University sport is where Sportmeets’ roots are. Over the last five years at Glasgow Uni we’ve played actively volleyball, football and squash, tried kayaks and lawn bowls, gone hiking, climbing and running, and even attended exercise and salsa classes (I am not sure about Miro, but I did!), so there’s quite a bit of personal experience in what we do now. We know that there’s much to improve in how students go about finding others to play a squash game with or participate in a university squash ladder. We also know that the captain of the volleyball club still has to send out at least 5 email reminders till they get everyone to confirm their attendance for the Sunday match and that there are over 50 contacts on the mailing list although there were never more than 15 people at the training session. This and much more is what we set out to improve with the Sportmeets project. And there’s no better place to tell the right people about it than the annual conference of the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS).

This year’s conference will be held at the Keele University in Staffordshire between 13th and 16th July. The theme of the conference is about finding innovative ways of delivering sports at the universities, to which Sportmeets certainly has a lot to say. With over 100 UK universities represented by their sports union presidents, directors of sport, and sport development officers, it will be an exciting event and we’re looking forward to see more and more students and universities discovering the benefits of Sportmeets soon!