entries this 

was the biggest to date. 

Men’s Lightweights, the domain of the 

Under 75kg “little big lads” was as close 

as ever, with some massive late charges 

shuffling people up and down the 96- 

strong field… another record entry. With 

three of the U23 World Medallist Quad 

Scull head to head “interesting” was an 

understatement; Doug Perrin (Cambridge, 

6m20.5) roared through after 500m to 

capture a dominant lead, chased hard by 

Oliver Bottrell (UWE 6m25.3) and Richard 

Chalmers (Oxford Brookes, 6m25.7). 

Nearly 40 rowers beat the 6m45 marker, 

a reflection of the high quality of the field 

and of the likely standard of Lightweight 

racing later in the season at the BUR BUSA 

Regatta 

A record entry, 236 BUR BUSA racers 

being the largest of all the categories 

offered by Concept2 at what is the biggest 

indoor sports competition in Europe. It took 

four heats on the computer-linked race 

machines to sort the men from the boys, 

with the last heat being the highlight of the 

day. Three Olympic Champions and a host 

of other Olympic and World Championship 

Medallists lined up, largely in Oxbridge 

colours and sparks flew from the start. 

Jamie Schroeder, the American Olympian 

and former Indoor World Champion now 

based at Oxford, rowed the fastest time 

of the day (5m44.3), but Cambridge took 

the other Medals with Thomas Engelmann 

(5m48.9) and the 2000 GB 8s Olympic 

Champion Kieran West (5m49.0). All 

three broke Dan Perkins’ (USA & Oxford) 

long-standing BUR BUSA record, as did 

forth placed Sebastian Shulte (Cambridge, 

5m53.1), in what was the fastest 2005 

race in the World, 10 men breaking 6 

minutes (only 9 did so at the World 

Championships). 

Overall BUR BUSA Event Medals are 

always hard to come by, as you require 

an entry in each of the four indoor 

disciplines. Overall BUR BUSA Indoor 

Team Champions were Oxford, who also 

took Ladies 8s, but Cambridge took Men’s 

8s honours, making for a potentially 

interesting Boat Race. Both Cambridge 

and Oxford Brookes could only register 

weak Women’s performances, leaving the 

door open for others to capitalise on. The 

huge BUR BUSA entry, nearly a quarter of 

all participants, reflects well on both the 

quality and quantity of British University 

Rowing, and of our links with Concept2. 

Former BUSA and FISU rowers also 

dominated the “Open Club” categories, 

winning 3 of the 4 titles on offer, only excricketer 

Graham Benton preventing a BUR 

BUSA clean-sweep in winning the Men’s 

Open. As the new 2006 World Champion 

the 6’6 Benton is clearly a bit special, and 

is currently learning “wet rowing” with the 

World Class Start Squad based at Reading 

University. 

BRITISH UNIVERSITY ROWING BUSA 

CONCEPT2 HEAD OF THE RIVER 

26 February 2006, River Trent, Nottingham 

The 2006 BUR BUSA Head had a record 

entry of 288 crews from 42 Universities, 

meaning that next year’s Head will need to 

be split to accommodate the numbers: A 

Small Boats event will be held in Term One, 

with the big-boats Head staying on the last 

weekend in February. 

Oxford Brookes dominated the Men’s 

Eights with a line-up of Full & U23 GB 

athlete, whilst Durham and Imperial 

showed evidence of strong squads. Pelly 

& Freeman-Pask were split by barely 

a second in M1x but Mathilda Pauls 

comfortably won the W1x The Head 

hosted the second Round of the Concept2 

FRESHERS CHALLENGE, which saw 

Nottingham, Bath and Manchester tighten 

their grip on the race for the eight. 

BUR BUSA ANNUAL ROWING REGATTA 

29 April – 1 May 2006, National Water 

Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont, 

Nottingham 

Quite simply, the biggest rowing event 

in the UK. With 954 crews, nearly 4,200 

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athlete seats, the Regatta as has become 

the norm featured “Real Beginners” as 

well as experienced GB Internationals. 

The weather stayed fair on the first two 

days, but a very difficult cross-head 

wind greeted crews throughout the day 

on Monday. The decision to move the 

Sprints to the middle evening worked well, 

providing a lighter “middle-day” for many 

crews who were doubling-up across the 

Regatta, whilst also giving good support 

(over £2,000 was raised) for the BUR 

adopted charity Farm Africa. 

We were delighted to see some new faces 

among the 62 Universities who raced, 

Heriot Watt making the most impact as 

they took several Medals on their first 

visit to the Championships. Also new 

“on show” was Head Umpire Fiona Dick, 

current Sports President at Nottingham 

Trent, successfully taking over the lead role 

from Paddy Ibbotson. The volunteer squad 

required to run the event now numbers 

over 100, ranging in age from 14 to “well 

past 60” and we are delighted that so 

many give their time each year to assist 

BUR. 

The final rounds of the Concept2 

FRESHERS CHALLENGE proved 

fascinating, Manchester closing to just a 

one-point gap behind Nottingham in the 

long-course events, before the “starstacked” 

Nottingham boats were just 

able to do enough to hold Manchester off 

over the 500m Sprint “blasts”. Such was 

the success of FRESHERS CHALLENGE 

Concept2 have agreed to repeat their 

very generous donation of an eight for 

both 2007 & 2008, a phenomenal prize, 

supported by 5 other BUR prizes for the 

top-ranked clubs. 

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RUGBY FIVES 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Sherbourne School, Dorset 

There was a record entry of 57 for the 

singles and 24 for the pairs, representing 

17 Universities. 

James Bristow (Oxford) retained 

his Singles title, and Charlie Brooks 

(Cambridge) gained his ‘hat-trick’ of 

Doubles titles partnered this year by Alan 

Beverley. Steve Korris (Leeds) played 

extremely well to reach the Singles final. 

Dales & Colton (Bath/Bristol) won the Plate 

Doubles and Ed Hawke (Southampton) 

won the Plate Singles. 

The highlight of all of the matches was the 

Cambridge defeat of Oxford in the Doubles 

Final. 


RUGBY FIVES ASSOCIATION V BUSA 

Christ’s Hospital, Horsham 

The RFA won the top five singles, although 

the students put up stout resistance. 

Five of the first six games of doubles were 

very close, with the second and third 

pairs coming out almost level on points; 

but having been severely challenged by 

BUSA Champions in their first game, 

they changed tactics and defeated their 

opponents heavily, ensuring that the RFA 

did not lose the overall initiative. 

The exchange doubles were shared, 

each team winning three and losing three 

games. 


Our thanks are again due to Sherbourne 

School, in particular to Mike Cleaver, for 

allowing us use of their excellent facilities 

and for assistance and co-operation both 

before and during the Championships. 

Thanks are also due to David Barnes and 

co-organiser Chris Jones. 

We are most grateful to Christ’s Hospital 

for the use of their courts and facilities, 

and to Team Managers, Alex Wilson (RFA) 

and Chris Jones (BUSA). 

RUGBY LEAGUE 

Leeds Metropolitan University Rugby 

League Club did what no other Club has 

done in the history of Student Rugby 

League and went through the entire 2005- 

06 season with both their first and second 

teams undefeated. In addition to claiming 

the Premier North (first team) and Yorkshire 

division (second team) they picked up the 

BUSA Championship and Shield Trophies 

to cap a truly fantastic season. 

Leeds University, Hull and Sheffield Hallam 

battled it out for the runners up spot in 

the National North with the experienced 

campaigners at Leeds eventually taking the 

honours. 

In the Southern Premier a three way battle 

between 2004-05 Champions St Mary’s, 

Loughborough and surprise package 

Northampton ensured that the division 

was not won until the final Wednesday 

of the season. Loughborough over hauled 

Northampton on the final day giving them 

the title and St Mary’s the runners up spot. 

Another team to go through the regular 

season unbeaten were Nottingham Trent 

who won the Midlands Division at a canter. 

A total of 54 teams completed in almost 

600 fixtures, a figure that the Student 

Rugby League hopes to surpass in the 

coming year. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Final 

A Kevin Till “hat-trick” and a mercurial 

performance from Irish Hooker James 

Giblin were the highlights of a Leeds 

Met victory over long standing rivals 

Loughborough University. 

Both teams came into the Final after 

impressive displays in the play off games 

racking up over 200 points between them 

in just 4 games. 

Leeds Met showed their intent as early 

as the fourth minute when Kevin Till 

broke clear and raced to the line. A great 

tackle by Loughborough full back Dave 

Ford prevented the Leeds Met scrum half 

placing the ball down cleanly and Till’s try 

was disallowed for a double movement. 

Only moments later Leeds Met were 

pressing the Loughborough line again and 

in an almost identical move Till showed the 

ball inside, dummied and shot through the 

gap to dive over on 7 minutes. Ian Gordon 

added the conversion for a 6 – 0 lead. 

Loughborough did what very few other 

teams have managed against the Yorkshire 

men this year and came roaring back with 

some great work by power house forwards 

Ferrier and Perry. This set the platform 

for Loughborough’s half backs Jimmy 

Lewis and Si Kelly to show just what they 

were capable of and some slick passing 

almost saw Dave Budden make the corner. 

The Leeds Met scrambling defence held 

him back but when the ball was shipped 

to the other flank the impressive Alex 

Lamp, a veteran of three consecutive Cup 

Finals, raced clear and fended off full back 

Ian Gordon before placing the ball over 

the white wash in the left corner. Kelly 

missed the conversion. Leeds Met 6 – 4 

Loughborough. 

As both teams seemed to settle and 

defences got on top tempers frayed, which 

resulted in a stern word from veteran 

whistle blower James Long taking charge 

of his last game before retiring to Brighton. 

Leeds Met received the penalty and a long 

kick down field into touch by Ian Gordon 

set up a great position for another attack. 

Opposing centres Nick Walker and Kieran 

Collins exchanged try’s, neither converted 

on 28 and 34 minutes to make the score 

16 – 8 to Leeds Met before Kevin Till 

crossed for his second of the evening. 

Another forward break supported by the 

ever willing Giblin and a neat offload to Till 

saw him cross to the left hand side of the 

posts. Gordon added the extra’s to take 

Leeds Met into the break with a healthy 22 

– 8 lead. 

Loughborough knew that they had to score 

the first try of the second half to stand any 

chance of getting back into the game and 

did so in fine style. Straight from the kick 

off their forwards led by Hall and loose 

forward Will Ferrier made the inroads into 

the Leeds Met half and when Budden and 

Collins exchanged passes down the right 

wing the supporting Steve Hall showed 

all his strength to crash over in the corner 

with three Leeds Met defenders on his 

back. Again Kelly missed the conversion 

but the deficit had been reduced. Leeds 

Met 22 – 12 Loughborough. 

Any thoughts of a quick Loughborough 

comeback were soon dashed as former 

BARLA half back Kevin Till, nipped in 

for his “hat-trick” try after flashing past 

the defence following a scrum deep in 

Loughborough territory. Gordon added 

the extra’s to take Leeds Met’s lead out 

to 28 – 12. Tom Tsang crossed soon after 

to further stretch Leeds Met’s lead and 

although Gordon failed to convert the result 

now looked academic. Leeds Met 32 – 12 

Loughborough. The Sin binning of Thirsk 

for a swinging arm did momentarily give 

the Loughborough side a glimmer of hope 

but when Andy Linton, celebrating his call 

up for the Ireland Student Wolfhounds 

Rugby Championship Finals, RFU Twickenham 

squad, piled over from 10 metres out the 

game was won. Ian Gordon capped a fine 

performance by tagging on the conversion 

before the ref blew the final whistle 

SHIELD 

After the continued success of the Student 

Rugby League Shield competition, this 

year won by Leeds Met, BUSA will be 

sanctioning the competition in the 2006- 

2007 season. 

RUGBY UNION 

The Rugby Football Union have 

acknowledged that student Rugby is a 

very important part in the development of 

the game and gave considerable financial 

and administrative support to the English 

Universities during the season. Hopefully, 

in the near future, the other Home Unions 

will be in a position to give some support 

to the universities in their respective 

countries. 

Congratulations are due to all of the 

university clubs who have progressed well 

throughout the season, both on the field 

and off it. For the future, the Rugby Union 

Sports Management Group have structured 

a season that provides more matches at all 

levels of competition. 

MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS 

267 teams competed in the Domestic 

Championships and the majority of fixtures 

were evenly contested. Generally, the 

standard of discipline was extremely good, 

with very few players receiving yellow/red 

cards. However, there were some isolated 

off-field incidents which caused concern, 

and it is important that we maintain the 

ethos of fair-play, tolerance and enjoyment 

which has been developed within the 

student sector over a considerable number 

of years. 

Premier League 

A total of 24 teams played in the Premier 

Leagues, i.e. 

6 teams North A/B 

6 teams South A/B 

The University of Nottingham won 

Premiership North A and the University of 

Newcastle won Premiership North B. The 

University of Durham and the University 

of Nottingham again played their fixture 

on a Wednesday evening in front of 

approximately 4000 spectators with all 

proceeds going to charity. 

UWE Hartpury won Premiership South A 

and Oxford Greyhounds won Premiership 

South B. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

UWIC, UWE Hartpury, Bristol, Bath, 

Exeter, Loughborough, Northumbria and 

Nottingham qualified for the Quarter-Final 

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stage of the Championship. 

Semi-Finals 

Bath 28 Nottingham 26 

Loughborough 20 UWE Hartpury 17 

Final 

26 April 2006, RFU Twickenham 

Loughborough 10 Bath 7 

Loughborough opened the scoring with 

a try from Dan James early in the first 

half, and took a five point lead with the 

conversion being missed. This was the 

only score in the first 40 minutes as both 

teams struggled to make any further 

headway. 

The second half started the same as the 

first with both teams strong in the scrum 

and hard in the tackles, but it was Bath 

who broke through with a determined try 

from Hooker Daniel Oselton. This try was 

converted by James Gibson meaning that 

for the first time in the match Bath led, by 

2 points. 

However this lead proved short-lived as 

Loughborough pulled back the lead with a 

2 nd try from Dan James, who placed the 

ball down after some strong scrum play by 

Loughborough. This try was not converted 

but proved to be the decisive points for 

Loughborough. The final score ending in 

Loughborough’s favour 10-7. 

TROPHY 

Semi-Finals 

Loughborough 2 nd 43 Leeds Metropolitan 

22 

Brunel 18 UWE Hartpury 24 

Final 

Loughborough 17 UWE Hartpury 16 

SHIELD 

Semi-Finals 

Glamorgan 35 Newcastle 25 

Exeter 11 Dundee 20 

Final 

Glamorgan 35 Dundee 17 

PLATE 

Semi-Finals 

Leeds Met 2 nd 24 UWE Hartpury 3 rd 12 

UWIC 4 th 78 Reading 2 nd 3 

Final 

Leeds Met 37 UWIC 51 


It is extremely encouraging to see more 

women play student rugby each season. 

Several of the students play for the first 

time on their arrival at University. A total 

of 99 teams competed in the Domestic 

Championships. 


A total of 11 teams played in the Premier 

Leagues: 6 North and 5 South. 

Loughborough won Premier League North 

and UWIC won Premier League South. 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

In the last 16 and Quarter-Finals most 

of the matches were very one-sided, 

although Leeds Metropolitan only narrowly 

beat Edinburgh (13-10) and Birmingham 

beat the College of St Mark and St John 

(24-13) in the Quarter-Final. 

Semi-Finals 

Birmingham 14 Leeds Met 8 

Loughborough 15 UWIC 5 

Final 

26 April 2006, Twickenham 

Loughborough 71 Birmingham 7 

UWIC got off to the perfect start when 

England international scrum-half Danielle 

Waterman dummied and found a huge gap 

in the Birmingham defence for the opening 

try in the first minute of the game. 

Welsh international hooker Rhian Bowden 

added UWIC’s second try, and fellow 

international Philippa Tuttiet rounded off a 

great move to make it 17-0 with less than 

ten minutes gone. 

Tuttiet added another after captain 

Helen Amos was stopped just short, and 

Waterman also got her second, running 

from her own half and jinking her way to 

the try line. 

Amos set up Amy Day for another try on 

the half-hour mark, and though Birmingham 

pushed hard for a score, it was UWIC who 

had the final score of the first half as centre 

Christie Thompson picked up a loose ball 

for an easy run in, making the score 45-0 

at half time. 

The second half was just as exciting with 

a strong Loughborough side finishing 

victorious. 

TROPHY 

Quarter-Finals 

Sheffield, St Andrews, De Montfort 

(Bedford), Leeds, Gloucestershire, 

Canterbury Christ Church, Brunel, 

Nottingham Trent. 

Semi-Finals 

Brunel 45 Gloucestershire 22 

Sheffield 24 De Montfort Bedford 10 

Final 

Brunel 7 Sheffield 8 

SHIELD 


Lancaster, Keele, Warwick, East Anglia, 

Oxford 2nds, Exeter, Essex, St Mary’s 

University College. 

Semi-Finals 

East Anglia 0 Exeter 24 

Keele 12 Essex 5 

Final 

Exeter 84 Keele 7 

A well attended and successful Student 

RFU/BUSA/RFUW Rugby Union Conference 

was held at Twickenham on the Tuesday 

and Wednesday morning before the BUSA 

Women’s/Men’s Finals. 

RUGBY UNION 7S CHAMPIONSHIPS 

30 April 2006, University of Northumbria 

Although the conditions were extremely 

cold for the time of the year the standard 

of play was exceptionally high. Several of 

the players in attendance were invited to 

attend a Great Britain Universities selection 

weekend at the University of Cambridge. 

MEN’S 

Semi-Finals 

Loughborough 10 Durham 5 

Nottingham 17 Bristol 12 

Final 

Loughborough 26 Nottingham 5 

WOMEN’S 

Semi-Finals 

Loughborough 24 UWIC 0 

Bath 19 Northumbria 17 

Final 


Our gratitude goes to the University of 

Northumbria for hosting the 7s at relatively 

short notice and especially to Neil Graham 

for organising the event on the day. 


Our gratitude to the clubs/universities 

who hosted BUSA matches, the Referees 

Societies for the provision of referees/ 

touch judges and all administrators, 

coaches, team officials, medics and 

grounds staff who have contributed to the 

Championship programme. We are also 

extremely grateful to the Rugby Football 

Union for allowing the Men’s and Women’s 

Finals to be played at Twickenham each 

season. 


ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES 

This was to be the first full season that the 

current English Universities management 

team had worked together. At the 

beginning of the season it was agreed by 

the staff that the only measure of success 

for English Universities was that it should 

truly represent the strength and quality of 

rugby being played in the universities. 

ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES 57 WELSH 

UNIVERSITIES 23 

The first fixture against the Welsh 

Universities was held at the Imperial 

Medicals RFC ground in Teddington on 

Friday 13 February. 

The match was a good advert for 

University Rugby played in a great 

environment in front of a good crowd, with 

two strong competitive teams giving it 

their all. Although the English Universities 

started really well and produced some fine 

rugby the Welsh team kept coming back 

and at the start of the second half had a 

sustained period of pressure. However, the 

English Universities were able to pull away 

in the final quarter and produced some 

really good rugby in the process. The final 

score of 57-23 reflected the ambition of 

both teams. 

ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES 73 V SCOTTISH 

UNIVERSITIES 11 

The game was held at the University ground 

at Peffermill on Friday 24 February. Although 

the English Universities went behind to an 

early penalty the strength and commitment 

of the squad shone through and went on to 

record a 73-11 victory producing some fine 

attacking rugby in really difficult conditions. 

It is enormous credit to the Scottish 

management that they provided a very 

competent referee from France. 

ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES UNDER 21S 23 

V COMBINED SERVICES UNDER 21S 26 

Despite taking an early lead, the English 

Universities XV were outplayed by a 

very good and well-prepared Services 

team containing a number of students on 

military scholarships who deservedly won 

the match 26-23. The University team 

were unable to compete in the forwards 

and combined with astute kicking from 

the Services the previously dominant back 

row were unable to function. Despite this it 

was an entertaining game and tense until 

the end for the neutral. 

Scottish Universities also played 2 fixtures 

(home and away) against Irish Colleges. 

Although both fixtures were lost a great 

deal of credit must be given to everyone 

concerned, especially as funding remains a 

paramount issue. 

Sincere thanks to Mike Wall (Wales), Barry 

Sinclair (Scotland), Keith Green (England), 

and the respective management back-up 

‘teams’ (coaches, medical, administrative) 

for their support and enthusiasm 

throughout the season, and for giving so 

many students the opportunity to play at 

representative level. 

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section. 


Several individuals contributed to the 

organisation of BUSA and studentrelated 

rugby events throughout the 

season, and so would especially like to 

thank Anna Liddell (BUSA Programme 

Manager), Andrew Scoular (RFU 

Community Rugby Director), Peter Bath 

(RFU National Students’ Development 

Manager), Terry Burwell (RFU Tournaments 

and Competitions Director), Douglas 

Sommerville (Scottish Universities Rugby 

Union Chairman), Bob Reeves (SRFU 

Chairman), Katy Storie (RFU for Woman), 

John Richardson (SRFU President/RFU 

Past President), Derek Morgan (SRFU 

Treasurer/RFU Past President), Tony 

Lanaway (England Students Team 

Manager), Ian Elvin ( SRFU Development 

Sub-Committee Chairman) and the entire 

BUSA Rugby Union Sports Management 

Group. 

SAILING 

FLEET RACING 

5-6 November 2006, Weymouth & Portland 

Sailing Academy 

The first event of the season provided a 

good turn out with students representing 

their university from across the UK. 

Unfortunately strong winds meant that 

despite the best efforts of the race 

officials, only one race was sailed, and no 

BUSA points were awarded. 

TEAM RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Hosted by Cambridge University at 

Grafham Water 

After a series of regional qualifiers, and 

playoffs hosted by London University the 

qualified teams assembled in Cambridge 

for 3 days of excellent sailing. A high 

standard of sailing was shown by all, 

complimented by the brilliant job, which 

the organizing committee had done 

in preparing all aspects of the 3-day 

Championships. 

Mixed Championships 

1. Cambridge 1 

2. Oxford 1 

3. Southampton 1 

Women’s Championship 


2. Oxford 


MATCH RACING FINALS 

Hosted by the RYA on behalf of the British 

University Sailing Association at Queen 

Mary's SC, London 

After a difficult series of qualifiers, due to 

weather conditions, and poor uptake the 

Finals had a promising range of sailors 

from those who had Match Raced before, 

to those who had only started this year. 

The racing was close, and ended with the 

team ranked last, winning the event. 

1. Exeter 

2. Bristol 

3. Southampton 

STUDENT YACHTING NATIONALS 

Hosted by Southampton Solent University 

in association with Royal Southern SC, 

Southampton. 

Having successfully run the event last year, 

Southampton Solent University and Royal 

Southern SC, repeated their performance, 

and hosted another successful event. 

Despite an unsettling incident early in the 

event, the week continued successfully 

with only a small number of equipment 

failures. 

1. Southampton Solent 

2. Cambridge 1 

3. Strathclyde 

SNOOKER 

INDIVIDUALS CHAMPIONSHIP 

10–12 March 2006, Willie Thorne Snooker 

Centre, Leicester 

As always, the Individual Championship 

(Senior) had to be limited to its maximum 

complement of 64 students, from 17 

Universities. Eight players were seeded on 

the basis of last year’s Championship and 

Home Nations Festival. First-year student 

James Hill became Warwick’s first-ever 

Individual Championship gold Medallist, 

defeating Andy Teale of Durham, also 

making his debut, in the Championship 

Final (3-0). In the previous round Hill had 

defeated Andy Hutchinson of Queen’s 

Belfast 2-1, while Teale had edged out the 

fancied Manos Paspatis (Cardiff) in the 

other Semi-Final (2-1). 

The Trophy Individual (Junior), with 40 

students from eight teams, saw a fine 

performance from Stuart Jell of Warwick, 

keeping procession of the Patrick 

McWilliams Trophy at Warwick with a 

2-0 victory over David Lyness of Queen’s, 

a previous winner. The defeated Semi- 

Finalists were James Latimer (Warwick) 

and Merlin Fisher-Levine (Bristol). 


10–12 March 2006, Willie Thorne Snooker 

Centre, Leicester 

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CHAMPIONSHIP 


Southampton made it through to the 

Quarter-Finals but lost to holders Queen’s. 

The other half of the draw pitted Warwick 

against group winners Bristol, following 

Quarter-Final victories over Nottingham 

and Glasgow respectively. 

Semi-Finals 

Queen’s opponents were York, winners of 

Group B and victors over Cardiff (6-5) in a 

wonderful Quarter-Final play-off. Special 

mention must be made of the two play-off 

students, newcomer Mike Walsh of York and 

Cardiff’s Manos Paspatis, who produced 

a frame of almost professional standard. 

Holders Queen’s won through to the Final 

only by virtue of a thrilling play-off frame, 

after the Yorkshire College had come back 

from the dead at 2-5. Warwick beat Bristol 

in the Semi-Final 6-2. For the first time since 

2000, Warwick would contest the Final. 

Final 

Warwick won the crown for the first time 

in 23 years, beating Queens over Queen’s 

3-1 (7-3). 

The turning point came when the teams 

were level at 1-1: Queen’s captain Andy 

Hutchinson was 21 points up against 

James Hill in the third frame and seemingly 

on his way to victory with only one red 

left. However, he missed a good chance 

into the middle pocket and subsequently 

failed to pot another ball as Hill won on the 

black. 

TROPHY 

17 teams entered for the Ian Cornish Cup. 

The teams that qualified for the Finals 

Weekend were Cardiff 2nd, Bristol 2nd, 

Southampton 2nd and Nottingham 2nd. 

Semi-Finals 

The two sets of round-robin groups kept 

Warwick 2 nd s and Bristol 2 nd s apart in the 

Semi-Finals. Warwick beat Cardiff 6-1, to 

set up a third consecutive head-to-head 

against their nemesis Queen’s, who had 

edged past Bristol II on a 6-4 scoreline. 

Final 

Warwick 2 nd s raced to a 2-0 lead against 

the holders and looked poised for an easy 

victory. However, Queen’s clawed their 

way back to 2-2 and the tide had turned. It 

was left to veteran David Lyness to see his 

team home with an emphatic 2-0 victory 

and ensure an incredible sixth title in a row 

for Queen’s 2 nd s with a final score of 3-2 

(6-5). 

Bristol II easily got the better of Cardiff II 

for third place and bronze Medals. 

PLATE 

Six teams entered the Plate. Imperial, 

while disappointed at failing to reach the 

knock-out stages of the Championships, 

had the consolation of a comprehensive 

victory over Southampton II in the final. 

BREAKS 

While the overall standard of play and 

strength in both team events was the 

highest for years, only five over 50 

Championship breaks were recorded. Mike 

Walsh of York took the laurels with a nice 

58, which was matched by Sargon Isaac of 

Nottingham Trent University, but Walsh’s 

second best break split the tie. 

The quality of breaks in the Trophy events 

was possibly the best ever. 21 breaks over 

30 were made, with Robert Fleck (Queen’s) 

and Dave Joce (Southampton) finishing top 

of the pile with good efforts of 46. 

HOME NATIONS FESTIVAL 

7-8 April 2006, Spawell Snooker Centre, 

Dublin 

The Home International saw Ireland act as 

hosts for the second time. Northern Ireland 

secured three victories and retained both 

titles. Unlike last year, however, it was a 

struggle for the holders to record a hattrick 

of BUSA crowns, as England put up a 

good show to lose only 8-10. Three of the 

top four performances from British teams 

came from Northern Ireland students, with 

Exeter’s Andy Williams repeating last 

year’s success as England’s best player. 


The Snooker Management Group would 

like to thank Georgica PLC 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 2 nd s, will be continuing 

to act as assistant Championship organiser 

in future years. A qualified nurse, Brian will 

also be able to provide first-line medical 

assistance if required. The Snooker MG 

would like to thank UNN Snooker and Pool 

Club for participating in the Championships 

at very late notice. 

SNOWSPORTS 

DRYSLOPE CHAMPIONSHIPS 

11-12 November 2005, Hillend, Edinburgh 

The British Universities Dryslope 

Championships once again returned to 

Hillend, Edinburgh. In the Women’s Skiing 

Slalom Championships Christina Peacock 

(Birmingham) took Gold ahead of Louise 

Hartley (Dundee) and Hartley’s team 

mate Mairi Crawford. In the Men’s event, 

Michael Hatcher (Cardiff) was victorious 

with Dan Wyatt (Newcastle) in second and 

Campbell Beaton (UWE) in third. 

In the Snowboard Slalom competition 

Emily Smoor (Glasgow) took the title with 

Amy Hammond (Southampton) and Laura 

Harvey (Reading) taking the second and 

third spots respectively. In the Men’s event 

Andrew Patterson (Durham) won gold, 

Phillip Henderson (Glasgow) silver and 

Nick Newcastle (Newcastle) bronze. 

The Overall Team title went to Glasgow 

with Newcastle in second and Edinburgh 

in third. 

ALPINE CHAMPIONSHIPS 

2-7 April 2006, Les Deux Alpes 

In the Giant Slalom event, Claire Robb 

(Aberdeen) took the gold medal with 

Jemima Barnes (Cardiff) taking silver and 

Mairi Crawford (Dundee) the bronze. In the 

Men’s event, Matt Bruton of Newcastle 

claimed the title ahead of Campbell Beaton 

(UWE) and Ben Clark (Nottingham Trent). 

Jemima Barnes was able to go one better 

in the Super G event, taking Gold. Laura 

Wood (Glasgow) finished second with 

Louse Kochalski (Nottingham Trent) in 

third. Matt Bruton was able to continue 

his good form and take his second title of 

the Championships in the Men’s event. 

Andrew Du Plessis (Birmingham) took 

silver ahead of Phil Harris (Loughborough). 

In the Slalom competition, Jemima Barnes 

(Cardiff) once again finished in the top 

spot, beating Mairi Crawford (Dundee) 

and Amanda Hedley Lewis (Bristol). In the 

Men’s event, Matt Bruton had to settle for 

silver behind Campbell Beaton (UWE) with 

Ben Clark (Nottingham Trent) once again 

taking bronze. 

The Women’s Snowboard Giant Slalom 

event was won by Beth Abbott (Bristol) 

ahead of the Dryslope Champion Emily 

Smoor (Glasgow) who took silver and 

Clare Hall-Griffin (Bristol) who took bronze. 

In the Men’s event, Matthew Higgins 

(Nottingham) finished in the Gold Medal 

position with Alex Appleby (Bristol) in silver 

and Tim Lloyd (Birmingham) in bronze. 

The Overall Team title was based on the 

Individual results and won by Bristol (856 

points) ahead of Newcastle (698 points) 

and Birmingham (466 points). 


Thanks must be extended to the BUSC 

team at Newcastle for all their hard work 

over the 2005-2006 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 


The two weekend formats for the Premier 

League remained unchanged for 2005, 

with all 8 Men’s and 8 Women’s teams 

gathering in Birmingham in early December 

to determine the National Premier League 

winners and the top 8 rankings as follows: 

Men: 

Women: 

1 st : Birmingham 1 st Birmingham 

2 nd Loughborough 2 nd : UWIC 

3 rd : Manchester 3 rd Leeds 

4 th : UWIC 4 th :Aberdeen 

5 th : Exeter 5 th :Loughborough 

6 th : Sheffield Hallam 6 th . Stirling 

7 th : Southampton 7 th : Southampton 

8 th : Leeds 8 th :Nottingham 

MEN’S TEAM COMPETITION 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Semi-Finals 

Birmingham 4 UWIC 1, Manchester 3 

Loughborough 2 

Final 

Birmingham 4 Manchester 1 

TROPHY 

Semi-Finals 

Swansea 1 st 2 Birmingham 2 nd 3, Durham 

1 st 0 Loughborough 2 nd 5 

Final 

Birmingham 2 nd 4 Loughborough 2 nd 1 

SHIELD 

Semi-Finals 

Sussex 1 st 5 Northumbria 1 st 0, Sheffield 1 st 

4 Bath 2 nd 1 

Final 

Sussex 1 st 2 Sheffield 1 st 3 

WOMEN’S TEAM COMPETITION 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Semi-Finals 

Birmingham 5 Loughborough 0 

Leeds 1 UWIC 4 

Final 

Birmingham 4 UWIC 1 

TROPHY 

Semi-Finals 

Exeter 2 Plymouth 3 , Manchester 4 York 1 

Final 

Plymouth 1 Manchester 4 

SHIELD 

Final Keele 2 Newcastle 1 

Congratulations to Birmingham for winning 

Men’s and Women’s Championships and 

Men’s Trophy. 

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONHIPS 

3-5 March 2006, University of Birmingham 

Since squash changed its Individual 

Championship to a ‘graded’ type 

format, the number of participants has 

increased steadily each year. The 2005-6 

championship held in early March reached 

capacity for Birmingham’s 7-court venue 

for a 3-day event, with 124 Men’s entries 

and 51 Women’s entries. The Women’s 

entries were over 25% up on the previous 

year, which is contrary to the national 

trend of falling female participation in 

squash competitions. 

Congratulations to Leeds University who 

won both Men’s and Women’s main 

Championships, with Saurav Ghosal 

securing a relatively comfortable win 

over Loughborough’s Welsh International 

Jethro Binns, and Lauren Siddall winning 

an excellent 5-setter against Nottingham’s 

Emma Beddoes. This was Lauren and 

Emma’s 3 rd successive Final against each 

other, with Lauren taking her 2 nd BUSA title 

this year. 

The final results of all sections were as 

follows: 


(top 16 ranked men) 

Semi-Finals 

Saurav Ghosal (Leeds) beat Joel Hinds 

(Bham) 3-0; 

Jethro Binns (Lboro) beat Mohammad El 

Said (Man) 3-0 

Final 

Saurav Ghosal (Leeds) beat Jethro 

Binns (Lboro) 3-0 

MEN’S B EVENT (next 32 ranked men) 

Semi-Finals 

Andrew Cross (LMU) beat Jaymie 

Matthews (Twickenham) 3-0 

Jonathan Barnes (Manchester) beat 

Jonathan Underhill (Lboro) 3-2 

Final 

Andrew Cross (LMU) beat Jonathan 

Barnes (Manchester) 3-0 

MEN’S C EVENT FINAL 

Ben Maundrell (Bham) beat Michael 

Royston (LMU) 3-1 

MEN’S D EVENT FINAL 

Kavin Jayawardhana (KCL) beat Peter Ash 

(Lboro) 3-1 


(top 16 ranked women) 

Semi-Finals 

Emma Beddoes (Nott) beat Leonie Holt 

(Bham) 3-0 

Lauren Siddall (Leeds) beat Tanya Owens 

(Ulster) 3-0 

Final 

Lauren Siddall (Leeds) beat Emma Beddoes 

(Nott) 3-2 

WOMEN’S B EVENT 

Semi-Finals 

Heather Sinclair (Reading) beat Bethany 

Lightley (Durham) 3-0 

Helen Creak (Lboro) beat Joanna Scrivens 

(UEA) 3-1 

Final 

Helen Creak (Lboro) beat Heather Sinclair 

(Reading) 3-1 

INTERNATIONAL: 


Championships, please see the 

International section. 


The organisation and running of the above 

events wouldn’t happen without the 

team of volunteers who willingly donate 

their time and expertise, mainly across 

4 long weekends and the lead-in to the 

Individual Championships. Special thanks 

are extended to Duncan Kerr, Ann Wilson, 

Simon Tunley, Bill Moran and Linda Davie 

who all contribute to keeping things ticking 

so efficiently. 

SURFING 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

3-5 March 2006, Fistral Beach, Newquay 

The BUSA Surfing Championships (or the 

Student Nationals, as the event is also 

known) is a major date on the UK’s annual 

surfing calendar and the competition is 

renowned for being the single largest 

surfing event in Europe with over 450 

competitors 

The event consisted of Individual Men’s 

and Women’s open divisions, with a 

concurrent team competition. Universities 

battle it out in teams of four for the 

prestige of being BUSA’s top surfing 

university. 

A radical display of new-school surfing 

from Plymouth’s Matt Le Maitre earned a 

narrow victory ahead of Exeter’s James 

Hick in sunny but windy 3-4ft surf. Hick 

was on fire throughout the three day 

contest, but it was Matt Le Maitre who 

picked up the better of the shifting peaks in 

the final, laying down a series of powerful 

snaps and slashing cutbacks to take the 

title. 

After some electrifying surfing from fellowfinalists 

Christian Boletta and Jake Scott in 

the earlier rounds, the pair struggled to find 

the waves they needed to challenge for 

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the top spot. Having each surfed through 

six rounds to reach the final, in surf 

ranging from 3ft to 6ft, the four finalists 

all put in brave performances to entertain 

a 600-strong crowd on the beach, with 

the Plymouth man eventually emerging 

victorious. 

It was a double celebration for Matt, 

as his points helped Plymouth A to the 

Men’s Team title for the third year running, 

ensuring a lively trip back to Devon for the 

team minibus. Plymouth beat a strong 

Exeter Men’s team into second place. 

In the Women’s division, Ulster 

University’s Shauna Ward made light work 

of the head-high conditions to claim the 

Women’s Open title, ripping her waves 

all the way to the beach. Shauna, the 

reigning Irish Women’s Champion, showed 

her class in a hard-fought Final to emerge 

with the title ahead of Esther Lampriere, 

Tracy Somerville and runner-up Jo 

Dennison of Swansea Institute. 

Plymouth’s domination was completed 

with Plymouth winning a close-run 

Women’s Team competition ahead of rivals 

Marjons, with UWE third. 

Despite deteriorating surf, the Finals 

were a fitting climax to a three day feast 

of surfing in the UK’s surfing capital. 

Perfect weather and consistent head-high 

surf – with offshore winds until late on 

Saturday – gave the students plenty of 

reasons to be cheerful. 

SWIMMING 

SHORT COURSE SWIMMING 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

18-20 November 2006, Ponds Forge, 

Sheffield 

A capacity entry from some 74 Universities 

entered the 2005 Short Course. With 

19 new Championships Records set 

over the three days and a further three 

records equalled 2005 was a good year 

for the BUSA Short Course Swimming 

Championships. Loughborough’s Caitlan 

McClatchey set records of 1:57.78, 

4:06.33 and 8:27.35 respectively in the 

200m, 400, and 800m Freestyle and her 

team-mates Sarah Healey and Rebecca 

Shaw set two records each. Healey’s 

were in the 50m and 100 Butterfly when 

she recorded times of 27.14 and 59.16 

whilst Shaw’s were in the 200m Butterfly 

and 400m Individual Medley with times of 

2:10.85 and 4:46.95, 

Loughborough had more double record 

success when Liam Tancock and Matt 

Bowe each set a new record and 

matched an existing record. The new 

records came in the 200m Backstroke 

for Tancock (1:56.70) and 200m Butterfly 

for Bowe (1:56.92). Tancock coupled this 

by matching his own year-old record of 

53.32 in the 100m Backstroke whilst Bowe 

matched Todd Cooper’s (Stirling) yearold 

record of 53.27 in the 100 Butterfly. 

The third record to be equalled was 

Loughborough’s 1:30.54 for the 4 x 50m 

Freestyle, set in 2004, which Stirling won. 

More records came for Loughborough 

thanks to Euan Dale (2.01.30 for 200m 

Individual Medley), Amy Smith (25.79 

for 50m Freestyle), Julia Beckett (55.78 

for 100m Freestyle), Samantha Williams 

(1.02.23 for 100m Backstroke), the Men’s 

4 x 50m Medley team (1:39.43), the 

Women’s 4x 50m Freestyle Team (1.43.82) 

and the Women’s 4 x 50 Medley Team 

(1.54.68). Loughborough didn’t have all 

their own way as Nottingham collected 

2 records through Katherine Wylde who 

recorded 29.26 in the 50m Backstroke 

and Jess Sylvester who recorded 2:14.69 

in the 200m Individual Medley. Bath also 

collected a record when Joe Roebuck set 

4:17.47 in the 400m Individual Medley. 

Bowe’s performance in the 200m Butterfly 

and McClatchey’s performance in the 200m 

Freestyle won them the Top Performance of 

the Championships Awards. 

Euan Dale followed his record-breaking 

win the 200m Individual Medley with 

a further 2 gold Medals when he won 

the 200m Breaststroke in 2:14.21 and 

the 200m Freestyle in 1:47.83. Liam 

Tancock completed his set of three gold 

Medals in the 50m Backstroke (24.82) 

and Samantha Williams followed her 

record-breaking win with gold in the 200m 

Backstroke (2:13.77). Two other double 

gold Medallists were Janne Schaefer 

(Bath) who won the 50m and the 100m 

Breaststroke in 31.08 and 1:09.26 and 

Short Course Swimming 

Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 

Richard Hutton (Loughborough) who won 

the 50m and the 100m Freestyle in 22.93 

and 49.84. 

The results of the Short Course 

Championship Trophies were: 

Women 

1 191 Loughborough 

2 171 Stirling 

3 94 Nottingham 

Men 


2 102 Manchester 

3 114 Bath 

Overall 



3 192 Bath 

LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 

10-12 February 2006, Ponds Forge, 

Sheffield 

The Long Course Championships saw 57 

Universities entered. This follows the same 

format as the Short Course Championships 

but with a 50-metre pool instead of a 25- 

metre pool. 

The outstanding swimmer of the 

Championships was undoubtedly 

Loughborough’s Caitlin McClatchey who 

won all of her maximum three events. Her 

first win came in the 800m Freestyle with a 

time of 8:53.10 and she ended the weekend 

by winning the 400m Freestyle in a record 

time of 4:12.96. However, her best swim of 

the three days was in the 200m Freestyle 

when she stopped the clock at 1:59.97 to 

set a Championship record, win the race 

and record the best female performance 

of the Championship. Liam Tancock 

(Loughborough) put in the best Men’s 

performance of the weekend when he 

won the 50 Backstroke in 25.63, which he 

followed by winning the 100m Backstroke 

in a championship record of 55.30. 

Loughborough Men also beat the record for 

the 4 x 100m Medley Relay (3.44.94). 

Three more swimmers emulated Tancock 

by setting a Championship records in the 

process of collecting two gold Medals. His 

Loughborough team-mate set his record 

of 4:23.58 in the 400m Individual Medley 

and won the 200m Butterfly in 2:00.43. 

Coventry’s Sophie Caul set a record in the 

Women’s 400m Individual Medley with 

4:53.33, and won the 200m Individual 

Medley in 2:20.38. Finally, Todd Cooper 

(Stirling) kept the Scots in the frame with 

a win in the 100m Butterfly (53.77) and a 

record-breaking win in the 50m Butterfly 

(24.30). 

Six more Championship records fell 

over the three-day event; four going to 

Loughborough, one to Dundee and the 

other to Stirling. 

The results of the Long Course 

Championship Trophies were: 

Women 


2 101 Manchester 

3 92 Nottingham 

Men 



3 147 Bath 

Overall 



3 195 Bath 

SWIMMING TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 

2006 

23 teams travelled to Bath for Southern 

Rounds of Division One and Division Two 

with a further 23 teams heading for the 

Northern Rounds in Birmingham. Our 

thanks go to both Universities for hosting 

the two rounds. 

The top three teams in each of the Division 

One 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 Division Two Rounds made 

it to Nottingham Final on 29 April 2006. 

Loughborough were unchallenged in the 

First Division Final but there was a close 

match for second and third between Bath, 

Birmingham and Manchester. Birmingham 

2, Nottingham 2 and Sheffield also had a 

close match for third place in the Division 

2 Final with Swansea the runaway winners 

of the Sunderland University Trophy. The 

final results were: 

OTHER NEWS 

Commonwealth Games 

Caitlin McClatchey (Loughborough) won 

three Gold Medals at the Commonwealth 

Games in Melbourne earlier this year. 

Swimming for Scotland, her events were 

the 200m, 400, and 800m Freestyle. Caitlin 

McClatchey won the BUSA Sportswoman 

of the Year Award for her commitment and 

dedication to Swimming. 

Wolverhampton’s Terri Dunning 

represented England at the Games and 

won a bronze in the 200m Butterfly. 

She was also in the Finals of the 200m 

Individual Medley and the 100m Butterfly 

when she was fourth and fifth respectively. 

The England Men’s Team included Liam 

Tancock (Loughborough) Ross Davenport 

(Bath), Matt Bowe (Loughborough) and 

James Gibson (Loughborough), all of 

whom won Medals. Tancock won gold 

in 100m Backstroke and silver in the 

50m Backstroke whilst Davenport won 

gold in the 200m Freestyle. Gibson won 

silver in the 400 Individual Medley and 

was fourth in the 50m Breaststroke with 

Bowe was seventh in the 100m Butterfly. 

Liam Tancock won the BUSA Sportman of 

the Year Award for his commitment and 

dedication to Swimming. 

Euan Dale (Loughborough) won silver in 

the 400m Individual Medley for Scotland 

with Todd Cooper (Stirling) sixth in both 

the 50m and 100m Butterfly and Andrew 

Hunter (Stirling) was seventh in the 200m 

Freestyle. 

World Short Course Championships, 

Shanghai, 5-9 April 2006 

Loughborough swimmers Liam Tancock 

and Caitlin McClatchey flew straight from 

Melbourne to Shanghai for the World 

Short Course Championships. Tancock 

made it to the final of the 100m Individual 

Medley where he was fifth in 52.22 

whilst McClatchey was fifth in the 400m 

Freestyle (4:05.05). 

Sports Management Group 

Swimming and Diving Chair, Dave Fletcher, 

was appointed by the European Governing 

Body (LEN) as the announcer at the 2005 

European Short Course Championships in 

Trieste, Italy. He was also appointed as 

an independent member of the Amateur 

Swimming Association (ASA). Robin 

Butterfield was appointed as a starter at 

the British National Championships. 


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 remember 

Jeff Conway who has organised the 

officials for the Team Championships in 

Nottingham for a number of years. Sadly, 

he died suddenly a few weeks before the 

Finals and our sympathy goes to his family. 

TABLE TENNIS 


18-19 February, Nottingham University 

The Individuals were held at an excellent 

new 16 table venue on the University 

of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus. The 

entry of 160 was well up on last year 

with the doubling of the Women’s’ entry 

of particular note. 33 universities were 

represented from 3 home countries. The 

standard of play was high and the event 

was well run by Mike Payne and Brian 

Lloyd with ETTA umpires. 

MEN 

C Bryant of De Montfort Leicester beat 

G Urban of London South Bank 6, 10, 

6 in the Final of the Men’s Individuals 

Championship. 

WOMEN 

De Montfort Leicester’s N Bawden beat N 

White of Newcastle University -9, 8, -9, 

9, 5 

DOUBLE’S 

MEN'S 

Semi-Finals 

Marples/Gascoyne (Sheffield Hallam) beat 

Urban/Jonah (London South Bank) 5, -11, 

9, 7 

Brown/Gertsen (UWIC) beat Bryant/ 

Cooney (DMU Leicester) -9, 7, -10, 9, 8 

Final 

Marples/Gascoyne beat Brown/Gertsen 3, 

7, -7, 6 

WOMEN'S 

Semi-Finals 

Krishna/Kamdar (Cambridge) beat Shah/ 

Chaudhuri (Warwick) 7, 10, 6 

Radford/May (Plymouth) beat Muhe/Saoua 

(Southampton) 7, 10, 4 

Final 

Radford/May beat Krishna/Kamdar 7, 10, 3 

MIXED DOUBLES 

Semi-Finals 

Bawden/Bryant (DMU Leicester) beat 

Urban/Yang (London South bank) 7, 6, -9, 7 

Kamdar/Shete (Cambridge) beat Marples/ 

Baldi (Sheffield Hallam) -9, 10, 6, 7 

Final 

Bawden/Bryant beat Kamdar/Shete 2, 1, 6 

Trophies and Medals were presented 

to all finalists and Semi-Finalists by 

Table Tennis Championships, 


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Helen Rainford on behalf of sponsor 

PricewaterhouseCoopers. 



Sheffield. 

This was the culmination of competition 

over the season with the Men’s Team 

event won by Middlesex and the Women’s 

by Loughborough. There were 42 team 

entries in the Men’s event and 19 team 

entries in the Women’s event. 

MEN 

Semi-Finals 

Middlesex beat Northumbria 9-5 

Edinburgh beat London South Bank 9-5 

Final 

Middlesex beat Edinburgh 9-4 

WOMEN 

Semi-Finals 

Plymouth W/O Cambridge scratched 

Loughborough beat Newcastle 6-2 

Final 

Loughborough beat Plymouth 5-3 

OTHER NEWS 

The Sports Management Group has 

been working on a number of projects. 

One has been to review the format of 

the Championships bearing in mind the 

distances involved and the low numbers 

of Women’s teams. A survey at the BUSA 

Individuals showed no clear consensus 

for a particular option so consultation will 

continue. 

The other ongoing project is to ease 

the transition of players from home to 

university at 18. A trial flyer was used 

at several tournaments targeting junior 

entrants and it is hoped to extend this idea 

elsewhere. 

Table Tennis is a core sport at the World 

University Games - the second largest 

multi sport event after the Olympic Games. 

To try and move towards future British 

participation, a helpful meeting was held 

between the BUSA SMG-TT and the ETTA 

Chairman to attempt to move this forward 

in the context of ETTA plans. It is clear that 

there is considerable potential in this area 

of table tennis for BUSA and ETTA to link 

to the benefit of players, coaches, umpires 

and officials. 

TAEKWONDO 

INDIVIDUAL & TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 

12 March 2006, University of 

Wolverhampton 

The 20 th University National 

Championships took place with BUSA 

sanctioning in Southampton on 12 March. 

Thought by many to have been one of 

the best ever, nearly 300 fighters took 

part with about half also doing Poomse. 

The Korean Tourist Board provided free 

Korean snacks and drinks and the Mayor 

of Southampton and the Vice-Chancellor 

presented Medals following a VIP 

reception. Overall standards continue to 

rise with 3 exceptional performances from 

Charley-Jo Devin (Newcastle), Rebecca 

Powell (Cambridge) and David Honey 

(Southampton) who won Gold in both 

Sparring and Poomse. 

With their large team of over 40, Newcastle 

clinched the Overall Team Trophy for the 

second year with Southampton runners 

up and Bristol in third place. Bids are now 

being considered for the 21 st Championship 

next year. Special thanks go to the 

British Student Taekwondo Federation 

and it’s volunteers for making this year’s 

Championships a success. 

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TENNIS 

BARCLAYS INDIVIDUAL 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

16-20 December 2006, Loughborough 

University 

Entries from 32 Universities and 171 

matches played over 5 days. 

A whole new set of names on the 

winners board this year – a great year for 

London Met Men and really good to see 

Universities such as Brighton, UWIC and 

Cambridge picking up some of the spoils. 

The introduction of prize money – secured 

through the Barclays sponsorship of BUSA 

tennis – increased the profile of the event 

in the calendar and the standard of Tennis 

on show was superb. 

Slovenian Mat Jurman (London Met) - the 

Men’s number one seed - collected the 

singles title defeating the in-form Tom 

Pocock (Brighton) 6-3 6-3 and he then went 

on to partner Rob Green to victory against 

the Bath combination of Graeme Hood and 

Alex Miotto in the Men’s Doubles. 

In an enthralling Women’s final Helen 

Fritche (UWIC) beat Catherine Gunn 

(Cambridge) in three sets 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. 

In the doubles Emily Quin and Jennifer 

Broughall (Bath) triumphed over the 

Loughborough pairing of (reigning 

champion) Kirsty McRae and Katy Shaw in 

straight sets. 

Thanks to Loughborough University – again 

– for hosting the Championships over a 

very cold 5 days. Thanks also to referee 

and event manager Carl Baldwin for all 

of the preparatory work and the day to 

day organisation during the event. Further 

thanks to Carl, Marie Atkinson and Mike 

Ives for their commitment in collating 

results. 

BARCLAYS MEN’S TEAM 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

133 teams playing in 20 leagues (an increase 

of 10% in number of teams on last year). 

Congratulations to London Metropolitan 

who retained their title with some very 

strong performances. 

Premier League Championship Play-Off 

London Met. 6 Bath 5 


Semi-Finals 

London Met 7 Stirling 3, 

Bath 7 Loughborough 3 

Final 

London Met 10 Bath 0 

TROPHY 

Stirling 2nd 2 Bath 2nd 8 

SHIELD 

London Met 2nd 8 Bristol 2 

Plate 

Leeds Met 2nd 10 Kings 0 


82 teams playing in 14 leagues (10 more 

teams than last year). 

A sharing of the honours in the Women’s 

game – Loughborough beat London Met 

in the Premier League Final - only for 

London Met to secure revenge in the 

Championship Finals in March – matching 

the success of their Men’s team and 

making it a London Met double. 

Barclays BUSA Tennis Team Championships, Uni versity of Bath 

The Barclays Sponsorship has encouraged 

an increase in the Women’s league, and it 

is hoped it will continue to grow. . 

Premier League Championship Play-Off 

Loughborough bt. London Met. 8-2 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

Semi -Finals 


London Met 8 Cambridge 2 

Final 

London Met 8 Loughborough 2 

TROPHY 

Loughborough 2nd 7 Bath 2nd 3 

SHIELD 

Exeter 2nd 3 Sheffield Hallam 7 

OTHER NEWS 

Barclays Sponsorship 

A great year for BUSA tennis – we were 

all very proud to be able to announce that 

Barclays PLC was to sponsor university 

tennis in Great Britain over the next three 

years. This support aims to raise the profile 

of university tennis, increase participation 

and improve the quality of players at 

university level. 

The investment from Barclays to 

support more than 1,000 students at 

approximately 150 universities with a 

particular emphasis on encouraging more 

women to take part in the sport. This will 

be achieved through the development of 

competitive tournaments such as The 

Barclays British Universities Individual 

Tennis Championships, played by 150 

competitors, and The Barclays GB 

Students University Challenge Tour which 

will include Women’s teams for the first 

time. 

2nd European University Tennis 

Championships – Rouen, France 

– November 2005 

The 2 nd European University Tennis 

Championship took place in Mont Saint 

Aignan near Rouen, France from November 

27 to December 3, 2005. After interesting 

and hard matches, the University of 

Moscow (RUS) became EUC Tennis (Men’s) 

Champions for 2005 with the University of 

Léonard de Vinci, Paris (FRA) winning the 

Women’s trophy – congratulations to the 

Men from London Met who represented 

British interests and finished in 3 rd place 

– wining the bronze Medal. 

BUSA vs. AELTC - Wimbledon – March 

2006 

The BUSA team played well to defeat a 

strong team from AELTC 7-5. Many thanks 

to John Whiteford who again gave up 

much of his own time to select, coach and 

prepare the team. We hope to retain this 

high profile fixture and to make it more of 

an occasion in future years. 

BUSA US Tour – April 2006 

This, the 3 rd GB US Tour proved to be a 

great way to focus the players’ minds 

and provided outstanding match play 

opportunities, as well helping to gauge and 

appraise standards of both GB based and 

US based players in contention for World 

University Games teams next year. 

Against very strong collegiate opposition 

the Men won 3 lost 3 and the Women won 

3 lost 2. 

Thanks must go to Barclays, Jo Kirk and 

BUSA staff, Venetia Cosier, John Feaver 

and their staff at the LTA, Martin Lake of 

ProDirect and his staff, Serena McLaren 

and staff at STA Travel, and finally to John 

Whiteford without whose continuing 

enthusiasm and effort the tour would never 

get off the ground. 


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 

and Venetia Cosier for their unfailing 

support and enthusiasm. 

TENPIN BOWLING 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

4-5 February 2006, 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 27 

Universities, with 15 Women’s teams, 

26 Men’s teams, and 24 Individual 

competitors. 

TEAM 

In the Women’s Team event, the end of 

the first day saw Sheffield Hallam take a 

commanding lead of 101 pins over second 

place Warwick, and a further 147 pins to 

Nottingham in third. In the first event on 

Sunday, Sheffield Hallam increased their 

lead to 421 pins, and saw Nottingham 

pass Warwick into second place by just 9 

pins. In the Final event, Sheffield Hallam 

increased their lead further and were 

comfortable Winners by a margin of 492 

pins (4,483 pins, 166.1 average). Warwick 

claimed back their second place by just 

14 pins (3991 pins, 147.8 average) with 

Nottingham finishing third (3977 pins, 

147.3 average). 

At the end of the First round on the 

Saturday in the Men’s event, Nottingham- 

A were leading by a margin of 116 pins to 

Leeds-B in second and a further 17 pins 

to Surrey-B in third. However, it was all 

change on Sunday morning, as Surrey-B 

moved into first, with Nottingham-A 17 

pins behind and Sheffield-B moving from 

seventh into third in front of now fourth 

place Leeds-B. After the Final event, the 

positions remained unchanged as Surrey-B 

increased their lead to 100 pins finishing 

as winners with a pinfall of 9,913 (an 

average of 183.6 per game per player), 

Nottingham-A finished in second (9813, 

181.7 average), and Sheffield-B finished in 

third place (9420, 174.4 average). 

INDIVIDUAL 

The winner of the Women’s Individual 

competition was Laura Marcham from 

Warwick, who led from start to finish, with 

1,731 pins (192.3 average). Second place 

went to Gemma Dick from Sheffield Hallam 

(1,621, 180.1 average), whilst Karla Winch 

from East Anglia went from eighth to third 

in the last event (1,579, 175.4 average) 

passing her sister Anna Winch from 

Nottingham, who finished in fourth. 

The Men’s Individual competition was 

closely fought with each of the top three 

leading the field during the weekend. First 

place went to Rob Kendall from Surrey 

with a total of 1,950 pins (216.7 average) 

beating the old record by 6 pins. Runner up 

was Richard Balaam from DMU Bedford 

(1,887 pins, 209.7 average), with Matt 

Robinson from Nottingham taking third 

place (1878 pins, 208.7 average). 

The day was a tremendous success, with 

the overall standard of bowling improving 

yet again. A big thank you must be given 

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to the staff of AMF Nottingham bowl for 

their continued support, and to all those 

who helped make the event a brilliant 

success: Kris and Emily Wright, James 

“Thumper” Larkin, Dave “Shameful” 

Livingston, Tom Slatter and James Parrot. 


The Representative squad were chosen 

from the Individual performances in 

the tournament plus any results from 

previous Championships, previous 

selection for BUSA, along with any 

available information from the current 

seasons UCTBA fixtures. 

The Women’s squad was captained 

by Karla Winch from East Anglia, with 

Laura Marcham from Warwick as her 

vice-captain. Anna Winch (Nottingham), 

Anne-Marie Turner (Hull), Cath Todd 

(Sheffield), Gemma Dick (Sheffield Hallam), 

Heather Evans (Nottingham Trent), Louise 

Parker (Sheffield Hallam), Nadine Keefe 

(Nottingham) & Natasha Akers (Sheffield 

Hallam) completing the 10 strong team. 

This year in addition to the annual BUSA v 

Team Wales Representative match, a team 

was entered into the BTBA Nationals. The 

Six-Men did well in Norwich, while the 

Women won their Doubles Division. 

The weekend of the 24/25 June saw the 

annual trip to Cardiff to play Team Wales 

in a combination event with bonus pinfall 

for wins in a match. This year saw a close 

event for both teams’ with the BUSA 

Women in front from the start up to the 

Final Fives event, then losing by 53 pins 

overall. The Men trailed at the beginning 

but by the Final event won by 318 pins. 

TRAMPOLINING 

REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 

11 February 2006, York & 12 February 

2006, Surrey 

Over 600 competitors bounced at the 

Regional Rounds split across two venues, 

Northern at York and Southern at Surrey. 

Almost 60 Universities were represented, 

which reflects the ever growing popularity 

of the sport at both University and National 

level. 

Unfortunately York had to allow all 

Advanced Men to qualify for the Final 

Championships as they run out of time 

at their facilities due to the high volume 

of competitors – but the organising team 

must be congratulated in resolving the 

practical issues at the end of a long day. 

NATIONAL FINALS 

12 March 2006, St Martin’s, Lancaster 

The Finals at Lancaster were eagerly 

awaited with a record number of 

participants- 121 from the qualifying 

rounds and a further 56 Elite performers 

who jump at National Grade 1 and 2 

–making for a fabulous competition – until 

the snow started to fall! The organising 

team –headed up by Alex Rowe received 

weather and traffic reports throughout the 

day advising of atrocious conditions. Their 

decision to abort the Final jump offs and 

to award the winners on the preliminary 

rounds results was justifiable but hard for 

both the competitors and organisers alike. 


Special thanks must go to Emily Theobold 

and her team at Surrey, Sam Nadim at 

York and of course Alex Rowe and all the 

Trampoline Club at St Martin’s Lancaster. 

The Championships rely heavily on volunteer 

judges supplied by most Universities but 

special mention must be made of Alison 

Cross who acted as Chair of Judges at 

both Regional and Finals. Tim Smith raced 

to both Regionals and was invaluable as 

both a superior judge and co-ordinating the 

technical issues of the Championships. 

A special thanks always go to our 

Management Group who represent 

the support from the NGB Gymnastics 

[Trampolining] – especially Sue Lawton 

and Bert Scales, Tony Stone and Sally 

Edie from universities, Tim Smith and of 

course Marie Atkinson our BUSA Sports 

Programme Manager. 

TRIATHLON 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

30 April 2006, Calne, Wiltshire 

Will Clarke (Loughborough) successfully 

defended his Individual title improving on his 

previous time by nearly a minute. Despite 

solid performances in all 3 disciplines, Fraser 

Cartmell (Heriot Watt) had to settle for silver, 

a mere 13 seconds behind Clarke. Bronze 

was taken by Clarke’s team mate Dan Brook. 

Loughborough took a clean sweep of 

Medals in the Women’s competition with 

Rosie Clarke taking the title nearly a minute 

ahead of team mate Carol Ann Bridge who 

was closely followed by Vicky Holland. 

In the team event, the top 2 Men’s and 

top 2 Women’s performances counted. 

Loughborough were clear winners, ahead 

of Bath and Birmingham. 

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VOLLEYBALL 

FINAL 8’S 

10-12 March 2006, Loughborough 

University, Supported by Prosprt 

International 

174 teams started the journey in October 

and, after 472 matches, the top eight 

Men's and Women's Teams came through 

to the Championship Finals, joined by 

the four Semi-Finalists in the Men’s and 

Women’s Trophy. 

BUSA Finals weekend was augmented by 

the hosting of the four English Volleyball 

Association National Cup Semi-Finals, 

and two EVA Shield Semi-Finals. 

MEN’S 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

In the Men’s Championship Ulster rattled 

Sheffield Hallam on the Friday, leading 24- 

21 in the first set, but unable to close. 

Loughborough, on home territory, were 

hampered by the loss of James Cooper 

to injury fought hard, but went down in 

three sets to both Sheffield Hallam and 

Cambridge, to miss out on the Semi- 

Finals. 

Oxford saw off a talented Heriot Watt side 

in three sets to qualify alongside London. 

The Sunday morning Semi-Finals were 

highly competitive. Cambridge edged 

London out by two points in the first set. 

And also led 7-0 in the second. London 

called on the experience of NVL 1 players 

Albrecht Glitz and Nic Ruh from Docklands, 

and Spyros Masouros of Polonia to steady 

the ship and claw their way back to clinch 

the third set. 

Oxford beat Cambridge in the “Blues” 3 rd / 

4 th place play off. 

The final saw some high energy and 

committed play from both sides, but the 

dominance of Glitz and Masouros as outside 

hitters saw London win their first BUSA 

Men’s Championship and be the inaugural 

recipients of the Aileen Barry Trophy. 

TROPHY 

In the Men’s Trophy, York beat a depleted 

Glasgow Caledonian side in the Semi-Final. 

Bournemouth saw off a talented Imperial 

College to make the Final. York were twice 

a set down to Bournemouth but refused to 

say die and their team effort and spirit saw 

them clinch the Trophy title. 

SHIELD 

Nottingham University 

Durham beat Royal Holloway (London) to 

win the BUSA Men’s Shield. 

BUSA Finals is a very busy weekend of 

Volleyball, augmented this year by the 

hosting of the four EVA Cup Semi-Finals on 

the Saturday evening, along with two EVA 

Shield Semi-Finals. 

We were also pleased to welcome Dr 

Wolfgang Schmidt, a recently retired FIVB 

International referee, who still officiates 

in the Bundesliga, and who refereed the 

Women’s Final at the World University 

Games in Turkey last August. Wolfgang 

had never been to Britain before and took 

the opportunity to comment favourably 

both on players, and the referees. 

WOMEN’S 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

The Women’s Championship was very 

open and competitive. Loughborough 

beat London 11-1, after which both 

teams defeated Sheffield to qualify for the 

Semi-Finals. In their debut performance 

Bath made it to the semis unbeaten, and 

Manchester beat St Andrews and Oxford 

to move forward. 

Semi-Finals were again competitive and 

contested to the limit. Loughborough just 

took the first set from Manchester, but the 

Tameside NVL 1 axis of Sally Higginson 

and Lora Ioannou helped them to squeeze 

through in the third. 

London had a complete game plan and 

effectively managed Bath to win in straight 

sets. Bath came back strongly to beat 

Loughborough for third place. 

The Women’s final was fairly 

straightforward for London. Manchester 

seemed to have expended their emotional 

reserves in the win against Loughborough 

and failed to rise to their potential 

standard, with London winning the 

Adrienne McGraa Trophy in straight sets. 

London were the first team since 

Birmingham in 1978 to win both titles, and 

they go forward to play in the European 

Universities Championships in Eindhoven, 

Netherlands in July. 

TROPHY 

In the Women’s Trophy, Exeter, buoyed 

by the appearance of England star Lucy 

Boulton proved able winners defeating Hull 

in the Semi-Final and Leeds Metropolitan 

in the Final. 

Sussex beat Hull to take third place in a 

very vigorous match. 

WATER POLO 

The continuation of the Championship and 

Shield competitions has been a double 

benefit to University Water Polo. The 

Shield has continued to make it possible 

for newly established teams to enter 

Laura-Jayne Wardley 

competitions for the first time without the 

fear of having to play one of the leading 

teams in their first match. This has helped 

with the continuing expansion of both 

Men’s and Women’s competitions. Equally 

that each Championship involved just 

the top sixteen teams has improved the 

standard of play throughout Universities. 

The now customary pilgrimage of 

university Water Polo teams to Nottingham 

University for the BUSA Finals took 

place in mid-March. The matches are 

usually close fought and this year was no 

exception with both competitions being 

decided on the final match. 

The Finals this year were dominated by 

three universities, Cardiff, London and 

Manchester who each had teams playing 

in both Men’s and Women’s events. 


The first match saw the continuation of 

the contests between Bristol and Cardiff. 

Again the two sides played a hard, fast 

and entertaining match. Cardiff established 

an early lead only to be pulled back by 

Bristol who led 3-2 at then end of the first 

period. Subsequent periods ended with 

Bristol leading 5-4 and 7-5 and the usual 

close result appeared likely. However, in 

the Final period Bristol took control to run 

out winners by 11-6. 

Manchester lost close matches to London 

11-7 and Bristol 9-8 while London defeated 

Cardiff by a surprising 24-9. In the 

penultimate match Manchester defeated 

Cardiff 10-88, meaning a Final match 

would decide the title. 

We were not to be disappointed when 

Bristol and London produced a grand finale 

to the tournament. At the end of the first 

period London led 2-1; at half-time Bristol 

led 4-3; at the end of the third period 

London led 8-6 and only when Bristol 

tired were London able to dominate finally 

winning 12-6. 

Final Positions 

1 London 

2 Bristol 

3 Manchester 

4 Cardiff 

Water Polo Championships, University of Nottingham 

SHIELD 

The Finals of the Shield competition were 

also played at Nottingham and the result 

was: 

Men 

Oxford defeated Durham 16-4 


In the first match Loughborough played 

London and finally won by 5-4 goals. In the 

second match there were 26 goals scored 

and the lead changed hands several times 

in the first three periods which ended at 

4-4, 7-7 and with Cardiff leading by 11-9 

respectively. Half way through the final 

period the scores were again level at 11-11 

before Manchester scored three times to 

Cardiff’s single reply to ran put winners 

14-12. 

The next 2 matches between 

Loughborough / Manchester and Cardiff 

/ London followed the similar pattern 

with the lead changing throughout both 

matches. Both were decided by 2 goals. 

When Manchester defeated London 9-4 

in the penultimate match there was the 

possibility of a three way tie when Cardiff 

led Loughborough by 5-2 early in the 

second period of the Final match. However 

Cardiff were unable to score again and 

Loughborough by scoring a single goal in 

each of the last three periods came out 

winners of the match 6-5 and also claimed 

the Championship. 

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6 ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6 

Final Positions 

1 Loughborough 

2 Manchester 

3 Cardiff 

4 London 

SHIELD 

The Final of the Shield competition were 

also played at Nottingham where Bristol 

Women beat Leeds Met 8-6. v 

WINDSURFING 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

17-19 March 2006, Calshott Activity Centre 

The BUSA Nationals is the final event 

in the Student Windsurfing Series and 

includes Men’s and Women’s Division 1, 2 

and 3 and also a Team Relay. 

Both advanced and intermediate fleets set 

off on the sea-front for a figure of 8 slalom 

course on mainly 6m sails & short boards. 

Southampton's Bob Shelmerdine took the 

victory in the first race with Sam Stevens, 

also from Southampton and Oxford's Sandy 

Douglas following behind in second and 

third respectively. 

Bob continued to dominate all morning 

as three more races were run but hot on 

his heels after lunch was Gordon Margery 

from Bristol with two seconds and a third. 

With seven slalom races run in total, the 

division one fleet was sent back inside 

to thaw with Bob Shelmerdine ruling the 

seas as BUSA champion winning four out 

seven. Gordon Margery took home the 

silver and Southampton's Dave Dawson 

took the bronze. 

In the Women’s competition Tanya Selah 

from Bristol took the first place for the 

second year in a row, making it into the top 

10 overall. Nikki Rudd from Plymouth came 

second with a 15th overall spot. 

The intermediate fleet struggled in their 

first race on the sea front so after lunch, 

when there was enough water, they were 

sent off in the Calshot Lagoon. Here UWE 

dominated the fleet as Jon Downing and 

Rich Fraser ran home first and second 

respectively. 

The Women's fleet was narrowly won 

by Jess Bennett, with Leila Faddoul 

hot on her heels, coming seventh and 

eighth respectively overall. 

At the end of day 1 the competition 

was nicely poised with Southampton, 

Bristol and Exeter 1st, 2nd and 3rd 

with only the team racing left to go. 

On the Sunday the wind had dropped 

a little but was still coming in from 

the north east and the sun was out. 

8 teams entered in the relay style 

team racing with a single gybe slalom 

course set it was looking promising. 

With a large crowd on the beach to 

watch and cheer on their University, 

the action was the most exiting it had 

been in a long time. Southampton 

and Bristol dominated and the event 

was decided on the last race as Bob 

Shelmerdine and Gordon Margery 

finished within 10m of each other and 

raced up the beach to the finish line. 

Bob took the victory for Southampton 

who won 3 of the 4 races. Other 

noticeable battles were between 

Cambridge and Oxford with Oxford just 

beating Cambridge into fifth place. 

With Southampton winning the Team 

competition and having the 3 highest 

placed sailors in the Individual racing 

there was no question who was 

walking home as Champions this year. 

Many thanks to Calshot for hosting 

the competition, to Chris Tuffil and his 

team of rescue boat drivers, to the 

SWA who ran each of the divisions, 

to Southampton University for coordinating 

the event and organizing 

a great party. Many thanks also to 

all the sponsors who donated prizes 

for the event. Boardseeker.com, 

Boardwise, Tushingham, Starboard, 

Naish, Bic Sport, Fat Face, Kangaroo 

Poo, Spot-on-Water, Solent Sailboards, 

Poole Harbour Watersports, FC 

Watersports. 

Acknowledge the Student Windsurfing 

Association (SWA) for the report. 

BRITISH UNIVERSITY 

GAMES 

10-13 April 2006, University of Swansea 

Over 500 competitors from all corners 

of Great Britain gathered in Swansea to 

compete in the 11th British University 

Games (BUGs). The four day competition 

provided a feast of sporting action in which 

athletes competed for their university’s 

Home Nation – England, Northern Ireland, 

Scotland or Wales – in a round robin 

tournament in five different sports: 

• Association Football (Men’s & Women’s) 

• Badminton (Mixed) 

• Basketball (Men’s & Women’s) 

• Hockey (Men’s & Women’s) 

• Netball (Women’s) 

Swansea hosted the tournament for the 

second time, having previously hosted 

the event in 1996. Spectators were given 

some thrilling matches to watch with 

some of the closest finishes in recent 

years. Whilst the English Universities once 

again claimed the Trustees Trophy for the 

overall winning Nation, they were pushed 

all the way by the Scottish who will 

undoubtedly be seeking to make amends 

in the future. 

As well as the Trustees Trophy, awards 

were presented to the winning nations 

in each sport and to the Player of the 

Tournament in each sport, as voted by the 

Team Managers and Coaches. 

Congratulations to all competitors who 

represented their nations in good spirit 

both on and off the pitch. Huge thanks 

must be extended to the University of 

Swansea and their staff, in particular 

Gwyneth Diment (Director of Sport) and 

Richard Lancaster (AU Manager) for all 

their support and hard work both before 

and during the tournament. 

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL 

The Men’s and Women’s Football 

competition at Swansea were hotly 

contested affairs, unlike the weather 

which was cold and wet. The English 

Universities Men’s team were victorious 

in the tournament, wining all three games, 

ahead of Scottish Universities who fought 

valiantly up until the final whistle. It was a 

high scoring competition, with some skilful 

Football despite the effect the weather had 

on the playing services. 

In the Women’s Tournament Scottish 

Universities won both their matches 

putting Welsh Universities into second and 

English Universities into third place. 

Men’s Football 

Winners: ENGLAND 

English 

Universities 

Scottish 

Universities 

Welsh 

Universities 

Northern Ireland 

Universities 

MENS FOOTBALL 

English Universities 

Scottish Universities 

Welsh Universities 

Northern Ireland Universities 

Final Position 

1-0 1-0 6-0 1 

0-1 2-2 2-2 2 

0-1 2-2 4-2 3 

0-6 2-2 2-4 4 

Player of the Tournament: Gary Long 

(Welsh Universities) 

English 

Universities 

WOMENS FOOTBALL 





1-3 1-0 3 

Women’s Football 

Winners: SCOTLAND 

Player of the Tournament: 

Vanessa Leat (English Universities) and 

Faye Hughes (Scottish Universities) 

BADMINTON 

As pre-tournament favourites, the English 

and Scottish Universities dominated their 

first two matches; however it was the 

English team that capitalised on their early 

wins, leaving the Scottish to finish in 2nd 

place. The Welsh and Northern Irish teams 

battled it out for 3rd and 4th place with 

their match finishing a tie. Thanks to 2 

games claimed against the Scottish, the 

Welsh Universities took 3rd place. 


English 

Universities 

Scottish 

Universities 

Welsh 

Universities 


Universities 

BADMINTON 






10-0 10-0 10-0 1 

0-10 10-0 8-2 2 

0-10 0-10 5-5 4 

0-10 2-8 5-5 3 


Matt Hanson (English Universities) 

BASKETBALL 

Men’s Basketball 

The English Men also won all their 

matches but Scotland gave them a fright 

this year losing 83-74, the result being 

in doubt until the last few minutes. The 

Scots came second with Wales third and 

Northern Ireland fourth. 

English 

Universities 

Scottish 

Universities 

Welsh 

Universities 


Universities 


MENS BASKETBALL 


74- 

83 

66- 

92 

58- 

88 


83- 

74 

53- 

88 

60- 

76 


92- 

66 

88- 

53 

71- 

79 


Steve Vear (English Universities) 


88- 

58 

76- 

60 

79- 

71 

Women’s Basketball 

England Women continued their 

dominance of the Women’s competition 

with comprehensive victories of more 

than 45 points over Scotland and 34 

over Wales, once again in a three-team 

competition. Scotland came second 

beating the Welsh 73-68. 

English 

Universities 

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 



103- 

48 



1 

2 

3 

4 


98-64 1 

Scottish 

Universities 

3-1 0-1 1 

Scottish 

Universities 

48- 

103 

73-68 2 

English Team Managers collect Trustees 

Trophy from Ian Randell, BUSA CEO 

Welsh 

Universities 

0-1 1-0 2 

Basketball, British University Games, 

Swansea University 

Welsh 

Universities 

64-98 68-73 3 

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Player of the Tournament: Megan Ladley 

(English Universities) 

HOCKEY 

Men’s Hockey 

The Men’s Hockey proved to be a thrilling 

competition, with the title only being decided 

in the dying minutes of the final games. 

Having drawn with each other in an earlier 

fixture, not only was a win a must for the 

Northern Ireland and Scottish Universities in 

order to claim the title, but goal difference 

was also going to be an important factor. 

English 

Universities 

Scottish 

Universities 

Welsh 

Universities 


Universities 

MENS HOCKEY 






4-5 1-4 2-3 4 

5-4 3-2 3-3 2 

4-1 2-3 1-3 3 

3-2 3-3 3-1 1 

Hockey, British University Games, 


English 

Universities 

Scottish 

Universities 

Welsh 

Universities 


Universities 

WOMENS HOCKEY 






3-4 5-0 3-1 2 

4-3 8-2 2-2 1 

0-5 2-8 2-3 4 

1-3 2-2 3-2 3 

British University Games, Swansea University. Winnders English Universities 

Men’s Football Team 

Having come back from a 2-0 deficit against 

the Welsh, the Scottish Universities had a 

spirited final 10 minutes scoring 3 goals. 

With Northern Ireland only drawing with the 

English Universities at the time, it looked 

like the title had been won. However, 

Northern Ireland refused to give up and, 

having also come back from 2-0 down to 

2-2, scored a goal in the last 2 minutes of 

the game and thereby claiming the title on 

goal difference. With the matches running 

concurrently on adjacent pitches, it was an 

atmospheric climax to the tournament. 

Winners: NORTHERN IRELAND 

English 

Universities 

Scottish 

Universities 

Welsh 

Universities 


Universities 

NETBALL 


41- 

42 

34- 

38 

53- 

38 


42- 

41 

40- 

34 

56- 

39 


38- 

34 

34- 

40 

55- 

38 


38- 

53 

39- 

56 

38- 

55 

Player of the Tournament: Mark Daniel 

(Northern Ireland Universities) 


Women’s Hockey 

The title for the Women’s competition also 

came down to the final day’s play, with 

Scottish Universities needing a win against 

the Welsh Universities to claim the title. 

Not content with just a win, the Scottish 

put on an impressive display scoring 8 

goals on the final day. 

Winners: SCOTLAND 

Player of the Tournament: Emma Clark 

(Northern Ireland Universities) 

NETBALL 

The netball once again proved to be a 

hotly contested competition with only a 

few goals in it for a number of the fixtures. 

It was Northern Ireland, however, that 

were able to claim the title with solid 

performances throughout the tournament. 

Winners: NORTHERN IRELAND 

Player of the Tournament: Louise 

McKeown (Northern Ireland Universities) 

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Alphabetical, by sport 

ARCHERY 

BEACH VOLLEYBALL 

CROSS COUNTRY 

CYCLING 

EQUESTRIAN 

FUTSAL 

GOLF 

KARATE 

ORIENTEERING 

ROWING 

RUGBY 7’S 

SQUASH 

TAEKWONDO 

TRIATHLON 

Having entered into a unique partnership 

with BUSA in 2005, Lucozade Sport 

has been fuelling the success of BUSA’s 

elite squad throughout 2006. Actively 

addressing the contamination and 

nutritional needs of BUSA athletes, 

Lucozade Sport supplied the squad with 

a range of contaminant tested nutritional 

products specifically manufactured and 

packaged to provide a complete solution 

to their specific needs. John Houston 

(Herriot Watt University), Captain of the 

World University Rugby 7’s Championships 

Team that won silver in Italy this year said 

‘having access to Lucozade Sport, and the 

additional nutritional support, was a great 

help for the team in achieving our success 

at the World University Championships 

this year. It helped us recover more quickly 

after the matches and also helped to give 

us the edge.” 

This nutritional support will continue 

as part of Lucozade Sport and BUSA’s 

ongoing partnership. With the global 

nature of student competition, the 

specialist products Lucozade Sport has 

to offer via the Lucozade Sport Science 

Academy (LSSA) will play an integral role 

in BUSA training camps and competitions 

throughout the world, helping to give 

student athletes at all levels the edge. 

BUSA’s elite coaches and medical staff 

have direct access to Lucozade Sport 

dietitians at the LSSA who provide relevant 

sports nutrition and hydration advice that 

can be easily translated into practical 

solutions for their athletes. In addition, 

all student athletes can benefit from the 

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com and can access a 15% discount on 

Lucozade Sport products by visiting www. 

thelssa.com/shop and entering BUSA’s 

unique code BU05. 

ARCHERY 

Team 

Andrew Callaway 

Andy Ward 

Tim Nash 

Neil Bowley 

Emma Downie 

Nicky Hunt 

Becky Gridley 

Philippa Ascough 

Bournemouth 

Edinburgh 

St Barts 

Nottingham Trent (yr 

down) 

Edinburgh 

Coventry 

Edinburgh 

Edinburgh 

Team Officials 

John Sullivan Team Manager 

Ken Bearman Team Coach 

Facing some stiff competition from previous 

World University Games gold Medallists, and 

World and Olympic athletes the Great Britain 

Archery team faced some tough matches 

in the Individual competition. The highest 

placed team member was Andy Ward in the 

Men’s Compound and Becky Gridley in the 

Women’s Compound both finishing 14 th . 

The Men’s Compound team won a well 

deserved bronze Medal, beating Russia in 

the 3 rd / 4 th play off, after losing to France 

in the Semi-Finals. 

BEACH VOLLEYBALL 

Team 

Lucy Boulton Exeter 

Zara Dampney Sheffield 

Kerri Olding Bath 

Shauna Mullin Heriot Watt 

Gregg Weaver El Camino 

Robin Miedzybrodzki Edinburgh 

Rob Flay 

Loughborough 

Tom Ward Sheffield Hallam 


Joe Mildred Team Manager 

Angela Clark Coach 

Amanda Glover Coach 

Ian Andrews Physio 

This was the first time that BUSA in 

conjunction with England Volleyball had 

entered a team into the Beach Volleyball 

Championships. The tournament itself was 

of a good level with many of the athletes 

having world tour experience. 

Beach Volleyball, Cyprus 

The Great Britain Women’s number one 

pair of Boulton and Dampney finished in 

13 th place with GBR 2 (Olding and Mullin) 

coming 25 th . In the Men’s competition 

the pairing of Weaver and Miedzybrodzki 

finished 17 th with Flay and Ward in 25 th . 

CROSS COUNTRY 

Team 

Matt Ashton 

Sam Jacobs 

Richard Kay 

Ben Moreau 

Andy Vernon 

James Walsh 

Eleanor Baker 

Hatti Dean 

Elizabeth Hall 

Freya Murray 

Kate Reed 

St Mary’s 

Birmingham 

Staffordshire(Year 

Down) 

Oxford 

St Mary’s 

Leeds 

Brunel 

Sheffield Hallam 

Brunel 

Edinburgh 

(Year Down) 

St Mary’s 


Chris Coleman Team Manager 

Anne Marie Hughes Team Coach 

Following close consultation with UK 

Athletics a full Men’s and Women’s team 

was selected to compete in Algeria. Kate 

Reed made up for the disappointment of 

narrowly missing out on a Medal at the 

2004 Championships by taking the silver 

Medal and she was followed closely 

home by Eleanor Baker in the Bronze 

Medal position and Hatti Dean in fourth 

place. With Elizabeth Hall (9 th ) and Freya 

Murray (19 th ) also finishing in the top 20 

the Great Britain Women’s team took the 

top honours in the team event. 

The Men’s team finished 6 th overall, with 

their highest placed individual athlete being 

James Walsh in 28 th place. 

CYCLING 

Team 

Neil Coleman 

Gareth Hewitt 

Peter Williams 

Tim Dunford 

Mark Thwaites 

Will Simmons 


Paddy Hill 

Gloucestershire 


York St John 

Southampton 

Leeds Met 

Leeds 

Team Manager 

TIME TRIAL 

Peter Williams posted an excellent 3 rd 

fastest time on the 1 st lap but he was unable 

to maintain this pace and finally finished just 

36 seconds away from a Medal position in 

8 th place. Neil rode a consistent time trial 

and was placed 10 th . With both GB riders 

within the top 10 this was an excellent start 

to the Championships. 

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CYCLO CROSS 

Up against some of the top continental cross riders Mark Thwaites 

suffered a collision soon after the start which in a race where the 

pace only gets quicker meant his Medal chances were over and he 

went onto finish 13 th with Will following him in 14 th position. 

ROAD RACE 

Neil Coleman punctured early in the race and excellent team 

support by Mark Thwaites allowed him to regain the peleton with 

Mark then retiring from the race. An unfortunate crash at the front 

of the race mid distance which happened within the narrowest 

section of the course allowed 9 riders to escape from the main 

field. This resulted in a gap before the rest of the riders could pick 

themselves around the fallen riders and bikes. Although this crash 

involved no GB riders 6 nations were represented in this 9 man 

break leaving GB and Ireland the difficult task of trying to close the 

gap on such a small flat circuit. Despite bringing this gap down to 

less than 20 seconds at one stage the continued effort was not 

sufficient to regain the lead group who eventually finished 2mins 

40 seconds ahead. Tim Dunford was unfortunate on the last corner 

approaching the sprint finish to be pushed out into a wall, needless 

to say his bike suffered considerably more damage than himself. 

The selection of the Road Race circuit was very disappointing 

being very small and narrow for such a large entry – apparently 

this was based on the indicative figures for entry in January. The 

outcome of the race was more by luck in position within the main 

field at the time of the crash. 

EQUESTRIAN 

Team 

Rosalind Canter 

Zoe Gullett 

Natalie McGoldrick 

Fiona Davidson 

Team 


Katie Stephens 


University of London 

Cambridge 

Hartpury (reserve) 

2 nd (dressage) Silver 

Team Manager 

The trio of Great Britain competitors that travelled to the World 

University Championships in La Rochelle in France returned with a 

silver Medal in the Team Dressage event. 

Natalie McGoldrick (Cambridge), Ros Canter (Sheffield Hallam) 

and Zoe Gullett (Nottingham) all shone in the four day event and 

combined in the team Dressage competition to come away with 

the silver Medal. 

FUTSAL 

Team 

Stephen Harrison 

Ben Mortlock 

Michael Skubala 

Nehman Haq 

Alex Lobban 

Jack Robinson 

Daniel Hogan 

John Atkinson 

Habeel Nawaz 

Luke Williams 

Alex Rodman 


Graeme Dell 

Andy Hibbert 


Teesside 

Birmingham 

UCE 

Nottingham Trent 

Loughborough 

Doncaster College for the Deaf 

Doncaster College for the Deaf 

UCE 

Bournemouth 


Head Coach 

Team Manager 

Oliver Finlay 

Physiotherapist 

Great Britain returned home from the 10th World University Futsal 

Championships in Poznan, Poland finishing a creditable 14th place 

showing an improvement of two finishing places since Palma de 

Mallroca, 2004. GB were once more awarded the FISU Fair Play 

Award for the second successive Championship. 

GOLF 

Team 

Gordon Yates 

Jason Palmer 

Ed Parker 

Daniel Willett 

Olivia Briggs 

Faye Sanderson 

Heather MacRae 


Raleigh Gowrie 

Jason Atkins 

Stirling 

Birmingham 

Birmingham 

Jacksonville State 

Stirling 

Northumbria 

San Diego State 

Team Manager 

Asst Team Manager 

A combined team score of 3 under par in the 4 th round of the XI 

World University Golf Championships helped Great Britain Men 

to a bronze Medal at Circolo Golf Torino Italy. Counting scores 

from Jason Palmer (72, Birmingham University), Gordon Yates 

(73, Stirling University) and an impressive 68 from Daniel Willett 

(Jacksonville State University) allowed GB to finish on 851 that 

moved them ahead of their nearest rivals Canada, Ireland and 

Chinese Taipei to the third placed spot. 

The Women’s team finished on a 4 round total of 610 and in 7 th 

place behind runaway winners USA (579). Japan (581) and Russia 

(590) finished in 2 nd and 3 rd spots respectively. 

KARATE 

Team 

Gareth Reynolds 

Chris Tully 

Leon Anderson 

Jason Legister 

Alton Brown 

Justin Kennedy 

Callum Robb 

Sonny Roberts 

Anthony Duffy 

Samantha Jones 

Natalie Williams 

Mellissa Lewis 

Alana Leonard 

Stephanie O’Connell 


Steve Coupland 

Ticky Donovan (OBE) 

William Thomas 

Molly Samuels 

Mohinder Sadhur 

UWIC (year down) 


London South Bank 

Wolverhampton 

London South Bank 

Heriot Watt 

Heriot Watt 


Liverpool 

Cardiff 

Brunel (year down) 

Nottingham 

Manchester Met 

Glasgow 

Team Manager 

Head Coach 

Coach 

Coach 

Physio 

The GBR Karate Delegation made a huge impact in New 

York winning a haul of Medals. The pick of the bunch was Natalie 

Williams who returned with a gold and silver, to add to her gold 

won in Mexico 2002. Williams had a great Championship with 

silver in the Individual Women’s Under 60kg Kumite Final, narrowly 

losing to Eva Medvedova from Slovakia, and taking gold in the 

Female Open Competition beating Tiffany Fanjat (France) into silver 

Medal position. 

Sam Jones took silver in the Individual Women’s Under 53kg 

Kumite Final, losing out to Selene Gugiemi from Italy. Gareth 

Reynolds took joint bronze in the Individual Men’s Under 60kg 

Kumite Final. The total amount of Medals won by Great Britain 

was 4, with 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. 

ORIENTEERING 

Team 

Helen Bridle 

Rachael Elder 

Mhairi Mackenzie 

Aislinn Austin 

Helen Palmer 

Oleg Chepelin 

Matt Crane 

Graham Gristwood 

Oli Johnson 

Murray Strain 


David Rosen 

Miriam Rosen 

Jonathan Musgrave 

Chalmers 

Sheffield 

Edinburgh 

Leeds Met 

Paisley 

Edinburgh 

Sheffield 

Warwick (year down) 

Sheffield 

Edinburgh 

Team Manager 

Asst Team Manager 

Coach 

The British team got off to a tremendous start at the World 

University Championships in Kosice, Slovakia. On the first day 

of competition, Helen Bridle won silver in the Long Distance 

competition. This was followed two days later with the Sprint 

competition which saw Murray Strain take 4th, Helen Bridle take 

8th and Graham Gristwood take 12th Position. 

On the last day of competition Great Britain finished on a high 

with gold in the Women’s Relay competition, making it the most 

successful performance in 15 years. 

Mhairi Mackenzie, of the University of Edinburgh had an excellent 

first leg in the Women’s Relay, finishing 4th, only a minute down 

on the Hungarian leader. The big shock was that the Czech reigning 

Champions made a big error and were 10 minutes adrift. 

On second leg, Helen Palmer, (University of Paisley) held the 

position but slipped a couple more minutes behind the Swiss who 

then pulled into the lead. 

Rachael Elder, (University of Sheffield) ran a good third leg but it 

looked like Great Britain were going to be fighting for the bronze 

Medal with Finland, as Norway pulled away to rival the Swiss 

leaders. 

Helen Bridle of Chalmers University 

Helen Bridle, of Chalmers University, the silver Medallist from the 

long distance race, was still in fourth place at the spectator control 

over half way round the course. However, the leading teams all 

made errors in the last loop due to the deceptive spurs and valleys 

on the sides of the steep hills. Bridle ran perfectly through the tricky 

section and at the last control was in the lead by just 10 seconds. A 

fast finish brought her over the line first - allowing Britain to reclaim 

the gold Medal the Women had won four years ago. 

ROWING 

Team 

Frances Fletcher 

Emma Steele 

Louisa Reeve 

Anna McNuff 

Louisa Rowbotham 

Lindsey Maguire 

Naomi Hoogesteger 

Lizzie Tinley 

Adam Freeman - Pask 

Henry Chin 

Simon Barr 

Alex Woods 

Andrew Berridge 

James Dunley 

Henry Pelly 

George Laughton 

Scott Rennie 

Pete Champion 

Tom Ransley 

Ben Curtis 

Ben Smith 

Matt Tucker 

Will Robinson 

Dave Lyons 

Matt Steeds 

Oli Moore 

Ryan Davies 

Charlie Smith 

Nick Ford (cox) 

Durham 

Durham 

Durham 

London 

London 

Birmingham 

Durham 

London 

Bath 

Durham 

Durham 

Oxford 

Oxford 

London 

Newcastle 

Newcastle 

Imperial 

Cambridge 

York 

WImperial 

Imperial 

Oxford Brookes 


Bath 

Bristol 

Imperial 


California 



Pete Sheppard 

Jim Chalmers 

Nathan Williams 

Angelo Savarino 

Emma Hall – Craggs Rob Baker 

Wade Hall – Craggs Lisa O’Flynn 

Great Britain brought home an impressive 4 Medals, taking 2 

gold and 2 silver positions from the World University Rowing 

Championships in Trakai, Lithuania. 

The Championships saw Great Britain take gold in both the 

Women’s Double Sculls (Louisa Reeve and Anna McNuff) and the 

Men’s Double Sculls (Henry Pelly and George Laughton). 

Silver Medals were taken in the Lightweight Men’s Coxless Four 

(Henry Chin, Andy Berridge, Simon Barr and Alex Woods) and the 

Men’s Eight (Will Robinson, Matt Tucker, Matt Steeds, Dave Lyons, 

Ben Smith, Oli Moore, Ryan Davies, Charlie Smith and Nick Ford). 

Along with the Medal placings Great Britain also placed 4th in the 

Men’s Coxless Four (Tom Ransley, Pete Champion, Scott Rennie 

and Ben Curtis) and 5th in the Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls 

(Frances Fletcher and Emma Steele). 

Great Britain finished in joint top position alongside Poland in the 

medal table, with both nations winning 2 gold and 2 silvers. Italy 

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followed winning 2 golds and 1 bronze. 

RUGBY 7’S 

Team 

John Houston 

Graham Thomson 

George Dixon 

Peter McKee 

Alastair Simmie 

Tom Jarvis 

Pat Dias 

Simon Hunt 

Tom Gregory 

Tom Dickens 

Liam Lonnergan 

Pat Benson 


Keith Green 

Ian Minto 

Liam Middleton 

Andy Smith 

Angela Cumine 

Heriot Watt 

Dundee 

UWIC 

UWIC 

Durham 

Hartpury 

Loughborough 

Hartpury 

Nottingham 

Hartpury 

St Mary's 

Hartpury 

Team Manager 

Coach 

Coach 

Doctor 

Physio 

Great Britain Men’s Rugby Sevens Team returned from Rome, Italy 

with a silver Medal. 

Great Britain were placed with Morocco and Ukraine in the group 

stages of the competition and made light work of defeating both 

38-0 and 45-0 respectively. Great Britain then faced host Nation 

Italy in the Quarter-Finals where they disappointed the locals with 

a 24-12 victory. The Semi-Final was a much closer affair with 

Great Britain beating Spain 24-19, which meant Spain settled for 

fourth (as they did in Beijing 2004). 

The Final saw Great Britain face the reigning Champions France who, 

once again, showed they dominance and took the match 33-10. 

SQUASH 

Team 

Chris Ryder 

Jonny Harford 

Joel Hinds 

Lauren Siddall 

Emma Beddoes 

Non travelling reserves 

Jaymie Haycocks 

Jethro Binns 

Jenna Gates 


Ian Robinson 

Keir Worth 

Loughborough 

Birmingham (year down) 

Birmingham 

Leeds 

Nottingham 

Birmingham 

Loughborough 

Sheffield 

Team Manager 

Team Coach 

TEAM 

Great Britain won Team Gold at the World University Squash 

Championships for the second time ever, beating France 2-1 in the 

Final. 

Lauren Siddall (Leeds University) gave the team a solid start with a 

9-1, 10-8, 9-1 start over Maud Duplomb in the first match. 

overall Team Gold are Emma Beddoes (Nottingham) and Joel Hinds 

(Birmingham) both of whom won their Semi-Final matches the 

previous day to set GB up as firm favourites in the Final. 

INDIVIDUAL 

Chris Ryder (Loughborough) won his second World Championship 

gold of the week when he beat Mark Krajcezk 3-1 in 89 minutes. 

Ryder's patience played off in a magnificent example of tactical 

manoeuvring of the local boy Krajcezk. Chris lost the first 7/9 in 

25 minutes, but by the time he clinched the second 10/8 Krajcezk 

was looking decidedly weary. Although Chris took the 3rd game 

9/1, Krajcezk threatened to come back at the start of the 4th, until 

his legs gave up and Chris took the 4th game 9/4 to become the 

World University Squash Champion, adding the Individual title to 

the Team title won by GB on Wednesday. 

Lauren Siddall (Leeds) secured a comfortable 3-0 win in the 

3rd/4th play-off against the American number 1 seed Katie Patrick 

to win bronze in the Women's Individual event, adding to Joel 

Hinds' (Birmingham) individual bronze in the Men's Championship. 

TAEKWONDO 

Team 

Temi Jegede 


John Webster 

Middlesex (year down) 

Team Manager 

Britain’s sole representative at the 2006 World University 

Taekwondo Championships eventually lost to Mamedy Doucara the 

2002 World Champion from France 3- 1 in the Quarter-Finals 3 -1. 

TRIATHLON 

Team 

Lawrence Fanous 

Mark Bruce 

Harry Wiltshire 


Team Manager 

Loughborough 

Loughborough 

Bath 

John Mills 

University of Bath student Harry Wiltshire took gold at the World 

University Triathlon Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

The Men’s race was closely contested throughout the swim 

and cycle. It was only on the Final leg did the front group break 

away consisting of Great Britain’s Harry Wiltshire, Germany’s Jan 

Raphael and Ivan Risti of Italy. 

The three finished in that order after a battle over the final few 

yards of the course with just 0.2 seconds separating the top three. 

Great Britain’s Mark Bruce and Lawrence Fanous both of 

Loughborough University finished in 9th and 33rd respectively. 

Acknowledgements 

BUSA competitions are planned and run with the help and advice of the Sports 

Management Groups, members of which give up their time to ensure the success of 

university sport. This Annual Review was written with advice and contributions from these 

Sports Management Groups. The chairs of these SMGs for the season 2005-2006 are 

listed below. 

Archery 

John Sullivan 

Association Football 

David Williams 

Athletics 

Dr. Mike Turner 

Badminton 

Alison Odell 

Basketball 

Trevor Pountain 

Boxing 

Bill Sharkey 

Climbing 

Mike Brightwell 

Cricket 

Keir Hopley 

Cycling 

Paddy Hill 

Equestrian 

Hannah Westrop 

Fencing 

John Charney 

Fives 

David Gardner 

Gaelic Football 

Dr. Peter Massey 

Golf 

Raleigh Gowrie 

Gymnastics 

Mitch Fenner 

Hockey 

Vince Mayne 

Judo 

Malcolm Limrick 

Ju Jitsu 

Gareth Horgan 

Karate 

Steve Coupland 

Lacrosse 

Iain Johnson 

Orienteering 

David Rosen 

Pool 

Irowerth Griffiths 

Rifle – Full Bore 

Henry Jeens 

Rifle – Small Bore 

Geoff Doe 

Rowing 

Nigel Mayglothling 

Rugby League 

Matt Jeffery 

Rugby Union 

Vaughan Williams 

Sailing 

Ed Hill 

Snooker 

Dr Patrick McWilliams 

Snowsports 

Duncan Freshwater 

Squash 

Zena Wooldridge 

Swimming & Diving 

Dave Fletcher 

Table Tennis 

Mike Payne 

Taekwondo 

Gary Hall 

Tennis 

Fiona Rennie 

Tenpin Bowling 

Kris Wright 

Chris Ryder (Loughborough) then dispatched Fabian Verseille 

in a very clinically professional performance 9/2, 9/1, 9/0 in 30 

minutes, leaving Jonathon Harford (Birmingham) to play the dead 

3-set rubber which he lost 6/9, 9/1, 5/9 to Yann Perrin. 

The other members of the squad who played their part in the 

Triathlon winners Great Britain’s Harry Wiltshire (gold), 

Germany’s Jan Raphael (silver) and Ivan Risti of Italy (bronze) 

Trampolining 

Triathlon 

Volleyball 

Water Polo 

Sally Edie 

John Mills 

Lenny Barry 

Dr. Mike Clark 

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Universities 

University of Aberdeen 

University of Abertay, Dundee 

Anglia Ruskin University 

University of the Arts London 

Aston University 

Barts and The London Students Assoication 

University of Bath 

Bath Spa University 

University of Birmingham 

Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies 

University of Bolton 

Bournemouth University 

Bradford College 

University of Bradford 

University of Brighton 

University of Bristol 

Brunel University, West London 

University of Buckingham 

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College 

University of Cambridge 

Canterbury Christ Church University 

Cardiff University 

Cardiff Medics 

University of Central England, Birmingham 

University of Central Lancashire 

University of Chester (Chester) 

University of Chester (Warrington) 

University College Chichester 

City University London 

Coventry University 

Cranfield University (Bedfordshire) 

De Montfort University (Bedford) 

De Montfort University (Leicester) 

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Cranfield 

University, Shrivenham) 

University of Derby 

University of Dundee 

University of Durham 

University of East Anglia 

Edge Hill Institute of Higher Education 

University of Edinburgh 

University of Essex 

University of Exeter 

University of Glamorgan 

University of Glasgow 

Glasgow Caledonian University 

University of Gloucestershire 

Goldsmiths College, University of London 

University of Greenwich 

Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas School of Medicine, Denistry & 

Biomedical Science 

Harper Adams University College 

Heriot-Watt University 

University of Hertfordshire 

University of Huddersfield 

University of Hull 

Imperial College Union 

Imperial College at Wye 

Keele University 

University of Kent 

King’s College London 

Kingston University 

Lancaster University 

University of Leeds 

Leeds Metropolitan University 

University of Leicester 

University of Lincoln (Hull) 

University of Lincoln 

University of Liverpool 

Liverpool Hope University 

Liverpool John Moores University 

University of London 

London Metropolitian University 

London School of Economics 

London South Bank University 

Loughborough University 

University of Luton 

University of Manchester 

Manchester Metropolitan University 

Middlesex University 

MMU Cheshire 

Napier University 

University of Newcastle upon Tyne 

North East Wales Institute 

Newman College of Higher Education 

University College Northampton 

Northumbria University 


Nottingham Trent University 

Oxford University 

Oxford Brookes University 

University of Paisley 

University of Plymouth 

University of Portsmouth 

Queen’s University, Belfast 

Queen Margaret University College 

Queen Mary, University of London 

University of Reading 

The Robert Gordon University 

Roehampton University 

Royal Agricultural College 

Royal Free and University College Medical School 

Royal Holloway University of London 

Royal Veterinary College 

University of St Andrews 

St Georges, University of London 

College of St. Mark & St. John 

St Martin’s College 

St. Mary’s College 

St Mary’s University College, Belfast 

University of Salford 

School of Oriental and African Studies 

Scottish Agricultural College 

University of Sheffield 

Sheffield Hallam University 

University of Southampton 

Southampton Solent University 

Staffordshire University 

University of Stirling 

Stranmills University College 

University of Strathclyde 

University of Sunderland 

University of Surrey 

Sussex University 


Swansea Institute of Higher Education 

University of Teesside 

Thames Valley University 

Trinity & All Saints College 

Trinity College Carmarthen 

University College London 

University of Ulster (Coleraine) 

University of Ulster (Jordanstown) 

University of Wales, Aberystwyth 

University of Wales, Bangor 

UWIC 

University of Wales, Lampeter 

University of Wales, Newport 

University of Warwick 

University of the West of England (UWE) 

University of the West of England (Hartpury) 

University of Westminster 

The University of Winchester 

University of Wolverhampton 

University College Worcester 

Writtle Argricultural College 

University of York 

York St John College 

Overall Championship 

Points 05/06 

1 Loughborough R.F. Kerslake Trophy 

2 Bath Sir Dennis Follows Trophy 

3 Birmingham Barry Blenkinsop Trophy 

RANKING INSTITUTION POINTS 

1 Loughborough 3185 

2 Bath 1562.2 

3 Birmingham 1407.7 

4 Oxford 945.5 

5 Edinburgh 926.5 

6 UWIC 922 

7 Nottingham 823 

8 Durham 820.7 

9 Cambridge 778 

10 Manchester 737 

11 Bristol 727.5 

12 Exeter 704.5 

13 Northumbria 630 

15 Newcastle 601.7 

14 Leeds 597.6 

16 Leeds Metropolitan 545.1 

17 Warwick 539.5 

18 Cardiff 531 

19 Sheffield Hallam 509 

20 Southampton 473.5 

21 London 439.2 

22 

London 

Metropolitan 

427 

23 Stirling 406 

24 

Brunel West 

London 

390.5 

25 Sheffield 373 

26 Aberdeen 321.5 

27 St Andrews 293 

28 Brighton 239 

29 Reading 237.5 

30 St Marys 237 

31 Plymouth 231 

32 Glasgow 226.5 

33 Strathclyde 222 

33 Nottingham Trent 222 

35 Swansea 215 

36 Bournemouth 214 

37 Dundee 213.5 

38 Heriot Watt 213 

39 York 204 

39 Imperial College 204 

41 Liverpool 184 

42 Lancaster 183 

43 UWE 181 

44 UCL 175 

45 

Liverpool John 

Moores 

174 


46 St Mark & St John 165 

47 Worcester 164 

47 Oxford Brookes 164 

49 UWE Hartpury 163.5 

50 Gloucestershire 163 

51 LSE 152 

52 Kings College 151 

53 Chichester 149 

54 East Anglia 146 

55 Middlesex 141 

56 Kent 140 

57 Hertfordshire 137 

58 DMU Bedford 135 

59 Portsmouth 128 

60 

Southampton 

Solent 

122 

61 Keele 111 

62 MMU Cheshire 110 

62 London South Bank 110 

64 Essex 108 

76 Leicester 60 

77 Kingston 57 

78 Lincoln 56 

79 Central Lancs 54 

80 Chester (Chester) 50.5 

81 Ulster (Coleraine) 49 

81 Edge Hill 49 

93 Bolton 47 

88 York St John 45 

83 Bucks Chiltern 44 

84 Coventry 40 

85 Robert Gordon 38 

86 Bradford 36.1 

87 

Guys Kings & 

St Thomas’ 

34 

88 Queen Mary UL 32 

90 Salford 31 

91 Napier 30 

92 

Glasgow 

Caledonian 

28 

93 Northampton 27 

93 Abertay 27 

96 Staffordshire 26 

97 DMU Leicester 25 

98 Harper Adams 19.5 

99 Aston 18 

100 UW Bangor 16 


100 

Canterbury Christ 

Church UC 

16 

102 

UW College 

Newport 

15 

102 RVC 15 

102 Imperial Medicals 15 

105 St Georges 14 

106 Teesside 11 

107 RAC 10 

107 Huddersfield 10 

107 Birmingham FTCS 10 

110 Swansea Institute 8 

111 Derby 7 

112 Winchester 6 

112 Bishop Burton 6 

114 Writtle College 5 

114 St Martins College 5 

116 Greenwich 3 

116 Goldsmiths 3 

116 Central England 3 

119 Thames Valley 2 

119 St Barts 2 

119 Roehampton 2 

119 Queen Margaret 2 

119 Paisley 2 

119 Newman 2 

119 

London College 

of the Arts 

2 

119 Anglia Ruskin 2 

127 Cranfield (Beds) 1 

127 City 1 

127 Bath Spa 1 

130 Westminster 0 

130 UW Lampeter 0 

130 

Ulster 

(Jordanstown) 

0 

130 

Trinity College 

Carmarthen 

0 

130 

Trinity & All 

Saints College 

0 

130 SOAS 0 

130 SAC 0 

130 RUMS 0 

130 NEWI 0 

130 Luton 0 

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Results 

Sport Gold Silver Bronze 

Archery Indoor 

Men’s Recurve (Champ) Tim Mudon Matthew Johnson Alex Lyne 

Edinburgh Cambridge Loughborough 

Men’s Recurve (Shield) Denis Johnstone Mark Henderson Ross Cranford 

Edinburgh Warwick Napier 

Women’s Recurve (Champ) Jenny Jeppsson Emma Downie Eloise Fowler 

Edinburgh Edinburgh Imperial 

Women’s Recurve (Shield) Rachel Abbott Meghann Mears Georgina Porter 

Oxford Sheffield York 

Team Recurve (Champ) Edinburgh Cambridge Exeter 

Team Recurve (Shield) Edinburgh Oxford Warwick 

Men’s Compound (Champ) Justin Gibbs Andrew Ward Colin Geenes 

Northampton Edinburgh Coventry 

Women’s Compound (Champ) 

Rebecca Gridley 

Edinburgh 

Kirsty Sutton 

Bradford 

Archery Outdoor 

Men’s Recurve (Champ) Tim Mundon Ian Caulfield Alex Lyne 

Edinburgh Cambridge Loughborough 

Men’s Recurve (Shield) Denis Johnstone Travis Woodward Christopher Butler 

Edinburgh Imperial Warwick 

Women’s Recurve (Champ) Jacqui Gould Eloise Fowler Victoria Hinchcliffe 

Greenwich Imperial Sheffield 

Women’s Recurve (Shield) Georgina Porter Claire Levy Elizabeth Richley 

York Edinburgh Southampton 

Men’s Compound (Champ) Robert Gruar Justin Gibbs Chris Bell 

Liverpool Northampton Birmingham 

Men’s Compound (Shield) Robert Turner 

Exeter 

Women’s Compound (Champ) Kirsty Sutton 

Bradford 

Rhiannon Norfolk 

UW Bangor 

Team (Champ) Cambridge Edinburgh Durham 

Team (Shield) Edinburgh York Cambridge 

Association Football Championship 

Men’s Loughborough Bath Warwick / 

MMU Cheshire 

Women’s Loughborough UWIC Brighton / 

Sheff Hallam 

Shield 

Men’s De Montfort (Bed) Cardiff St Andrews / 

Worcester 

Women’s UWE Liverpool Hope Bournemouth / 

Chester 

Plate 

Men’s Leeds Met Essex Staffs / Lancaster 

Women’s Sunderland Manchester Met Lancaster / 

Birmingham CFTCS 

Trophy 

Men’s UWE Hartpury St Marys Sheff Hallam / 

Dundee 

Women’s Cardiff Loughborough Gloucestershire / 

Northumbria 

Athletics Indoor Championships 

Men’s 60m Craig Pickering Aidan Syers Colin Severin 

Bath Loughborough Glasgow 

Women’s 60m Montell Douglas Ketherine Endacott Emma Bailey 

Brunel St Mark & St John Loughborough 

Men’s 200m Phil Taylor James Bridge Andrew Owens 

Loughborough Kent Liverpool John 

Moores 

Women’s 200m Katherine Endacott Kadi Ann Thomas Montell Douglas 

St Mark & St John Brunel 

Brunel 

Men’s 400m David Greene Steven Green James Nasrat 

UWIC Bath Cardiff 

Women’s 400m Emma Kemp Kelly Massey Faye Harding 

Loughborough Liverpool John Loughborough 

Moores 

Men’s 800m Richard Hill Colin McCourt Ben Green 

UWIC St Marys Loughborough 

Women’s 800m Rachel Thompson Elizabeth Brathwaite Nisha Desai 

Loughborough Oxford Nottingham 

Men’s 1500m Chris Warburton Richard Weir Mike Coultherd 

Loughborough Staffordshire Loughborough 

Women’s 1500m Charlotte Best Hannah England Hayley Beard 

Loughborough Birmingham Birmingham 

Men’s 3000m Mark Buckingham Alan wales Tom Snow 

Sheffield Hallam Loughborough Brunel 

Women’s 3000m Laura kenney Sarah Maude Stacey Ward 

Loughborough Loughborough Bath 

Men’s 60m Hurdles Roger Stedd Jordan Fleary Nick Gayle 

Brunel Loughborough Staffordwshire 


Women’s 60m Hurdles Gemma Bennett Louise Hazel Sharon Walls 

Brunel Birmingham Bolton 

Men’s Long Jump Chris Kirk Ricardo Childs Eke Nba 

Sheffield Hallam Sheffield Brunel 

Women’s Long Jump Louise Hazel Cara Roberts Katy Benneworth 

Birmingham Cardiff London 

Men’s High Jump Kabelo Mmono Stone / Crowley 

UWIC 

St Marys/ Nottingham 

Women’s High Jump Sharon Heveran Alisa Wallace Catriona Forrest 

UWIC Oxford Loughborough 

Men’s Triple Jump Gary white Anthony Mattis Phil Ferdinand 

UWIC Bath Birmingham 

Women’s Triple Jump Karlene Turner Sara Barry Katherine Streatfield 

Brunel UWIC City 

Men’s Shot Put Kieran Kelly David Readle Roger Skedd 

Loughborough Edge Hill Brunel 

Women’s Shot Put Alison Rodger Rebecca Peake Sally Jayne Hinds 

Strathclyde Loughborough UWIC 

Men’s Pole Vault Christian North Scott Simpson Paul Walker 

Bath UWIC Loughborough 

Women’s Pole Vault Kirsty Maguire Rachel Gibbens Michelle Sharrock 

Glasgow UWIC Edge Hill 

Men’s 4x200m Bath Loughborough Brunel 

Women’s 4x200m Brunel Loughborough Birmingham 

Athletics Outdoor Championships 

Men’s 100m Craig Pickering Somto Eruchie Seyi Smith 

Bath Birmingham Loughborough 

Women’s 100m Kadi-Ann Thomas Emma Bailey Louise Bloor 

Brunel Loughborough Loughborough 

Men’s 200m Somto Eruchie Darren Chin Andrew Owens 

Birmingham St Marys Liverpool John Moores 

Women’s 200m Kadi-Ann Thomas Katherine Jones Melinda Cooksey 

Brunel Loughborough Birmingham 

Men’s 400m Alistair Thomas David Riley John Kelly 

Loughborough Newcastle Sheffield 

Women’s 400m Kelly Massey Laura Finucane Liza Parry 

Liverpool John Loughborough UWIC 

Moores 

Men’s 800m Richard Hill Andrew Teate Ben Green 

UWIC Durham Loughborough 

Women’s 800m Charlotte Best Hayley Beard Nisha Desai 

Loughborough Birmingham Nottingham 

Men’s 1500m Mike Coulthard Ed Jackson Kristopher Gauson 

Loughborough Nottingham Edinburgh 

Women’s 1500m 

Elizabeth Laura Kenny Linzi Snow 

Braithwate 

Oxford Loughborough St Marys 

Men’s 5000m Nick Talbot Luke Gunn Mark Draper 

Oxford Birmingham St Marys 

Women’s 5000m Katrina Wootton Elizabeth Hall Sarah Maude 

Coventry Brunel Loughborough 

Men’s 10000m Matthew Ashton Keith Gerrard Neil Burton 

St Marys St Marys Birmingham 

Women’s 10000m Claire Holme Edel Mooney Aiveen Fox 

Birmingham Heriot Watt Durham 

Men’s 3000m 

Steeplechase 

Women’s 2000m 

Steeplechase 

Chris Warburton 

Loughborough 

Carolyn Boosey 

St Marys 

Chris Hart 

St Marys 

Nicola Sykes 

Birmingham 

Rob Berry 

Edge Hill 

Emily Brown 

UWIC 

Men’s 110m Hurdles Wiliiam Sharman Robert Henry Nick Gayle 

Leicester Hull Staffordshire 

Women’s 100m Hurdles Louise Hazel Heather Jones Catherine Holdsworth 

Birmingham UWIC UEA 

Men’s 400m Hurdles David Greene Ben Carne Andy Clements 

UWIC Cambridge UWIC 

Women’s 400m Hurdles Anwen Rees Faye Harding Ellen Howarth-Brown 

Loughborough Loughborough Chichester 

Men’s Long Jump Christopher Kirk Andy Staniland Seyi Smith 

Sheffield Hallam Loughborough Loughborough 

Women’s Long Jump Louise Bloor Karlene Turner Louise Hazel 

Loughborough Brunel Birmingham 


Men’s High Jump Darryl Stone Matt Roberts Mark Crowley 

St Marys Surrey Nottingham 

Women’s High Jump Sharon Heveran Catriona Forrest Alisa Wallace 

UWIC Loughborough Oxford 

Men’s Triple Jump Gary White John Carr Phil Ferdinand 

UWIC Stirling Birmingham 

Women’s Triple Jump Karlene Turner Sara Barry Sineade Gotzmore 

Brunel UWIC Birmingham 

Men’s Shot Put Kieran Kelly David Readle Heiko Kresin 

Loughborough Edge Hill Brighton 

Women’s Shot Put Rebecca Peake Alison Rodger Sally Hinds 

Loughborough Strathclyde UWIC 

Men’s Pole Vault Christian North Paul Walker Scott Simpson 

Bath Loughborough UWIC 

Women’s Pole Vault Michelle Sharrock Rachel Gibbens Clare Neve 

Edge Hill UWIC Birmingham 

Men’s Javelin Lee Doran Felix Hatton Mark Stuart 

UWIC Sheffield Loughborough 

Women’s Javelin Lauren Therin Louise Watton Lianne Clarke 

UWIC UWIC UWIC 

Men’s Discus Simon Cooke Jeremy Harper Dan Greaves 

Bath Ulster Loughborough 

Women’s Discus Alison Rodger Jade Lally Lauren Therin 

Strathclyde St Marys UWIC 

Men’s Hammer Karim Chester Chris Walsh Mark Covington 

Coventry Liverpool John Loughborough 

Moores 

Women’s Hammer Lorraine Shaw Zoe Derham Susan McKelvie 

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Edinburgh 

Men’s 4x100m UWIC Cambridge Edge Hill 

Women’s 4x100m Loughborough Birmingham Brunel 

Men’s 4x400m Loughborough Birmingham UWIC 

Women’s 4x400m Loughborough Birmingham Bath 

Men’s Overall Team Loughborough UWIC St Marys 

Women’s Overall Team Loughborough UWIC Birmingham 

Badminton 

Team Championship 

Men’s Bath Loughborough Sheff Hallam / 

Birmingham 

Women’s Bath Loughborough Strathclyde / 

Birmingham 

Shield 

Men’s Bath 2 Sunderland Warwick 2 / Sheffield 

Women’s Manchester De Monfort (Bed) Leeds Met 2 / 

Warwick 

Plate 

Men’s Newcasstle 2 Royal Holloway Sheffield 2 / LSE 2 

Trophy 

Men’s Northumbria Brunel Loughborough 2 / 

Birmingham 2 

Women’s Swansea Newcastle Lancaster / Reading 

Individual 

Men’s Singles Stuart Gilliland James Phillips Gibson / Forbes 

Glasgow Swansea Oxford / Edinburgh 

Women’s Singles Jenny Day Jaclyn Gilliland Johnson / Barnes 

Loughborough Glasgow Birmingham / 

Hertfordshire 

Men’s Doubles Bevan / Hanson Anderson / Hill 

Bath Strathclyde Bath / Loughborough 

Women’s Doubles Johnson / Mead Penn / Tye 

Birmingham Birmingham Strathclyde / 

Glasgow 

Mixed Doubles Day / Day Hill / Campbell 

Loughborough Strathclyde Loughborough / 

Loughborough 

Basketball 

Championship 

Men’s Worcester London Met Birmingham / 

Loughborough 

Women’s Loughborough Northumbria Wolverhampton / 

Sheff Hallam 


Shield 

Men’s London South Bank Nottingham Trent St Andrews / 

Southampton 

Women’s Sheffield St Marys Chichester / Leeds 

Met 

Plate 

Men’s Manchester Met 2 Queen Mary Huddersfield / 

Worcester 2 

Women’s Bolton Institute York St John 

Trophy 

Men’s Manchester Hertfordshire Brighton / Leeds 

Women’s Cambridge Cardiff Chester / Kent 

Boxing 

Men’s 

Featherweight John Fernandes Peter Ho 

Bournemouth Oxford 

Lightweight Philip Hunter Paul Kalinowski 

Coventry Leeds Met 

Light Welterweight Calum Craven Joe Rosie 

Kingston Glasgow 

Welterweight Julian Morrow G. Valpularakis 

Kingston Cambridge 

Light Heavyweight Azar Salomin Daniel Johnson 

Oxford Brookes London Met 

Heavyweight Joseph Hylton Jamie Thomas 

Cardiff 

Leeds 

Super Heavyweight Mark Alcock Carim Chester 

Brunel 

Coventry 

Open Class Light Welterweight James Whitman Neil Grimster 

Oxford Brookes Cambridge 

Open Class Welterweight Sam Kynoch Anthony Neunes 

Glasgow London Met 

Open Class Middleweight Tom Fridge 

Oxford 

Women’s 

Bantamweight Jade Searle Caroline Cobb 

Dundee Oxford 

Welterweight Kate Stinson Jane Millar 

Oxford 

Dundee 

Canoeing 

Canoe Polo 

Open Nottingham Loughborough Warwick 

Women’s Open London Durham Newcastle 

Canoe Slalom 

K1 Men Andy Hadfield Rob Neave David Backhouse 

Loughborough Nottingham Nottingham 

K1 Women Lizzie Neave Heather Corrie Rebecca Shea 

Loughborough Loughborough Teesside 

C1 Individual Marvin Rounce Toby Scott Alexandre Lismonde 

Nottingham Trent Nottingham Edinburgh 

C2 Individual Florence / Rounce / Critchley Gould / Vasey 

Backhouse 

Nottingham Nottingham Trent Loughborough 

Overall Team Newcastle Loughborough Durham 

White Water Racing 

K1 Individual Men’s Jamie Oughton Robin Vasey James Burrell 

Newcastle Loughborough London 

K1 Individual Women’s Dee Patterson Gilly Mara Caroline Reisenmey 

Oxford Brookes Loughborough Cranfield 

K1 Men’s Team 

C1 Individual Gareth Wilson Darren Broderick Matt Reynolds 

Loughborough Newcastle Leeds 

C2 Individual Wilson / Vasey Reynolds / Ward Read / Broderick 

Loughborough Leeds Newcastle 

Overall Team Loughborough Newcastle Leeds 

Clay Pigeon Shooting 

Men’s Individual Simon Rood Paul Peacock Philip Masters/ Paul 

Clark 

RAC Bishop Burton Northumbria / 

Northumbria 

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Women’s Individual Lucy Righton Tomlinson/ Browne/ 

Coward 

Harper Adams RAC/ Bristol/ Harper 

Adams 

Men’s Team Hull Reading RAC 

Women’s Team Harper Adams Hull RAC 

Men’s Trophy Harper Adams Reading Harper Adams 2 

Men’s Team Cardiff Manchester Swansea 

Women’s Team 

Bristol 

Men’s Cross Country Will Simmons Mansour Youssef Ben Simmons 

Leeds Loughborough UW Newport 

Women’s Cross Country Meg Bichard Lauren O’Neill Briony Croft 

Bristol Swansea Southampton 

Men’s Team Leeds Edinburgh Loughborough 


Bristol 

Golf 

Championship Stirling Birmingham Northumbria / Exeter 

Shield Exeter 2 Liverpool Sheffield Hallam / 

Warwick 

Trophy Loughborough 2 Heriot Watt Aberdeen 2 / 

Plymouth 

Strokeplay 

Men’s Individual Edward Parker Sean Heads Mark Davies 

Judo 

Dan Grade 

Men’s U60Kg Steven Paul Rogan Ben Quilter Spencer / Nartey 

Lancaster Chichester Soton Solent / Bath 

Men’s U66Kg Jack Webb Alex Farbon Horvath / Bascombe 

Wolverhampton Thames Valley Bath 

Men’s U 73Kg Lee Shinkin Alex Waddington Sion / Robertson 

Climbing 

Mixed Team UW Bangor Manchester Swansea 

Men’s Individual Tom Gore Anthony Simpson Thomas Lawrence 

Nottingham Derby Manchester 

Women’s Individual Jemma Powell Emma Twyford Lucy Griffiths 

UW Bangor Sheffield Hallam Leeds 

Cricket 

Championship 

Men’s Loughborough Loughborough 

MCCU 

Women’s 

Loughborough Oxford UCCE 

MCCU 

Durham MCCU / 

Cardiff UCCE 

Bath / Cambridge 

UCCE 

Shield 

Men’s Loughborough 2 Durham 2 St Marys / Oxford 

Plate 

Men’s Bolton Institute Cardiff 2 Northumbria 2 / 

UWIC 2 

Trophy 

Men’s 

Bradford/Leeds Bournemouth UWIC / Northumbria 

MCCU 

Indoor 

Men’s Warwick Leeds Met Bournemouth / 


Women’s Loughborough Oxford Cambridge / Durham 

Cross Country 

Men’s Long Race Frank Tickner Andy Jones Andrew Vernon 

Birmingham Manchester Met St Marys 

Men’s Short Race 

Jonathan Mark Buckingham Tom Snow 

Blackledge 

Oxford Sheffield Hallam Brunel 

Women’s Long Race Ellanoe Baker Elizabeth Hall Laura kenney 

Brunel Brunel Loughborough 

Women’s Short Race Eleanor Sherrard- Abby Westley Laura Finucane 

Smith 

Cardiff Loughborough Loughborough 

Men’s B Race Chris Lamb Alan Wales Matthew Pierson 

St Marys Loughborough St Marys 

Men’s Team Birmingham St Marys Loughborough 

Women’s Team Birmingham Loughborough Heriot Watt 

Cycling 

Cyclo Cross 

Men Mark Thwaites Ben Simmons Dan Harding 

Leeds Metropolitan UW Newport Warwick 

Women Abbie Therrington Anna Watson Chloe Parrington 

Essex Birmingham Loughborough 

Men’s Team 

Leeds 


Loughborough 

Hill Climb 

Men’s Matt Clinton Will Simmons Tom Crouch 

Leeds Leeds Sheffield 

Women’s Rachel Hughes Lizzy Goodband Charlotte Colclough 

Oxford Loughborough Loughborough 

Men’s Team Leeds Loughborough Sheffield 


Loughborough 

Mountain Bike 

Men’s Down Hill Philip Shucksmith Mike Gray Will Evans 

Cardiff Bristol Swansea 

Women’s Down Hill Sue Mahony Jaymie Mart Ali McKerrow 

Bristol Glasgow Caledonian Bristol 

10 Mile Time Trial 

Individual Men Danny Axford Timothy Kay Adam Duggleby 

Oxford Liverpool Loughborough 

Individual Women Emma Pooley Rachel Hughes Charlotte Colclou 

Cambridge Oxford Loughborough 

Men’s Team Oxford Leeds Loughborough 


Oxford 

25 Mile Time Trial 

Individual Men Danny Axford Matt Clinton Dean Robson 

Oxford Leeds Oxford 

Individual Women Rachel Hughes Abbie Thorington Helen Howorth 

Oxford Essex Oxford 

Men’s Team Oxford 1 Loughborough Oxford 2 

Women’s Team Oxford 1 Cambridge Oxford 2 

Road Race Stephan Wolfer David McLean Thomas Murray 

Loughborough Nottingham Sheffield Hallam 

Equestrian 

Dressage Samantha Cutts Jenny Morris Alice Ratcliffe 

Cambridge Southampton Glasgow 

Show Jumping Tracey McRae Maeve O’Leary- Samantha Cutts 

Barrett 

Bradford Oxford 2 Cambridge 

Individual Overall Samantha Cutts Jenny Morris Rachel Stokes 

Cambridge Southampton Central Lancashire 

Team Overall Southampton Birmingham Aberdee 

Shield Edinburgh Southampton Glasgow 

Fencing 

Championship 

Men’s Oxford St Andrews Bristol / Cambridge 

Women’s Bath Cambridge Durham / Northumbria 

Shield 

Men’s Aberdeen Surrey 

Trophy 

Men’s London Oxford 2 Southampton / 

Lancaster 

Women’s Exeter Liverpool Kings / Warwick 

Epee 

Men’s Tristan Lane Tom Bennett Bradley / Miller 

Imperial Royal Holloway Manchester / 

Edinburgh 

Women’s Jayne Crook Lucy Owen Giugni / Kay 

Kingston Royal Holloway Reading / Oxford 

Foil 

Men’s Colin Beck Maxim Izotov Brodie / West 

Manchester ULU Stirling / Birmingham 

Women’s Anna Robinson Meg Schofield Hughes / Pinto-Ward 

Cambridge Nottingham Bath / Cambridge 

Sabre 

Men’s Julian Nelis Thomas Brenda Brenda / Hutchinosn 

Bristol Bristol Durham / Kingston 

Women’s Catriona Austin Elaine Hughes Farmer / Low 

Aberdeen Bath Edinburgh / Queen 

Mary 


Championship 

Liverpool John 

Moores 

Liverpool Hope Robert Gordon / 

Napier 

Birmingham Northumbria Exeter 

Women’s Individual Janet Phipps Kerri Harper Jodi Campbell 

Exeter Abertay Warwick 

Men’s Team Stirling Northumbria Stirling 

Order of Merit 

Men’s Edward Parker Simon Lee Colin Colraine 

Birmingham Northumbria Strathclyde 

Women’s Janet Phipps Lucinda Davies Gillian Kinnear 

Gymnastics 

Team 

Exeter Birmingham Bath 

Men’s Leeds Met Loughborough UWIC 

Women’s UWIC Leeds Met Birmingham 

Individual Grade One 

Men’s Sam Buck Steve Jehu Tom Rawlinson 

Loughborough Leeds Met Leeds Met 

Women’s Carolyn Fyfe Jenifer Shadek 

Individual Grade Two 

Gloucestershire 

Anglia Ruskin 

Men’s Matthew Bullimore Mark Samuels Matthew Maletroit 

Oxford UWIC Cardiff 

Women’s Kate Moran Maia Munnex Ella Gray 

Hockey 

Championship 

Leeds UW Bangor Durham 

Men’s Exeter Loughborough London Met / 

Birmingham 

Women’s Loughborough Brunel Durham / Birmingham 

Shield 

Men’s Oxford Brookes Durham 2 UWIC / Bristol 2 

Women’s Loughborough 3 Sheffield Hallam Bath 2 / Bath 3 

Plate 

Men’s Manchester 2 Glamorgan Nottingham 3 / Surrey 

Women’s Newcastle 2 St Mark & St John Leeds 3 / Kingston 

Trophy 

Men’s Southampton Newcastle St Mark & St John / 

Sheffield 

Women’s Loughborough 2 Cardiff Manchester / 

Birmingham 2 

Hockey 

Championship 

Men’s Exeter Loughborough London Met / 

Birmingham 

Women’s Loughborough Brunel Durham / Birmingham 

Shield 

Men’s Oxford Brookes Durham 2 UWIC / Bristol 2 

Women’s Loughborough 3 Sheffield Hallam Bath 2 / Bath 3 

Plate 

Men’s Manchester 2 Glamorgan Nottingham 3 / Surrey 

Women’s Newcastle 2 St Mark & St John Leeds 3 / Kingston 

Trophy 

Men’s Southampton Newcastle St Mark & St John / 

Sheffield 

Women’s Loughborough 2 Cardiff Manchester / 

Birmingham 2 

Brunel Edinburgh UWIC / Edinburgh 

Men’s U81Kg James Gilmore Michael Horley Garvin / Stanley 

Brunel Central Lancashire London / Bath 

Men’s U90Kg Andy Burns John Kunzi Cliffe / Boden 

Bath Chichester Birmingham / Bath 

Men’s U100Kg Thomas Tandoi Steve Withers Hussey / Dulahan 

Southampton Bath Loughborough / UW 

Bangor 

Men’s O100Kg Danny Murphy Jamie Williams Luke Struthers 

Women’s U48Kg 


Bath Queen Margaret St Martins 

Karen Harrison 

Bath 

No Competitors 

Women’s U57Kg Janine Johnson Katy Sumner Morgan / Bhudia 

Bath Bath South Bank / 

Loughborough 

Women’s U63Kg Kate Rennie Teresa Ellington Stapleton / Ashbridge 

Bath Chichester Salford / Newcastle 

Women’s U70Kg Sian Fairbrother Laura Clempner Rafferty / Simon 

Kings Bath Strathclyde / Bath 

Women’s U78Kg Sarah Taylor Katrina McDonald 

Oxford 

Bath 

Women’s O78g Rhonda Sturley Abi Dempsey Deniz Alp 

Kyu Grade 

London Bath Kent 

Men’s U60Kg John Grant Nickiwe Cairns 

Newcastle 

Durham 

Men’s U66Kg Mark Corner Tariq Sasso Wood / Cavazzani 

Bath Brunel Loughborough / 

Oxford 

Men’s U73Kg Harald Schoppe David Stanton Drumm / Neazemi 

Southampton Southampton Bath / Newvastle 

Men’s U81Kg Obinna Nnajiuba Chris Gilmore Spencer / Zuaboni 

London Strathclyde Bristol / Strathclyde 

Men’s U90Kg Daniel Cartlidge Andrew Readman Kendall / Steele 

Men’s U100Kg 

Loughborough Bath Wolverhampton 

/ Bath 

Jonathan Jones 

UW Swansea 

Men’s +100Kg Patrick Telford Sam Farrow Huang / Mark 



Warwick Durham Cambridge / Warwick 

Katherine Trantham Karen Sherwood 

Sheffield 

Evelyn Kiaupairajah 

Cambridge 

Edinburgh 

Women’s U57Kg Alexandra Maclean Kathryn Hanney Haigh / Hover 

Brunel York Oxford / Hull 

Women’s U63Kg Gemma Lawton Leoni Munslow Scott / Ayres 



London Swansea Cambridge / Salford 

Alexie Frize- 

Williams 

Krista Cartlidge 

Reynolds / Albert 

Cambridge Loughborough Swansea / London 

Faye Wilkinson 

MMU Cheshire 

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Karate 

Kata 

Novice Men’s A.Ponomarev D.Andrews Phi Vong / Salem 

Cardiff Swansea Brunel / Edinburgh 

Novice Women’s L. Hadaway A.Pheely Bennett / Mok 

Brunel Edinburgh Edinburgh / 

Birmingham 

Intermediate Men’s M. Davies M.Turner Scotes / MacDonald 

Swansea Birmingham Bath / Oxford 

Intermediate Women’s H.Dabour T.Lo Fazlari-Zadeth / Kerin 

Bath ULU Oxford / 

Loughborough 

Dan Grade Men M.Douglas N.Jerome Ghazi / Whittle 

Glasgow Manchester ULU / Loughborough 

Caledonian 

Dan Grade Women S. Connell C.Smith Pike / Cook 

Glasgow Exeter Exeter / Durham 

Team Edinburgh Cambridge LSE / Brunel 

Kumite-Men’s 

Novice Lightweight A. Salem A.Sinaous Ikeda / Sinapus 

Edinburgh Edinburgh Dundee / LSE 

Novice Middleweight R.Dede I. Martin Benoit / Gordon 

Middlesex Bath Heriot Watt / LSE 

Novice Heavyweight A.Kabakwu R.Howell Smith / Devenny 

Middlesex Bath Loughborough / 

Glasgow 

Senior U65Kg C. Moffat S. Afzal Tuly / Michels 

Glasgow Dundee Sheffield / 

Manchester 

Senior U70Kg M. Douglas N. Krsteff Ablard / Anvoner 

Glasgow 

Caledonian 

Glasgow Edinburgh / 

Nottingham 

Senior U75Kg Alton Brown Vincent O’Hara Abdrabou / O’Neill 

London South Bank Manchester Middlesex / 

Middlesex 

Senior U80Kg R. Dougal J.Kennedy McNiven / Hedley 

Ulster Heriot Watt Edinburgh / Edinburgh 

Senior +80Kg C. Robb D. Draper Abasov / Walker 

Heriot Watt Swansea Institute London / Edinburgh 

Senior Open Weight C.Robb V.O’Horo Adabou / Dougal 

Heriot Watt Manchester Middlesex / Ulster 

Kumite- Women’s 

Novice Lightweight A. Pheeley R. Moore Saward / Phang 

Edinburgh Bath Bath / Edinburgh 

Novice Middleweight M.Ruseler L. Hadaway Hewitt / Martin 

Edinburgh Brunel Cardiff / Edinburgh 

Novice Heavyweight D.Hancock S.Leakey Hogenboom / Bennett 

Bath Bristol Edinburgh / Edinburgh 

Senior U53Kg S. Jones E. McNee Lo / Kowerus 

Cardiff Bath London / LSE 

Senior U60Kg A.Leonard M. Kerin Sanner / Davies 

Manchester Met Loughborough Bath / Bath 

Senior + 60Kg M. Lewis B. Pino Humphrey / Pofielas 

Nottingham Edinburgh Cardiff / Heriot Watt 

Senior Open Weight S.Jones A.Leonard Cook / Pino 

Cardiff Manchester Met Durham / Edinburgh 

Men’s Team Heriot Watt Edinburgh Bath / Middlesex 

Women’s Team Cardiff Bath Edinburgh / ULU 

Korfball UEA Edinburgh Sheffield 

Lacrosse 

Championship Edinburgh Durham Birmingham / Oxford 

Trophy Cambridge 2 Birmingham 2 Southampton / 

Edinburgh 2 


Marathon 

Men’s Andy Jones Michael Boucher Paul Harper 

Manchester Met Loughborough Bristol 

Women’s Nicole Archer Angharad Care Jane McWilliams 

Birmingham London UWE 

Modern Biathlon 

Men’s Michael Cornes James Lock Toby Barnfield 

Birmingham Loughborough Loughborough 

Women’s Maria Barrett Heather Jackson Louise Helyer 

Liverpool Loughborough Bath 

Men’s Team Loughborough Birmingham UWIC 

Women’s Team Loughborough Bath Birmingham 

Modern Pentathlon 

Men’s Oliver Rees-Jones Gareth Evens Henry Kruczko 

Oxford UWIC Hartbury College 

Women’s Sarah Gomersall Laura Gomersall Louise Helyer 

Bath Bath Bath 

Team Bath UWIC Edinburgh 

Netball 

Championship Loughborough Northumbria Birmingham / Bath 

Shield Leeds 2 Reading De Montfort (Bed) / 

Liverpool 

Plate Birmingham 3 Brunel 2 Sheff Hallam 2 / Royal 

Holloway 

Trophy Chichester UWE Sheff Hallam / 

Newcastle 

Orienteering 

Individual 

Men’s A Murray Strain Oli Johnson Matt Crane 

Edinburgh Sheffield Sheffield 

Women’s A Rachel Elder Helen Palmer Rebecca Roberts 

Sheffield Paisley Loughborough 

Men’s B Ben Smith Shane Enright Tom Hopkins 

Durham Warwick Leeds 

Women’s B Julie Woodfield Kerry Mairs Jennifer Morrison 

Edinburgh Edinburgh Newcastle 

Men’s C Neal O’Boyle Robert Latham James Wickens 

Queens Belfast Warwick Warwick 

Relay 

Men’s Sheffield Edinburgh A Edinburgh B 

Women’s Edinburgh Durham Oxford 

Pool 

Team Championship Essex Cardiff Ulster Coleraine / York 

Trophy Queens, Belfast Warwick 3 

Individual Championship Mark McCulloch David Binding Caney / Tonkin 

Strathclyde UW Aberystwyth Essex / 

Wolverhampton 

Trophy Martin Anderson Luke Fleet 

Queens, Belfast York 

Rifle Shooting 

Small Bore 

Inter-University Teams Southampton Durham Edinburgh 

Quartet Durham London Southampton / 

Edinburgh 2 

Ladies Triads Southampton London Exeter 

Pairs Edinburgh London Southampton B 

Ladies Indiv Champs E. Cole-Hamilton E. Sigournay A.Van Enckevort 

Robert Gordon Southampton London 


Open Indiv Champ E. Cole-Hamilton T. Hunter M. Thomson 

Robert Gordon London Edinburgh 

Inter-University Team 

Leagues 

Div 1 Southampton A Durham A Newcastle 

Div 2 Oxford Durham B St Andrews A 

Div 3 Aberdeen Southampton B Liverpool A 

Div 4 Exeter Southampton C Edinburgh C 

Top XX Comp G. Morgan G. Cox T. Hunter 

Aston Aberdeen London 

BUSA Head 

Women’s 8 Durham Imperial Nottingham 

Men’s 8 Oxford Brookes Durham Newcastle / Bristol 

Women’s Coxless 4 UWE Imperial 

Men’s Coxless 4 Durham Bristol Sheffield Hallam 

Women’s 4 Imperial Southampton Oxford Brookes 

Men’s 4 Imperial Bristol Plymouth 

Men’s 4x Imperial Newcastle Durham 

Women’s 4x Imperial Reading Loughborough 

Men’s 2- Imperial Newcastle Reading 

Women’s 2- Imperial St Barts 

Men’s Sculls Newcastle Bath Newcastle 

Women’s Sculls Imperial Loughborough Reading 

Overall Team Imperial Newcastle Durham 

Rowing Indoor 

Open Heavyweight 

Men’s Jamie Schroeder Thomas Engelmann Kieran West 

Oxford Cambridge Cambridge 

Women’s Hilary Powell Naomi Pollock Tracey Matthews 

Oxford Oxford Brunel 

Open Lightweight 

Men’s Doug Perrin Oliver Bottrell Richard Chalmers 

Cambridge UWE Oxford Brookes 

Women’s Hannah Peel Lucy Aukett Kaarin Scanlan 

Cambridge Southampton Bristol 

Rowing Outdoor 

Men’s Quad Sculls Newcastle Reading Durham 

Men’s Coxless Pairs Imperial Durham Sheffield 

Men’s 8s Oxford Brookes Bristol Reading 

Men’s Single Sculls Reading Cambridge Kent 

Men’s Coxless 4s Imperial Durham UWE 

Men’s Coxed 4s London Reading Bristol 

Men’s Double Sculls Newcastle Imperial Oxford Brookes 

Women’s Single Sculls Imperial Reading Durham 

Women’s Coxless 4s Durham Nottingham Imperial 

Women’s Coxed 4s Cambridge Oxford Nottingham 

Women’s Double Scull Imperial London Durham 

Women’s Quad Sculls Durham London Loughborough 

Women’s Coxless 2s Imperial Durham Bath 

Women’s 8s Durham Nottingham Cambridge 

Men’s LWT sing sculls Bath Glasgow Newcastle 

Men’s LWT doub sculls Glasgow Durham Reading 

Men’s LWT 4- Durham Nottingham Birmingham 

Men’s LWT 2- Newcastle Durham Newcastle 

Women’s LWT 2- Oxford Birmingham Nottingham 

Women’s LWT 4- Durham Oxford Glasgow 

Women’s LWT 1x Durham Imperial UWE 

Women’s LWT 2x Durham UWE Durham 

Overall Team Durham Nottingham Imperial 


Rugby League 

Championship 

Men’s Leeds Met Loughborough St Marys / UWIC 

Rugby Union 

Championship 

Men’s Loughborough Bath UWE Hartpury / 

Nottingham 

Women’s UWIC Birmingham Leeds Met / 

Loughborough 

Shield 

Men’s Glamorgan Dundee Newcastle 2 / 

Exeter 2 

Women’s Exeter Keele UEA / Essex 

Plate 

Men’s UWIC 4 Leeds Met 2 UWE Hartpury / 

Reading 2 

Trophy 

Men’s Loughborough 2 UWE Hartpury 2 Leeds Met / Brunel 

Women’s Sheffield Brunel Gloucestershire / De 

Montfort (Bed) 

Sevens Championship 

Men’s Loughborough Nottingham 

Women’s Loughborough Bath 

Rugby Fives 

Men’s Singles J. Bristow S. Korris A. Beverly / C. Brooks 

Oxford Leeds Cambridge / 

Edinburgh 

Men’s Doubles Brooks / Beverly Bristow / Pendergrass 

Cambridge Oxford Durham / Oxford 

Sailing 

Fleet Racing 

Laser Steve Powell Nick Thomson Charles Bailli-Strong 

Exeter Exeter Exeter 

Lark / Firefly Maclean / Stone / Pinner Dodds / Burke 

Matthews 

Bristol Bristol Nottingham 

Laser 2 Carter / Essen Greenfield / Carrell Hall / Erskin 

Glasgow Bath Loughborough 

Handicap Fleet 

Dobson / Maxfield Goss / Ozanne 

Southampton Warwick Southampton 

Match Racing Cambridge Oxford Southampton 

Team Racing Cambridge Oxford Southampton 

Yacht Racing 

Southampton 

Solent 

Cambridge Strathclyde 

Snowsports 

Dry Slope Slalom 

Men’s Michael Hatcher Dan Wyatt Campbell Beaton 

Cardiff Newcastle UWE 

Women’s Christina Pennock Louise Hartley Mairi Crawford 

Birmingham Dundee Dundee 

Snowboard Giant Slalom 

Men’s Andrew Patterson Phillip Henderson Nick Newcastle 

Durham Glasgow Newcastle 

Women’s Emily Smoor Amy Hammond Laura Harvey 

Glasgow Southampton Reading 

Overall Team Glasgow Newcastle Edinburgh 

Alpine Slalom 

Men’s Campbell Beaton Matt Bruton Ben Clark 

UWE Newcastle Nottingham Trent 

Women’s Jemima Barnes Mairi Crawford Maz Hedley Lewis 

Cardiff Dundee Bristol 

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SUPER G 

Men’s Matt Bruton Andrew du Plessis Phil Harris 

Newcastle Birmingham Loughborough 

Women’s Jemima Barnes Laura Wood Louise Kochalski 

Snowboard giant slalom 

Cardiff Glasgow Nottingham Trent 

Men’s Matthew Higgins Alex Appleby Tim Lloyd 

Nottingham Bristol Birmingham 

Women’s Beth Abbott Emily Smoor Care Hall-Griffin 

Bristol Glasgow Bristol 

Overall Team Bristol Newcastle Birmingham 

Snooker 

Individual Championship Andy Teale Jimmy Hill M. Paspatis / A. 

Hutchinson 

Durham Warwick UWC / Queen’s 

Trophy Stuart Jell David Lyness J. Latimer / M. 

F-Levine 

Warwick Queen’s Warwick / Bristol 

Team Championship Warwick Queen’s Bristol / York 

Trophy Queens Warwick Bristol 

Plate Imperial Southampton Solent Nottingham / Exeter 

Squash 

Team Championship 

Men’s Birmingham Manchester UWIC / Loughborough 

Women’s Birmingham UWIC Loughborough / Leeds 

Shield 

Men’s Sheffield Sussex Northumbria / Bath 2 

Women’s Keele Newcastle 

Plate 

Men’s Loughborough 3 Essex Sheffield 2 / Brunel 

Trophy 

Men’s Birmingham 2 Loughborough 2 Swansea 2 / Durham 

Women’s Manchester Plymouth Exeter / York 

Individual 

Men’s 

Women’s Luaren Siddall Emma Beddoes Leonie Holt 

Surfing 

Individual 

Leeds Nottingham Birmingham 

Men’s Matt Le Maitre James Hick Christian Boletta 

Plymouth Exeter Plymouth 

Women’s Shauna Ward Esther Lampriere Tracy Sommerville 

Team 

Ulster Swansea Institute Swansea Institute 

Men’s Plymouth Exeter Swansea Institute 

Women’s Plymouth St Mark & St John UWE 

Swimming Long Course 

Freestyle 50m 

Men’s Matt Tutty Craig Houston Richard Hutton 

Nottingham Stirling Loughborough 

Women’s Amy Smith Julia Beckett Jess Sylvester 

Freestyle 100m 

Loughborough Loughborough Nottingham 

Men’s Craig Houston Richard Hutton Charles Turner 

Stirling Loughborough Loughborough 

Women’s Julia Beckett Jess Sylvester Amy Smith 

Loughborough Nottingha.m Loughborough 



Men’s Ross Davenport Andrew Hunter Euan Dale 

Bath Stirling Loughborough 

Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Julia Beckett Katherine Wyld 



Men’s Andrew Hunter Sam Blunt Lewis Andrews 


Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Caroline Saxby Natalie Prince 

Loughborough Stirling Loughborough 


Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Caroline Saxby Brett Ferguson 

Loughborough Stirling Hertfordshire 


Men’s Daniel Fogg Michael Unsworth Brett Ferguson 

Loughborough Loughborough Hertfordshire 

Backstroke 50m 

Men’s Liam Tancock Matthew Clay Andrew Shepherd 

Loughborough Bath Sheffield Hallam 

Women’s Katherine Wyld Sarah Rickwood Amy Smith 

Nottingham Loughborough Loughborough 


Men’s Liam Tancock Matthew Clay Andrew Shepherd 

Loughborough Bath Sheffield Hallam 

Women’s Samantha Williams Katherine Wyld Natasha Crawley 

Loughborough Nottingham Stirling 


Men’s John Sargent Scott Houston Ben Ward 

Hertfordshire Stirling Loughborough 

Women’s Samantha Williams Samantha Wilson Natasha Crawley 

Loughborough Loughborough Stirling 

Breaststroke 50m 

Men’s David Bartlett Chris Watkinson Ross Clark 

Bath Loughborough Dundee 

Women’s Janne Schaefer Ciara farrell Sophie Caul 

Bath Loughborough Coventry 


Men’s Chris Watkinson David Bartlett Simon Smith 

Loughborough Bath Bath 

Women’s Janne Schaefer Louise Henley Ciara Farrell 

Bath Swansea Loughborough 


Men’s David Bartlett Chris Watkinson Euan Dale 

Bath Loughborough Loughborough 

Women’s Louise Henley Vicky Beaney Ciara Farrell 

Swansea Durham Loughborough 

Butterfly 50m 

Men’s Todd Cooper Matt Bowe Ash Jones 

Stirling Loughborough Nottingham Trent 

Women’s Karen Rigby Hannah Capstick Catherine Pickthall 

Dundee Loughborough Loughborough 

Butterfly 100m 

Men’s Todd Cooper Matt Bowe Stuart Houston 

Stirling Loughborough Stirling 

Women’s Terri Dunning Rebecca Shaw Hannah Capstick 

Wolverhampton Loughborough Loughborough 


Men’s Joe Roebuck Matt Bowe Stuart Houston 


Women’s Rebecca Shaw Terri Dunning Hannah Capstick 

Loughborough Wolverhampton Loughborough 


Individual Medley 200m 

Men’s Euan Dale Ed Downes Stuart Bloor 


Women’s Sophie Caul Jess Sylvester Gail Strobridge 

Coventry Nottingham Southampton 


Men’s Joe Roebuck Stuart Bloor Ed Downes 


Women’s Sophie Caul Rebecca Shaw Gail Strobridge 

Coventry Loughborough Southampton 

Medley Relay 4x100m 

Men’s Loughborough Stirling Bath 

Women’s Loughborough Stirling Nottingham 

Freestyle Relay 4x100m 

Men’s Stirling Loughborough Bath 

Women’s Loughborough Nottingham Manchester 

Overall Team 


Women’s Loughborough Manchester Nottingham 

Swimming Short Course 

Freestyle 50m 

Men’s Richard Hutton Charles Turner Craig Houston 


Women’s Amy Snith Julia Beckett Emma Sandwith 

Loughborough Loughborough Newcastle 


Men’s Richard Hutton Criag Houston Richard Salt 

Loughborough Stirling Bath Spa 

Women’s Julia Beckett Amy Smith Jess Sylvester 



Men’s Euan Dale David O’Brien Liam Wardley 


Women’s Caitlin McClatchey Julia Beckett Katherine Wyld 



Men’s Sam Blunt David O’Brien Andrew Hunter 

Loughborough Stirling Stirling 







Men’s Andrew Hunter Michael Unsworth Daniel Fogg 



Men’s Liam Tancock Graeme Lyons David O’Brien 

Loughborough Strathclyde Stirling 

Women’s Katherine Wylld Sarah Rickwood Samantha Williams 

Nottingham Loughborough Loughborough 


Men’s Liam Tancock Andrew Shepherd Graeme Lyons 

Loughborough Sheffield Hallam Strathclyde 

Women’s Samantha Williams Kathetine Wyld Sarah Rickwood 

Loughborough Nottingham Loughborough 


Men’s Liam Tancock Scott Houston Ben Ward 


Women’s Samantha Williams Samantha Wilson Emma Sandwith 

Loughborough Loughborough Newcastle 



Men’s Ian Hulme Craig Elliot Robert Lee 

Loughborough Manchester Met Stirling 

Women’s Janne Schaefer Alex Savage Ciara Farrell 


Bath Bournemouth Loughborough 

Men’s Criag Elliot Ian Hulme Simon Smith 

Manchester Met Loughborough Bath 

Women’s Janne Schaefer Sophie Caul Ciara Farrell 


Bath Coventry Loughborough 

Men’s Euan Dale Chris Watkinson Mark Branch 

Loughborough Loughborough Coventry 

Women’s Sophie Caul Janne Schaefer Vicky Beaney 

Butterfly 50m 

Coventry Bath Durham 

Men’s Matt Bowe Brad Neal Ash Jones 


Loughborough Hertfordshire Nottingham Trent 

Loughborough Nottingham Loughborough 

Men’s Matt Bowe Joe Roebuck Andrew Mayor 

Loughborough Loughborough Northumbria 

Women’s Rebecca Shaw Hannah Capstick Gail Strobridge 


Loughborough Loughborough Southampton 

Men’s Euan Dale Ed Downes Stuart Bloor 


Women’s Jess Sylvester Natalie Effemey Emma Allington 


Nottingham Loughborough Birmingham 

Men’s Joe Roebuck Stuart Bloor Ed Downes 


Women’s Rebecca Shaw Natalie Effemey Gail Strobridge 

Medley Relay 4x50m 

Loughborough Loughborough Southampton 

Men’s Loughborough Stirling Nottingham 

Women’s Loughborough Stirling Nottingham 

Freestyle Relay 4x50m 

Men’s Stirling Loughborough Bath 

Women’s Loughborough Nottingham Birmingham 

Overall Team 


Women’s Loughborough Bath Stirling 

Table Tennis 

Championship 

Men’s Middlesex Edinburgh Northumbria / London 

South Bank 

Women’s Loughborough Plymouth Newcastle / 

Cambridge 

Trophy 

Men’s Warwick Newcastle Nottingham Trent 

/ LSE 

Singles 

Men’s C. Bryant G. Urban Marples / Boyere 

De Montfort 

Leivester 

London South Bank Sheff Hallam / 

Middlesex 

Women’s N. Bowden N. White May / Sze 

De Montfort 

Leivester 

Newcastle 

Plymouth / UWE 

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Graphs 


Doubles 

Men’s 

Marples / Gasoyne Brown / Gertson 

Sheffield Hallam UWIC London South Bank / 

De Montfort Leicester 

Women’s Radford / May Krishna / Kamdar 

Plymouth Cambridge Southampton / 

Warwick 

Mixed Bawden / Bryant Kamdar / Shete 

Tennis 

Championship 

Men’s 

Women’s 

Shield 

Men’s 

De Montfort 

Leivester 

London 

Metropolitan 

London 

Metropolitan 

London 

Metropolitan 

Cambridge 


Bath Stirling / 

Loughborough 

Loughborough 

Bath / Cambridge 

Bristol Aberdeen / 

Nottingham 

Women’s Sheffield Hallam Exeter LSE / Nottingham 

Trent 

Plate 

Men’sw Leeds Metropolitan KCL MMU Cheshire / 

Reading 

Trophy 

Men’s Bath Stirling Loughborough / 

Loughborough 

Women’s Loughborough Bath Glasgow / Brighton 

Individual-Singles 

Men’s Matjaz Jurman Thomas Pocock Miotto / Sanger 

London 

Metropolitan 

Brighton 

Bournemouth 

Women’s Helen Fritche Catherine Gunn Shaw / Trinder 

Individual-Doubles 

UWIC Cambridge Loughborough / Kings 

Men’s Matjaz / Green Hood / Miotto 

London 

Metropolitan 

Women’s Quin / Broughall McRae / Shaw 


Individual 

Bath Loughborough / 

Stirling 

Bath Loughborough Brighton / Kings 

Men’s Robert Kendall Richard Balaam Matt Robinson 

Surrey De Montfort (Bed) Nottingham 

Women’s Laura Marcham Gemma Dick Karla Winch 

Trampolining 

Novice 

Warwick Sheffield Hallam UEA 

Men’s Richard Prior Phil Lee James Torcha 

Glasgow Cardiff Bristol 

Women’s Lauren Jones Eleanor Gaff Dawn Tighe 

Intermediate 

Exeter Bristol UWIC 

Men’s John Soulsby Jeff Chin Richard Jopson 

Newcastle Surrey Hull 

Women’s Kirsty Madigan Beth Peak Carleen Betteridge 

Advanced 

UWE Exeter Southampton 

Men’s Tony Stone James Nicholson Salem Ali 

Surrey Robert Gordon Central Lancashire 

Women’s Melanie Judge Sophie Rankin Catherine Rickwood 

Leeds Central Lancashire Exeter 


Elite 

Men’s Simon Milnes Jem Camble Phil Dodson 

Manchester Loughborough Hertfordshire 

Women’s Lisa Blackburn Jenny Crowter Lauren Shipman 

Manchester Oxford UWIC 

Open Team Manchester Loughborough UWIC 

Triathlon 

Men’s Will Clarke Fraser Cartmell Dann Brook 

Loughborough Heriot Watt Loughborough 

Women’s Rosie Clarke Carol Ann Bridge Vicky Holland 

Loughborough Loughborough Loughborough 

Team Loughborough Bath Birmingham 

Volleyball 

Championship 

Men’s London Sheffield Hallam Oxford 

Women’s London Manchester Bath 

Trophy 

Men’s York Bournemouth Imperial 

Women’s Exeter Leeds Met Sussex 

Shield 

Men’s Durham Royal Holloway 

Trophy 



Shield 


Trophy 



Shield 


Waterpolo 

Championship 

Men’s London Bristol Manchester 

Women’s Loughborough Manchester Cardiff 

Shield 

Men’s Oxford Durham Glasgow / 

Southampton 

Women’s Bristol Leeds Met Stirling / Sheffield 

Windsurfing 

Division One 

Men’s Bob Shelmerdine Gordon Margary Dave Dawson 

Southampton Bristol Southampton 

Women’s Tanya Saleh Nicola Rudd 

Division Two 

Bristol 

Plymouth 

Men’s John Downing Rich Fraser Warren Inniss 

UWE UWE Southampton 

Women’s Jess Bennett Leila Faddoul Anna Bullimore 

Southampton Exeter Exeter 

Team Southampton Bristol Exeter 

Number of Teams Entered 

Number of Teams Entered 

350 

300 

250 

200 

150 

100 

50 

0 

500 

400 

300 

200 

100 

0 

Taekwondo 

Table Tennis 

Rugby Union 

Ro wing 

Rifle Shooting 

Badminton 

Rugby League 

Badminton 

Swimming 

Surfing 

Squash 

Snowsports 

Sailing 

Rugby Fives 

Snooker 

Basketball 

Basketball 


Tennis 

Orienteering 

Netball 

Fencing 

Fencing 

Trampolining 

Football 

Women’s Wednesday Afternoon Participation Levels 

*=combined Men’s & Women's 

Football 

Golf* 

Triathlon 

M o dern Biathlon 

Hockey 

Golf* 

Lacrosse 

Hockey 

Netball 

Rugby Union 

Sport 

Rugby Union 

Squash 

Squash 

Table Tennis 

Table Tennis 

Tennis 

Tennis 

Volleyball 

Volleyball 

Men’s Wednesday Afternoon Participation Levels 

*=combined Men’s & Women's 

Volleyball 

Lacrosse 

Sport 

Sports Budgets 05-06 

Waterpo lo 

Korfball 

Hockey 

Judo 

Karate 

Windsurfing 

Golf 

Archery 

Athletics 


Gymnastics 

Cricket 

Cricket 

Equestrian 

Fencing 

Waterpolo 

Waterpolo 

Canoe 

Climbing 

Cross Co untry 

Cycling 

Cricket 

Equestrian* 

Equestrian* 

Asso ciation Foo tball 

Basketball 

Badminto n 

Boxing 

Clay Pigeon 

Decathlo n 

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