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The Sheffield Bears are a university ice hockey club from Sheffield, England who have teams in BUIHA divisions 1, 2 and 3. They were formed in 2004 and play their home games at iceSheffield. The team's leading sponsor is The AMRC with Boeing. The club are also sponsored by Windows 8, Roland Smith Orthodontics, Walkabout and Sheffield Parties. The Bears are currently Division 2 Southern Conference Play-Off Champions and National Play-Off Runner Ups, and Division 1 National Champions.〔http://www.buiha.org.uk/championships-information/〕 The Bears, like several other member clubs of the BUIHA, are made up of students, 1st year alumni and staff from more than one higher education establishment. Most of the players are affiliated with either The University of Sheffield or Sheffield Hallam University, although current and previous Bears teams have included players from Lincoln University and Barnsley College, amongst others. Once a year, a Varsity Game is played as the showpiece game of the inter-university Winter Varsity cup between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. The club's website is http://www.sheffieldbears.com ==Winter Varsity== Ice Hockey is one of the 30 sports〔http://www.shef.ac.uk/usport/what/clubsport/varsity.html〕 contested in the Varsity series between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. The Match is traditionally the finale of the Winter Varsity series, taking place in February alongside Skiing and Snowboarding. In previous years this has been held at IceSheffield but in 2010 this match was played at the Hallam FM Arena in front of a crowd of 4000 spectators. This made the 2010 the largest varsity sport event ever hosted by the Sheffield universities, and second only to that of the Nottingham Mavericks in terms of numbers. Sheffield Hallam University are the current Ice Hockey Varsity champions, as well as Winter Varsity champions overall for the first time〔http://www.forgetoday.com/page1468/Uni-Lose-In-Varsity-Ice-Hockey-Decider〕 having won the 2010 varsity match 7-4. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheffield Bears」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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