Seventh Heaven
Women’s Football 1sts continued their fantastic start to the season with another high scoring win. Expecting a tough 90 minutes, newly promoted LUUWAFC faced Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire 1sts (MMU), who were sitting 2nd in the league. Confidence was high going in to the game as Leeds had beaten Sheffield Hallam 1sts 9-1 [...]
A Hard Day’s Night for Leeds
Leeds fell to a disappointing defeat as the physical impact of playing four times in a week were shown in 5-0 defeat at home to Liverpool. Leeds started the game well, dominating possession and keeping the ball well in the opening 20 minutes. A few shots from the edge of the area flashed [...]
Crookes shepherds in a silver
Last Saturday was Leeds University Cross Country Club’s latest expedition, this time to Durham, which provided a challenging course that had both road and muddy track sections, and a tough hill at about 2km. It was one 4.5km lap for the ladies and a lap and a bit (including a double ascent of the [...]
Korfball mixing it up
The past two weekends have seen an excellent start to the season for korfball. At two freshers tournaments, Leeds’ new players (essentially beginners to the sport) have been instrumental in finishing in the top half. At Lancaster the University’s teams finished 6th and 8th out of 16, also finishing an excellent 2nd out of [...]
Hockey Round-up: Ladies Stick-ing together
LUUWHC put out a full house, this Halloween, with many teams playing universities in a much higher league they knew it would be a hard day for the club, however all teams worked well together and produced some promising results. LUUWHC 1st team came out on top, after playing Northumbria who currently stand at the [...]
Polo off to a damp start
Nine team members headed to Durham on Friday October 26 for the opening BUCS fixture for the Leeds University water polo team. In front of a hostile Durham crowd the boys started slowly and conceded an early goal. Unnerved they brought it back to 1-1 in no time. Trading another goal each, the game [...]
Limp Leeds Lose to Lancaster
A goal in each half ensured Lancaster’s 1st XI safe passage into the Second Round of the BUCs Cup with relative ease. Leeds, who play in the league below their opposition, slumped to their third defeat in four games with a lacklustre performance and were lucky to escape with the score-line as low [...]
Sinfield’s England Sink Wales
England kicked off their autumn international series in style last Saturday by thrashing Wales 80-12 in Wrexham. A strong England side – captained by Leeds Rhinos skipper Kevin Sinfield – scored an impressive 13 tries to Wales’ two and as usual Sinfield’s kicking game was strong – despite missing two conversions from the [...]
United Bring Gun to Knife Fight
Arsenal make the trip to Old Trafford on Saturday in a game that sees Robin van Persie face his old side for the first time. Arsenal go into the game after a 1-0 win over QPR followed back-to- back defeats. Arsenal will be lusting after revenge following their controversial defeat to United at Stamford [...]