[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]S3[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Recent successes: Golf, netball, curling, swimming. [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]Stirling offers a successful sports bursary scheme, which has [PARA]brought many honours to the University. One of SUSA's 4 [PARA]sabbaticals runs the Sports Union which offers excellent sports [PARA]facilities, including the loch, which, although it's mainly there to [PARA]look pretty, does very well for canoeists, sailors, anglers and [PARA]skinny dippers (actually it's a bit too chilly for that). The Scottish [PARA]National Tennis Centre is on campus and tuition for many sports.[PARA]Golf is the students' favourite sport.[EITAL][ITAL][HDNG]SPORTS FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]23 acres of playing fields; sports hall; squash courts; athletics [PARA]field; loch; croquet lawn/bowling green; swimming pool; tennis [PARA]courts; all-weather pitch; multigym; running track; 9 hole golf [PARA]course; sauna and solarium. The town also adds a curling and [PARA]skating rink, Ten Pin bowling and the River Forth. Skiing facilities [PARA]are close by.[HDNG]SPORTING CLUBS:[EHDNG][PARA]American Football; Croquet; Curling; Rifle; Rowing; Senokal; [PARA]Softball; Tae Kwan Do; Ten Pin Bowling; Tenshinkan; Wado-Ryu;[PARA]Waterskiing, Windsurfing.[HDNG]ATTRACTIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]The local teams are, for rugby, Stirling County, and for football, [PARA]Stirling Albion. There's local greyhound racing.
