Bucs annual review 2008 - 2009 1

SAILING
• Team Racing: After qualifiers in the snow, the three-day
finals were held in April at Datchet Water in partnership
with Brunel University. Oxford took home the team title
• Match Racing: After three qualifying rounds nine teams
headed to Queen Mary Sailing Club for the Finals at which
Southampton emerged victorious
• Yachting: 35 teams attended the Yachting Championships
held at Port Solent/Gunwharf Quay in April with
Southampton Solent University in first place
SNOWSPORTS
• The Dryslope Championships held in Edinburgh still
boasts the largest dryslope ski race entry anywhere in
the world
• 2,200 total attendees (including 450 beginners) at
the British Universities Snowsports Council (BUSC) Main
Event and Alpine Championships 2009 in Alpe D’Huez,
France. Highlight of the event was the floodlit slalom held
on the World Cup piste that drew a crowd of 1000+
• Rachel Adcock (Newcastle) claimed her fifth and sixth
consecutive dryslope titles in the Slalom and Giant
Slalom this season, winning both in each of her three
years at university. Gemma Harris (Southampton) won
all three disciplines at the 2009 Alpine Champs adding the
Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super G titles to the two golds
won in 2008
• BUSC charity contributions surpassed £16,000 during
the season
SNOOKER
• Largest entry of 160 and representation from all four home
nations; exactly 1,200 frames played over three full days;
three team and two Individual competitions offered; a new
winner from a team entering for the first time (Manchester,
Team Shield)
• The sport has seen a high increase in the number of
ethnic-minority and international students competitors and
this year’s individual champion was an Indian national.
• Event held at England’s premier amateur snooker venue,
the Leeds Northern Snooker Centre
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SQUASH
• Participation numbers in Squash have remained
consistent over last two years, with record entries
for the individual championships held in Birmingham
• The men’s individual champion Joel Hinds (Birmingham)
since graduating has turned professional and the higher
education sector has attracted top players including the
former women’s world champion and former world
number one Vanessa Atkinson, who is studying at
Leeds Met
• BUCS implemented England Squash and Racketball’s
recommendation to change the point a rally scoring
and is committed to developing the game. The sports
management group has aspirations to develop
Racketball across the higher education sector to engage
greater participation amongst the more recreational player
SURFING
• The Surf Championships was the first championships
for BUCS (as a new organisation) in the new season.
It was also the first time the championships were held in
October. The move worked well as the water and weather
conditions were suitable for the championships. BUCS
would like to thank the BSA, volunteer and RNLI lifeguards
for organising the championships
SWIMMING
• The Short Course Championships were once again held
at Ponds Forge, with 16 new BUCS records set. Liam
Tancock (Loughborough) and Zoe Baker (Bath) were
awarded the top performance awards, with
Loughborough winning the men’s, women’s and
overall team awards
• At the Long Course Championships, Tancock and
Baker again won the individual performance awards
and Loughborough completed another clean sweep of
the team titles
• The Team Finals were part of the BUCS Championships
in Sheffield and Loughborough completed the hat-trick
of swimming titles by also winning the
Team Championship
TABLE TENNIS
• The sports management group (SMG) is to place an
emphasis on encouraging more women and students
with disabilities to enter the Individuals next year, which will
be hosted by the University of
Nottingham for the next three years
• The SMG is forging stronger links
with home country governing
bodies and university sports
groups to reduce drop-off from
further to higher education.
This is being addressed
through publicity about
university clubs and local
leagues links. Players leaving
the junior ranks are targeted
via a national ranking
system and by player
listings of the English Table
Tennis Association
• The University of Edinburgh
and Loughborough University competed
in the European University Championships
in Serbia
TENNIS *Supported by Barclays
• Team GBR won silver in the men’s doubles and a Bronze
medal in the mixed doubles at the World University Games
in Serbia in July
• Colin Fleming (University of Stirling graduate) made
his debut in the GB Davis Cup team partnering Ross
Hutchins in the doubles and went on to partner with Ken
Skupski to beat the Bryan brothers (previously world
number 1 seeds) at Queen’s Club and to win the doubles
event at the ATP tour in Metz
• The Barclays Development Awards gave 14 university
clubs the opportunity to fund local projects across a wide
range of activities including Street Tennis, Cardio Tennis,
coaching support and facility development such as
floodlight costs for winter training sessions