Lucy Boulton, a former sports scholar, is in the Great Britain Beach Volleyball team. She competed at the World Championships in Norway in June 2009 and is currently competing full time on FIVB World Tour.

Tom Carson is one of our hockey sports scholars. He has played for the England under 21 hockey side and won caps both in the Great Britain Super League and at England A level.

Performance sport

The University of Exeter is one of the leading sporting institutions in the UK. It boasts some of the best facilities in the South West and was placed eight out of 145 in the 2010/11 British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) ranking.

The University High Performance Programme (HPP) helps attract and develop some of the best young sports men and women in the country. It oversees the development and delivery of our elite sporting infrastructure including the management of our focus sports and flagship Sports Scholarship Scheme.

There are currently more than 300 athletes across our 10 sports on the HPP including more than 50 University sports scholars. It has helped Exeter Sport achieve many of its recent notable successes:

  • BUCS champions or individual medal winners in golf, hockey, rowing, rugby 7s, sailing, surfing, swimming and windsurfing.
  • Six former HPP athletes represented their respective nations at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi; four recent HPP graduates are professional cricketers and three are professional golfers.
  • Further afield, we are proud to support athletes who are members of the Great Britain para-cycling squad; members of the GB beach volleyball squad; England students men’s rugby, England under 20s and England A women’s rugby squads as well as England under 21 and England A men’s hockey squads.

Tom Carson

The decision to choose Exeter as the destination to continue my studies and hockey was not a hard one. At Exeter I train and play against world class athletes week in week out.

As a sports scholar I have received top class support both physiologically and psychologically in a number of ways including strength and conditioning sessions, nutrition workshops as well as meetings with coaches, mentors and tutors who are always very approachable.

During my time at Exeter we have won the BUCS Championships twice. I have also been fortunate to represent the England under 21 hockey side in Germany alongside winning caps both in the Great Britain Super League and at England A level.

Around the picturesque campus you constantly see smiling faces that stop, say hi, and chat to you about recent matches and University experiences. This is one of the best things about Exeter - the community.

Tom Carson, third year BA Management with Marketing

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High performance news updates

The sporting successes and achievements of athletes included on the High Performance Programme are reported in our monthly sports update.

2012

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