Both the men's and women's volleyball team also won the national student cup in 2019.
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Student sports teams are known as the Essex Blades and there are 40 clubs covering a range of sports including football, rugby union, netball and cricket, as well as in non-traditional sports such as korfball, ultimate frisbee, pole dancing and cheerleading. 
 Essex invests significantly in three 'focus sports', volleyball, basketball and rugby sevens. National successes in these sports include winning the men’s team winning the Volleyball England National Student Cup in 2017 and the women’s basketball team winning the Basketball England National Cup in 2016. The men’s basketball team won the Basketball England National League Division 4 and the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) National Trophy in 2017. In 2019 the men's volleyball team became the first Essex team to win the British University and Colleges (BUCS) national final.