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Gold scholar Ciara Horne wins this month’s accolade after racking up a number of excellent performances in April. In stage one of the City of Perth Grand Prix Ciara finished an impressive second, but a nasty 40kph crash in to a barrier ended her weekend…

Performance of the Month is Tom Hickman who has been selected for both team and individual events (-75kg) at the Senior European Karate Championships in Hungary next month. The silver scholar earned his place at European Selections in Barnsley, displacing a fighter who had held the spot for...

Lauren Howarth (4th Year Medicine) wins Performance of the Month with a February to remember. Lauren warmed up with a Silver medal in the BUCS Cross Country Championships, leading the ladies to victory. The next weekend, Lauren swapped her muddy shoes for her first indoor race...

Our first performance of the month for 2013 goes to gold scholar Ciara Horne (3rd year Physiotherapy) who brought home a Team Pursuit bronze medal from the UCI World Cup held in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Gold scholar Jonny Hay wins November’s Performance of the Month for his excellent victory in the UKA Euro Cross Country trial in Liverpool. In heavy underfoot conditions, Jonny took the under-23 men’s title and was also 10th place overall in a time of 30:20.

New Scholar Tom Hickman (1st Year SportEx) is the winner of October’s Performance of the Month after two excellent results at the British International Karate Open in Glasgow - the most prominent international competition held in Britain. Coming away with victory in the Senior...

September’s award goes to Hannah Walker, who made a stunning debut over the half marathon distance in the Bristol Half Marathon. Gold scholar Hannah finished
3rd, after almost chasing down the 2 Kenyans who beat her with a mile to go, and clocked a very impressive time of 71m...

UBSport Athletics Scholars were not found wanting when they stepped up to make history by competing in the first athletics competition to be held in the Olympic Stadium at the start of May, taking 3 individual medals and 2 Championship Best Performances.

This month’s performance of the month goes to Lucas Rowe who fought for Great Britain in the Northern Ireland U20 and Senior Open. Lucas won the Junior category of his U60kg weight class, beating the European Youth Olympic Silver medallist, as well as the British Number 1 by a maximum...

Ciara Horne is our Performance of the Month winner once again, after a superb performance at the BUCS Track Cycling Championships in Newport on the last weekend in March. Ciara brought home two gold medals and one bronze – from the 500m Time Trial, where she was pleased to be in the...