sport at uni's

[Jene]

so open days are all coming up for various uni's and i havent got a clue where to look at, course wise, probably nethin geog maths or chem! i could do nethin so it wont really narrow down my choices... but which are the best uni's for sport.. obv orienteering is sheffield and edinburgh...but what bout swimming, cycling or triathlon?? the uni websites dont seem to be much help...

[sgb]

Most university sports clubs will have their own websites, and a directory somewhere on the university's site. eg http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scug/clubs/all.shtml
http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/
http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/money/FinanceFiles/list.shtml
http://www.shef.ac.uk/usport/clubs.html
http://www.eusu.ed.ac.uk/clubs.html

The sports clubs' pages may or not be useful in themselves, but should have lists of committee members who you could contact for more information.

And I know it's heretical, but there's no reason to rule out a university's orienteering club just because it's smaller than ShUOC or EUOC. The more important factor is whether or not there's an orienteering club at all! Then just keep looking around universities, talking to students, and try to get a feel for the atmosphere.

[PeterG]

You could always look at the BUSA results for the sports you're interested in.

BUSA

[Guest]

i know that leeds are the best at cycling, we've won all 3 busa events so far. xc is between st mary's, birmingham, leeds and loughborough (going on this year's results, though loughborough women are much better than their men at present). as for the rest, like peter g said, just look it up on the busa website.

Supersaint

[Jene]

but cant that be affected, like if a uni has 3 or 4 really good ppl? or not...

dunno, was jus wonderin bout what people were actually dng rather than jus results...

does ne1 do nethin triathlon wise at sheffield? i was thinkin bout looking there for geog..but theres nuthin on the site..

[Scotia]

edinburgh is fun in running, cycling, swimming, and orienteering!
There always people about in running and orienteering club training almost everynight of the week and i know that my mate she swims a lot like 4 hours a day and said the club is good. Not sure about the cycling club but i think there is a good edinburgh cycling team which some of the injured runners have been cycling with.
... Edinburgh is the best
there is also a good pond on arthurs seat (AS is 10metres from the student halls) so you can swim in it, cycle round arthurs seat once then run round it

[HOCOLITE]

Jene
Don't rule out B'ham they have an O club and very good sports facilities a good Geog dept and sports bursaries.

[bolder]

From vague memory Bath uni has a 50m pool. Think members of the national swimming squad train there and probably some triathletes. Sheffield' s Ponds Forge has hosted national swimming champs. (channel 4s 'The games' had diving from there if you saw that) Am sure there's probably a pool in Edinburgh too.

http://www.bath.ac.uk/sports/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/stc/faq.htm
http://www.triathln.eusu.ed.ac.uk/
tinternet can be a wonderful tool

[helen]

bath has excellent sports facilities, i train there at the high performance athletics centre but the whole complex is amazing, really new with fantastic facilities. it has a high performance centre for triathlon,(http://www.teambath.com/sport/3_3_14.cfm) and i think in general bath is pretty good for all sports, its website is here

no o club tho...

[rob f]

the busa orienteering website needs updating

[J.Tullster]

Have a look at this

Sports clubs for your every need!

[Jene]

yea, buts its miles away.... from everywhere! least sheffields more or less central...

[J.Tullster]

Maybe, but with an active orienteering club, you're not going to have problems getting to events....and the rest of the time all you need to do is train!

[Guest]

I just won the sports president election at Aberdeen, so If you want an incredibly well funded orienteering club (not that large or successful though) then Aberdeen’s the way to go!!

[gg]

warwick has good swimming, triathlon and biking clubs, and next year will also have a new orienteering coach

list of sports clubs at
http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/portal/ ... ategory=59