Sports
The university has sports clubs, including for sports such as disc golf and American Football. Many of the university's Sports Clubs, known as the Essex Blades, achieve national success. In 2005–06, the Pool Team became the best in Britain winning the BUSA Championships defeating Cardiff in the final. In the 2007–08 season, the University of Essex Rugby Club won the BUSA Vase defeating Robert Gordon University 15–10 in the final as well as achieving promotion. The university's basketball and netball clubs reached BUSA finals in the 2007–08 season. In 2012 the male and female Handball Team won the UK Championship in Manchester. The university has a sports centre, including a fitness suite, squash courts, netball and tennis courts and a 9 metre climbing wall used by the University of Essex Mountaineering Club. The university has a sailing clubhouse and boat-park at nearby Brightlingsea.
Once a year, 'Derby Day' is a sports contest between the University of Essex clubs and the University of East Anglia sport teams. The event is hosted alternately by Essex and UEA.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)