Match in Focus | Men’s Squash beat Birmingham 3-2 to book their place at BUCS Big Wednesday
March 8, 2018
University of Nottingham went into this Men’s Squash BUCS Championship Semi-final as narrow favourites and knew they would have their work cut out if they wanted to secure home advantage at BUCS Big Wednesday in 2 weeks’ time. During the regular season, UoN finished just above Birmingham having won at their last two encounters, albeit …
#GreenandGold Match in Focus: Wednesday 7 March
March 7, 2018
It’s now just two weeks to go until British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Big Wednesday – the UK’s largest team sport event for students – heads to University of Nottingham. With the knockout stages getting to the final stages – there’s some huge games across the country today as teams vie to make the …
Team of the Week: Men’s Lacrosse 1st
March 5, 2018
With the weather causing havoc with BUCS fixtures this week, many teams saw their matches postponed. In Nottingham, many of our home matches were cancelled due to the freezing temperatures and snow, however the Men’s Lacrosse 1st team found their away match in Exeter still on. After travelling that distance in unideal weather conditions, they …
Team of the Week: Women’s Football 2nd
February 25, 2018
This week we see the Football Women’s 2nd team as our Team of the Week, by beating the unbeaten of 2 years, Leicester 1st team 1-0! A great result for the girls as last season they narrowly missed out, with Leicester winning by 1-0 in a very close game. The first half entailed Nottingham being …
#GreenandGold Match in Focus: Wednesday 28 February
With just over three weeks to go until university sport’s largest team event hits University of Nottingham, the competition to reach the BUCS Big Wednesday finals is heating up. With several Nottingham teams in the running for the gold medal – we’re focussing on our contenders fighting it out to reach the finals on 21 …
University of Nottingham Sport Volunteer of the Month – January
February 20, 2018
University of Nottingham Sport’s Leadership Academy continues to go from strength-to-strength with over 120 student leaders recording over 800 volunteering hours in the Autumn term alone. With so much great work happening across our sports clubs and programmes – we’ve introduced a brand new Volunteer of the Month award for 2018! Each month we’ll showcase …
Team of the Week: Men’s Rugby 1st XV
February 19, 2018
Congratulations to the Rugby 1st XV, who were awarded Team of the Week for their amazing 20-10 win against the University of Leeds this week at Highfields Park. The two sides previously clashed in an entertaining fixture in Leeds, in which Nottingham ran out winners 39 – 26. The match was set to be a …
BUCS Nationals | Super Sunday Review : Green and Gold win double gold in badminton taking the total Championship medal tally to 11
February 18, 2018
Li Lian Yang successfully defended her BUCS Nationals 2017 badminton singles title by beating Lydia Cheah in straight sets. Yang followed her victory up with another gold in the Mixed doubles alongside fellow UoN Sport scholar Phone Pyae Naing, who also won a bronze himself in the Men’s singles. The badminton medals didn’t end there, …
BUCS Nationals | Saturday Review : Karate Bronze and Badminton duo book semi-final spots
February 17, 2018
Karate Bronze in the Men’s Kumite and Badminton semi-final spots for defending champion Li Liang Yang and Phone Pyae Naing capped out another brilliant day at BUCS Nationals 2018 for the Green and Gold. Following a memorable Friday which saw University of Nottingham silver medal in the pool, the attention returned to the Ponds Forge on …
BUCS Nationals | Friday Review : Green and Gold secure two medals in opening day of the Championships
February 16, 2018
The University of Nottingham have made a fantastic start to the 2018 BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) National Championships in Sheffield recording 2 medals on day one. Polly Holden (Medical Physiology & Theraputics) smashed her 800m freestyle personal best by 15 seconds to win BUCS Bronze in her maiden Championships and Hayley Mills (60m …
