Sport
The university's sporting Roll of Honour includes over 300 International performers from 30 different sports. The Roll includes:
- 7 Captains of the Welsh Rugby Team
- 15 British Lions
- 7 National Rugby Coaches
- 25 Netball Internationals
- International Gymnastics Coaches who produced British Internationals for every Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic championship from 1976–1992
- Technical Directors for GB Gymnastics, English Swimming and the England and Wales Cricket Board
National coaches for athletics, basketball and weightlifting
- 7 Welsh, 2 English, 1 Scottish and 1 Irish squash internationals
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
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The End”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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