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Underwater rugby probably isn’t at the forefront of too many people’s minds, but based in Cheltenham, the Gloucestershire Barracudas are leading the way in the unique sport. Founder Laura Garlic now sees her team come together for a weekly training session, out-of-pool social gatherings, and a number of tournaments that take Gloucestershire to the international […]
Cheltenham Town make the long journey up to North Yorkshire on Friday evening where they will face second from bottom Harrogate Town, in what could be described as a relegation six-pointer. The Cheltenham-born manager took over a side at the foot of the table, with former manager Michael Flynn winning one of his 10 games […]
Cheltenham Town Women’s defender Holly Finch has insisted that being back on the football pitch is the “best feeling ever” after almost a year out with an ACL injury. The 23-year-old tore her ACL for the second time in February 2025, and made her return to first team action last weekend in a 3-0 defeat […]
“I would definitely encourage more people to try archery,” says second year University of Birmingham student Roxana Sherahmad, “I was looking for the most outlandish sport that I could do […] and now I’m obsessed with it.” Sherahmad is a second year Film and English Literature student at the University of Birmingham who was looking […]
F1 TV presenter Laura Winter said she was so nervous about telling F1 about her pregnancy when she found out early in 2025. Talking to sports journalism students at University of Gloucestershire she then explained that all those concerns were short lived and that Formula One were “brilliant with it”. She also explained that the […]
Jonbon’s record outside of Cheltenham: 11/1111/11111/1111-1111. pic.twitter.com/PhqOh4R1MK — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) April 4, 2025 Returning to Cheltenham for the first time since The Festival, Henderson horse Jonbon will be taking on Leau Du Sud in the Schloer cup (a race he’s won the last two years). Jonbon’s Cheltenham record isn’t shining; he wasn’t able […]
Cheltenham town manager Steve Cotterill was awarded the Sky Bet League Two Manager of the Month for October after collecting 10 points from his four outings in the Robins dugout last month. Its the third time the 61 year old has won the League Two Manager of the Month award having previously won it twice […]
Today is the first day of the three-day long November Meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse, and its geared up to be an epic day of racing on good to soft ground. The first race is the Lycetts Insurance Brokers Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at 13:10, and is arguably the weakest race on the card. The favourite […]
Squash will make it’s Olympic debut at the Los Angeles games in 2028. Long serving volunteer Dave Bott of the Cheltenham squash club hopes this will save the “declining” sport from irrelevancy. The Cheltenham squash club volunteer spoke about the decline in the area for squash as a sport saying “We’re probably the third or fourth biggest […]
Gloucestershire fast bowler Luke Charlesworth says “he cant deal with the forceful Monopoly or cards” during prolonged rain delays and long days in the dressing room. For six months of the year fields are turned from football pitches into outfields as the whites are thrown on and a red leather ball is thrown around. County […]