IT’S ALWAYS A VERY SPECIAL feeling packing your armour and strapping a sword-sack around your shoulder on the eve of travelling hundreds of miles for a Kendo tournament. Nothing quite matches the prospect of gauging your skills against other Kendoka from all around the country in the UK University Championships. It’s a bizarre mixture of [...]
Joe Mclean THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY Tennis team have battled against a previous history of defeats to finally get ahead and into the semi finals of the BUCS Men’s competition. The club’s past track record has been disappointing, with the team being knocked out in the first round for the last two years of the competition. [...]
Joe Mclean THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE Glasgow University Sports Association’s calendar is the annual GUSA Ball. This year the black-tie dinner dance, at which Blues, Half-Blues and Sporting Awards are presented to successful student athletes and teams, has been heralded as a sporting success by the GUSA council. The event, which took place at the [...]
Joe Mclean THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY RIDING CLUB (GURC) has had one of their most successful seasons on record. Both the A and B teams have qualified for the BUCS Equestrian regional heats, which are the qualifiers for the BUCS national championships, with the A team winning all of their league fixtures en route to qualification. [...]
Basketball Men’s 2nd 60 – 52 Edinburgh Men’s 2nd Fencing Women’s 1st 135 – 75 Bangor Women’s 1st Football Men’s 3rd 0 – 0 Stirling Men’s 3rd Golf 1st 3 – 5 Stirling 2nd Hockey Women’s 3rd 3 – 2 Robert Gordon Women’s 2nd Hockey Women’s 2nd 2 – 1 Abertay Women’s 1st Hockey Men’s [...]
Joe Mclean Glasgow was named as Scotland’s ‘artistic powerhouse’ this week, once again proud to be called a City of Culture. Ironically this announcement came the day before the Scottish Government held their Old Firm summit at Holyrood, to discuss the mayhem surrounding the recent Celtic and Rangers games in the city, a game the [...]
Blues Awards 2010 – 2011 A GUSA Blue is the highest individual sporting award presented at Glasgow University to the sportsmen and women who have consistently performed in an outstanding manner, excelling at an elite level throughout the previous season. Full Blues Colin McMorrin Canoe Louise Creechan Fencing Craig Moffat Karate Stephanie McDowall Rowing Half [...]
Men 2nd Kyu and Above: U66kgs: Gold – Jamel Tahar Aissa, Glasgow Silver – Luke, Naunton, Aberdeen Bronze – Jamie Whitelaw, Glasgow Bronze – Anthony Stevenson, UWS U73kgs: Gold – Michal Duczmal, Edinburgh Silver – Dale Findlay, Strathclyde Bronze – Connor McSharry, Glasgow U81kgs: Gold – Oliver Triggs, Edinburgh Silver – Roy Shepherd, Edinburgh Bronze [...]
Basketball Men’s 2nd 70 – 51 Robert Gordon University 1st Basketball Men’s 1st 79 – 54 Newcastle University 1st Basketball Women’s 1st 42 – 38 University of Stirling 1st Fencing Men’s 1st 101 – 135 University of St Andrews 1st Fencing Women’s 1st 135 – 95 Edinburgh University Hockey Women’s 3rd 6 – 3 Glasgow [...]
THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY Boat Club (GUBC) is one of the oldest clubs in the university, having been established back in 1867. Today the GUBC are one of, if not the, most successful sports clubs on campus. They compete and regularly win at both the Scottish Championships and at the British Universities (BUSA) competitions, whilst forwarding [...]
