SWANSEA – Swansea University and British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) are set to host the 2016 FISU World University Rugby Sevens Championships from Wednesday 6 to Saturday 9 July, 2016. The international competition will welcome 19 rugby sevens teams – 9 male and 10 female – from 14 nations, to the second largest […]
Aerial view of Swansea LONDON – British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) and Swansea University have submitted a bid to FISU to host the 2016 World University Rugby Sevens Championships in Swansea. The bid which has been submitted with the support of the Welsh Rugby Union, Sport Wales and Swansea Council has also received […]
SOFIA – The 6th European Universities Rugby 7s Championship has concluded on 16th June 2013 with an exciting Closing Ceremony at National Sports Academy Vasil Levski. Over 190 participants from 14 Universities from 7 countries took part in this year’s edition of the event. The competition was organized by the Bulgarian Students Rugby Union, National […]
SAINT NAZAIRE – The traditional finals of the French University Rugby ‘Trophée Société Générale’, took place last Thursday in Saint-Nazaire, in the presence of the President of the FF Sport U Jean-François Sautereau and National Director Vincent Rognon. Under the leadership of CRSU Nantes and its director Bertrand Gautier, the great festival of university rugby […]
SAMOA – Following the devastation that one of the South Pacific’s biggest Cyclones (Yasi) had caused to Samoa in late 2012 the FISU Executive committee unanimously endorsed a request from the OUSA Secretary-General to look at supporting University Sport in Samoa during this time of recovery and rebuilding. The key elements of this request was […]
JAMAICA – The 2013 Intercollegiate Rugby League Championship featured six institutions that competed for championships honours. The teams included one first time entrant Excelsior Community College, and five others. All teams played each other twice with the top four battling in two hard hitting semi-finals. The Mico University prevailed in the Grand Finals 32-29 against […]
ANTIGONISH, N.S. – The St. Francis Xavier University X-Women avenged their shutout loss to Guelph in last year’s national final with a convincing 37-0 victory over the Gryphons in the gold-medal match of the 2012 CIS women’s rugby championship, presented by the Town of Antigonish, Sunday November 4th, at StFX Oland Stadium. Playing in front […]
GBR vs RSA BRIVE – Why only win a single final, when you can win two? This feat was accomplished by both the women’s and men’s teams of Great Britain which won the gold at the 5th World University Rugby 7 Championship in Brive, France. The British were great tonight. Especially, as both the women […]
