UEA Sport has enjoyed a successful season. UEA placed 35th out of the 142 Universities participating in BUCS. Softball finished as the highest-scoring club for UEA scoring 130 BUCS points. Futsal and Football both achieved success this year with the former being the second-highest scoring club and the latter, the third. Dodgeball ended up with…
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Double UEA BUCS Conference Cup wins
UEA Table Tennis and UEA Women’s Hockey both enjoyed success in their respective BUCS cup finals last week. Table Tennis beat a Nottingham Uni side while Women’s Hockey 2s stormed to a 4-1 win against Oxford Brookes. Both finals were hosted at Loughborough University. A cup win is always a testament to consistent performances under…
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BUCS makes its much anticipated return to UEA
Last year, due to the Covid pandemic, BUCS competitions were canceled, but it now returns after more than 500 days. Fixtures take place every Wednesday, and on the 13th October 2021, we saw the return of BUCS. UEA participated in home and away fixtures across a range of sports including basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, netball,…
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Sports night returns: bigger, but is it better?
Sports night returned successfully for the first time since the pandemic on Wednesday, following the first set of BUCS fixtures of the year. The event is now ticketed and hosted in the LCR on campus after the controversial cancellation the week before. Although the events that meant the SU were forced to make changes to…
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Pole Fitness South East Regionals see UEA ranked 7th
Pole fitness had their first competition of the year at the Inter University Pole Dancing Competition (IUPDC) South East Regionals on the 8th February in London, hosted by King’s College London. UEA sent off a great team, with Joe Loftus for beginners, Hana Inal for intermediate, Diana Priimak for advanced, Rosa Hopper, Will Hodder, Elizabeth…
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Record number of medals for UEA at BUCS
UEA sent seven of its sports teams off to compete in Sheffield over the weekend of the 15th February. Students represented the university in BUCS Nationals for Athletics, Badminton, Climbing, Fencing, Judo, Karate and Swimming. The various teams won five medals across all the sports, which pitted them against the country’s best young athletes. Elliot…
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UEA Swimming reach finals at BUCS long course
UEA Swimming Club improved upon last year’s performance at BUCS Nationals, attracting more attention from UEA Sport. All of the club’s relay teams made their respective finals, building upon the achievements of the team sent off to BUCS short-course last semester. Liv Neale made the final of the women’s 200m Backstroke, and Rikke Nagell-Kleven made…
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UEA Swim Team set to surpass last year’s record performance
The President of UEA swimming has expressed his delight over the team’s recent performance at BUCs short-course. Over the weekend of the 16 November, a team of 38 swimmers, including 15 new freshers, went off to compete at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. The event was a marked improvement on last year, with UEA scoring 12…
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Every body is a pole body – UEA Pole-A-Thon
The annual 24-hour Pole-a-thon will be held from 7am on Tuesday 3 December all the way through to 7am on Wednesday 4th in the hive. We will be raising money for the eating disorder charity BEAT who we have worked with for the past 2 years on this same event. People passing by can donate…
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