Postgraduate Prospectus

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At our Colchester
Campus
Approximately 40 acres of our Colchester
Campus are devoted to sport. In addition to
cricket, football, hockey and rugby pitches,
we have tennis courts, a frisbee golf course
and an artificial cricket wicket and nets.
Our floodlit grass training area and
synthetic turf pitch are used for hockey,
plus we have jogging and orienteering
routes around campus.
We have a water sports club at
Brightlingsea and our sub-aqua, swimming
and water polo clubs use the pool at
nearby Colchester Leisure World.
Our indoor facilities include a six badminton
court size multi-purpose sports hall, five
glass-backed squash courts, an indoor
climbing wall, two activity studios (aerobics,
dance, martial arts and yoga) and one
purpose-built five metre high dance studio.
We have a brand new 110-station fitness
and weights room, and all CV machines
have TV and iPod capabilities. Our gym
caters for the novice user to the Olympic
athlete, accommodating all fitness levels.
In 2010-11, we had several notable
successes with our Students’ Union sports
team. This includes the following teams
winning their league: Women’s Football
1st, Women’s Hockey 2nd, Lacrosse
Men’s (who also won the South Eastern
Conference Cup), Squash Men’s 1st (who
also won the South Eastern Conference
Cup), Squash Men’s 2nd, Table Tennis
Men’s 1st, Tennis Women’s 2nd and
Volleyball Men’s 1st. Our Lacrosse Women
and Volleyball Men’s 2nd were runners up
in the South Eastern Conference Cup.
Our Sports Centre is home to the North
Essex Squash Academy and our Human
Performance Unit (HPU) provides sports
science support for sports bursary students
and elite athletes. We also have an HPU
race team that sponsors talented triathletes.
Our Sports Centre runs coaching courses
through our SPACE (Sports Participation
and Coaching Education) programme,
which allow you to gain coaching and
officiating qualifications, as well as feeding
into a number of local organisations to
get hands-on coaching work.
To continue improving sporting performance,
we employ a full-time Sports Development
Officer to target specific clubs and
individuals with the potential to excel.
At our Southend Campus
We have an arrangement with Southend
Leisure and Tennis Centre, located at
Garon Park, which provides sporting
facilities, including badminton, five-a-side
Sports clubs
Aikido
American Football
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball*
Boxing
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Cheerleading
Cricket
Dance
Disc Sports
Fencing
Football*
Gaelic Football
Gliding
Golf
Hockey*
Horse Riding
Jiu-Jitsu
Kickboxing
Motorsports
Mountaineering
Netball
Pool
Rowing
Rugby League
Rugby Union*
Skydiving
Snowsports
Squash
Sub Aqua
Swimming and
Waterpolo
Table Tennis
Tennis*
Ten-pin Bowling
Trampolining
Triathlon
Volleyball*
Watersports
Yoga
*Men’s and
women’s clubs
football, basketball, netball, a large gym,
tennis and table tennis. Team sport
facilities are available on Wednesday
afternoons without charge. In addition, our
Students’ Union co-ordinates sporting
activities in Southend, including basketball
and football. Subject to demand, a minibus
runs from The Union, at our Southend
Campus, to Garon Park each Wednesday
afternoon in term-time. At other times, there
is a regular service from the bus station,
taking just under 15 minutes.
Southend caters for a range of sporting
activities and facilities are available for golf,
tennis, cricket, fishing, swimming, cycling,
football, rugby and many others. Seven
miles of coastline offer water sports from
sailing to kitesurfing, and the Southend
Marine Activities Centre allows those on a
budget to try their hand. If you are living in
the Southend Borough you can apply, via
our University, for an Advantage card
(£1 per annum) which gives half price
admission on most individual bookings at
council-run sports centres, including gyms
and a state-of-the-art international diving
and swimming facility that opened in 2010.
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