GOOD UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2019 SPORTS UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR
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Sports University of the Year 2019*
3,574
voluntary hours delivered by our sports leaders
2nd place in British Universities and Colleges Sport overall rankings
7
Major Industry Awards
2 million footfall across our facilities
29%
of our sport and fitness members are from an ethnic minority background
*Awarded by the Times Good University Guide
Over
25,000
students active on campus
A record-breaking year for sport at Nottingham One hundred years ago, the University of Nottingham was one of nine founders of the University sports leagues, the institution we now know as British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS).
We simply couldn’t achieve all of this without the drive of our students, staff and alumni as well as the key stakeholders who support our work.
In this historic centenary year, it’s especially fitting that University of Nottingham Sport have achieved record performances and figures across the board and were announced as the Times Good University Guide’s Sports University of the Year 2019.
University of Nottingham Sport is a partnership between the University of Nottingham and University of Nottingham Students’ Union, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank both for their continued support and investment.
Sport is a huge part of life here at the University of Nottingham and we believe everyone should have the chance to be active during their studies through our holistic model of delivery. With the right support, outstanding facilities and world-class coaching, we want to enable every student to be the best they can be. Our performance athletes and teams have broken record after record with an outstanding year of results. Our students have won more league titles, more cup medals and more individual golds than ever before. University of Nottingham finished second in the BUCS rankings – our highest ever finish. Nottingham remain the sector leaders for participation and workforce programmes, winning multiple industry awards and overall supporting over 25,000 students to stay active here on our campus. Our inclusive offer continues to expand with £22,000 of additional funding for innovative mental health programmes secured this year. In our community, our sports leaders have delivered a record number of inspirational sessions to local schoolchildren. Continued investment in all our facilities, including a brand-new Health and Wellbeing Suite at the David Ross Sports Village this year, provides an unrivalled offer to our UoN sport and fitness members. We've grown our membership base to over 16,000, our highest figure ever, and have welcomed over 2 million visitors through our doors.
Our alumni have been a critical force in our successes, and we’re delighted to be working with more of our graduates than ever before. The inspirational David Ross Sports Village, supported generously by alumnus David Ross, continues to have a transformational impact on all the programmes we deliver.
We also work with a huge range of partners from the sporting, community and commercial sector to enrich the offer for our students, from National Governing Bodies of Sport to global charities such as Laureus. A thank you to all these organisations and we look forward to continuing to build these relationships. Our Vision for Sport 2014-20 is now coming to a close and we’re incredibly proud of all we’ve achieved to deliver a truly holistic model with depth and breadth across all our activities. Next year will see the launch of a new University strategy and thus our new vision for sport, physical activity and wellbeing, so the year ahead will be incredibly exciting. The changing expectations of our students makes it critical we continue to drive improvements and seek innovation in our approach. If you’d like to find out more about the work we do and how you can get involved, please contact us on sport@nottingham.ac.uk.
Dan Tilley Director of Sport
Millie Doherty Students’ Union Sports Officer
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Promoting health and wellbeing Over 25,000 University of Nottingham students take part in physical activity during their studies as part of University of Nottingham Sport programmes, representing over 70% of the total student population. We were delighted that this impressive engagement was recognised by StudentsHalls.com who named us the ‘UK’s Healthiest Campus’ and BUCS, who presented us with their 2019 Physical Activity Excellence Award. Supported by our extensive health and fitness facilities, we now have the highest number of sport and fitness members in the Higher Education sector, breaking the 16,000 mark for the first time this year. For these members, we offer an unrivalled package and are continually innovating and expanding our programmes to meet demand.
Almost 1,000 of our sport and fitness members are University staff and we welcomed over 650 participants to our staff sports sessions and events last year, an increase of over 110%. A free 30-day trial for all new joiners and an offer to bring your kids for free in the University holidays has helped make our health and wellbeing offer even more accessible. We also continue to provide expertise and support for staff health and wellbeing initiatives within their departments, for example the Juice programme within the School of Engineering, which received over 1,000 class bookings in the last academic year. Our Sports Injury Clinic client base continues to expand, with the state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool popular with patients seeking the best in rehabilitation facilities. A new NHS contract this year has brought new members of the local community onto campus for treatment. In April, the Sports Injury Clinic opened the first ever Concussion Clinic to be based at a UK university. Assistant Professor in Sports and Exercise Medicine at the University of Nottingham, Dr Mary O’Hanlon, leads the weekly clinic which supports patients to return to daily and sporting activities following a concussion incident.
Delivery has increased across all programmes, with 4,000 more climbing sessions completed and 8,000 more attendances at group exercise classes. We continue to invest in the latest technology; for example, we’ve added a Boditrax machine to our David Ross Sports Village fitness suite, which boasts state-of-the-art body scanning technology. A brand-new Health and Wellbeing Suite, opened in May 2019 at the David Ross Sports Village, offers members a space to unwind with a sauna, steam room and experiential showers. At our Highfields sports complex, the addition of four new beach volleyball courts means the University is now unrivalled for indoor and outdoor volleyball training facilities in the UK.
UK’s Healthiest Campus (StudentHalls.com)
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BUCS Physical Activity Excellence Award
Over
92,500
337,000
16,000
group exercise class workouts completed
hours of activity booked across our facilities
UoN sport and fitness members
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Delivering an outstanding student sporting experience
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3,000 BUCS Participation students taking part Programme of the Year in intramural sport competitions
Complementing our outstanding health and wellbeing offer, University of Nottingham Sport and our sports clubs deliver a tailored range of activities to engage our students and support them to stay active. The success of these programmes, which reach thousands every year, was recognised by BUCS who awarded us with their Participation Programme of the Year award in 2019. Our Engage programme, which offers drop in sessions for beginner and social players, continued to grow in 2018/19 with over 5,000 attendances at sessions, a 13% increase on the previous year. Delivered by a network of Engage champions supported by fellow student ambassadors, the programme is a fantastic example of peer-led engagement.
6,848 student sports club members
In May, the top IMS teams faced their equivalent league winners from Loughborough University in the hotly contested IMS Varsity event. Playing on home soil, University of Nottingham retained the overall title showing the strength of performance across the board in these leagues. Delivering across all our activities, our sports club network is extensive - with the setup of new sports club Kendo, a traditional Japanese martial art in 2019, the network now stands at 75. All these clubs are managed by student volunteers – over 630 young people developed their organisational, management and leadership skills through being part of a club committee last academic year. In addition to achieving outstanding results in the BUCS league tables, our sports clubs have again been key contributors to the wider sporting experience. They've delivered over 80 inclusive sports sessions, given thousands of hours of volunteering time and raised thousands of pounds for charity, namely our official charity, the Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre (CBTRC).
Our Girls’ Night In event particularly impressed the judges at the BUCS award. An event designed for female students to attend with their friends, Girls’ Night In offers a unique mix of sports to try alongside music, healthy food and drink and plenty of fun activities such as hair braiding and a photo booth. In 2019, both Girls' Night In events welcomed over 350 students with over 90% of attendees telling us they’d been inspired to try a new activity afterwards. Over 3,000 students compete every week on campus as part of our popular intramural sport (IMS) leagues and one-day tournaments. More than 20 student volunteers deliver 12 different sports with our bespoke app ensuring it’s as easy as possible for participants to get involved and find their fixture details.
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Supporting our students to excel at the elite level Second place in the University overall sports leagues in the 2018 / 19 season – University of Nottingham's best finish since we were one of the founding members of BUCS one hundred years ago. With 47 different sports to gain points from, this is testament to the hard work and commitment of thousands of student athletes, coaches and support staff.
In the individual events, the records continued to fall as Nottingham students won 33 gold medals at the top level of University sport. Notable performances included a clean sweep of the table tennis medals, six individual canoe victories and our best ever performance at BUCS Nationals, where over 3,000 students come together to compete in Sheffield.
In the team competitions University of Nottingham ranked first for table tennis, squash and canoe – completely dominating these sports whilst also being placed in the top four in a further 18 sports..
University of Nottingham students represented nine countries on the global stage across nine different sports at senior international level. This included Esme Burge, Alex Malzer and Eloise Stenner who joined the GB Hockey squad preparing to defend their Olympic title.
The highlight of the team season came on the 27th March at BUCS Big Wednesday, the largest student sporting event in the UK and the finals of 14 different team sports. Hosted here on campus, Nottingham are the first institution to be awarded the event for a second consecutive year. The Green and Gold teams made the home advantage count - they reached 16 finals and won 13 gold medals, an event record. Our badminton, rowing and table tennis squads also qualified to represent the University on the international stage. We won 9 medals, our most ever, at the European Universities (EUSA) championships with an incredible four golds from our badminton players, securing us the title of best European University for Badminton. In August, the women’s coxed eight boat topped off an incredible year with a first-place finish at an invitational rowing championships hosted in China.
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Track athlete Hayley Mills (PhD Mathematics), pictured on our front cover, came into BUCS Nationals the hot favourite after winning her first senior medal, the 200m title, at the British Indoor Championships. She didn’t disappoint with two golds, the 60m indoor and the 200m indoor in a BUCS record winning time. As a result, she was justifiably awarded the BUCS Sportswoman of the Year and Nottingham Post’s Amateur Sportsperson of the Year.
All these achievements have been made possible by the continued support of our scholarship programme, investment into state-of-the-art facilities, the recruitment of worldclass coaches but above all the incredible drive and talent of University of Nottingham students.
2nd
34
25
place in the BUCS overall rankings
league titles won
students competing at senior international level
Li Lian Yang
Mathematics and Economics (2019), Greenaway Sport Scholar BUCS Singles and Team National Champion, European Universities’ (EUSA) Singles, Women’s Doubles and Overall Team Champion
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"The University of Nottingham has an incredible set up for hockey and for student athletes. The coaching team put in a huge amount of effort and time to support me during my time in Nottingham. From 1-2-1 coaching sessions to tailored work outs in the gym, it was all instrumental in enabling me to reach my goal – senior GB selection".
Tom Sorsby History (2018)
University of Nottingham sport scholar and Senior GB Hockey player
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European Universities’ Sports Association (EUSA) champions
BUCS Team champions 2018/19 Women’s Badminton Men’s Canoe White Water (Open Team) Men’s Team Pursuit – Cycling (Track) Men’s 10 Mile Time Trial – Cycling (Road) Mixed Team Kata - Karate
Li Lian Yang
Badminton
Women’s Singles
Emily Westwood & Li Lian Yang
Badminton
Women’s Doubles
John Torjussen & Emily Westwood
Badminton
Mixed Doubles
Badminton
Overall Team
Women’s Squash Men’s Table Tennis Women’s Table Tennis
BUCS Individual champions 2018/19 Hayley Mills
Athletics
Women’s 60m & 200m - Indoor
Philippa Davenall
Athletics
Women’s Hammer Throw - Outdoor
Nikita Setchell
Canoe Slalom
Sam Ibbotson
Senior international representatives Hamidou Noah Dembele
Men’s Canoe
Ieuan James
Men’s Canoe
Trevor Thomson
Men’s Canoe
Women’s K1
Maartje Otten
Women’s Canoe
Canoe Slalom
Men’s C1
Emma Witherford
Women’s Canoe
Sam Ibbotson & Ewan Vernon
Canoe Slalom
Men’s C2
Marius Braun
Men’s Fencing
Jodie Ball
Canoe WWR
Women’s K1 and K1 Sprint
Daniel Kiss
Men’s Fencing
Jonathan Alvarez Olieff
Men’s Futsal
Patrick Marriott
Canoe WWR
Men’s C1 and C1 Sprint
Joe Payne
Men’s Futsal
Patrick Marriott & Ewan Vernon
Canoe WWR
Men’s C2 and C2 Sprint
Esme Burge
Women’s Hockey Women’s Hockey
Cycling (Road)
Men’s Points & Men’s 10 Mile
Alex Malzer
Joe Perkins
Eloise Stenner
Women’s Hockey
Li Lian Yang
Badminton
Women’s Singles
Sean Cicchi
Men’s Hockey
Jack Morris
Boxing
Men’s 69-75 kg
Hal Dwobeng
Men’s Lacrosse
Alan England
Judo
Men’s Under 81kg
Rob Kelly
Men’s Lacrosse
Dylan Traves
Karate
Senior Men’s Kata
Laura Beaman
Women’s Lacrosse
Lauren Fretwell
Karate
Senior Women’s Kata
Philippa Stacey
Women’s Lacrosse
Oludaisi Adefisan
Para Swimming
Men’s 100m Long Course
Alys Cowx
Women’s Lacrosse
Owain Taylor
Men’s Squash
Polly Holden
Swimming
Women’s 800 & 1500m Freestyle Short Course
Coline Aumard
Women’s Squash
Polly Holden
Women’s Swimming
Tianyuan Liu
Table Tennis
Men’s Singles
Tin-Tin Ho
Table Tennis
Women’s Singles
David McBeath
Men’s Table Tennis
Tin-Tin Ho & Diruiqi Yang
Tin-Tin Ho
Women’s Table Tennis
Table Tennis
Women’s Doubles
Samuel Alberici
Men’s Water Polo
David McBeath & Tianyuan Liu
Table Tennis
Men’s Doubles
Abigail Turner
Women’s Water Polo
Tin-Tin Ho & David McBeath
Table Tennis
Mixed Doubles
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Driving positive social action in our community The power of sport to make a real impact on people’s lives and break down barriers in a community is incredible. It’s why we’ve invested significant resources in supporting our students to play their part in our civic agenda and proactively encouraged the local community to take advantage of our state-of-the-art facilities on their doorstep. During the 2018/19 academic year alone, our student sports leaders worked with over 2,000 local schoolchildren in 40 different Nottingham schools. We were therefore delighted that BUCS awarded us with their 2019 Workforce Programme of the Year award recognising the real difference these volunteers are making. The UoN Sport Leadership Academy expanded its delivery significantly in the last 12 months with 348 student volunteers delivering 229 sessions in local schools – an increase of 129% from the last academic year. We had 19 different sports clubs take their sports to young people across the county, double the amount involved the year prior. The innovative Laureus Sport for Good project, now in its second year, saw social action projects delivered by the schools focussing on their environment, challenging homelessness and promoting mental health awareness. New activity included an Outward Bounds Discovery Day where our Mountaineering and Rambling clubs taught the children basic map and compass reading skills alongside the chance to try out orienteering and climbing.
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Our facilities are an important venue for the local community, welcoming thousands of members of the public over the last year with our outdoor pitches alone hosting over 17,000 hours of community sport. Examples last year included a brand new Early Years swimming programme with the opportunity to learn to swim in the hydro pool – the perfect environment for under threes. The Swim School programme overall supported 650 children and adults to develop their swimming skills, with over 28,000 lessons delivered in 2018/19. In partnership with the School of Health Sciences the David Ross Sports Village hosted a weekly dementia-friendly exercise class and in 2018/19 the programme was expanded to offer a new session for those with neurological diseases. We also continue to work closely with the David Ross Education Trust, who host their Spring and Winter Cups with us as well as several other schools’ events across the year, including the Nottinghamshire School Games and the Association of Colleges National Championships.
3,574
2,128
voluntary hours delivered by student leaders
school children in Nottingham engaged by our outreach projects
BUCS Workforce Programme of the Year
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"It has been a privilege to support so many students on a journey from a complete beginner and introducing them to wheelchair basketball, a sport they may never have tried before. Being a volunteer has thoroughly enhanced my experience as a student and I have learned so much. Thank you to University of Nottingham Sport for providing me with the opportunity and supporting me on my journey". Aymun Khan
Mechanical Engineering, 2019
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BUCS Student Volunteer of the Year 2018/19
Leading the way with inclusive sport University of Nottingham Sport have long led the way in designing and delivering inclusive opportunities supporting students to be physically active and remain the only University to employ a full-time disability sport officer. The existing offer continued to go from strength to strength in 2018/19. 215 supported fitness sessions were delivered, supporting 34 students with a disability or long-term health condition to access our fitness facilities with confidence and reflecting a 3% increase in provision. We offer discounted sports and fitness memberships for students referred by Disability Support Services – in 2019 over 430 students took up the opportunity, with over half declaring a mental health condition. In partnership with our disability sport officer, the fitness team also added new initiatives which included extended opening hours during Ramadan and Gym Quiet Times, where music and lights are turned down, TV screens are switched off and all non-essential announcements avoided. Adding to our existing supported fitness programmes, both seek to ensure all students feel able and confident to access our fitness suites.
£22,000
funding awarded for inclusive sport
Our sports clubs, who operate across our entire holistic model, have also committed to ensuring their activity is as inclusive as possible. Over 160 student volunteers attended our Club Welfare training and now act as the leads within their club to ensure activities are accessible and welcoming to all. Elite para sport events hosted at the David Ross Sports Village included the British Wheelchair Basketball University finals, National Boccia Championships, Cerebral Palsy (CP) Sport football finals and training camps for the GB Invictus Games squads. With multiple gold medallists Ollie Hynd and Richard Whitehead also amongst the Paralympic stars using our High Performance Zone and other facilities, our students have the opportunity to train alongside and be inspired by the world’s top athletes. Partnerships have been key to delivering our extensive offer; we work closely with several National Governing Bodies including British Para Swimming, Boccia England, Goalball UK and British Wheelchair Basketball as well as inclusive sport organisations such as Invictus Games, CP Sport and Parallel. With brand new funding worth £22,000 secured in 2019 from BUCS and Active Notts to support three exciting new initiatives next year, we will continue to drive innovation in the way we support student wellbeing.
Over
160
11%
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Championing sustainability In a fast-moving and challenging landscape, University of Nottingham Sport are constantly seeking ways to ensure our activities are sustainable. Over the last three years we have increased income by 20% with continued year on year growth driven by sport and fitness memberships, major events, partnerships and increased engagement in our service offering. University of Nottingham is fast becoming the preferred UK host venue for a huge range of sports and their National Governing Bodies as well as key educational partners. Together with Nottingham Conferences, we’ve hosted sporting events on campus worth over £1.7 million and welcomed thousands of athletes and their supporters. After another hugely successful BUCS Big Wednesday on campus again in 2019, the organisation’s centenary year, we were delighted to secure the event for another two years in March 2020 and 2021. No institution has ever hosted this huge student sporting event consecutively before. The Association of Colleges (AoC) also returned again, bringing over 1,800 Year 12 and 13 students onto campus to compete in their National Championships and allowing them to experience campus firsthand before finalising their University choices.
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Additional major event highlights included hosting the 2019 British Squash Championships, the 2019 PG Mutual National Table Tennis Championships and being named an Official Training and Education Partner for the Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay in Nottingham. Partnerships are once again key, and we’ve worked with a diverse range of organisations in 2018/19 to enhance the offer to our students. We continue to work closely with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and the Football Association (FA) who fund recreational and leadership opportunities for students. Our performance programme is supported by Performance Centre funding for volleyball, women’s football, swimming, fencing, table tennis and rugby union as well as official Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) status. Our new agreement with Life Fitness, who are our Official Fitness Equipment Provider, also included over £10,000 of value in kind funding to add new fitness equipment and offer training opportunities for our staff.
University of Nottingham sports scholars Tin-Tin Ho and Josh Bennett compete at the PG Mutual National Table Tennis Championships, hosted at University of Nottingham in 2019. Credit: Alan Man / Table Tennis England.
ÂŁ147,000
secured in external grant funding
ÂŁ1.7 million
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England captain Steph Houghton and the Lionesses enjoy their training session at the David Ross Sports Village.
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Raising the University’s profile through sport University of Nottingham Sport are raising the profile of the University both on and off campus by sharing stories of our students excelling across all our offer as well as welcoming the world’s top athletes to train or compete at major events. Digitally, we continued to be very influential in 2018/19. Our social media channels are by far the fastest growing in UK Higher Education Sport – we saw a 28% increase in our audience over the last 12 months. With a total of over 21,700 followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, engagement is the highest in the sector. Our video views alone last year totalled more than 135,000, a 28% increase from the previous 12 months.
Showcasing our student sports teams, the brand-new Headliner series, sponsored by Red Bull, saw thousands tune in across the globe to our professional live streams and the Nottingham Varsity Series once again filled the city’s biggest sporting venues with a sell-out crowd for the ice hockey event at the Motorpoint Arena. Finally, the elite athletes and teams who use our state-of-theart facilities are hugely influential in the world of sport, health and fitness. Our Premier Squash League team features former World Champion and Commonwealth gold medallist Nick Matthew alongside our top student athletes. Visitors in 2018/19 included the England Lionesses ahead of their huge Women’s Football World Cup campaign, the Australian Cricket squad in preparation for their ICC Cricket World Cup fixture at Trent Bridge and triple Paralympic Gold medallist Ollie Hynd.
We’re even attracting the attention of the globe’s biggest franchises – in October 2018 University of Nottingham’s American Football squad were profiled in a video piece by the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. Over 8.5 million users follow the Eagles on social media.
thumbs-up 1.8 million website hits
21,780 social media followers
117,000
minutes of live stream footage watched
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Engaging with our sporting alumni Involvement in sport during their time at university is one of the clear factors that binds our alumni to the University of Nottingham for life and we’re incredibly fortunate to have an excellent network of sporting alumni. Their involvement is critical to our achievements; their support of our scholarship programmes, their advice and guidance and their time spent working with our students is simply invaluable. Now in its third year, the University of Nottingham Sport Hall of Fame welcomed five of our most illustrious sporting alumni back onto campus at a series of celebration events. Olympians Campbell Walsh (Canoe Slalom), Dr. Kristan Bromley (Skeleton) and Chris Wyles (Rugby) joined former UK Sport Chief Executive Officer Liz Nicholl and West Indian Cricket star Deryck Murray as the 2018/19 inductees, who all now feature in an impressive new display at the David Ross Sports Village.
290
alumni attending our events
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We continue to be generously supported by Dr Deng Yaping (Contemporary Chinese Studies, 2002) and her namesake sports scholarship programme, which supports Chinese national table tennis and badminton athletes to combine sport with a University of Nottingham global education. Three scholars joined us in 2018/9 including Diruiqui Yang, who took gold in the women’s table tennis team and women’s doubles’ events. Dr Deng was also inducted into the BUCS Hall of Fame in July, recognising her contribution to British University sport beyond Nottingham. The University of Nottingham Sports Board play a critical role in advocating for the University within the sport sector and the alumni community as well as fundraising offering invaluable guidance to our staff. Made up entirely of Nottingham alumni, we were delighted to welcome Ruth Shaw in 2018/19. Ruth (History, 1998) heads up the Premier League Charitable Fund, an organisation dedicated to providing people from all walks of life with the opportunity to play sport. For more recent graduates, the Alumni Sports Challenge remains incredibly popular and is in fact the largest gathering of alumni on campus every year. In June 2019, over 500 people took part in 25 different sports – a record number for the event. We look forward to strengthening links with this new generation of alumni to provide valuable networking opportunities for current Nottingham students and graduates with a shared passion for sport and pride in representing the Green and Gold.
£117,000
generated through Sport fundraising campaigns
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Hall of Fame inductees
"My time at Nottingham was very special and sport gave me the chance to practise my leadership skills in a safe environment. The advice I’d give to students now is to go for things that are just beyond your reach as you’ll surprise yourself – you’ll be able to do things you didn’t think you could.” Liz Nicholl
Chemistry (1979) Former Chief Executive Officer of UK Sport and 2019 Hall of Fame inductee
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Enhancing student employability Our students often tell us that their involvement in sport as participants and leaders have been instrumental in their next steps after studying at Nottingham. Brand new research has now established the positive impact of involvement in sport and sports leadership on graduate outcomes. The University’s Careers and Employability Service 2019 report showed a significant positive impact on employability for students involved in sport during their time at the University of Nottingham.
Involvement in sport also led to higher average annual salaries. Graduates with a UoN sport and fitness membership earnt £24,882 per year compared with £23,772 for those who weren't involved with sport. Their graduate prospect score showed 94% were in graduate level employment or further study (compared to the University average of 84%) upon leaving the University of Nottingham. It’s clear that the experiences of our students help them to gain career-relevant skills and help grow their network of contacts and University of Nottingham Sport will continue to facilitate this for as many young people as possible. However, just as important is the opportunity sport offers to maintain wellbeing and a positive focus – critical for success both here in Nottingham and for their future careers.
The graduate prospect score, included in national University league tables, is a measure of success in employability of a university’s first degree graduates. The figure reflects the number of graduates taking up graduate level employment or further study. Students with a University of Nottingham sport and fitness membership had a graduate prospects score one percent higher than the University average and for those involved in sports clubs and particularly a team sport, the improvement in the scores were even higher.
94%
graduate prospect score for UoN sport scholars
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£1,100
higher average annual salary for graduates involved in sport at university
Lucy Canning Geography, 2019
Engage Ambassador 2017 - 2019 Sports and Mass Participations Events Assistant at national charity Bloodwise
“My role as an Engage ambassador was to encourage students to get active through our beginner and social sport programmes and to be creative in how I achieved this. The role was really varied – I planned and delivered events, worked with local companies and managed a team of incredible volunteers through the Engage Champions network.
The experience was so valuable and definitely helped me to get my current graduate position at Bloodwise. I now organise charity places for sports events across the UK and help our participants to fundraise as much as possible. I work with people every day who are taking on the challenge to beat blood cancer, and because of that I am extremely passionate about what I do!”
My proudest moment was leading the Girls' Night In event – at my final event over 350 students attended and the feedback was incredible.
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For more information: sport@nottingham.ac.uk +44 (0) 115 74 87000 nottingham.ac.uk/sport @UoNSport