BUSA Annual Review 2005

ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6
ANNUAL REVIEW 2005-6
Premier League – In the North there was a
close battle between the eventual winners
Loughborough and Birmingham who were
both a long way ahead of the third placed
team. In the south Bath dominated winning
comfortably.
CHAMPIONSHIP
26 March 2006, Indoor Finals, EIS-
Sheffield
Semi-Finals
In the Semi-Finals Loughborough beat
Strathclyde 7-1 and Bath beat Birmingham
by the same score.
Final
In an exciting Final Bath completed
a notable double when they defeated
Loughborough on sets on sets after the
match score finished at 4-4. The player of
the tournament was Philippa Kirby of Bath
who pushed her higher ranked opponent
Caroline Smith from Loughborough all the
way eventually losing a close 3 setter 11-9
in the third which gave Bath the additional
set they needed to win the title.
TROPHY
The knockout section of this event
provided some of the closest matches in
the entire Championship.
Semi-Finals
In the Semi’s Swansea beat Reading 6-2,
whilst Newcastle and Lancaster had an
exciting 4-4 draw with Newcastle winning
narrowly on sets.
Final
25 March 2006, Indoor Finals, EIS-
Sheffield
The Final was also close but Swansea
gained the vital match to beat Newcastle
5-3.
SHIELD
Semi-Finals
In the semis Manchester beat Leeds Met
6-2, and Bedford De Montford overcame
Warwick by the same score.
Final
25 March 2006, Indoor Finals, EIS-
Sheffield
In the final Manchester were denied their
opportunity to take part in their first Indoor
Finals for a long time when disappointingly
Bedford withdrew and conceded.
ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES v BRITISH
POLICE
22 March 2006, University of Birmingham
British Police is one of the strongest
service based teams in the UK and
again gave English Universities a good
run out, witnessed by the number of
doubles matches which went to three.
Sheffield EIS
However, the Universities were dominant
in the Men’s Singles and Mixed Doubles
especially and won out eventually at 12-3.
For this representative fixture BUSA was
very grateful to Dave Eddy for managing
the teams.
OTHER NEWS
During the year Elliot Stuart unfortunately
had to step down from his role as GB team
coach and also from the management
group – on behalf of everyone we would
like to thank him for his valued contribution
over several years to student Badminton.
For reports on the British University Games
Badminton competition please see the
British Universities Games section.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BUSA is indebted to the Badminton
Association of England for its support in
sending a team to the World University
Championships in 2006, and to the
Umpires Association for supplying an
official into this arena too.
BASKETBALL
With 240 Men’s and Women’s teams
competing in all competitions on
Wednesday afternoons and evenings,
basketball continues to be one of the most
competitive team sports on the BUSA
calendar. With Melbourne 2006 including
Basketball, and London 2012 beckoning,
the interest and development of the sport
at University level is at an all time high.
MEN
Premier League - A high level of
competition both in the North and South.
In the Men’s competition Worcester
dominated the North winning all their
matches, is this the start of a new
dynasty Loughborough came second with
three losses. In the south Middlesex with
Basketball Final 8’s
2 defeats pipped Brunel who had 3 losses.
The next three teams all lost 5 in a very
tight division.
WOMEN
Premier League - Loughborough
tied with Northumbria in the north with
one defeat each. The decision going to
Loughborough on points difference. UWIC
dominated the Women’s Southern Premier
league winning all of their league matches.
Kings and Sussex finished second and third
on 3 losses each.
Final 8’s
CHAMPIONSHIP
10 –12 March 2006, EIS, Sheffield
In the men’s Worcester became
Champions for the second year, when
they defeated the surprise package of the
tournament London Met in the final. Highly
fancied Loughborough were third with
Birmingham in 4 th place.
Loughborough women went one step
further this year and won in the final
overcoming Northumbria in an all north
match. Last years Champions Sheffield
Hallam secured third place with a win over
Wolverhampton.
TROPHY
11 March 2006, EIS, Sheffield
Manchester won the Men’s Trophy
defeating Hertfordshire in the Final and
Cambridge Women defeated Cardiff in the
Women’s Trophy.
SHIELD
11 March 2006, EIS, Sheffield
London South Bank and Sheffield took the
respective Men’s and Women’s shields
from Nottingham Trent and St Mary’s.
For reports on the British University Games
Basketball competition please see the
British Universities Games section.
Boxing
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
10-11 December 2005, Talybont Sports
Center, Cardiff
There was a record entry of 135 but due
to travel and accommodation difficulties,
including an appearance of Oasis, the final
number of boxers weighing in was 64.
All weights from Featherweight (57Kg)
through to Super-heavyweight (91+ Kg)
were contested at Student Level (less than
10 previous bouts). Four weights at 60kg,
69kg, 75kg and 90kg were contested in the
Open Category.
There were 42 Student bouts and 5 Open
class bouts. At Student level in the Light
Heavyweight and Middleweights there
were preliminary bouts to the Quarter
Final stages with Semi-Final bout at
Open class welterweight (69Kg) and light
Welterweight (64kg).
There was a very wide scatter of 12 Gold
Medals with only Oxford and Kingston
collecting two each. Joseph Hilton being
the only representative from the home
institution put on a class performance to
take gold at Heavyweight (90kg).
The Standard of boxing was very good,
particularly in the Open Class and the
standards of boxing in all divisions are
improving year on year.
The organisation and facilities provided
by Cardiff University, considering it was
their first boxing championships, has
to be commended on both in terms of
organisation and facilities over the whole
event.
The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association
are to be commended on their refereeing
and judging, although it has to be said that
they were somewhat overwhelmed by
both the quality and quantity of the boxing
on show. This was particularly the case
with the Women students.
SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY SPORTS
(SUS BOXING)
As is usual the Scottish Universities
Boxing Championships was held at
Glasgow University during the second
weekend of February 2006 and on this
occasion we had the use of the Great
Debating Chamber of the Students Union.
There were 36 entrants weighed in
including every weight from Featherweight
(57kg) to Superheavyweight (91kg) plus 6
Women’s entries. The Championships were
held over a single day with two Finals at
Lightwelterweights and Middleweight
being boxed off at a local show. This option
was only available due to an unusual
uniformity in numbers of entrants at each
weight.
BRITISH & IRISH UNIVERSITIES &
HOSPITAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
These Championships had to be transferred
from Coventry to Dublin at the last minute.
The Irish Amateur Boxing Association
allowed us the use of the National Stadium
in Dublin.
The Four Nations were fully represented
at all weights from Featherweight (57kg)
to Superheavyweight (91+kg) including
for the first time a full team from the
Jordanstown campus of the University
of Ulster. The open class of more than 14
bouts was at the top end in the European
Championship standards.
OTHER NEWS
Over the year both in England and Scotland
there were a number of Inter – Varsity
shows organised by various institutions. In
both countries combined training courses
were held.
In Scotland the Universities took up
the option of attending official ABS ltd.
coaching courses and a special course for
female boxers.
CANOE
WHITE WATER RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
19-20 November 2005, River Washburn,
North Yorkshire
The weekend of the 19/20 November the
River Washburn played host to the annual
BUSA White Water Racing Championships
for the second time. The event, one of
the four big annual student competitions,
the first of the three BUSA recognised
events, saw over 200 competitors from 17
universities competing in nine events.
Despite a bitterly cold start, Saturday
witnessed a packed day of competitive
racing, pure determination, swims and
broken boats in the Men’s and Women’s
K1, C1 and C2 classes. The race requires
top-speed paddling down the River
Washburn, as well as manoeuvring around
numerous rocks, trees and rapids, and
shooting several weirs! Completion of the
course is no mean feat - the largest weir,
a huge drop followed by a large wave,
ended many competitors' races as they
swam from their kayaks and were unable
to continue.
Sunday started early with the Open event
and the fiercely contested ‘head to head’
Duo races. The team events followed
before some frantic calculation of results
and prize giving. After their narrow defeat
last year, Loughborough put in a strong all
round performance to top the points table
and take medals in a number of classes.
For a report on the World University
Championships please see the International
section.
CANOE POLO
21-23 April 2006, Hatfield Water Park,
Doncaster
In the Open event defending Champions
Nottingham retained their title over
Loughborough. Warwick took the bronze
beating UWE.
In the Ladies event London also retained
their title beating Durham. Newcastle
picked up bronze over Birmingham.
CANOE SLALOM
18-19 February 2006, Teesside
The K1 Men’s event was won by
Loughborough University’s Andy Hadfield,
silver and bronze positions went to
Nottingham students Rob Neave and David
Backhouse.
In the K1 Women’s category, Lizzie Neave
of Loughborough was first, with Heather
Corrie (Loughborough) and Rebecca Shea
(Teesside) second and third respectively.
The C1 class saw Marvin Rounce
(Nottingham Trent), coming in ahead of
Toby Scott (Nottingham) and Alexandre
Lismonde (Edinburgh).
Nottingham’s Fraser Florence and David
Backhouse went on to take the title in the
C2 event.
A points system devised to reward
success and participation placed
Loughborough as Overall University
Champions followed by Nottingham and
Durham.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks must go to:
Birmingham University Kayak Club for
organising the event
(http://www.bukc.org.uk )
Desperate Measures
(http://www.desperate-measures.co.uk )
Grimsby and Cleethorpes District Scouts
Catering Team
The Washburn Committee (http://www.
bcu.org.uk/yorkshire/washburn.htm)
The GB Wild Water Racing Committee
(http://www.wildwater.org.uk)
BUSA would like to take this opportunity
to thank the Friends of Durham University
Canoe Club, in particular Chris Lomas, who
ran an exemplary Championships on the
Association’s behalf.
CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING
CHAMPIONSHIP
25 February 2006, West Midlands
Shooting Ground, Hodnet, Shropshire.
A record 243 competitors descended
on the beautiful setting of the West
Midlands Shooting Ground for the 2006
Championships. This year saw the
continuation of two courses being offered
to cater for both novice and experienced
competitors including the numerous guests
in the Graduate category.
After the morning mist had cleared the
competitors set out onto the course and
headed for their favoured starting points.
The Men’s Team Championship saw a
new line up of Medallists this year with
Hull taking gold with 211 points followed
closely by Reading on 210 ahead of RAC
on 205.
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