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Uni alumni return for sports day

Uni alumni return for sports day

More than 200 former students of the University of Edinburgh gathered to participate in an Alumni Sports Day. Twelve clubs from the university’s sports union laid on activities that helped unite graduates with other alumni and current students. The sports played included volleyball basketball, ladies rugby, trampolining, badminton, korfball, netball, rifle shooting, and cricket. Others [...]

May 14, 2013 Alex Schweitzer-Thompson Athletics, Basketball, Cricket, More sports, Rugby, Trampolining

Breaking down barriers – and hurdles!

Breaking down barriers – and hurdles!

A recently-launched Edinburgh athletics organisation for young people with a disability has found popularity, with 20 members now a part of the run, jump and throws club. The Broken Hurdle Club, named so after a comical incident that occurred in the weeks soon after the club launched in October last year, is open to participants [...]

March 16, 2012 Alex Schweitzer-Thompson Athletics, Disability Sports, More sports

Loudon aiming to add to honours

Loudon aiming to add to honours

British age-group medallist Peter Loudon will look to add a Scottish honour to his name at the National under-18 and under-20 Indoor Championships in Glasgow this weekend (March 3-4). Loudon, 18, from Edinburgh, is set to enter the 400m event in the west of Scotland and will look to replicate the sort of form that [...]

March 1, 2012 Alex Schweitzer-Thompson Athletics