CitySport (Sport and Wellness) – City St George’s Clerkenwell Sports Facility hosted the inaugural Staff Sports Day on Tuesday 30th June. Twenty-Eight departments and schools across the university were represented, in which 18 teams competed to be crowned the winners!
[Photo: Group Photo of all teams involved in Staff Sports Day 2026]
Organised by the university’s Sport and Wellness Service, the afternoon of activity consisted of playground-style sports and games, instead of your traditional football or badminton tournaments. This included space hopper noughts-and-crosses races, obstacle courses whilst blindfolded, netball shooting challenges and bench ball.
Although a fun, friendly afternoon was the goal, there was an ultimate winner. Congratulations to the CitySport Team, who took a victory by the decider of Basketball shootout.
[Photo: Mo Alfarzan holding Staff Sports Day Winning Shield]
Team CitySport; The winners: Shane Santillan, Ryan Towner, Wesley Hutchins, Tiziana Spizzico, Mo Alfarzan.
Shane Santillan (Duty Manager Experience and winning team captain) said:
“I had a great time participating and seeing everyone’s competitive side. Super proud of my team, we look forward to seeing what’s in for next year’s Staff Sports Day”
[Photo: Jazzminton Activity]
Top spot on the league table changed multiple times throughout Students Union entered the final round knowing a win would give them the title, however, a huge victory for SST against them in the blind penalty shootout meant they took the top spot instead. Several wins in the last few rounds meant CitySport rushed up the leaderboard.
After 9 rounds of activity, a tie for first decider of a basketball shootout, first to land a basket would win. Team captain Shane took responsibility to shoot first and she scored as SST unfortunately missed.
Special shout out for team name of the day: Ctrl + Alt + Elite
For many staff, this was their first team visiting CitySport. Next year, Sport and Wellness will continue to offer the hugely discounted memberships, as well as launch more programmes to support staff health and wellbeing. Keep an eye out for our Wellness Wednesdays free gym access, new staff-only free weekly sport sessions, health screening roadshows, and more sports events and tournaments!
If you were a Sports Day participant and had any feedback about the event, or a colleague within the university and would like to request or discuss more opportunities for our university community, please contact Marjana Rima, Operations and Programmes Manager, marjana.rima@citystgeorges.ac.uk.