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summer's just around the corner and with the warmer season finally kicking in UWA Sports prepared a bunch of fresh spring sport news and programs for you, they are right here at your fingertip!

Uni Sport For Kids (USFK) is a fun and exciting, multi-sport day camp, school holiday program for children aged 5-12. It exposes children to many different sports in a friendly, non-competitive environment.

Sports:

• Athletics
• Basketball
• Floorball
• Badminton
• Cricket
• Dodgeball
• Flying Fox
• Football
• Frisbee
• Giant Swing
• Hockey
• Netball
• Rugby
• Squash
• Softball
• Soccer
• Tennis
• Touch Rugby
• Volleyball
• Taekwon-Do

Dates:

Week 1: 28 September - 2 October
Week 2: 5-9 October
Week 3: 12 October

Prices: from $40

More Information & Contact:
Daniel Ogle
Ph 6488 7935
Email dogle@sport.uwa.edu.au

Download the brochure including enrolment form here.

SOCIAL SPORTS AT SPORT PARK: COME JOIN US!

Get your mates or work colleagues together and enrol as a team in one of the upcoming sporting events! 

• Superturf Social Hockey Competitions
• Soccer and Touch
  
  

Superturf Social Hockey Competitions

The Superturf Hockey Competitions start Monday 12 October for a nine week season. The competitions are generally 7-a side competitions. The following is a list of the competitions that run daily:

Monday: Mixed and family teams
Tuesday: Womens social and competitive teams
Wednesday: Metro Grade teams
Thrusday: Mens social and competitive teams
Friday: Junior teams

Soccer and  Touch

A new social soccer and touch competition held at UWA Sports Park also commences on Monday 12 October and runs for 9 weeks. The competitions are 5-a-side competitions. This competition comprises both competitive and social teams.  

For further information contact Craig Boyce on 044 797 1631 or email cboyce@sport.uwa.edu.au.

2009 AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY GAMES

Athletes attend UWA Team Function

Over 170 athletes from UWA participating in the 2009 Australian University Games attended the UWA Team Function on Tue 1st September held in the Recreation Centre. Athletes in attendance got to hear from acting Head of UWA Sport Science, Exercise and Health Bob Grove about the importance of representing UWA at the National Inter-University Games. The 2009 Team Captains were also officially announced, with special congratulations to Meg Cinnani (Sport Science) a member of the Hockey team who will be attending at her 4th University Games and Sam Maxwell (Law/Commerce) who will be competing at his 5th University Games in Athletics and Tennis. Sam is also the 2009 Sport Council President. A special thanks goes out to Grey Johnston, the Lawn Bowls Captain and Maddie Russel from Beach Volleyball for their professionalism in MC-ing the event.

SSEH: AUG Team Testing  

UWA University Games Athletes were treated to some Sport Science testing on Wednesday 26 August when Sports Science PHD Student Kagan Ducker took athletes though their paces to see which student/sport was the fittest. The testing included a vertical jump test, push ups and everyone's favourite, the shuttle run. Anne Marie Williams (Medicine), representing Soccer took out the Women's competition and Ben Ashford (Commerce) representing Hockey took out the men's competition thanks to an impressive vertical jump and Shuttle Run. Both Anne-Marie and Ben took home prizes of $50 each courtesy of the UWA Sports Shop.

An international sailing program that was launched last week will give more West Australians the opportunity to become involved in one of Australia’s most popular sports.

UWA is pleased to announce the launch of the Western Australia International Sailing Program. This program is a collaboration between UWA and partners including the UWA Sport and Recreation Association, the West Australian Yachting Federation, The Royal Perth Yacht Club and the State Sailing Centre.

The program was launched by UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson, who had the honour of naming the University's Foundation 36 yacht  UWA Centennial.

“The program will offer a huge range of benefits to students, staff and the wider community. There will be sailing opportunities for everyone ranging from social sport to match and fleet racing at a state and national level,” Professor Robson said.

“It will also provide opportunities for training pathways, coaches and officials as well as engineering project and event management skills for students.”

UWA PADDLING CLUB TO BE ESTABLISHED

In 2010 a new sports program at UWA will begin. With the University located right next to the river makes sense to have the UWA Paddling Club for UWA students to call theirs. 

The club would have a competition focus preparing paddlers for the range of community paddling races which are held each year with the aim of members to represent UWA at the Australian University Games.

The Western Australian National Talent Identification (NTID) program for sprint paddling will operate from the UWA Watersports Complex on Wednesday nights and their coach will be available to coach UWA Paddling Club members on that night. Current UWA students who are members of Australian paddling teams will also provide a support role.

The Paddling Club will run programs teaching members the paddling skills required to graduate to the sprint program coaching program.

All paddling equipment will be available at the new Paddling Club including a range of boats for learning paddling skills as well as elite racing craft.

It is proposed that the new club will operate on Wednesday nights starting with paddling skills development programs. Specialist coaching with the NTID coach will operate from 5–6 pm.

If you are interested in joining this new club, contact Nathan Johnston at 6448 1955 or via email nathanj@sport.uwa.edu.au

PRACONNECT

Additional students from WA universities have been taken on by TSWA over the last two months as part of the PracConnect Program.

These students are from UWA School of Exercise, Health and Sport Science and Notre Dame Sport & Recreation Management. Through the PracConnect program these students have been able to get a hands on look at sport administration, organisation and delivery from a Tertiary Sports level.  

The PracConnect Program will be working closely with the Indian Rim Asian University Games to be hosted by UWA in Perth from December 7-11. Additional prac students will be taken on prior to the week of games delivery.

Any students wishing to complete their prac requirements with TSWA and/or associated events such as IRAUG or the Australian University Games (coming to Perth in 2010) should contact Tertiary Sports W.A. by calling 9383 7742 (Tues & Thurs) or e-mail tswa@sport.uwa.edu.au

INTER-FACULTY SPORT

The Inter-Faculty sport calendar has been completed for another year.

Congratulations to all faculties involved, especially to the female, male and overall champions of the competition. The final results were:

FINAL RESULTS (WOMEN):

UNIVERSITY SPORT

The 2009 TSWA Calendar has been completed for another year. TSWA would like to congratulate all of the five member universities on their continued participation this year, with and other TSWA points Championship being taken out by UWA.  

Planning for the 2010 TSWA Calendar is in full swing with the TSWA Council and the Tertiary Sports program once again looking healthy in the lead up to Australian University Games in Perth in 2010. All TSWA competitions have been competed in high quality and great spirit this year and TSWA is looking to delivering another successful year in 2010. From the entire TSWA crew, good luck to all of those participants competing at AUG in the Gold Coast this year.

Upcoming Events Schedule:

Annual Points Tally - UWA wraps up another title…

For the 10th consecutive year UWA has taken out the Tertiary Sport W.A Annual Points Championship. A great result for all the hard work put in by all the Team Leaders. Final results tally was:

UWA - 128 points

ECU - 110 points
Curtin - 99 points
Murdoch - 79 points
Notre Dame - 73 points 

UWA INTER-VARSITY COACH TRANSFERS TO SBL

Kalamunda Eastern Suns are proud to announce that they have appointed Ashley McCormick as Men’s SBL Head Coach for the 2010 SBL season starting immediately

2009 Men’s Head Coach Craig Mansfield is stepping aside to pursue other lines of basketball coaching after taking the team into a successful second season. "We are grateful and thank Craig for his contributions" said KDBA President Peter Hanson.

Hanson said "The Eastern Suns were keen to plan as soon as possible towards 2010 and this is the first step."

"Ash has been a Men’s SBL assistant coach with us for 12 months after spending time playing at Lakeside and then in the US for two years and back to Willetton."

"Back home he has been head coach for the UWA Men’s team and assistant coach to WA Metro Men at the recent Nationals U16 comp and is currently the head coach of our Men’s WABL Division 1 team." Hanson said when speaking of McCormick's credentials.

"As we build our culture we are happy to encourage young players and coaching staff to step up and create the Suns as a force in SBL.  We have shown that we aren't complete rookies in the last 2 seasons and as we listen and learn more of the tricks of the trade we will be tapping the stronger clubs on the shoulder" said Hanson.

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TERTIARY EDUCATION STUDENT GAMES (NITESG)             

UWA clinched the overall Grand Champion position in the 14th NITESG. Competitors from UWA participated in the NITESG, held between the 7th and the 11th of September.

The final results were:

Volleyball: 1st place

Netball: 1st place

Basketball: University of Canberra clinched 1st place

Touch: University of Newcastle clinched 1st first place

Two student athletes from UWA had the distinction of being in the All-Star team: Samantha Shepherd (MVP Volleyball) and Jordan Achee (MVP Basketball). Well done team!

THE GREAT RUN

In sunny conditions and on a new course the 2009 Great Run attracted plenty of interest to see which student would be declared the 2009 Champions. The new course saw runners make 2 laps of the paving around James Oval. The course provided spectators the opportunity to see the whole race unfold.

The women’s race was won by 2nd year Sport Science student Katrina Harris in a time of 3:59 followed by Emily Jasper (Medicine) 12 seconds behind and Tash (Ecoms) in 3rd place.  Katrina had only been told about the race 1 hour prior to the start time thanks to a recruitment campaign by Ben Green in his lab.

The highly anticipated men’s Race saw a number of elite runners in the field.  Sam Maxwell (Ecoms), Neil Berry (Ecoms), Ben Green (Sports Science), Kieran Chute (Law) and defending champion Thomas Bruins (Eng) all tipped to have a chance of winning. The field of ten was nearly reduced to 9 within the first 10 metres as Neil Berry fell to the ground. Neil quickly got back up and within seconds was back near the front.  After the first lap Bruins had a handy lead which he failed to let go, he crossed the line in 2 mins 59 seconds with Maxwell finishing 2nd and Green in 3rd place.

Congratulations to Katrina and Tom for being the 2009 Great Run Champions!

CITY TO SURF

UWA’s team enjoyed some fantastic weather on Sunday August 30 for the 2009 City to Surf. 

The team members had a great day, enjoying a walk, run and catching up at the finish line. The team consisted of 169 UWA staff, students, alumni, family and friends. A special mention is required for Sarah Brown who finished 1st in her age group (19-24) in a time of 3:44:14 in the 42km marathon. Another outstanding marathon runner was Kevin Wild who finished in a time of 4:05:58. Congratulations to every one that was involved, it was great to see the UWA shirts making their way around the course so prominently. 

UWA WATER POLO

Coaches have been appointed for the coming National Water Polo League season commencing in February 2010.

Andrei Kovalenko, triple Olympian, former WAIS Men's Coach and Coach of the Western Australian and Australian Men’s 20 and Under Teams has been appointed to coach UWA Torpedoes, men’s team. Tibor Seress, former Hungarian Junior International and National League winner with the Fremantle Mariners team has been reappointed to coach UWA Comets, women’s team. UWA Torpedoes and Comets are the only teams representing UWA in regular National competition and welcome spectators and supporters to all home games at the UWA Pool at Sport Science Exercise and Health.

Applications are now open!

Students who are interested in applying for a Sports Scholarship may do so at the following link: http://www.sport.uwa.edu.au/apply

Donald Clarke is a 2nd Degree Black Belt holder and UWA graduate who started training at the club as an undergraduate. He has been selected to represent Australia at the upcoming International Tae Kwon Do Federation World Championships which takes place  in Argentina, in November.

Donald will be sparring in the Mens Under 72kg Division, a highly competitive event which has only one representative from each country. He is also the only competitor from WA. 

The Club is running a movie fundraiser, and the details are as follows:

Location: Hoyts Garden City

Movie: Disney Pixar's "Up"

Details: Sunday 27 Sep, 3.30 pm

Tickets will be sold at discount prices, Adults -  $15, Children- $12 

For more information please contact Adeline at 0414 932 609

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