News Archive

Sydney University’s Grandstand Bar was full of Olympic greats past and present on Thursday night, as the Sydney University Boat Club (SUBC) and SUSF welcomed the Great Britain Rowing team to Sydney as they prepared for the 2013 Sydney World Cup event later this month.

Sydney Uni Boxing Club (SUBxC) representative Leonie Lum is a dual title holder after being crowned League Boxing Inc. NSW Central Coast women’s lightweight Champion following a unanimous decision victory last weekend.

All nine Sydney University Boat Club (SUBC) rowers selected in the Australian Rowing team for the World Cup will take part in three day camps this weekend as they prepare for the first World Cup of Rowing for 2013, which will be held at the Sydney International Regatta Centre at Penrith on March 23-24.

Sydney Uni WheelKings Head Coach Gerry Hewson might have to make do without four of his starting five players for the second round of the 2013 National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL), after they were selected in the U23’s men’s wheelchair basketball training squad that will for the U23’s World Championships in Turkey this September.

Sydney University will be relying on its women’s cricket sides to fill the trophy cabinets for the 2012-13 season, with three of the four teams on track for semi-final berths with a round to play.

The Sydney Uni Lions women’s water polo team experienced mixed fortunes in their National League Sydney double, winning one game and losing the other to sit in seventh place on the ladder. 

It has taken 75 years but an all-female crew, skippered by SUSF Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship holder Alex South, has finally blown their way into the high-speed world of 18-foot skiff racing on Sydney Harbour.

Scoreboard is a wrap-up of the efforts of Sydney University athletes and teams through the past week, compiled by Graham Croker. Stories on some of the performances also appear in the News section.

The Sydney University Athletics Club (SUAC) has topped the medal tally for the second consecutive year at the NSW State Championships, finishing with an enormous haul of 17 medals during the three day event.

Murray Stewart and the rest of the Australian men’s K4 1000m crew that won Olympic gold in London returned to action over the weekend at the third Australian canoe sprint grand prix, and experienced instant success.