Hartpury Sport
Hartpury operates a large sports programme at both university and U18 level. There are academies in rugby union, football, netball, golf, modern pentathlon and rowing, and the college consistently ranks amongst the country's elite in many of those sports.
Hartpury College's Director of Elite Sport (since early 2012) is Phil de Glanville. After gaining a Blue at Oxford University, Phil enjoyed a long and successful career in Rugby Union, captaining Bath RFC and appearing 38 times for England, who he also skippered. Since his retirement from the game, he worked for Sport England before joining Hartpury.
Hartpury offers a number of scholarships and bursaries to national and international students of exceptional athletic ability.
Facilities at the college include a Sports Academy Centre, grass football and rugby pitches, human performance laboratory, sports rehabilitation suite, rugby and football floodlit rubber crumbs, golf driving range, golf swing studio and short game practice areas, Modern Pentathlon Combined Event range, fitness and power gyms, performance analysis suite, a nine hole pitch-and-putt golf, squash court, tennis court, and an outdoor swimming pool.
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