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ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6 ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6 the top spot. Having each surfed through six rounds to reach the final, in surf ranging from 3ft to 6ft, the four finalists all put in brave performances to entertain a 600-strong crowd on the beach, with the Plymouth man eventually emerging victorious. It was a double celebration for Matt, as his points helped Plymouth A to the Men’s Team title for the third year running, ensuring a lively trip back to Devon for the team minibus. Plymouth beat a strong Exeter Men’s team into second place. In the Women’s division, Ulster University’s Shauna Ward made light work of the head-high conditions to claim the Women’s Open title, ripping her waves all the way to the beach. Shauna, the reigning Irish Women’s Champion, showed her class in a hard-fought Final to emerge with the title ahead of Esther Lampriere, Tracy Somerville and runner-up Jo Dennison of Swansea Institute. Plymouth’s domination was completed with Plymouth winning a close-run Women’s Team competition ahead of rivals Marjons, with UWE third. Despite deteriorating surf, the Finals were a fitting climax to a three day feast of surfing in the UK’s surfing capital. Perfect weather and consistent head-high surf – with offshore winds until late on Saturday – gave the students plenty of reasons to be cheerful. SWIMMING SHORT COURSE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 18-20 November 2006, Ponds Forge, Sheffield A capacity entry from some 74 Universities entered the 2005 Short Course. With 19 new Championships Records set over the three days and a further three records equalled 2005 was a good year for the BUSA Short Course Swimming Championships. Loughborough’s Caitlan McClatchey set records of 1:57.78, 4:06.33 and 8:27.35 respectively in the 200m, 400, and 800m Freestyle and her team-mates Sarah Healey and Rebecca Shaw set two records each. Healey’s were in the 50m and 100 Butterfly when she recorded times of 27.14 and 59.16 whilst Shaw’s were in the 200m Butterfly and 400m Individual Medley with times of 2:10.85 and 4:46.95, Loughborough had more double record success when Liam Tancock and Matt Bowe each set a new record and matched an existing record. The new records came in the 200m Backstroke for Tancock (1:56.70) and 200m Butterfly for Bowe (1:56.92). Tancock coupled this by matching his own year-old record of 53.32 in the 100m Backstroke whilst Bowe matched Todd Cooper’s (Stirling) yearold record of 53.27 in the 100 Butterfly. The third record to be equalled was Loughborough’s 1:30.54 for the 4 x 50m Freestyle, set in 2004, which Stirling won. More records came for Loughborough thanks to Euan Dale (2.01.30 for 200m Individual Medley), Amy Smith (25.79 for 50m Freestyle), Julia Beckett (55.78 for 100m Freestyle), Samantha Williams (1.02.23 for 100m Backstroke), the Men’s 4 x 50m Medley team (1:39.43), the Women’s 4x 50m Freestyle Team (1.43.82) and the Women’s 4 x 50 Medley Team (1.54.68). Loughborough didn’t have all their own way as Nottingham collected 2 records through Katherine Wylde who recorded 29.26 in the 50m Backstroke and Jess Sylvester who recorded 2:14.69 in the 200m Individual Medley. Bath also collected a record when Joe Roebuck set 4:17.47 in the 400m Individual Medley. Bowe’s performance in the 200m Butterfly and McClatchey’s performance in the 200m Freestyle won them the Top Performance of the Championships Awards. Euan Dale followed his record-breaking win the 200m Individual Medley with a further 2 gold Medals when he won the 200m Breaststroke in 2:14.21 and the 200m Freestyle in 1:47.83. Liam Tancock completed his set of three gold Medals in the 50m Backstroke (24.82) and Samantha Williams followed her record-breaking win with gold in the 200m Backstroke (2:13.77). Two other double gold Medallists were Janne Schaefer (Bath) who won the 50m and the 100m Breaststroke in 31.08 and 1:09.26 and Short Course Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield Richard Hutton (Loughborough) who won the 50m and the 100m Freestyle in 22.93 and 49.84. The results of the Short Course Championship Trophies were: Women 1 191 Loughborough 2 171 Stirling 3 94 Nottingham Men 1 195 Loughborough 2 102 Manchester 3 114 Bath Overall 1 386 Loughborough 2 247 Stirling 3 192 Bath LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 10-12 February 2006, Ponds Forge, Sheffield The Long Course Championships saw 57 Universities entered. This follows the same format as the Short Course Championships but with a 50-metre pool instead of a 25- metre pool. The outstanding swimmer of the Championships was undoubtedly Loughborough’s Caitlin McClatchey who won all of her maximum three events. Her first win came in the 800m Freestyle with a time of 8:53.10 and she ended the weekend by winning the 400m Freestyle in a record time of 4:12.96. However, her best swim of the three days was in the 200m Freestyle when she stopped the clock at 1:59.97 to set a Championship record, win the race and record the best female performance of the Championship. Liam Tancock (Loughborough) put in the best Men’s performance of the weekend when he won the 50 Backstroke in 25.63, which he followed by winning the 100m Backstroke in a championship record of 55.30. Loughborough Men also beat the record for the 4 x 100m Medley Relay (3.44.94). Three more swimmers emulated Tancock by setting a Championship records in the process of collecting two gold Medals. His Loughborough team-mate set his record of 4:23.58 in the 400m Individual Medley and won the 200m Butterfly in 2:00.43. Coventry’s Sophie Caul set a record in the Women’s 400m Individual Medley with 4:53.33, and won the 200m Individual Medley in 2:20.38. Finally, Todd Cooper (Stirling) kept the Scots in the frame with a win in the 100m Butterfly (53.77) and a record-breaking win in the 50m Butterfly (24.30). Six more Championship records fell over the three-day event; four going to Loughborough, one to Dundee and the other to Stirling. The results of the Long Course Championship Trophies were: Women 1 188 Loughborough 2 101 Manchester 3 92 Nottingham Men 1 195 Loughborough 2 155 Stirling 3 147 Bath Overall 1 374 Loughborough 2 245 Stirling 3 195 Bath SWIMMING TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2006 23 teams travelled to Bath for Southern Rounds of Division One and Division Two with a further 23 teams heading for the Northern Rounds in Birmingham. Our thanks go to both Universities for hosting the two rounds. The top three teams in each of the Division One Rounds progressed to the Final where they were joined by the top two teams from the Scottish League whilst the top four teams from the Division Two Rounds made it to Nottingham Final on 29 April 2006. Loughborough were unchallenged in the First Division Final but there was a close match for second and third between Bath, Birmingham and Manchester. Birmingham 2, Nottingham 2 and Sheffield also had a close match for third place in the Division 2 Final with Swansea the runaway winners of the Sunderland University Trophy. The final results were: OTHER NEWS Commonwealth Games Caitlin McClatchey (Loughborough) won three Gold Medals at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne earlier this year. Swimming for Scotland, her events were the 200m, 400, and 800m Freestyle. Caitlin McClatchey won the BUSA Sportswoman of the Year Award for her commitment and dedication to Swimming. Wolverhampton’s Terri Dunning represented England at the Games and won a bronze in the 200m Butterfly. She was also in the Finals of the 200m Individual Medley and the 100m Butterfly when she was fourth and fifth respectively. The England Men’s Team included Liam Tancock (Loughborough) Ross Davenport (Bath), Matt Bowe (Loughborough) and James Gibson (Loughborough), all of whom won Medals. Tancock won gold in 100m Backstroke and silver in the 50m Backstroke whilst Davenport won gold in the 200m Freestyle. Gibson won silver in the 400 Individual Medley and was fourth in the 50m Breaststroke with Bowe was seventh in the 100m Butterfly. Liam Tancock won the BUSA Sportman of the Year Award for his commitment and dedication to Swimming. Euan Dale (Loughborough) won silver in the 400m Individual Medley for Scotland with Todd Cooper (Stirling) sixth in both the 50m and 100m Butterfly and Andrew Hunter (Stirling) was seventh in the 200m Freestyle. World Short Course Championships, Shanghai, 5-9 April 2006 Loughborough swimmers Liam Tancock and Caitlin McClatchey flew straight from Melbourne to Shanghai for the World Short Course Championships. Tancock made it to the final of the 100m Individual Medley where he was fifth in 52.22 whilst McClatchey was fifth in the 400m Freestyle (4:05.05). Sports Management Group Swimming and Diving Chair, Dave Fletcher, was appointed by the European Governing Body (LEN) as the announcer at the 2005 European Short Course Championships in Trieste, Italy. He was also appointed as an independent member of the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA). Robin Butterfield was appointed as a starter at the British National Championships. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BUSA is grateful to the band of swimming volunteers who gave unstintingly of their time to help us stage this year’s Championships. The sports management group would particularly like to remember Jeff Conway who has organised the officials for the Team Championships in Nottingham for a number of years. Sadly, he died suddenly a few weeks before the Finals and our sympathy goes to his family. TABLE TENNIS INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 18-19 February, Nottingham University The Individuals were held at an excellent new 16 table venue on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus. The entry of 160 was well up on last year with the doubling of the Women’s’ entry of particular note. 33 universities were represented from 3 home countries. The standard of play was high and the event was well run by Mike Payne and Brian Lloyd with ETTA umpires. MEN C Bryant of De Montfort Leicester beat G Urban of London South Bank 6, 10, 6 in the Final of the Men’s Individuals Championship. WOMEN De Montfort Leicester’s N Bawden beat N White of Newcastle University -9, 8, -9, 9, 5 DOUBLE’S MEN'S Semi-Finals Marples/Gascoyne (Sheffield Hallam) beat Urban/Jonah (London South Bank) 5, -11, 9, 7 Brown/Gertsen (UWIC) beat Bryant/ Cooney (DMU Leicester) -9, 7, -10, 9, 8 Final Marples/Gascoyne beat Brown/Gertsen 3, 7, -7, 6 WOMEN'S Semi-Finals Krishna/Kamdar (Cambridge) beat Shah/ Chaudhuri (Warwick) 7, 10, 6 Radford/May (Plymouth) beat Muhe/Saoua (Southampton) 7, 10, 4 Final Radford/May beat Krishna/Kamdar 7, 10, 3 MIXED DOUBLES Semi-Finals Bawden/Bryant (DMU Leicester) beat Urban/Yang (London South bank) 7, 6, -9, 7 Kamdar/Shete (Cambridge) beat Marples/ Baldi (Sheffield Hallam) -9, 10, 6, 7 Final Bawden/Bryant beat Kamdar/Shete 2, 1, 6 Trophies and Medals were presented to all finalists and Semi-Finalists by Table Tennis Championships, University of Nottingham 34 35
ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6 ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6 Helen Rainford on behalf of sponsor PricewaterhouseCoopers. TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 26 March 2006, English Institute of Sport, Sheffield. This was the culmination of competition over the season with the Men’s Team event won by Middlesex and the Women’s by Loughborough. There were 42 team entries in the Men’s event and 19 team entries in the Women’s event. MEN Semi-Finals Middlesex beat Northumbria 9-5 Edinburgh beat London South Bank 9-5 Final Middlesex beat Edinburgh 9-4 WOMEN Semi-Finals Plymouth W/O Cambridge scratched Loughborough beat Newcastle 6-2 Final Loughborough beat Plymouth 5-3 OTHER NEWS The Sports Management Group has been working on a number of projects. One has been to review the format of the Championships bearing in mind the distances involved and the low numbers of Women’s teams. A survey at the BUSA Individuals showed no clear consensus for a particular option so consultation will continue. The other ongoing project is to ease the transition of players from home to university at 18. A trial flyer was used at several tournaments targeting junior entrants and it is hoped to extend this idea elsewhere. Table Tennis is a core sport at the World University Games - the second largest multi sport event after the Olympic Games. To try and move towards future British participation, a helpful meeting was held between the BUSA SMG-TT and the ETTA Chairman to attempt to move this forward in the context of ETTA plans. It is clear that there is considerable potential in this area of table tennis for BUSA and ETTA to link to the benefit of players, coaches, umpires and officials. TAEKWONDO INDIVIDUAL & TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 12 March 2006, University of Wolverhampton The 20 th University National Championships took place with BUSA sanctioning in Southampton on 12 March. Thought by many to have been one of the best ever, nearly 300 fighters took part with about half also doing Poomse. The Korean Tourist Board provided free Korean snacks and drinks and the Mayor of Southampton and the Vice-Chancellor presented Medals following a VIP reception. Overall standards continue to rise with 3 exceptional performances from Charley-Jo Devin (Newcastle), Rebecca Powell (Cambridge) and David Honey (Southampton) who won Gold in both Sparring and Poomse. With their large team of over 40, Newcastle clinched the Overall Team Trophy for the second year with Southampton runners up and Bristol in third place. Bids are now being considered for the 21 st Championship next year. Special thanks go to the British Student Taekwondo Federation and it’s volunteers for making this year’s Championships a success. OTHER NEWS For a report on the World University Championships please see the International section. TENNIS BARCLAYS INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 16-20 December 2006, Loughborough University Entries from 32 Universities and 171 matches played over 5 days. A whole new set of names on the winners board this year – a great year for London Met Men and really good to see Universities such as Brighton, UWIC and Cambridge picking up some of the spoils. The introduction of prize money – secured through the Barclays sponsorship of BUSA tennis – increased the profile of the event in the calendar and the standard of Tennis on show was superb. Slovenian Mat Jurman (London Met) - the Men’s number one seed - collected the singles title defeating the in-form Tom Pocock (Brighton) 6-3 6-3 and he then went on to partner Rob Green to victory against the Bath combination of Graeme Hood and Alex Miotto in the Men’s Doubles. In an enthralling Women’s final Helen Fritche (UWIC) beat Catherine Gunn (Cambridge) in three sets 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. In the doubles Emily Quin and Jennifer Broughall (Bath) triumphed over the Loughborough pairing of (reigning champion) Kirsty McRae and Katy Shaw in straight sets. Thanks to Loughborough University – again – for hosting the Championships over a very cold 5 days. Thanks also to referee and event manager Carl Baldwin for all of the preparatory work and the day to day organisation during the event. Further thanks to Carl, Marie Atkinson and Mike Ives for their commitment in collating results. BARCLAYS MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 133 teams playing in 20 leagues (an increase of 10% in number of teams on last year). Congratulations to London Metropolitan who retained their title with some very strong performances. Premier League Championship Play-Off London Met. 6 Bath 5 MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals London Met 7 Stirling 3, Bath 7 Loughborough 3 Final London Met 10 Bath 0 TROPHY Stirling 2nd 2 Bath 2nd 8 SHIELD London Met 2nd 8 Bristol 2 Plate Leeds Met 2nd 10 Kings 0 WOMEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 82 teams playing in 14 leagues (10 more teams than last year). A sharing of the honours in the Women’s game – Loughborough beat London Met in the Premier League Final - only for London Met to secure revenge in the Championship Finals in March – matching the success of their Men’s team and making it a London Met double. Barclays BUSA Tennis Team Championships, Uni versity of Bath The Barclays Sponsorship has encouraged an increase in the Women’s league, and it is hoped it will continue to grow. . Premier League Championship Play-Off Loughborough bt. London Met. 8-2 CHAMPIONSHIP Semi -Finals Loughborough 7 Bath 3 London Met 8 Cambridge 2 Final London Met 8 Loughborough 2 TROPHY Loughborough 2nd 7 Bath 2nd 3 SHIELD Exeter 2nd 3 Sheffield Hallam 7 OTHER NEWS Barclays Sponsorship A great year for BUSA tennis – we were all very proud to be able to announce that Barclays PLC was to sponsor university tennis in Great Britain over the next three years. This support aims to raise the profile of university tennis, increase participation and improve the quality of players at university level. The investment from Barclays to support more than 1,000 students at approximately 150 universities with a particular emphasis on encouraging more women to take part in the sport. This will be achieved through the development of competitive tournaments such as The Barclays British Universities Individual Tennis Championships, played by 150 competitors, and The Barclays GB Students University Challenge Tour which will include Women’s teams for the first time. 2nd European University Tennis Championships – Rouen, France – November 2005 The 2 nd European University Tennis Championship took place in Mont Saint Aignan near Rouen, France from November 27 to December 3, 2005. After interesting and hard matches, the University of Moscow (RUS) became EUC Tennis (Men’s) Champions for 2005 with the University of Léonard de Vinci, Paris (FRA) winning the Women’s trophy – congratulations to the Men from London Met who represented British interests and finished in 3 rd place – wining the bronze Medal. BUSA vs. AELTC - Wimbledon – March 2006 The BUSA team played well to defeat a strong team from AELTC 7-5. Many thanks to John Whiteford who again gave up much of his own time to select, coach and prepare the team. We hope to retain this high profile fixture and to make it more of an occasion in future years. BUSA US Tour – April 2006 This, the 3 rd GB US Tour proved to be a great way to focus the players’ minds and provided outstanding match play opportunities, as well helping to gauge and appraise standards of both GB based and US based players in contention for World University Games teams next year. Against very strong collegiate opposition the Men won 3 lost 3 and the Women won 3 lost 2. Thanks must go to Barclays, Jo Kirk and BUSA staff, Venetia Cosier, John Feaver and their staff at the LTA, Martin Lake of ProDirect and his staff, Serena McLaren and staff at STA Travel, and finally to John Whiteford without whose continuing enthusiasm and effort the tour would never get off the ground. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank all of those in office who contributed to a very successful year for student tennis and to the Tennis Management Group and the LTA – in particular John Whiteford, Carl Baldwin and Venetia Cosier for their unfailing support and enthusiasm. TENPIN BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS 4-5 February 2006, AMF Bowl, Nottingham The high number of entries that Bowling has enjoyed in recent years continued again this year necessitating the Championships to be scheduled over two days. There were entries from 27 Universities, with 15 Women’s teams, 26 Men’s teams, and 24 Individual competitors. TEAM In the Women’s Team event, the end of the first day saw Sheffield Hallam take a commanding lead of 101 pins over second place Warwick, and a further 147 pins to Nottingham in third. In the first event on Sunday, Sheffield Hallam increased their lead to 421 pins, and saw Nottingham pass Warwick into second place by just 9 pins. In the Final event, Sheffield Hallam increased their lead further and were comfortable Winners by a margin of 492 pins (4,483 pins, 166.1 average). Warwick claimed back their second place by just 14 pins (3991 pins, 147.8 average) with Nottingham finishing third (3977 pins, 147.3 average). At the end of the First round on the Saturday in the Men’s event, Nottingham- A were leading by a margin of 116 pins to Leeds-B in second and a further 17 pins to Surrey-B in third. However, it was all change on Sunday morning, as Surrey-B moved into first, with Nottingham-A 17 pins behind and Sheffield-B moving from seventh into third in front of now fourth place Leeds-B. After the Final event, the positions remained unchanged as Surrey-B increased their lead to 100 pins finishing as winners with a pinfall of 9,913 (an average of 183.6 per game per player), Nottingham-A finished in second (9813, 181.7 average), and Sheffield-B finished in third place (9420, 174.4 average). INDIVIDUAL The winner of the Women’s Individual competition was Laura Marcham from Warwick, who led from start to finish, with 1,731 pins (192.3 average). Second place went to Gemma Dick from Sheffield Hallam (1,621, 180.1 average), whilst Karla Winch from East Anglia went from eighth to third in the last event (1,579, 175.4 average) passing her sister Anna Winch from Nottingham, who finished in fourth. The Men’s Individual competition was closely fought with each of the top three leading the field during the weekend. First place went to Rob Kendall from Surrey with a total of 1,950 pins (216.7 average) beating the old record by 6 pins. Runner up was Richard Balaam from DMU Bedford (1,887 pins, 209.7 average), with Matt Robinson from Nottingham taking third place (1878 pins, 208.7 average). The day was a tremendous success, with the overall standard of bowling improving yet again. A big thank you must be given 36 37
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