I hope you have all had a great weekend watching football and rugby, but if you haven’t done anything yourself then go for a run now, basically.

Sport is building its profile across campus with lots of events going on. The Mars Just Play Football Tournament organized by BUCS went really well today and offered lots of football fans the chance for a kick around. Our BUCS teams are also doing really well, from swimming coming the highest they have ever done in BUCS Long Course and the Girls Rowing team Gold in the IV and Silver in the VIII at BUCS Head today. We are currently 17^th in the League tables, which is the highest Warwick has ever finished. Last year we finished 21^st so let’s push for 16^th and get out and support our friends when we can!

Here are some clips from recent games by Warwick TV and the E&Y One To Watch, both smashing victories.

Men’s Hockey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCN9TK2AUWA

Lacrosse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyuvzD4f3Ek

Our One World Week Sport Inspire programme is coming along nicely with some wheelchair basketball and tennis to look forward to as well as some tournaments being prepared to get yourselves involved in! Watch this space for more information!!

LOCOG have awarded Warwick SU another ‘Inspired by London 2012 logo’ for it’s application for the Warwick Sport Volunteer Programme. This is great and means that all the work that our fantastic sports clubs do in the community has been recognized as really worthwhile and inspired by the values of London 2012.

Over the next few weeks Jill, one of our Olympic Ambassadors and I will be working with Warwick Volunteers to set up a website so you guys can see all the great stuff that our clubs get up to in the community and how they do it plus how to get involved!

This Wednesday our Motorsports club is out racing against Coventry for 6 Varsity points, so watch out for what that does to the scoreline here: www.warwicksu.com/varsity and best of luck to them! You can also buy your tickets for the Basketball and Netball Matches online…

Check out what our teams have been up to to prepare for Warwick’s big comeback next Monday… TEAM WARWICK!!

Netball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xuY4BDvwas&feature=youtu.be

Basketball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GNoDzxPkA0

There are lots of opportunities to get active, fit and involved in sport, so if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch @ Chris.Sury@warwicksu.com

I hope you are all looking forward to some exciting campaigns for Sports officer candidates, let’s see what they are bringing!

Now… Let’s see if when I press post the writing is as big as last time!

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Varsity Games 2012 begins tomorrow with Ice Hockey and I for one am very excited. Tickets have been selling so quickly so get on with it and get yours!

The Ice Hockey game is always fast and one of the highlights of the Varsity series. The lads have been working hard on the ice to bring back the trophy to Warwick. Good luck to Matti Konsala and the team!

This year's Winter Varsity also includes the UK's first ever Snow Varsity, Warwick Snow will be competing at Swadlincote against our Coventry rivals. There will be races and freestyle categories and it promises to be very close and enjoyable.

Buy tickets for these events at http://www.warwicksu.com/varsity/

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Our Students’ Union has been granted Bronze Accreditation for its efforts in creating an environment for Games inspired activity to prosper. Take a look at the article here: http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/news/article/uniondevelopment/3047/

We were awarded for our efforts in widening participation for events such as the Sports Fair and Sports Fest and of course the fact that the Official London 2012 Torch came to campus. We are also working on a community project which will aim to have the inspire mark on so that our Union can be silver and  Gold accredited in no time. Few Unions have been awarded the accreditation from NUS so we should be proud to get this far! Tom Ridings and Jill Hocking have been key to setting up this project so a big shout out to them for lots of hard work.

Remember it is never too late to get involved at Sport in Warwick. Try Classical Modern Dance (classes for beginners to advanced and ranging in styles), Mixed Netball or even Octopush (underwater hockey!)

This weekend sees the Right To Play and One World Week Sport charity five-aside tournament, which will be exciting! Best of luck to all those playing and raise lots of money for charity, Right to Play is a great cause.  I find this video really inspirational and it is a great way to understand the fantastic work Right To Play does and the Ambassador Team here at Warwick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ZLAkHnMTQ&feature=related

The E & Y One To Watch This week was Men’s Volleyball 1’s vs Loughborough 1’s  in a smashing 3 – 1 victory, look out for their great win recorded by Warwick TV on the website soon. 

Our Sports Teams are doing great this season and Warwick is currently 16^th overall in the table http://www.bucs.org.uk/bucscore/BUCSPoints.aspx

- Our highest ever position is 17^th and last year we came 21^st. This year is going to be our highest yet! Keep following the teams and keep training hard!

As always let me know if you would like to chat about anything. Give me an email at sports@warwicksu.com or just pop up to my office in SUHQ

REMEMBER ‘like’ Warwick Sport on facebook

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Ah reading week, I definitely cannot believe that we are already half way through term 1! This term has been so busy, with some great sporting events on campus.

The Olympic Torch visit was a huge success! Thanks so much to all the Clubs and Societies that got involved with the Official London 2012 torch visit to campus. It was unfortunate that not everyone got to see and hold the torch, the crowds were strong! And I’m  sorry to those of you that were disappointed. The performances were outstanding and made the carnival at the end the highlight of the day and a great way to send the torch off as its journey continues. The event showed just how close the sporting community is at Warwick with Hockey and Athletics completing the 2012 minute run, Swimming’s 2012 lengths in an hour and Football’s 2012 kick ups. Congratulations to everyone that took part… You can see some of the photos on here http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tinyman#!/warwicksport

• Make sure you “like” Warwick Sport on facebook because there is a pretty good prize for 2000^th person!

Warwick’s SportsFest was a massive success with 8 Universities coming down to the Floorball competition and Warwick Athletics opening up their Brose Relays and a great track event.

This is clearly the year for sport, so many of you are getting involved in one of the 73 sports clubs, it is so great to see! Keep up the commitment because the Warwick Sport lifestyle will definitely make your years here at Warwick. Hopefully the Festival of Sport in the first two weeks of term gave you a taste of the different sports on offer at Warwick, but if you haven’t got involved already then it is never too late to join a club or get involved in inter mural sports. The E & Y Football and Netball Leagues also have record breaking amounts of teams getting involved in them, if you want to form a team but haven’t yet then just give me an email at Chris.Sury@warwicksu.com

Clubs make sure you apply to The E & Y One To Watch here: http://www.warwicksu.com/sports/onetowatch/ This is an opportunity for everyone to be kept in the loop with your clubs progress and highlight all the achievements you have made within the week. This week it is netball 1sts, their video will be released soon with an amazing victory of 58 – 19 to Warwick against De Montfort! Not bad! Warwick 1sts Rugby Union also made history by beating Loughborough for the first time ever.

Look out for nutritional advice supplied with the help of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Lucozade here: http://www.warwicksu.com/sports/breakfastclub/ Clubs make sure you apply to have a sponsored breakfast one Monday morning, they will set you up for the week!

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Hi!!

What a summer it has been, literally flown by. With less than a month till everyone's back now the atmosphere around here is quite exciting. I am definitley looking forward to having some people back in the bubble, although don't worry I have made some friends.

Plans for the Sports Fair are looking strong. With 73 Sports Clubs under one roof at the sports centre on the 4th October 10:30-17:30. You can choose anything from Football to Jitsu or Trampolining to Gliding. We have the opportunities for you to take up a new hobby or continue with an existing one... Play competitive sport, or at a more recreational level. Look out for the E&Y (Ernst & Young) Leagues in my next blog… These will include opportunities to play sports such as Football, Netball and Cricket with hall and class mates.For now, check out this event on facebook!

There is also a great opportunity for you guys to get involved in the organisation of some of Warwick's most exciting events on campus including VARSITY and SPORTS BALL, as well as represent your discipline on the SPORTS COMMITTEE. This committee is a lot of fun and a great way to get to know the ins and outs of Sport at Warwick! Check out this: http://www.warwicksu.com/sports/committee/ The Sports Committee Chair, Oliver James, and I would really like to encourage as many of you as possible to apply to the committee - They are democratically elected positions and voting will be done at Sports Council on the 3^rd of October.

In other words, I am genuinely biting my lip not to spill the juice, but we have some very exciting news to do with the OLYMPICS and WARWICK CAMPUS. I have been working with the Olympics Ambassador for Warwick; a good lad called Tom Ridings, and let's just say we have something arriving on the 19th October THIS YEAR. *** PoP! Might be big in week 3!!!***

I'm looking forward to updating you again soon with more news. Of course I have tried to have some sort of a life as well. Creamfields was definitely the highlight of summer!

Please come and chat to me about anything whenever you can about your clubs plans for the year, I would be really interested to know! If you bring presents you can jump the queue… I am particularly partial to the strawberry flavoured goodness shakes.

Best,
Chris

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