{"id":9093,"date":"2018-11-06T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2021-11-10T17:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:11:41","slug":"how-the-bu-sport-scholarship-has-helped-me-achieve-my-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/11\/06\/how-the-bu-sport-scholarship-has-helped-me-achieve-my-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"How the BU Sport Scholarship has helped me achieve my dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issa Batrane took a few minutes to tell us how he is pursuing his academic and sporting ambitions whilst studying BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology and how the Sports Scholarship helped.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Degrees of difference - Bourne to Excel\" width=\"837\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HeWz6s5y4Qk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BU was an easy choice for me. The first\u00a0reason was because the placement\u00a0opportunities that my course provided were better than the other 4\u00a0universities that wanted to recruit me but also\u00a0Bournemouth was the central location for Beach Volleyball (as the England Head Coach is based in Bournemouth). I was fortunate enough to hear about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/fees-funding\/scholarships\/international-student-scholarships\/bu-sport-scholarship\">BU Sport Scholarship<\/a>\u00a0 through some past sports\u00a0scholars who were still apart of the Senior England Beach Volleyball Pathway and had studied at BU and to this day I am so pleased I heard about it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9094 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane5.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The funding support I have received throughout my time at BU has helped me so much. Beach Volleyball doesn&#8217;t get much funding support from our national governing body post the 2012 Olympic Games so without it, I really wouldn&#8217;t have been able to be where I am today. All the funding\u00a0received from my BU Sports Scholarship along with external sponsors has helped fund my training and competitions in order to go out and excel in my sport.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0future ambitions are to compete in a major games for Team England and Team GB at the highest senior level in my sport, and with the help BU has provided, I am getting\u00a0 closer to this\u00a0goal year by year. It is really something that can\u2019t be summed up in words but instead only shown in my progress and development. Whatever your goals, whatever your aspirations, BU can help you reach yours.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9096\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane3-300x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane3-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane3-768x263.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2018\/11\/IssaBatrane3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issa Batrane took a few minutes to tell us how he is pursuing his academic and sporting ambitions whilst studying BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology and how the Sports Scholarship helped. BU was an easy choice for me. The first\u00a0reason was because the placement\u00a0opportunities that my course provided were better than the other 4\u00a0universities that&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/11\/06\/how-the-bu-sport-scholarship-has-helped-me-achieve-my-dreams\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about How the BU Sport Scholarship has helped me achieve my dreams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":9097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1658],"tags":[349,676],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-blog-archive","tag-bu-sport","tag-bu-sport-scholarship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9301,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}