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Last night, at Homebush Athletics track, was a massive night for Sydney Uni Athletics’ stars – James Nipperess and Lara Tamsett! As they took out first place in the Men’s 5000m and the Women’s 5000m respectively, at the NSW Open Championships.

Sydney University Football Club will have three players in the starting line-up and four on the bench when NSW Waratahs take on Queensland in the first Super 14 trial for 2009, to be played at Toowoomba on Saturday.

Record-breaking Sydney University Football Club winger Peter Playford has signed to play for the NSW Waratahs for the 2009 Super 14 season.

Despite losing a close encounter of the third kind to Logan Thunder in Brisbane on Sunday, the ACUVUE Sydney University Flames are still a chance of making the semi-finals with five rounds of the 2008-09 Women’s National Basketball League to be played.

A gallant, unbeaten 144 from opener Will Hay helped Sydney University to first innings points over UNSW in their two-day, round 10 fixture at Sydney University No.1 Oval.

Sydney University opener Greg Mail hit centuries in each innings as NSW Second XI pulled off a remarkable outright win over South Australia in their four-day match at Adelaide Oval, finishing on Friday.

Former Sydney University Sports Scholarship holder Julia Boland created history at Belmont Golf Club on Sunday when she became the first player to successfully defend the Lake Macquarie Women’s Amateur Championship.

The NSW Age Championships saw the largest contingent of swimmers from Sydney University for many years over the weekend. Led by Nicole Libardo, Taylor Aiken and Sam McConnell, the trio competed in the 13 to 18 year old age group.

The University of Sydney remains as the last university with a surviving club in NSW and one of only a few active university clubs in Australia. The Sydney Uni Sailing Club almost collapsed in 2007 but since 2008 has slowly been rebuilt, establishing a strong membership base and holding a number of successful events.

Sydney University openers Will Hay and Ben Larkin have the job ahead of them next Saturday in the chase to overhaul the imposing 286 posted by UNSW on the first day of the two-day Sydney Grade Cricket fixture at Sydney University No.1 Oval.