British Universities and Colleges Sport

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British Universities & Colleges Sport
BUCS
British Universities and Colleges Sport logo.png
Sport University Sport in the United Kingdom
Formation date 2008
Location 20–24 King's Bench Street
London
SE1 0QX
United Kingdom
President John Inverdale
Chairman Ed Smith
Chief Exec Karen Rothery
Replaced
  • British Universities Sports Association (BUSA)
  • University College Sport (UCS)
Official website
www.bucs.org.uk
United Kingdom

British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the governing body for university sport in the United Kingdom. BUCS was formed in June 2008 following a merger of the British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) and University College Sport (UCS) organisations.[1] BUCS is responsible for organising 50 inter-university sports within the UK and representative teams for the World University Championships and the World University Games.

BUCS is a membership organisation for 157 universities and colleges in the UK. It coordinates competitions and leagues for the 2.3 million students attending university. In the 2009/10 season over 4000 teams will compete in 16 league sports. University sports clubs can affiliate to BUCS through their Athletic Union or students' union when no separate AU exists. BUCS has the biggest sporting programme in Europe.

BUCS organises a national championships event called the BUCS Championships. This is hosted by Sheffield until March 2010. In 2009 over 5,500 student athletes competed in 24 sports over five days across 14 venues. More at http://www.thebucschampionships.co.uk

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BUSA, one of BUCS's predecessor organisations, was founded in 1994, one of its co-founders was Alun Evans.

Contents

[edit] BUCS sports

[edit] Sponsors

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BUCS currently has various sponsors across the organisation; Nike was announced as the Official Teamwear Supplier to BUCS in May 2008. Nike and BUCS offer BUCS members discounted team kits and equipment [3] PricewaterhouseCoopers has sponsored BUCS since 1999. This season (2009-10) PricewaterhouseCoopers are title sponsors to the Hockey and Rowing BUCS programmes. [4]. BUCS also has other sponsorship deals with Barclays, Lucozade Sports Drinks, Kukri Sports and Molten Sport. [2]

[edit] BUCS Overall Championship

BUCS awards points in all its competitions towards the 'BUCS Overall Championship' - a ranking of member universities' sporting achievements. In recent years the top three positions have been Loughborough, Bath and Birmingham, with the rest of the top 10 generally constituting other "red-brick" universities and institutes with strong sports departments.

2008-9 (BUCS)[5]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Leeds Met Carnegie
  4. Birmingham
  5. Edinburgh
  6. Durham
  7. Nottingham
  8. Oxford
  9. Cambridge
  10. Newcastle
2007-8 (BUSA)[6]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Birmingham
  4. Durham
  5. Edinburgh
  6. Nottingham
  7. Leeds Met Carnegie
  8. Manchester
  9. Oxford
  10. Newcastle
2006-7 (BUSA)[7]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Birmingham
  4. Edinburgh
  5. Nottingham
  6. Durham
  7. UWIC
  8. Oxford
  9. Newcastle
  10. Exeter
2005-6 (BUSA)[8]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Birmingham
  4. Oxford
  5. Edinburgh
  6. UWIC
  7. Nottingham
  8. Durham
  9. Cambridge
  10. Manchester
2004-5 (BUSA)[9]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Birmingham
  4. UWIC
  5. Durham
  6. Cambridge
  7. Nottingham
  8. Oxford
  9. Edinburgh
  10. Northumbria
2003-4 (BUSA)[10]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Birmingham
  4. Nottingham
  5. Cambridge
  6. Exeter
  7. UWIC
  8. Edinburgh
  9. Oxford
  10. Durham
2002-3 (BUSA)[11]
  1. Loughborough
  2. Bath
  3. Birmingham
  4. UWIC
  5. Durham
  6. Nottingham
  7. Cambridge
  8. Edinburgh
  9. Oxford
  10. Exeter

[edit] History of student sport administration in the UK

Diagram of administration history of student sport in the UK
  • British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) (1994-2008)
    • British Colleges Sports Association (BCSA) (?-1994)
    • British Polytechnic Sports Association (BPSA) (?-1994)
    • British Universities Sports Federation (BUSF) (1962-1994)
      • Inter-Varsity Athletic Board (1953-1962)
    • The Universities Athletic Union (UAU) (1930-1994)
      • Women's Inter Varsity Athletic Board (WIVAB) (1923-1979)
      • Inter Varsity Athletics Board of England and Wales (1919-1930)
  • University College Sport (UCS) (2000-2008)
    • British Universities and Colleges Physical Education Association (BUCPEA) (1993-2000)
      • British Universities Physical Education Association (BUPEA) (1972-1993)
        • Universities Physical Education Association (UPEA) (1960-1972)
      • Association of Polytechnic Physical Education Lecturers (APPEL) (?-1993)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Renaming
  2. ^ a b http://www.busa.org.uk/page.asp?section=00010001000200030005&itemTitle=Sponsors
  3. ^ http://www.justsport-group.com/shop.bucs.com/index.html
  4. ^ http://www.bucs.org.uk/news.asp?itemid=4050&itemTitle=BUCS+announce+new+partnership+with+PricewaterhouseCoopers&section=8&sectionTitle=News+from+BUCS
  5. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2008 - 2009". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14688&sectionTitle=BUCS+overall+points+league+table. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 
  6. ^ "BUSA Overall Championship Points for 2007 - 2008". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=10549&sectionTitle=2007-2008. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  7. ^ "BUSA Overall Championship Points for 2006 - 2007". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=13706&sectionTitle=2006-2007. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  8. ^ "BUSA Overall Championship Points for 2005 - 2006". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=11165&sectionTitle=2005-2006. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  9. ^ "BUSA Overall Championship Points for 2004 - 2005". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14780&sectionTitle=2004-2005. Retrieved 2009-04-01. 
  10. ^ "BUSA Overall Championship Points for 2003 - 2004". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14820&sectionTitle=2003-2004. Retrieved 2009-04-01. 
  11. ^ "BUSA Overall Championship Points for 2002 - 2003". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14821&sectionTitle=2002-2003. Retrieved 2009-04-01. 

[edit] External links

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