[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]S3[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Recent successes: Rugby, karate.[ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]Everyone - that is to say the students and the University authorities - is very proud of the sports facilities and not without reason.  The new 3 storey Recreation Centre makes muscles bulge in the strangest places just looking at it.  Even before this was built, the Poly (as it then was) had a pretty good reputation, particularly in outdoor sports.[EITAL][PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]SPORTS FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]30 acres of playing fields (some floodlit); all-weather pitch; floodlit trim trail; sports hall; 4 squash courts; climbing wall; fitness room with multigym; sauna/solarium/steam suite; 2 gyms; golf practice area; archery range; boule, bowls and croquet lawns; floodlit tennis court. All for a £10 membership fee.  And locally: mountains; caves; lakes; the River Taff among others; golf course; and in Ponty, a swimming pool.[HDNG]SPORTING CLUBS:[EHDNG][PARA]Hang-gliding.  Many others are available without joining a club.[HDNG]ATTRACTIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]Rugby Union in Pontypridd.[PARA][PARA]