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Hi guys! I’m Jack Legon, your new VP Student Activities. At my time in reading I have been on a JCR, have been a sports scholar, have regularly competed in BUCS, have been president of the kickboxing club and have been on several other committees also. So I know how you all feel!

This year I have a lot of plans to hopefully increase the experience for you all. With it being the Olympics coming up we are pushing a big Olympic initiative called ‘Be a Champion’ and we are looking for three student ambassadors to help run the scheme. However, this is not just about sport! Sport plays a big role in the Olympics but there is so much more to it, our three student ambassadors will fill the roles of sport, sustainability and arts and culture, so get in touch to find out more.

On top of this we are hosting a sport relief mile on the 25th March (keep ears peeled for more details) and we have the ‘give it a go’ scheme running again to open up all our clubs helping them to show what they have to offer! There’s also a cheeky £100 for every club that gets involved with that!

This is just a taste of the year, much more to unveil as the term progresses. Get in contact with me if you have any questions or ideas! Jack

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Jack LegonVP STUdenT ACTIVITIeS

email: vp.studentactivities@rusu.co.uk Phone: 0118 378 4136 Mobile: 0798 069 7088

I’m the Student Activities Manager and have worked at RUSU since May 2005. My main responsibilities are to manage the Activities team, the lovely bunch of people on this page with me and to look after the student media and volunteering. My other roles include monitoring all events run by clubs and setting the Activities budgets. Unless you get into trouble or you probably won’t need to see me much throughout the year. But if you can’t get hold of John, Jack or Trish I’m happy to help.

My role is to help support all clubs develop through coaching, funding and promoting events and fixtures.

I work with RU:On Sports TV show to try and get every club featured, whether it be matches, training or an interview so if you have a big event get in touch.

I also run the coaching in the community programme and we are looking for new coaches to help local primary school children.

Trish is our Finance guru who helps out all the clubs with petty cash claims, entering invoices for payments for such things as kits, equipment and coaching she also takes all clubs deposits

Trish is also very good at haggling with coach companies to gain the best price for clubs and has built up some good links with local companies so feel free to use her contacts and skills.

All of us are based in The Hub, RUSU.

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nigel is the new mascot for the Knights! Find him on Facebook if you have any questions and can’t get on to campus to see us. Just search for nigel Knight.

Nigel KnightOFFICIAL MASCOT

Adam BaileySTUdenT ACTIVITIeS MAnAGeR

John O’BrienSPORTS deVeLOPMenT COORdInATOR

Trish Tassell FInAnCe AdMInISTRATOR

The Reading University Knights or Knights for short is the brand new name of all the sports teams at the university and ushers in an exciting new era for sport at Reading.

Under the Reading Knights banner we are creating more pride around campus about the sporting success of our teams and increasing the media coverage on campus. We are also developing our events such as Varsity (which this year is against a stronger sporting university Oxford Brookes) and programmes we offer to make the University of Reading the best for sport.

We have set each club and teams targets to help

Reading achieve the aim of being a top 25 university in BUCS and regarded as the Best University for Sport in the South east. We are linking up with local sports clubs to improve the standard of coaching we receive. These include Reading Rockets Basketball club, Reading Hockey Club, Reading Wildcats Lacrosse Club and Redingensians Rugby Club.

We are also working with many more national

Governing bodies including england netball, england Squash and Racquetball, The Lawn Tennis Association, Berks and Bucks FA and The Rugby Football League amongst many others.

Throughout the year you will see brand new events and merchandise to develop the Knights brand. don’t forget to join our Facebook group ‘Reading University Knights’

What is BUCS?BUCS stands for BRITISH UnIVeRSITIeS And COLLeGeS SPORT and is the national body of student sport.

BUCS features around 146 universities and colleges which compete in 48 sports.

each university is awarded points on how well they do in their leagues, cups, regattas and individual championships with the majority of BUCS competitions being played on a Wednesday afternoon.

However, several events are on a weekend or based over a couple of days during the year including the BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships which this year is being held as the test event for the London 2012 Olympic stadium in east London.

How does it work?Where you finish in leagues, cups, individual competitions and the level that you are competing at depends on the number of points that Reading gain, for example our Men’s Rugby 1st team won the South eastern 1a league and received 26 points but our Men’s Squash 3rd team also won their league and received only 10 points as they were in the south eastern 3a League

The BUCS website also hosts a complete points breakdown for the past academic year.

Our aims for this year1. Top 25 finish

2. Achieve over 1000 points

3. Beat Portsmouth, who are currently ranked 1st in the South eastern Conference excluding London universities

You will be forever hearing the word BUCS around campus and from you fellow sports club members, so we thought we would give you a break down of what BUCS actually is.

MOST IMPROVed UnIVeRSITy In 2010

Reading’s history in BUCS

yeAR POSITIOn POInTS

2010/2011 31st 840

2009/2010 28th 965

2008/2009 44th 576.5

2007/2008 26th 862

2006/2007 27th 763

2005/2006 29th 237.5

2004/2005 31st 235.5

2003/2004 47th 146.5

2002/2003 25th 316

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LACROSSe Men’S

BASKeTBALL Men’S

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Reading Sports Competing In BUCS

Last year Reading slipped down to 31st from 28th in the BUCS tables. This was mainly due to a poor cup run. It wasn’t all doom and gloom, several teams excelled including the three new teams entered into BUCS.

Lacrosse Men’s 1st Team enjoyed a successful debut season finishing second in their league and gaining promotion plus reaching the Conference Cup final.

Squash Men’s 3rd Team went one better than Lacrosse by winning their league and setting up a grudge match this season with the Men’s 2nd Team.

Our best new team by far were the Riding Team who reached the national Championship final and narrowly finished 2nd but had the top rider in the country.

Some other success stories include the Rugby Union Club who dominated many matches by winning by over 50 points, the 1st Team is now in the BUCS Premier South B and are aiming on at least staying there. The 2nd and 3rd Teams only narrowly missed out on their well deserved promotions by the tricky tactics Portsmouth and Chichester Universities.

One club that turned things around were the Women’s Football Club, who were nonexistent at the end of the 2009/10 season. A great committee have led this club around and they now have two teams.

Review of the Year

But once again the best performance came from our Boat Club especially the women’s section who dominated at every BUCS event they competed in. The Club achieved so much that four crews were selected to represent Great Britain in the european University Games and I’m pleased to announce that all four came home with a medal. Keep watching Sports TV as they will be interviewing some of the medallists very soon.

Last year was good but let’s make this year great!

Review of the Year

SPORT POInTS POSITIOn

Boat 310 1st

Squash 69 2nd

Riding 55 3rd

Hockey Men’s 44 4th

Volleyball 43 5th

Rugby Union Men’s 41 6th

Cricket 35 7th

Golf Men’s 29 8th

Lacrosse Men’s 29 9th

Basketball Men’s 28 10th

Hockey Women’s 25 11th

Fencing Men’s 23 12th

Football Women’s 22 13th

Pool 21 14th

Tennis 21 15th

Football Men’s 17 16th

Badminton 16 17th

Rugby Union Women’s 11 18th

Netball 3 19th

Archery 2 20th

Athletics Boxing Canoe Clay Pigeon Jitsu Judo Korfball

0 21st

Total 844

SportS AwArdS BAll 2010

winnerSCLUB OF THe yeAR Squash

TeAM OF THe yeAR Lacrosse Men’s 1st

MALe SPORTS PeRSOnALITy OF THe yeAR nyall driscoll - Squash

FeMALe SPORTS PeRSOnALITy OF THe yeAR Lottie Burgess - Boat

COMMITTee MeMBeR OF THe yeAR david Creed - Korfball

CLUB MeMBeR OF THe yeAR Hans de Leeuw - Athletics

d.I.C.K. OF THe SeASOn Spud Roebuck - Athletics

MOST IMPROVed CLUB Football Women’s

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Fixtures WeeK COMMenCInG WedneSdAy 12TH OCTOBeR

WedneSdAy FIxTUReSTeAM OPPOSITIOn HOMe/AWAy TIMe VenUeBadminton M1Badminton M2Badminton W1Basketball M1Basketball M2Fencing M1Football M1Football M2Football M3Football M4 Greenwich Home SportsParkFootball M5 Regents College AwayFootball W1GolfHockey M1Hockey M2Hockey M3Hockey M4Hockey W1Hockey W2Hockey W3Lacrosse M1Lacrosse W1Netball W1Netball W2Netball W3Rugby League M1Rugby Union M1 Oxford Brooks M1 AwayRugby Union M2 London Arts M1 Home SportsParkRugby Union M3 Kingston M2 AwayRugby Union M4 SOAS M1 AwayRugby Union W1Squash M1Squash M2Squash M3Squash W1Tennis M1Tennis M2Tennis M3Tennis W1

SATURdAy FIxTUReSTeAM OPPOSITIOn HOMe/AWAy TIMe VenUeHockey M5 Witney 4 Home SportsParkHockey W4 Oxford Ladies 7s Away

SUndAy FIxTUReSTeAM OPPOSITIOn HOMe/AWAy TIMe VenUeAmerican FootballFutsalHockey Mixed University of Greenwich Mixed 1s AwayKorfballLacrosse Mixed

Fixtures WeeK COMMenCInG WedneSdAy 19TH OCTOBeR

WedneSdAy FIxTUReSTeAM OPPOSITIOn HOMe/AWAy TIMe VenUeBadminton M1 Chichester M1 AwayBadminton M2Badminton W1 Royal Holloway W1 Home SportsParkBasketball M1 Hertfordshire M1 AwayBasketball M2 Chichester M2 AwayFencing M1 Kent 1st AwayFootball M1 Chichester M1 AwayFootball M2 Surrey M2 Home SportsParkFootball M3 Bucks New 5th AwayFootball M4 West Thames SESSA AwayFootball M5 North West Kent College AwayFootball W1 Roehampton W1 Home SportsParkGolf Kingston 2nd AwayHockey M1 Brunel AwayHockey M2 Royal Holloway M1 AwayHockey M3 Brighton M2 HomeHockey M4 Portsmouth M4 HomeHockey W1 Royal Holloway W1 AwayHockey W2 Chichester W2 HomeHockey W3 Kings College W2 AwayLacrosse M1 Essex 1st AwayLacrosse W1Netball W1 Bucks New W1 HomeNetball W2 Chichester W3 HomeNetball W3 London South Bank W2 AwayRugby League M1Rugby Union M1 Cardiff Medics M1 HomeRugby Union M2 Kingston M1 AwayRugby Union M3 LSE M2 AwayRugby Union M4 LSE M3 AwayRugby Union W1Squash M1 Imperial 1st AwaySquash M2 Sussesx 1st AwaySquash M3 Royal Holloway, 1st HomeSquash W1 University of Kent 1st HomeTennis M1 Chichester 1st HomeTennis M2 Roehampton 2nd AwayTennis M3 Roehampton 3rd HomeTennis W1 Westminster 1st Home

SATURdAy FIxTUReSTeAM OPPOSITIOn HOMe/AWAy TIMe VenUeHockey M5 Aylesbury 4 AwayHockey W4 Bicester Ladies 3’s Home SportsPark

SUndAy FIxTUReSTeAM OPPOSITIOn HOMe/AWAy TIMe VenUeAmerican FootballFutsal Brighton 2nd and 3rd AwayHockey Mixed Writtle College Mixed Home SportsParkKorfballLacrosse Mixed

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SATURdAy 17TH MARCH

The biggest day in the university sporting calendar. After last year’s easy victory against Bucks new University (Reading won 13-5) this year’s event will be against a much stronger sporting university, Oxford Brookes.

Alumni Sports DaySATURdAy 4TH FeBRUARy

This is the big grudge match, The alumni return to challenge our current teams and compete for the Knights Cup. Last year the current students narrowly won but who will win this year?

Summer SocialsFOOTBALL 5’S, HOCKey 6’S & RUGBy 7’S

These events will be in June 2012 and provide a great end to the year.

Awards BallTHURSdAy 22nd MARCH

This is RUSU’s version of the BBC Sports Personality of the year with nine awards available from diabolical Idiot Causing Kaos (dICK) Of The year to the highly contested Club Of The year.

Sport Relief MileSUndAy 25TH MARCH

One of the biggest charity events of the year, a huge fund raiser for the local community and students alike. you can run a 1,3 or 6 mile course around the campus.

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WHAT IS THe OFFICIAL nATIOnAL SPORT OF BULGARIA? WeIGHTLIFTInGJL Hockey

JB Football

SG Athletics

HT Handball MD Wrestling

Questions

WHAT SPORT IS PLAyed By THe MILTOn KeyneS LIOnS? BASKeTBALLJL Rugby Union

JB Handball SG Basketball

HT Basketball

MD Hockey

WHAT WAS THe nAMe OF SPORTSPARK BeFORe IT BeCAMe SPORTSPARK? WOLFenden SPORTS CenTReJL The Sports Pavilion

JB Knights Kingdom

SG Madejski Sports Centre

HT Sports Hall

MD Wolfenden Sports Centre

WHAT IS THe FInAL THROWInG eVenT In THe deCATHLOn? JAVeLInJL Javelin

JB Welly

SG Javelin

HT Javelin

MD Discuss

WHAT SPORT’S GOVeRnInG BOdy IS CALLed THe LTA? TennISJL Tennis

JB Tennis

SG Tennis

HT Tennis

MD Tennis

WHAT POSITIOn dId ReAdInG FInISH In THe BUCS OVeRALL POInTS TABLe? 31ST

JL We were 28th in 2009/10 33rd

JB 31st

SG 26th

HT 26th

MD Discuss

On An ARCHeRy TARGeT WHAT COLOUR IS THe OUTeR RIGHT? WHITeJL White

JB Red

SG Red

HT Blue

MD White

WHAT FOUR enGLISH CLUBS HAVe WOn THe eUROPeAn CUP/CHAMPIOnS LeAGUe? ASTOn VILLA, nOTTS FOReST, MAn U, LIVeRPOOL (One POInT PeR TeAM)JL Chelsea, Man United, Everton, Arsenal JB Liverpool, Man United, Newcastle, Yeovil Town SG Man United, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Aston VillaHT Notts Forest, Man Utd, Liverpool, CelticMD Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal

WHeRe IS THe 2016 OLyMPICS BeInG HeLd? RIO, BRAzIL (One POInT eACH FOR CITy And COUnTRy)JL Paris, France

JB Rio, Brazil

SG Moscow, Russia

HT Rio, Brazil

MD Moscow, Russia

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