Sydney Uni Sport and Fitness

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Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness (SUSF) is the University of Sydney's sporting body.[1] SUSF currently manages and administers more than 40 sport and recreation clubs, also organising sporting and recreation events, and offering student and non-student members a comprehensive range of sporting facilities. SUSF also provides sport scholarships and other support to student-athletes.[2]

Background[]

On January 1, 2003, the Sydney University Sports Union (1890) and the Sydney University Women's Sports Association (1910) amalgamated and created the country's premier tertiary sporting body. In 2008, the organisation was renamed and Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness was launched. Today, SUSF manages and administers more than 40 sport and recreation clubs, organises sporting and recreation events and offers a comprehensive range of sporting facilities to students and the wider Sydney community.

Sporting events run by SUSF include lunchtime social sport, short courses, tennis coaching, learn to swim and a school holiday sports program. Intervarsity Sport competitions, Intercollegiate Sport and Intramural Sport are also run by the organisation.

Since 1990, SUSF has provided sporting scholarships; its Elite Athlete Program (EAP) has helped over 2000 Sydney University student-athletes to find balance and achieve their goals. With access to a comprehensive range of benefits and services and most importantly, the care and encouragement of our staff and community, has helped countless athletes realise their potential. Current student-athletes on the program include Rohan Browning, Nicola McDermott, Hannah Buckling, Carmen Marton and Angus Bell.

Registered clubs[]

Sydney University Football Club, founded in 1863, is the oldest rugby union club in Australia.[3] The club was a member of the inaugural Sydney club competition in 1874. The club currently in the Shute Shield.

In women's basketball, the Sydney Uni Flames compete in the WNBL. The Flames were transferred to owners of the Sydney Kings, TSE, in 2020. The men's and women's water polo clubs also compete in their national leagues.

The cricket club, founded in 1864, has competed in the Sydney Grade Cricket competition since its inception. The University fielded a rugby league team in the New South Wales Rugby League's Sydney premiership from 1920 to 1937. It currently competes in the NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League competition.

The Sydney Uni Baseball Club was established in 1904, and enters three teams in the , which is the highest calibre competition in the state for the winter season. The club also enters a fourth team into the Pacific Coast Baseball League. The baseball team are also reigning champions of the Australian University Games and have established themselves to be the champion team of the current era, winning three gold and once silver in the past four years at Australian University Games events.

The Sydney Uni Boxing Club (SUBxC) was established as an independent club in 1908, having existed prior to this as a division of Sydney Uni Athletics Club (est. 1878).

The (SUFC) was founded in 1945 and is the oldest university fencing club in Australia. The club actively competes in all state and national level tournaments with active members on the international circuit, including several Olympians.

Kendo Club training at HK Ward Gym

The Kendo club[4] actively participates in all regional and national level tournaments, as well as Australian University Games (now Nationals) every year. The club is a member of New South Wales Kendo Association governed by the Australian Kendo Renmei.

The Sydney University Soccer Football Club[5] was founded in 1946. The club fields elite teams for men and women in the Football NSW Super League and Premier League respectively. The club also fields all age men's teams in the Eastern Suburbs Football Association [6] and all age women's teams in the North West Sydney Women's Soccer Association.[7] They also have a number of junior girls' teams and an over 35 men's team.

The Australian rules football club has teams in the Sydney AFL and the women's SWAFL competitions.

The American football club, the , was founded in 1984 and is the most successful club in the Gridiron NSW league, with twenty nine championship game appearances and twenty state titles, including the last sixteen in a row (2003–2018).

Sydney University Cheerleading have won several New South Wales State Championships and were National Champions in 2008. Several of the team's members competed with Team Australia, in the All Girl Elite division, at the International Cheer Union (ICU) Cheerleading World Championships, during April 2013. Through some tough competition, the girls came second only to Canada, in a sport usually dominated by North America.

The Sydney University Taekwondo Club[8] is a World Taekwondo Federation club formed in mid-2001 to cater for students who wish to learn mainstream taekwondo and represent Sydney University at the annual inter-university sporting events, such as Australian University Games.

The Sydney University Handball Club are five times National Champions, five times Oceania Champions and qualified for the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 IHF Super Globe competitions. The men's team has won the State Championship nine times, in 2015, 2014, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 1998. The women's team has won the State Championship also nine times.

References[]

  1. ^ Student Organisations of the University of Sydney
  2. ^ SUSF - About Us Archived 2010-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Sydney University RLFC
  4. ^ USYD Kendo Club
  5. ^ The Sydney University Soccer Football Club
  6. ^ Eastern Suburbs Football Association
  7. ^ North West Sydney Women's Soccer Association Archived 2008-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Sydney University Taekwondo Club (USYDTKD)
  9. ^ Sydney Uni Lions
  10. ^ Sydney Uni Baseball Club
  11. ^ Sydney Uni Boxing Club Archived 2011-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Sydney University Handball Club
  13. ^ Sydney University Soccer Football Club

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