The College of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has strengthened its relationship with Preston Grasshoppers RFC by making Lightfoot Inexpertised its new house for rugby union teaching and matches.
All of UCLan’s males’s And womales’s rugby union groups will play their BUCS League fixtures at Hoppers, collectively with utilising the State-of-the-artwork 4G AstroTurf typically reserved for the Grasshoppers males’s first group, And luxuriate ining submit-match hospitality with visiting groups Inside the Membership’s bar and lounge.
The gamers Can additionally acquire free membership to the Membership, permitting them to play for Preston Grasshoppers aprolongedsideside their College group.
“We’ve been made to really feel actually welcome And might’t wait to proceed To assemble our hyperlinks between College rugby and that of Preston Grasshoppers.“— Katie Sanderson, UCLan womales’s rugby union participant
Katie Sanderson, Vice chairman of Actions for UCLan College students’ Union (SU), additionally performs for the UCLan womales’s rugby union group. She sassist: “It’s good To have The power To make the most of the amenities of such a properly-established native club. We’ve been made to really feel actually welcome And might’t wait to proceed To assemble our hyperlinks between College rugby and that of Preston Grasshoppers.”
The transfer marks ancompletely different milestone in UCLan’s prolonged-standing affiliation with the rugby club, with students already gaining teaching, first assist and journalism expertise by way of Hoppers.
Preston Grasshoppers’ Widespread Supervisor Richard Ellis sassist: “We’re delighted to proceed and enhance our prolonged-working relationship with UCLan.
“We’re delighted to proceed and enhance our prolonged-working relationship with UCLan.“— Preston Grasshoppers’ Widespread Supervisor Richard Ellis
“We Have already acquired students gaining useful first assist expertise with our mini-junior rugby part on a Sunday, and We now have journalism students overlaying matches for us too. We hope The students take pleasure in coming to Preston Grasshoppers And are out there aprolongedside at completely different occasions To socialize And luxuriate in A primary group match.”
As properly as, UCLan’s archery and squash groups Can additionally make Grasshoppers their new house and make use of the Membership’s multipurpose rifle differ and squash courts.
Dr Adrian Ibbetson, Director of Sport at UCLan, sassist: “We’re actually excited To enhance our already worthwhile relationship with Preston Grasshoppers. It means our students Can’t solely utilise the Membership’s fantastic amenities For his or her College house matches, They will additionally practice with and play for a Membership with An excellent popularity for expertise enhancemalest.”
UCLan will current a shuttle service For school youngsters from the Preston Campus to Lightfoot Inexpertised on teaching and match days.