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Tennis ace Greg Rusedski praises sports facilities at Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
Former Great Britain tennis star Greg Rusedski held a special mentoring programme at the Scottish National Tennis Centre on campus at the University of Stirling last week.
Desert delight as Stirling students dominate in Abu Dhabi
University of Stirling’s men’s golf team dominated the final standings at the Yas Links Men’s Open in Abu Dhabi.
Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence helps launch mission to build a team of young leaders for Glasgow 2014 and for Scotland
University of Stirling students and scholarship athletes helped launch the ground-breaking Lead 2014 youth leadership and volunteering campaign ahead of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Sports facilities and services
The University is a great place for sport, with a comprehensive collection of sports facilities on our scenic campus. We offer lots of classes to meet your sports and fitness requirements and provide great value sports centre memberships.
Athlete support
Stirling is recognised as a centre of excellence training elite athletes. We are home to national training centres in football, swimming, tennis and triathlon.
Leading athletes, including our own students, benefit from the first class facilities and performance sport services, shaped by our research in sport, health and exercise science.
Stirling also runs an International Sports Scholarship Programme and manages Winning Students, the national sport scholarship programme for students in colleges and universities across Scotland.
Publications
Our annual review provides an overview of developments at Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence.
You can also download our Sport at Stirling factsheet which outlines the work we do across performance, participation, research and much more.
The University of Stirling is widely recognised as an institution that has sport very much at the heart of its identity, making it the ideal choice as Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs