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Sydney University Australian National Football Club’s (SUANFC) Seniors, Reserves, Blues, Reds and Under 18 Colts all won their games last weekend for the first time this year.

Defending Shute Shield premiers Sydney University took over the competition lead on Saturday with their 59-18 win over Southern Districts leap-frogging them over Manly, who suffered a 23-7 loss to Warringah.

Sydney University issued a successful right of challenge to win a Division Three grand final in the Sydney Men’s Badge Tennis competition at Strathfield on Saturday.

When flanker Phil Waugh received the ultimate rugby honour of captaining the famous Barbarians in matches against England and Australia in June, he kicked off a remarkable month in Sydney University sport.

Sydney University silenced the parochial peninsular fans at Pittwater Rugby Park on Saturday when they scored a converted try after the bell to snatch a 31-29 win.

Sydney University came away with gold and silver after three days of intense competition, in temperatures below 10 degrees, at the recent Eastern University Games in Bathurst.

Sydney University was represented by 10 players at the Women’s Rugby National Championships, recently played at Tallebadgera.

After the success of a yard stick fleet racing regatta in April which attracted nine universities to Sydney, a teams racing regatta has been announced for the 2nd to the 4th of October.

Sydney University Rugby League maintained their lead in the NSW Tertiary Cup competition when they accounted for UTS Tigers 26-22 in a recent top-of-the-table clash at St. John’s Oval.

Kiera Shiels, a chemical engineering-commerce student at Sydney University, has won a bronze medal with the Australian women’s basketball team at the 2009 World University Summer Games in Belgrade, Serbia.