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BUCS round-up 26 November 2014

Nottingham headed into a big week of cup fixtures with a point to prove after last Wednesday’s disappointing return. However, on a gloomy day in the Midlands, eight teams progressed to the Last 16 in the Trophy Cup and fourteen booked their place in the Quarter Finals of the Conference Cup. With 28 wins and …

BUCS round-up 19 November 2014

Nottingham were pushed to the limit this week in what proved to be the most testing Wednesday of the BUCS season. However, there were still a number of notable displays from the 23 wins. Ladies’ Badminton continued their good form from last time out by convincingly beating Durham 1st 7-1 at Sutton Bonington. The men’s …

Commonwealths – Days 7 & 8

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 2 to 4

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

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 …