Author: LSU Media

Loughborough’s Athletic Union has announced today that this will be the last academic year that it is participating in BUCS. According to BUCS’ website, ‘British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the national body for Higher Education (HE) sport in the UK’ and is the biggest competition at this level in the whole of the country. BUCS is the biggest domestic sporting programme in the whole of Europe and is also ‘supported by a full international programme’. There is an unprecedented demand for high-level student sports competitions in the country, and in particular at Loughborough University, and BUCS is the…

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February’s competition theme was based on movies. The winning illustration was by Sean Lee. His Lord of the rings parody illustration took an iconic scene from the film and put his own comedic stamp onto it. Name: Sean Lee Course/ Year: Illustration 3rd Year Favourite material/medium to work with: Wacom Tablet / Photoshop Idea for illustration: Lord of the Rings Parody Potential career choice: Conceptual design, Character or environmental Links to Website/Social Media: Sean Lee Illustration on Facebook and @SLeeillustrate on Twitter My work is predominantly digital, with a foundation of drawn line. I enjoy exploring composition, lighting, and creating…

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Continuing from the success of the Label illustration competition last year we have continued it again this year. To start us off it had to be freshers themed! There were so many great entries and the voting was so close. Hayley Seamarks won the September competition with her trio of stereotypical freshers. Name: Hayley Seamarks Course/ Year: Illustration Part C Favourite material/medium to work with: Pen and Digital Idea for illustration: My inspiration for this Illustration came from people I have met through my freshers week. It may be stereotypical, but its probably quite accurate… Potential career choice: To eventually…

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Following their emphatic win over Exeter University, Loughborough made the trip to the hallowed turf to take on Leeds Beckett in the final round of the Championship. The African violet clan hadn’t made it to the final on this Championship since 2010, with their involvement in the National leagues taking precedence, their BUCs side became almost a second team and so to even get to that point in the competition was a great achievement. Loughborough had a troubled start, their opposition gaining a penalty from the kick off and immediately take the opportunity to go for points. Captain Will Cargill…

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After a heart-breaking trip to Twickenham with the BUCS 1 team, Loughborough travelled to Hartpury to lighten up the African violet spirits with a win. But even after a strong performance where Loughborough bodies were put firmly on the line, a late Hartpury try stole that chance of a National League One win. The game got underway with a lot of toing and froing. Loughborough would make some ground only to lose the ball and for Hartpury to make an attack of their own. Neither team could break through the others’ defence for sometime but it was eventually the home…

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An Easter of Sport As we all head home over the following few days for our much awaited Easter break, many of us will be collecting our library books, printing out our coursework questions, and packing our folders for an Easter of dreaded revision. If this is you, or you know this SHOULD be you then you’re going to be needing a fair bit of procrastination material in order for you to remain sane these Easter holidays. What better way to distract you over the holiday period than to provide you with a list of sporting events to fit within,…

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