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