British Universities and Colleges Sport

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British Universities & Colleges Sport
BUCS
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
Flag of the United Kingdom

British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the governing body for university-level sports 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 inter-university sports within the UK and representative teams for the World University Championships and the World University Games. Apart from a couple of Oxbridge events, British university sport is generally not followed by the general public, so the BUCS Championships tend to have a much lower profile in the British sporting scene than, for example, the NCAA has in the United States, although the organisation is trying to change this.

BUCS is responsible for governing all British university sport at national and international level including the World University Games. BUCS coordinates around 1.2 million students who compete in 3200 teams and 503 leagues of all kinds of sports across Britain. 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, with 503 participating leagues.[2] During the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing Team GBR returned with 10 medals including four gold medals.

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

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[edit] BUCS sports

[edit] Sponsors

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BUCS currently has three main sponsors; Vodafone was announced as the title sponsor of BUCS at the start of the 2006-7 academic year. Vodafone and BUCS now offer a graduate recruitment partnership whereby graduates are placed on the graduate training scheme at Vodafone [3] The Daily Telegraph newspaper has sponsored BUCS since 1998, they publish regular reports about BUCS events in both The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph [4]. PriceWaterhouseCoopers has been sponsoring BUSA since 1999. BUCS also has other sponsorship deals with Barclays and Lucozade Sports Drinks. [2] In May 2008 there BUCS agreed a deal with Nike to provide kit for its teams [5]

[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)
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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.busa.org.uk/page.asp?section=000100010002000300050006&itemTitle=Vodafone
  4. ^ http://www.busa.org.uk/page.asp?section=000100010002000300050002&itemTitle=The+Daily+Telegraph
  5. ^ Kit Deal
  6. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2007 - 2008". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=10549&sectionTitle=2007-2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 
  7. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2006 - 2007". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=13706&sectionTitle=2006-2007. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 
  8. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2005 - 2006". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=11165&sectionTitle=2005-2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 
  9. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2004 - 2005". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14780&sectionTitle=2004-2005. Retrieved on 2009-04-01. 
  10. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2003 - 2004". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14820&sectionTitle=2003-2004. Retrieved on 2009-04-01. 
  11. ^ "BUCS Overall Championship Points for 2002 - 2003". BUCS. http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=14821&sectionTitle=2002-2003. Retrieved on 2009-04-01. 

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