Â鶹´«Ã½ celebrates Top 10 national ranking for sport Published on: 1 August 2017 Another Top 10 BUCS ranking has cemented Â鶹´«Ã½ as one of the best universities for sport in the UK. Team Â鶹´«Ã½ finished the 2016/17 season with 2,223 points, placing it 10th amongst 160 Higher Education institutions in the country. The back-to-back Top 10 ranking means that Â鶹´«Ã½ has now finished in the top of the table in seven of the last 11 BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) seasons. Fraser Kennedy, Performance Sport Manager, Â鶹´«Ã½, said: “It's absolutely fantastic Â鶹´«Ã½ have finished within the top 10 for sport nationally for the second consecutive year. It is testament to all the hard work, commitment and effort our student athletes, professional coaches and support team have made to gain this outcome. This firmly puts Â鶹´«Ã½ up there with the very best in HE sport and is significant in terms of supporting the University with its reputation and profile.” Outstanding performances The Top 10 finish follows on a who helped establish the University as one of the in the country. At the beginning of the academic year, Team Â鶹´«Ã½ welcomed 121 student athletes representing 27 different sports. Â鶹´«Ã½ entered 81 teams into the traditional weekly BUCS Wednesday sports programme playing 899 fixtures, winning 429, drawing 50 and losing 420 giving a win rate ratio of 48%, with 15 teams winning their respective BUCS Leagues. Â鶹´«Ã½ had 13 Premier League teams for the 2016/17 season, the highest to date. The campaign saw outstanding performances by a range of teams, including the Rowing Club, Badminton, Squash, Football, Futsal, Golf, Netball, Lacrosse, Table Tennis, Tennis, Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, Water Polo, Fencing and others. Basketball men’s 1s continued their progress in National Basketball League (NBL) by being runners up in Division 2 and . This was the third consecutive promotion for the Knights, who now go in to the top league. Both the men and the women had successful BUCS premier league campaigns, consolidating their places for another season and finishing third and fifth respectively in the Super 8’s Championship Finals. Fielding three men and three women teams, was once again the University’s most successful Wednesday sport to gain the most BUCS points. All teams put in a significant effort to end up being fourth overall in BUCS. were ranked fourth overall in BUCS for 2016/17. The men won the Victor Ludorum (VL) at the BUCS 4’s and 8’s Head in February on the River Tyne and at the BUCS Regatta in May they gained a total of 16 medals (5 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze). The women nationally had their with the Senior coxless 4 and Academic 8 winning their respective races and the Senior 8 runners up. The men’s coxed four beat Imperial College London for the , breaking the event record by six seconds with a time of 6 minutes 48 seconds. The women’s 1st Volleyball team, competing in the Premiership League for only the second time, had a successful season finishing third in the league and finishing sixth overall in the country after qualifying for the BUCS National Super 8’s. They also for the very first time. The had their most successful season to date with the women finishing 3rd in the country and the men winning the national BUCS trophy and finishing 3rd overall in BUCS. Top 10Â鶹´«Ã½ finished 10th in the BUCS rankings Expert teaching at the cutting edge of the subjectProfessor Emma Stevenson (pictured left) with a student State–of-the-art sports facilitiesÂ鶹´«Ã½ student training Top sporting university Â鶹´«Ã½ is signalling its commitment to build on the success of its sports programme and to secure Â鶹´«Ã½’s place as one of the top sporting universities in the UK. The University announced it is investing over to boost its position among the top in the country. The university’s outstanding performances on the sports field will be backed by the new undergraduate degree programme. Led by , Professor of Sports and Exercise Science, the first intake of students will start the programme in September 2017. Earlier in the year, Â鶹´«Ã½ , Â鶹´«Ã½ Falcons. This three-year strategic collaboration will deliver mutual benefits in the fields of sport education, training and research, and includes a jointly-funded Â鶹´«Ã½ PhD studentship based with Falcons staff at Kingston Park Stadium. 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