170:. In recent years the club has also been represented at international competition, including the Grand Prix Moravie held in Brno, Czech Republic. For the years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 the BULSCA championships at Swansea and Bristol respectively also played host to a team representing Greek Universities.
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Competitive lifesaving between clubs at universities across
Britain began as a small collaboration between rival clubs over 15 years ago and quickly expanded as more clubs became involved. The formation of BULSCA in 2002 was in response to this growing popularity of lifesaving sport at universities;
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BULSCA has also provided volunteers for events such as the London
Triathlon, the Blenheim Triathlon, the RLSS’s ‘Save a Baby’s Life’ and ‘Get Safe 4 Summer‘ campaigns, along with many more local small scale events. Although BULSCA predominantly exists to run the league and championships, BULSCA are
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BULSCA also host BULSCA Student
National Championships every year. This competition takes place over 2 days with teams competing in squads of 12 (6 male and 6 female rather than the usual teams of 4 mixed). On the Saturday teams compete in speed lifesaving events in teams and individually. On the
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term dates, i.e. from
October to Christmas and from January to May. Each competition is hosted by one of the member clubs. Clubs typically enter one or two teams (an "A" and "B" team), and each year there is both a league for A and B teams. A full list of league results can be found here.
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It is now not uncommon to see 20 to 30 teams at a majority of the competitions. In addition, to the BULSCA league, BULSCA introduced the
Student Nationals, a full weekend of competition combining both speed events and traditional events.
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Student National Championships, and other regional, national and international competitions.
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As BULSCA grew in size and ambition it became necessary to form a full committee, made up of a mixture of current BULSCA members and BULSCA “old boys”. This was formed in 2007.
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with the university lifesaving league being established in the 2002/03 season to provide a connection between the various competitions hosted by the universities over a season.
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now making efforts to run courses which will aid members through their lifesaving time, and to encourage participation in
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Hosting universities have some flexibility with these events, having to include at least one of the following events.
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Competitions take place throughout the year in line with
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736:4 x 25m Manikin Carry
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807:"Contacts in BULSCA"
741:4 x 50m Medley Relay
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817:2009-05-04
779:References
684:Line Throw
209:University
140:University
136:lifesaving
94:Main organ
88:Ell Murray
54:lifesaving
50:University
30:Formation
156:Scotland
78:19 clubs
174:History
168:Ireland
152:England
113:Website
52:-level
46:Purpose
158:, and
118:bulsca
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160:Wales
84:Chair
56:sport
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