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BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) events are the highlight, the feature, the creme de la creme of higher education sport! There are 3 BUCS events for us: BUCS cross country (start of February), BUCS indoors (13-15th of February), and BUCS outdoors (end of April/start of May.)
BUCS cross country
BUCS cross country is the weekend with the club which everyone raves about! Hosted in a different city each year, up to 50 CUAC athletes of all abilities enter. With women's and men's Long and Short courses, the racing is spicy and the support is electric. After the race, there's a notorious club night for all the competitors, and it's here that legends are born...
2026 BUCS XC did not disappoint. 35 of our best cross country runners took on the churned up fields of Charnwood College, Loughborough. In conditions that can only be described as barbaric, CUAC showed grit and determination, leaving it all out on the course. Our women's long course team finished in 16th, with Emily Davies coming a fantastic 47th place. The men's long course team placed 8th, led home by our flying Scotsman Ritchie Gardner who was doing just that to finish in an impressive 27th place. Our women's short course team came 41st, and our men's short course placed 21st as the heavens opened on the final field of the day.
In 2025, we hosted BUCS cross country at Cardiff! We had a record number of athletes racing, and it was a great success for the club in both hosting and racing aspects, with our women's short course team finishing 8th, our men's short course and women's long course teams both finishing 13th, and our men's long course team finishing 16th. Highlights included Iris Courtney finishing 18th in the women's short race, and Georgia Palmer finishing 25th in the women's long race.
2023 was a particularly strong year, with the women's team finishing 13th and the men's team 4th, the highest position in the club's history.
BUCS Indoors
It is always a fantastic atmosphere in the cauldron of noise at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Every year, a team of CUACletes make the long journey up to take part in the 3-day indoor track and field championships.
2026 was an impressive year, with eight of our athletes becoming BUCS finalists and winning us those all important BUCS points. The club came away with the men's Triple Jump silver medal won by Nahbi Odeh, who obliterated his own club record. Other highlights included Lauren Hill placing 7th in the women's Triple Jump coming very close to her own club record, Isabella Wigley coming 6th in the 200m, Emma Powell finishing 6th in the women's 3000m, and Ritchie Gardiner coming 5th in the men's 3000m on his BUCS indoors debut.
2025 was a great year with stand-out performances from Grace Morgan, who broke her own club record and placed 4th in the Women's 60m hurdles, Nahbi Odeh who placed 5th in the Men's Triple Jump final, our women's 4x200m team who finished 5th with a new club record, and Tom White who came away with gold in the mascot race.
2022 was a very strong year for the club, taking a 25 person team and coming away with 3 medals! Rory Howorth brought us a bronze in the mascot race, Che Richards a silver in the long jump and James Heneghan became the BUCS indoor 1500m champion.
BUCS Outdoors
BUCS outdoors is another 3-day track and field championship, where CUACletes travel to compete in the very competetive pinnacle of university athletics.
2025 BUCS outdoors was hosted at Manchester, and the university competition season was ended with a very respectable 12th place in overall team scores. Great performances included Lauren Hill coming 8th in the Women's Triple Jump final, and our uni record-breaking women's 4x100m team, who came home with silver medals.
2022 outdoors was again very strong, with BUCS athletics being hosted at Chelmsford. The club came away with a long jump gold medal won by Che Richards and an ambulant long jump medal by Nils Rehm.
Qualifying performances
For BUCS track and field each university can in general only take two athletes per event, and the team is selected by the committee based on recent performances. Some events also have an additional minimum standard set by BUCS. The table below shows the PBs of the athletes that were selected for the BUCS teams in 2022.
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BUCS Indoors
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MALE
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EVENT
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FEMALE
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7.07
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6.91
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60m
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8.08
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22.55
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21.93
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200m
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25.35
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400m
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57.54
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2:06.00
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2:01.00
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800m
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3:54.00
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3:41.00
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1500m
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4:31.00
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4:47.00
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8:31.00
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8:28.00
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3000m
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9:38.00
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12:00.00*
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60mH
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8.65
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9.15
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7.80
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Long Jump
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5.52
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4.93
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High Jump
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12.00*
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14.62
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Triple Jump
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10.00*
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3.50*
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Pole Vault
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2.65*
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7.97
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13.63
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Shot Putt
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BUCS outdoors
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MALE
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EVENT
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FEMALE
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12.81
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10.77
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100m
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12.21
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12.55
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22.24
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21.93
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200m
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24.94
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25.35
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53.52
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400m
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57.54
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58.39
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2:04.00
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800m
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3:54.00
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1500m
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4:31.00
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5:05.00
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14:38.00
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14:33.00
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5000m
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19:00*
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100/110mH
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14.06
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14.67
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63.49
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55.65
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400mH
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10:49.00
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2000/3000mSC
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7.80
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Long Jump
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4.93
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1.97
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High Jump
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12.00*
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14.62
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Triple Jump
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10.00*
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3.50*
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3.73
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Pole Vault
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2.30*
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11.96
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13.63
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Shot Putt
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36.11
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44.22
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Discus
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24.46
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40.03
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Javelin
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51.27
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31.48
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Hammer
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55.13
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54.78
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(*) Minimum performance standards set out by BUCS