News, Sport, and Entertainment from the University of Gloucestershire
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 […]
Swindon Town Women defeated Cheltenham Town Ladies 3-1 this past weekend in the FA Women’s National League Cup Round of 16. Following Sunday’s emphatic win, club captain Annie Colston issued high praise to her team stating that “Every single player on the pitch today played their part in getting the win” Swindon fell behind inside […]
Former Team GB Water Polo academy player Alice Shields claims authorities must do more to protect young prospects mental health, not just in water polo, but sport as a whole. Alice was selected by the South-West water polo under-17 squad at just 12 years old and then represented Team GB’s under-19 squad, however the pressure […]
Current second year film student Charlie Herbert contemplates the balance of playing a sport alongside his university degree, and mulls over his experience of playing away from home. Golf isn’t currently a society at the University of Gloucestershire, with its predecessor discontinued following the 2020 lockdown. Herbert believes the difficulty of the sport plays a […]
Cinderford Town booked their place in the third round of the FA Vase at The Causeway after a dramatic 5-3 win on penalties over Cornish side Helston Athletic. Both sides struggled to find rhythm in possession in the first minutes of the game. Helston, who had travelled with confidence after a strong run of league […]
Football is called the Beautiful Game for a reason; it can be played anywhere. Military man Luke East, who squeezes the game into his weekly schedule no matter what, proves exactly that. When you think of the army, soldiers in particular, I can almost guarantee that them playing football doesn’t spring to mind. I mean, […]
Kayleigh Jones, who is a sports therapist, is supporting the BBC Gloucestershire radio station and the BBC Bristol radio station. The radio presenters are taking part in BBCs three-legged thousand mile challenge for children in need. “So our local teams will be completing 25 miles each between Bristol and Gloucestershire from early Tuesday yesterday to […]