Hockey take Club of the Year at AU Awards
The AU awards is like the Oscars of the Portsmouth Athletics Union where the great and the good of the University sports clubs dress smart and gather together to celebrate their best achievements of the sporting year. Dan Black hosted…
Premiership dream ends for hockey girls
It’s been an excellent two seasons for University of Portsmouth Women’s Hockey 1sts, two seasons which have seen them climb from mid-table in South Eastern 2A to top of South Eastern 1A, however their hopes of reaching the premier league…
Ladies hockey team face nervy premier playoffs
A fault on the official BUCS website led Pompey’s Hockey girls to the false belief that they had won their league long before the end of the season. A few below-par performances followed this news and when the glitch on…
Portsmouth 2 – 1 Crystal Palace: Pompey keep survival hopes alive
Goals from Scott Allan and Greg Halford against Crystal Palace kept Portsmouth in the Championship, if only until Saturday. Almost 15,000 fans filled Fratton Park on a bitterly cold Tuesday night to watch Portsmouth take on Crystal Palace. Other than…
Varsity: Women’s Tennis 1sts ‘Team of the day’
If we’ve learnt anything from watching Wimbledon, it’s that tennis doesn’t fair well in the rain. With no ball girls or ball boys to cover the courts, and with the weather unable to decide whether to rain or snow, tennis…
Varsity: Men’s Hockey 1sts
High flying Men’s Hockey 1sts took to the pitch full of confidence, but were quickly put in their place by an impressive Southampton team, who hit the boys in purple with a whirlwind start. Two short corners won by Southampton…
Varsity: Women’s Football 1st
Varsity kicked-off with the Ladies Football which, due to the amount of rain, quickly turned into something akin to Swamp Football. No matter how hard the players kicked the ball, it always found a puddle to stop in which kept…
We’re coming for you Southampton…
The FA Cup, the Ryder Cup, the Six Nations, Wimbledon, even the Olympics – it all pales in significance when compared to the Portsmouth versus Southampton annual university Varsity! Spirits are high and the rivalry is long and deep-seated whenever these…
Hockey girls make light work of Chichester
University of Portsmouth ladies 1st XI have had mixed fortunes in the last fortnight. The team crashed out of the cup at the quarter-final stage, losing the feisty game 5-1 to an impressive UWIC team. The first loss of the…
Rugby triumphant at tri-way tournament
Sunday 29th January saw the biggest clubs in the Athletic Union take to Langstone to contest the annual tri-way tournament. In this unique event the football, hockey and men’s rugby teams were out to prove who were best at converting their…