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Reading Knights

The Reading Knights were a founding member of the BCAFL’s Southern Conference and are one of the oldest collegiate teams in the UK.

Before the 2007/08 season, they had suffered through twenty straight losing seasons and had never made it to the  playoffs (although they did play in the Southern Plate competition in 1999-2000). However, the BUAFL era has seen the Knights take big strides culminating in their play-off qualification in 2009 where they narrowly lost to the UWE Bullets.

Some of the Knights proudest moments of the past include:

• The outstanding play of ‘old-boy’Jihad Jaafar who represented the team for the Great Britain Bulldogs in both 1993 & 1994
• Their previous best record teams of 99/00 & 02/03
• Sending current Head Coach Drew Cameron to the GB Bulldogs team of 2004
• Kenny Cooling and Chris Beech representing the Southern All-stars in 2005, and Eddy Loughton being chosen to represent Team South in the inaugural BUAFL MVP game.
• Reading was also the home of the first Team South training camp in the BUAFL era.
• Reading made the play-offs in 2009, narrowly losing to the UWE Bullets

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The University of Reading is ranked as one of the UK’s 10 most research-intensive universities and as one of the top 200 universities in the world and enjoy a world-class reputation for teaching, research and enterprise.

Established as an extension college of Christ Church, Oxford in 1892, we received a Royal Charter in 1926, the only university to do so between the two world wars.

Important achievements include being the first university to win the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement (1989) and twice receiving the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education (1998 and 2006). The quality and diversity of our research is recognised nationally and internationally, with a number of our researchers receiving awards for their work. We are home to several centres of excellence and conduct world-class research across a broad range of disciplines. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise 20 departments received a rating of 5 and above with our Archaeology, English, Italian, Meteorology and Psychology Schools gaining a 5** rating – indicating the highest international quality sustained over more than a decade.

Notable Alumni include such sports and broadcasting personalities as Julian Barrett, Richard Holmes, Cath Bishop, Will Hoy and James cracknel, and academic names including Kevin Warwick and Sir Frank Stenton.