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Sporting scholars receive financial support

28 Mar 2011 10:54:50

Advanced Sports Scholars team shot

Twenty-two talented sporting youngsters at the University of Bedfordshire are receiving financial support to aid their progress.

The students, on a variety of courses, are the advanced sports scholars who will each get £1,075 this year to support their sporting commitments.

They all compete at national or international level in a range of sports including football, cricket, trampolining, dodgeball, athletics and rowing.

The 22 sport scholars are:

  • Helen Blencoe (PE QTS) – rounders
  • Joanne Cook (Primary BEd) – cricket
  • Micheal Doyle (Masters in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Health Promotion) – race walking
  • Daniel Fryer (Sports Studies) – karate
  • Lauren Impey (Sport Science & Coaching) – football
  • Thomas Jankowski (Sport & PE) – rugby union
  • Scott Johnson (Sports Studies) – high jump, athletics
  • Karen Kennedy (PE QTS) – ISSF rifle shooting
  • Sarah McKenna (Construction Management) – rugby union
  • Alexander Miller (Sport Science & Coaching) – touch rugby
  • Alexander Milner (Sports Studies) – (deaf) basketball
  • Arney Noden (PE QTS) – dodgeball
  • Charlotte O’Dell (Sports Therapy) – trampolining
  • Micah Pink (Sport & Exercise Science) – taekwondo
  • Stuart Riches (Sport Science & Coaching) – alpine ski racing
  • Karissa Rodney (PE QTS) – football
  • Kiri-Anne Smith (Sport & Exercise Science) – rowing
  • Claire Stancliffe (Sport & PE) – (deaf) football
  • Thomas Stonehouse (Sport & PE) – dodgeball
  • Jan Wolodzko (Sport Tourism) – football
  • Antoe Walters (Psychology) – sprinting, athletics
  • Mathew Ware (HND Sports Coaching) – table tennis
Julia Lines (sport development officer)

Sixteen sports scholars were presented with their cheques by Registrar Alice Hynes at a special awards evening at the Luton campus, with the others unable to attend due to training commitments.

Sport Development Officer Julia Lines (pictured) said: “We want the sports scholars to compete for the University and to represent the University. If we’ve not got an outlet for them in a team or as an individual, they can still coach and help to improve their peers.

“The general feedback is that some students aren’t supported at all by their national governing bodies which means it’s hard to study and compete at the high level they’re at. Even those that do get some support find it so vital to receive additional funding for their training costs, kit, transport and entry fees. To compete nationally and internationally is so expensive.”

Bedfordshire University

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