The Women's Basketball 1's contributed to Loughborough's final total score with their outstanding victory.
Loughborough University has secured an incredible 42nd consecutive British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) title after amassing a record number of points in the competition.
Loughborough’s final total of 9,311.5 is a sector-leading score and eclipses last year’s result of 7999.1 points – another record that was held by the University.
Throughout another campaign of sporting brilliance, Loughborough teams were victorious in women’s basketball, men’s badminton, women’s football, and men’s tennis, among others. Teams from the University were also crowned champions in women’s cricket, men’s hockey, and more.
Speaking following the annual BUCS Annual Awards Dinner, Richard Wheater, Performance and Development Director, Loughborough University, said: “This is an incredible achievement by all involved across Loughborough Sport.
“To continue to perform at such a high level, year-on-year, is an exceptional undertaking. Most especially the athletes – and of course all the coaches, practitioners, volunteers, and the many others involved – deserve immense credit.
“As a university, we’re incredibly proud of our BUCS record and we’ll all enjoy this moment before looking forward to the new campaign.”
Image caption: Loughborough athletes celebrate another BUCS victory.
Since 2016, Loughborough has broken the 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, and 9,000 points total.
BUCS oversees Higher Education sport in the UK and supports and promotes the lifestyle and educational benefits of participating in sport.
Each year it delivers more than 50 sports to 170 universities across a varied programme of over 6,000 teams and individual competitors.
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Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, named the best university in the world for sports-related subjects in the 2023 QS World University Rankings – the seventh year running – and University of the Year for Sport by The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2022.
Loughborough is ranked 7th in The UK Complete University Guide 2023, 10th in the Guardian University League Table 2023 and 11th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023.
Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’, and in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 over 90% of its research was rated as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally-excellent’. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes.
The Loughborough University London campus is based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and offers postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities. It is home to influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators who provide students with the highest quality of teaching and the very latest in modern thinking.
