As part of This Girl Can Week our Social Sport activator Megan Higgs us takes us through barriers facing females in sport:

Team Northumbria pulled off one of the WBBL shocks of the season after bringing down arch rivals Sheffield Hatters at Sport Central. The Steel City side arrived on Tyneside sitting pretty in second place with just two top flight losses all season. And the Hatters made their second visit to...

Northumbria University Athletics closed out the BUCS Indoor Nationals by placing in seven different events - in addition to gaining a gold and bronze medal in the men’s long jump and women’s high jump respectively. “Everyone has done really well,” said Northumbria...

A number of past and present Northumbria students will be playing in Newcastle United’s biggest fixture in history this weekend.

An introduction from our new Head of Sport and Exercise, Katy Storie.   I wanted to introduce myself to everyone involved with Northumbria Sport to let you know how excited I am about my new role as Head of Sport and Exercise at Northumbria University.

Supersub Scott Gunn fired Team Northumbria to a tight 2-1 win against derby rivals Heaton Stannington on an afternoon when the title-chasing hosts never hit their stride. With the clock ticking down it looked like a game of two halves would end all square. But an increasingly dominant TN...

Team Northumbria’s Croatian captain has warned the club’s volleyball rivals that the Sport Central side has targeted a clean sweep of domestic honours this season. Jurja Vlasic is one of only two returning players on Dave Goodchild’s women’s roster. And the...

M1 Rugby Union led the way and tomorrow sees Northumbria resume one of the biggest rivaliries in university sport when Loughborough send a slew of sides north. What can only be described as a belting BUCS Wednesday includes standout fixtures against the East Midlanders across several...

Beaten but unbowed Chris Bunten paid tribute to his battling players as an injury-hit Team Northumbria narrowly missed out on a big WBBL win. The hosts came within a whisker of defeating in-form Manchester Mystics only to go down 72-70 at the death. TN went into the Sport Central clash...

Jake Birkett will continue in the pursuit of his first Stan Calvert victory in two weeks, when he and the rest of the M1 cricket team seek revenge after last year’s disappointment. It was a close encounter last time around – Newcastle’s bowling attack, the only difference...