News Archive

The Sydney Uni women’s metro league 1 team continued their march towards to the 2012 premiership with a comfortable 3-1 defeat of Gordon in Sunday’s preliminary final.

The Sydney Uni Waterski & Wakeboard Club (UsydWake) boat will be back on the water this weekend after a very successful 2012/13 season debut on the picturesque Sydney Harbour last Saturday. 

Sydney University Wrestling Club (SUWC) representative Jayden Lawrence will spend the next few weeks deciding which country he will next train in, after receiving numerous offers for training camps following the 2012 World Junior Wrestling Championships.

Sydney Uni’s Prue Watt had to wait eight years to have a Paralympic gold medal placed around her neck, but in London the wait was finally over as she achieved the pinnacle of her swimming career.

The Harry Mahon Trophy is heading over the Tasman for the first time in its 11-year history, as the Sydney University’s men’s eight crew rowed a strategically superior Gallagher Great Race on Sunday.

The Sydney Uni American Football team delivered their most complete team performance of the season to trounce the North Western Predators 48-8, before vowing to continue to improve all facets of their game.

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 University of Sydney has come agonisingly close to defending their 2011 Australian University Championship (AUC) Snow Sports title, after finishing second behind The University of Melbourne following a frenetic final day of action at Mt Buller, Victoria.

University of Sydney swimmer Prue Watt stole the show on the final weekend of the London 2012 Paralympics, winning gold, as University of Sydney athletes finished their collective Paralympic campaigns with an impressive haul of seven medals – the same number as our Olympians.

Day 8 was a massive day of Paralympic action for University of Sydney athletes, with the Gliders winning through to the gold medal women’s wheelchair basketball game and Angela Ballard winning her second medal of the competition on the track.