• Can You Start a Sport at Uni?

    In September 2018, The University of Nottingham won the prestigious ‘Sports University of the Year’ award. This is ,of course, a huge achievement – even on the international scale – but I want to look a bit closer to home and investigate how inclusive sports really is. The university’s...
  • UoN repeat their domination over NTU in the Varsity Squash

    The University of Nottingham battled out a hard fought 5-0 win over Nottingham Trent in the Varsity Squash. After a success ridden season by UoN’s squash teams, with the women’s first team being crowned national champions and the men’s team coming runners up, the tie always looked like it...
  • NTU outclass UoN in landslide win at Kings Meadow

    The main event of the evening, a president versus president bout pitting UoN’s Rajan Samra against Trent’s Alex Davison, was emblematic of NTU’s 7-1 win in the Varsity Thai Boxing event. Samra put everything he could into the contest and never took a step back, but was simply outmatched...
  • Varsity Thai-Boxing Preview

    Thai Boxing is a martial art originating from Thailand that utilises punches, elbows, knees and kicks. The Varsity event will be under N-Class rules, which is full contact but with no elbows or knees to the head. Each of the 8 fights will have 5 rounds, each being 1...
  • Watch: The man hoping to reclaim the Varsity crown for UoN Basketball

    With the BUCS season coming to a climax and the highly anticipated Varsity clash with Nottingham Trent approaching, UoN’s Men’s 1s Basketball team head coach Mindaugas Janiska has a big first few months of 2018 ahead of him. For the 250th edition of Impact, we spoke to the new...
  • Impact interviews UoNAF as Super Bowl 51 touches down

    Super Bowl 51 arrives this Sunday, with the New England Patriots taking on the Atlanta Falcons in what is set to be one of the most exciting Super Bowls of all time. Impact sat down with American Football publicity secretary Edward Hoyle to chat about the game, participation in and...