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Performance Sport and Scholarships
As a University of Nottingham scholar, I am provided with lifestyle support and sport psychology, as well as nutrition if I need it. The University’ s strength and conditioning programme has helped me a lot, whilst the University’s funding has helped me participate in tournaments which have been helpful to keep my ranking up, enabling me to qualify for the Olympic Games in 2021.
Tin-Tin Ho
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BSc Medicine, UoN Sport Scholar, Team GB 2021
Achieve your sporting goals
We pride ourselves in the investment we make in our elite athletes to help them
and conditioning, physiotherapy and performance lifestyle advice.
Scholarships
three levels of sports scholarships worth up to £12,000 and include bespoke para-sports scholarships. Coordinated by our scholarship team, our packages include
mentoring and UoN Sport and Fitness Membership. Sports scholars also access specialist strength and conditioning training in our High Performance Zone and physiotherapy within our in-house Sports Injury Clinic, both based in the David Ross Sports Village.
to attain the TASS Dual Career Accreditation, your academic success is a key priority for us – our performance lifestyle advisors work closely with students and academic tutors to support our scholarship athletes.
slots and 1-2-1 sessions with coaches all ensure you can balance your course requirements and needs of your sport.
World-class coaching
Our coaches are recruited from amongst the best in the world. Our team includes former Welsh No. 1 and former Commonwealth Games athlete, Martyn Lewis (Badminton), London 2012 Olympian Kelly Sibley (Table Tennis), and former England Senior Hockey International Matt Taylor (Women ’ s Hockey). In 2019-20, we secured 27 gold, 22 silver and 19 bronze medals won across individual sports (with a number that did not get to compete due to COVID-19). This meant that we were on a trajectory to the strongest individual medal haul in our history. At team level, 34 of our teams won their leagues, including Ladies Hockey who won the national league. At the time the season was curtailed, we
Sporting history
The University of Nottingham has a rich
John Dudderidge in 1936 to fellow canoe star David Florence, silver medallist at Rio 2016. We were the most successful University at London 2012 and our alumni have won multiple Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medals.
Pick up a copy of our Performance Sports Guide for more information.
