[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]S3[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Recent successes: Cricket, rugby, rowing, hockey, lacrosse [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]Durham has an excellent sporting record as a glance at the alumni list will testify. [EITAL]The large amount of money spent on sports by the University (ú320,000 in 1993) may have something to do with this. A sabbatical student sports president was elected for the first time last year.[PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]SPORTS FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]Sports hall; 60 acres of playing fields; all-weather pitch; multigym; athletics and running track; gym; croquet lawn and bowling green, tennis and squash courts and the River Wear.[PARA]Durham City also has a public baths and an ice rink .[HDNG]SPORTING CLUBS:[EHDNG][PARA]Aerobics; Women's Badminton; Women's Basketball; Men's Rowing; Women's Rowing; Bridge; Clay Pigeon shooting; Women's Cricket; Fell-running; Fives; Free Fall; Gliding; Hang Gliding; Women's Hockey; Ice Hockey; Ice Skating; Kendo; Lacrosse; Women's Lawn Tennis; Mountaineering; Netball; Orienteering; Real Tennis; Rifles; Women's Rugby; Men's Rugby Union; Men's Rugby League; Speleological (Pot-Holing); Women's Squash; Tenpin Bowling; Volleyball; Water Polo.[PARA]Each college also has its own sporting clubs, including a boat club each.[HDNG]ATTRACTIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]The Durham Regatta is [ITAL]one of the top annual university rowing events (Henley and the Varsity Boat Race are more top)[EITAL]. The ice rink is the home of the Durham Wasps - ice-cool ice-hockey team and Durham is now a 1st class cricketing county [ITAL](put not a very good one)[EITAL]. Some of Durham's Sloanes like to flutter daddy's money on the geegees at Thirsk. [ITAL] As with most things, Newcastle offers more.[EITAL][PARA][PARA]
