BUCS round-up 12 November 2014
November 14, 2014
Eight University teams kept their Conference Cup runs alive this week by booking last sixteen slots. Whilst the strike rate was slightly down on last week’s 56%, the 23 wins provided many more impressive displays than the figures suggest. It was an afternoon to remember for Ladies’ Badminton 1st who defied the odds to defeat …
New national league comes to Nottingham
October 22, 2014
Club Development Coordinator, Alice Kempski, introduces the new National Badminton League. The National Badminton League is the first ever professional national badminton league in the UK, and the University of Nottingham is one of the six franchise teams from across the country that will be battling it out for the title of NBL champions 2014/15. …
The final two days at the Commonwealths
August 4, 2014
After the success of Isobel Pooley in the women’s high jump at Hampden Park on Friday night, attention turned to the business end of the squash, hockey and badminton tournaments. Emma Beddoes and her partner Ali Waters had the bronze medal match in the doubles squash against Brown and Grinham of Australia. The English pair …
Commonwealths – Days 7 & 8
August 1, 2014
Wednesday 30 July In the high jump qualifiers, Biosciences student Isobel Pooley (pictured right) cleared 1.76 metres, 1.81 and 1.85 at the first attempt to qualify for Friday’s final. She will be the only English athlete in the final and if she can reproduce her season’s best jump of 1.91 she should put herself into …
Commonwealths – Days 5 & 6
July 30, 2014
There was little action for the University athletes on Monday. Only the University NBL (National Badminton League) player Chris Adcock was in action as he took on Malaysia, the number one seeds, as part of the mixed team final. He won his mixed doubles fixture to give England a 1-0 lead, but narrowly lost his …
Commonwealths – Days 2 to 4
July 28, 2014
With the hockey team resting, and squash and high jump yet to start to the University of Nottingham contingent, attention turns to Paul McCreery in the table tennis. On Friday Ireland comfortably swept aside Vanuatu 3-0, with Paul winning his match 3-0. This set up a knockout tie with fourth seeds Nigeria. Unfortunately Ireland lost …
Day One at the Commonwealths
July 25, 2014
Current student Paul McCreery (pictured right) kicked off the action in the Table Tennis for Northern Ireland with a solid 3-0 victory (11-8, 12-10, 11-3) against Paul David from Guyana. The next team match against India was a tougher affair with Paul facing former Commonwealth Gold medallist Kamal Achanka from India who is currently ranked …
