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Many of our sports teams compete in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) leagues or the London Universities Sports Leagues (LUSL) and play against teams from other universities on either Wednesday afternoons or weekends. Club Sport is the competitive side of the union’s sport and physical activity offer for students.
18 clubs in 23/24
26 sports teams in 22-23 and now 28 teams in 23-24, 32 teams in 24/25
53% male students. 42% female students
59% Home students, 37% overseas
415 sports club members overall
1st Year (49.3%) 2nd Year (28%) 3rd Year (14.9%)
CityActive is our non-competitive social sport programme. It is a great way to meet new friends from other courses , try new activities in a fun and friendly environment and get active!
In 2023/24 we delivered x2 more sessions per a week than in 2022/23.
4202 individual students attended CityActive sessions across the year.
Launched new classes including BoxFit, Pickleball, Women’s Only Dodgeball, Yoga, rounders
Delivered 36 free sessions across both terms (18 in Term 1, 18 in Term 2 and 5 in term 3)
Created employment opportunities for students through the recruitment of three student activators to facilitate CityActive sessions
Delivered bespoke sessions to support student wellbeing and inclusion e.g. Yoga and Pride Spin
1st year Biochemical Engineering Silver in C-Class women’s WT Kukkiwon Individual Patterns at Winter BUCS Championships ___ Silver in C-Class women’s WT Kukkiwon Individual Patterns at Spring BUCS championships ___ Gold in C-Class women’s WT individual Poomsae patterns International Championships hosted by BUTL ___ Gold as part of the City- KCL inter-university team Poomsae International Championships hosted by BUTL
AETA Open English Taekwondo Championships - competed for patterns and sparring UKTA UK Taekwondo Championship Bronze for patterns & bronze for sparring ___ BUCS Taekwondo Competition (Autumn) - Bronze for sparring Impact Team Patterns Competition ___ Gold for team patterns - ITF England National Championship (Official National Association for ITF TKD) - Silver for patterns, silver for sparring ___ The Warrior Open 2024 - Silver for patterns - ___ BUTL Taekwondo University World Championship - competed for patterns and sparring - Nominated
Gold in ITF sparring and a bronze in WT sparring at Winter BUCS Championships resulting in automatic qualification for the EUSA European Universities Games
At City, Asma has recieved support to pursue her Taekwondo ambitions. The Students' Union, especially Julie Haggar, Sports Coordinator, have all provided a welcoming and supportive environment. The Union also took care of the costs for Asma's competition entries and travel. Asma shares, "I couldn't be more grateful."
Read Asma's Story
Hockey players at City, University of London have teamed up to raise money for an important charity. This year, the team’s committee chose a charity that one of its co-captains had a personal connection to.
Read The Hockey Team's Story
Number of students attending courses Two students participated in HEVO courses and became sports activators for our CityActive Volleyball Sessions. Now, we’re aiming to place three of our current Captains in Coaching/Refereeing courses, specifically for Netball and Volleyball. Our goal is to provide more student opportunities and enhance skill development. Number of captains first aid trained 24 students have been first aid trained across 13 clubs.
Odd Socks We ran an Odd Socks Campaign on W/C Monday 13th November 2023 to spread kindness & celebrate what makes each person unique in line with Anti-Bullying week – eight clubs got involved with the campaign. Rainbow Laces “Lace up to Keep it up” is a campaign run by Stonewall from 25th November to 11th December to highlight continued support of LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport, fitness & physical activity – we managed to get eight clubs to once again support the campaign. International Women’s Day We celebrated this on 8th March to recognise all of our amazing women involved in sport with the Wolfpack ranging from referees to coaches to volunteers to staff etc. - we highlighted our student athletes on the day.
Our annual Varsity series is our annual competition against Kingston University. City and Kingston battle it out across a two day sporting spectacle held at City Sport and Kingston University. City and Kingston went head-to-head in a number of different sports including Basketball, Table Tennis, Volleyball, American Football, Netball, Fencing, Rugby and much much more.
838 people attended VarCity across the two days – 422 people purchased a free ticket & 214 sports participants on Day One & 202 people attended Day Two. Intramural City Hindu Soc won the Intramural Societies Football tournament, we had five societies competing in this Anime Soc, HinduSoc, SkiSoc, Women’s Futsal & Tamil Soc & Kingston had seven societies. City 15.5 to 5.5 Kingston 12.5 to 0.5 to City after Day One & 5-3 to Kingston on Day Two.
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