THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY Horse Racing Society (GUHRS) held their first event of 2011 with a trip to Ayr Racecourses ‘Valentines Raceday’ on Saturday the 12th February. The GUHRS report that the event was a great success, with a wide mixture of students attending, many of whom had never been racing before. GUHRS President, Joe Mclean, [...]
Saturday the 27th of November saw athletes get glamorous as the Glasgow University Sports Association hosted their catwalk Charity Fashion Show. The event was held in the Glasgow University Union’s Debating Chamber in aid of their chosen charity ‘Right to Play’. The weeks of hard work and preparation by GUSA leading up to the show [...]
Glasgow 7-2 Abertay Markus Morrison A sun-drenched Garscube saw the Glasgow University Hockey Club (GUHC) win against the University of Abertay to secure their place in the final of the men’s Scottish Conference Cup. Strong recent showings and the lower league opposing side made Glasgow heavy favourites for the game but, as the old football [...]
Rebecca Day Glasgow 3-2 Cambridge My previous impression of volleyball as a relaxed holiday sport was dissolving into thin air as I stood flinching on the sidelines during the warm-up for the quarter-final Men’s British University Volleyball Championship against Cambridge. Multiple balls were being launched, received and spectacularly slammed into every crevice of the Kelvin [...]
Clare Toner Glasgow University recently played host to the Scottish Universities Annual Canoe Polo Championship. On February 5, 25 teams from all over Scotland descended on Glasgow to compete for the coveted Open Shield and Ladies’ Cup in the only inter-university competition in the Polo calendar. For the uninitiated, canoe polo is essentially water polo [...]
David Childs So then, Superbowl XLIV? Did you watch it? If so, did you know exactly what was going on, or did you just look in to see what the fuss was about? I was a mixture of both; I had a fair grasp of the rules of American Football, courtesy of owning NFL Madden [...]
James Lush Glasgow University Tennis Club enters 2010 with the men’s first team on the verge of a place in the BUCS Premier North division, where they will face the likes of Loughborough, Manchester and Stirling. Following an unremarkable 08/09 season which was blighted by injuries and the decimation of the previous team following graduation, [...]
Clare Toner Glasgow University Hockey Club took a giant step towards promotion after a gruelling victory against fierce rivals East Kilbride Avondale in a pulsating match at the Garscube. Glasgow looked like they would have to settle for a draw, but Harry Tattersall Smith lashed in a late winner to snatch a crucial victory. With an [...]
Glasgow 1-1 Aberdeen Clare Toner As Glasgow took on Aberdeen, spirits were high. Given their superior position in the league, the match should have been a straightforward win. However, throw a cup tie into the mix and anything can happen. Glasgow started the game well, mounting an early attack against a sloppy Aberdeen defence. This [...]
Glasgow 4-3 Heriot Watt Clare Toner The pitch wasn’t looking its best after a day of heavy rain but as the 4-3 score-line suggests, conditions failed to dampen the spirits of either outfit when Glasgow University met Herriot Watt in a clash that saw the league’s top two sides come to blows. Heriot Watt kicked [...]
