Sport at Surrey

You can try a new sport, improve existing skills or just have fun – professional coaches and instructors are here to help.

Team Surrey is the collective title for everyone involved in sport at the University and brings together hundreds of students regardless of age, gender, nationality or ability.

Sports facilities

• Sports Centre: squash courts, a climbing wall, a fitness centre, a main hall (for ball sports, badminton and aerobics) and several smaller rooms for martial arts, dance and aerobic classes.
• Varsity Centre: sports pitches, squash and all-weather tennis courts, a floodlit artificial turf pitch and a fully licensed bar.
• Manor Park: outline plans include the development of a large sporting complex to further enhance Surrey's sports provision.
• England Squash Regional Centre of Excellence: top-level coaching, training facilities, diet advice and sports massage for a team of elite players (including 2002 Commonwealth Games medallists) competing in the England National Squash League.

Read more about the University of Surrey sports facilities.

The Elite Sports Programme

Surrey is currently expanding its provision of sports bursaries in order to assist talented sportsmen and women to combine their academic interests with sport. The Elite Sports Programme offers bursaries for applicants from any sport and on any degree course.

The University is also part of a new government initiative, the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) and is a lead institution in squash and short track speed skating. An application can be made by anyone who has been accepted onto a University programme, subject to his or her satisfying normal entry requirements.

Campus dance

One of the most comprehensive and fun programmes of participation dance you will find anywhere in the country with up to 20 classes per week in salsa, ballet, African, street dance, tap and much more.

The future of Surrey sport

The University has ambitious plans for a multi-million pound sports centre. The first phase of the development is currently planned for completion by the end of 2009. The centre will play a key role in nurturing sports stars of the future. It will provide elite athletes with the facilities they need to compete at county, national and international level. The new sports centre will be one of the best equipped in the region, providing world-class sports facilities, state-of-the art fitness equipment and unrivalled provision for disability sport.