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The 2025 World Indoor Champion and current European and UK Indoor 60m champion, Jeremiah Azu, is no longer a promising sprinter, he is a proven one. The former Cardiff Met student has moved into the highest level of British and international sprinting, and his recent form has only reinforced that status. 2025 was a breakthrough year, launching Azu into becoming one of the standout names in Welsh Athletics. He also broke new ground in 2024 by becoming the first Welsh athlete t

Cardiff Met’s Head of Strength and Conditioning, Dai Watts, has been shortlisted for the TASS Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year award for 2026. Dai is one of three practitioners named on the national shortlist, alongside Max Honigsbaum and Sam Millard, following a nomination process that received more than 100 submissions from across the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme network. The winners will be announced at the TASS Conference 2026, which takes place at North

Cardiff played host to the 28th GB Masters Basketball Championships this weekend, with Wales entering a Women's 40+ team for the first time and enjoying a highly successful campaign, winning three of their four games. The team was led by Cardiff Met's Head of Basketball, Sarah Wagstaff, who coached the side throughout the tournament. The squad's strong performances reflected not only the quality of Welsh basketball but also the significant contribution that Cardiff Met Sport

Cardiff Met Sport and Met Community are proud to support Drowning Prevention Week (13–20 June 2026), a national campaign dedicated to raising awareness of water safety and helping to prevent avoidable accidents. Delivered by the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), Drowning Prevention Week is the UK’s largest annual water safety campaign. It focuses on equipping children and young people with essential knowledge and skills ahead of the summer holidays, when time spent arou

Cardiff Archers Athletics Club delivered a superb team performance at the recent Welsh Age Group Championships in Deeside, finishing second in the overall medal table after a weekend packed with outstanding performances, personal bests, and championship success and a total medal haul of 37 medals. Competing against the very best young athletes from across Wales, Cardiff Archers once again demonstrated the strength and depth of the club’s thriving junior programme. Athletes

Cardiff Met Tennis will deliver a series of summer tennis camps across Cyncoed Campus and Llandaff Fields this summer, offering junior players the chance to learn, improve and enjoy the game in a fun and supportive environment. BOOK NOW The camps are open to players of all ages and abilities, from those picking up a racket for the first time to more experienced juniors looking to develop their skills and gain more match-play experience. Led by qualified and experienced coache

Following our recent update on progress towards a Cardiff Local Authority School Sport Survey report, we are pleased to share further positive developments, with more schools completing the survey and prize winners now being announced. The continued engagement from schools across Cardiff is helping to strengthen the overall dataset, ensuring the city moves closer to producing a robust and representative Local Authority report on young people’s experiences of sport and physica

Sporting Libraries are a warm, welcoming way to help children and families discover the joy of being active. Built on a simple idea, the initiative removes common barriers to physical activity by letting families borrow sports and play equipment free of charge from familiar community spaces such as libraries, community centres and family hubs. By taking away the cost of buying equipment, Sporting Libraries make being active feel possible, inviting and stress free for everyone

Cardiff Metropolitan University has been recognised as part of an award-winning partnership at the Welsh Sport Association Sport Industry Awards 2026, with the Team Wales LeadHERship Programme winning the Best Collaboration Initiative award. The programme, delivered by Team Wales in partnership with Cardiff Met and RBC Brewin Dolphin, was recognised for bringing together sport and business to support, empower and develop the next generation of women leaders. The award was pre

Cardiff Metropolitan University will play a central role in the opening day of the King’s Baton Relay in Wales, as the Baton arrives on campus for the official Team Wales media event ahead of Glasgow 2026. Taking place on Friday 19 June, the visit will see Cardiff Met welcome Team Wales, athletes, media and invited guests to Cyncoed Campus for one of the most significant moments in the build-up to next summer’s Commonwealth Games. The event will include the formal welcome of

Pipyn Actif began as a whole-system approach to support healthier futures for families across Cardiff — focusing not only on movement, but also on creating healthy eating habits in young families and improving access to nutritious food. At its heart, it is about shaping environments where families can thrive. One of the initiatives growing from this work is Move More Communities (Move More with Mum), which complements the wider Pipyn Actif programme by focusing specifically o

The FAW CPD training and football festival provided an opportunity to step beyond the classroom and experience football development in a real community setting. Through the partnership between the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and Cardiff Met, I was able to apply coaching knowledge in practice, work directly with children, and better understand the impact football can have on participation and confidence. The FAW CPD training focused on developing coaching and leadershi

Cardiff Met FC’s men’s and women’s teams can now begin preparations for the 2026/27 season after the Football Association of Wales confirmed the key dates for the new JD Cymru Leagues and Genero Adran Leagues campaigns. The Cardiff Met men will once again compete in the JD Cymru Premier, with the new season set to begin over the weekend of 31 July to 2 August 2026. The campaign will include a winter break from 8 to 21 January 2027, before the final round of Phase One fixtures

Sports clubs and community groups across Cardiff are being invited to apply for the Cardiff Capital Grant 2026, a funding opportunity designed to support the development and improvement of facilities, equipment and spaces that help local communities take part in sport and physical activity with grants of up to £20,000 available. For further information, eligibility guidance and application details, please contact: metcommunity@cardiffmet.ac.uk Funded by Cardiff Council and ad

Cardiff Met’s Cyncoed Campus will welcome coaches from across the basketball community this summer as the first Cardiff International Coaches Clinic takes place at Archers Arena on Saturday 4 July 2026. Buy Your Ticket The event, led by Cardiff Met Archers Basketball Coach and Wales U15 Women’s Head Coach Pentxo Cervantes, has been designed to give coaches practical, on-court learning from experienced international coaches working across professional, national team and player

Former Cardiff Met student, Millie Carter, has a journey that reflects how impactful a university netball environment can be. Versatile defender, Carter, made her Welsh debut as a talented youngster when representing Wales at U17 level and later captained the U21 Welsh team at the European Championship. But it was through the Archers programme at Cardiff Met, juggling a degree in Sport conditioning, Rehabilitation and Massage (SCRAM) with high-level competition, where Cart

Cardiff Met alumnus Asa Tribe has continued his impressive rise after scoring a superb century for England Lions against South Africa A this summer. The Glamorgan opener made 135 at Arundel in testing conditions, producing a composed and mature innings against a South Africa A side featuring players with Test cricket experience. It was another important moment in Tribe’s development, with the former Cardiff Met student continuing to push his case at Lions level. Asa Tribe in

Firstly, this experience started with theoretical and practical training to provide useful tools for myself and other students looking to gain an outstanding opportunity and experience with the FAW and Cardiff Met Sport. This opportunity provided us students to gain a new qualification within the FAW known as ‘The CicStart Framework’. Its purpose is to provide coaches and educators with relevant tools on inclusive football practice with 10 game approaches. The football festiv

A large group of Cardiff Met Sport Broadcast students and alumni are set to play their part in one of the biggest sports media operations in the world this summer, with current and former students involved in broadcast roles connected to the FIFA World Cup. Two Cardiff Met graduates and four current students from the MSc Sport Broadcast programme will be working for FIFA Host Broadcast Services at the FIFA / HBS London production headquarters in Olympic Park for seven weeks

Adele Nicoll has never been an athlete fulfilled with taking the obvious route. The former Cardiff Met student first established a reputation in athletics, developing as a shot putter while studying at the university and building the power, technique and competitive edge that would later help her become a multiple-time British champion. Before then, her sporting career took an unexpected turn when videos of her impressive training regime caught the attention of the British Bo