News archive 2010 |
The latest high performance news can now be read on the UQ Sport news blog. For older articles see below.
December
UQ Powerlifter off to Oceania Championships
Commonwealth, Oceania and National bench press powerlifting record holder and champion, Lev Susany is bound for Samoa this week to contest the Oceania Powerlifting Championships. Read more.
November
UQ Soccer Club Captain: awarded Player of the Year
The University of Queensland Football Club (UQFC) stole the show at the 2010 Football Brisbane Gala Awards Evening. Read more.
UQ high performance athletes achieved some fantastic results at last month’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Read more.
October
Team UQ return from Australian Uni Games
Last month 105 athletes across 12 sports ventured west to Perth to contest the 2010 Australian University Games. Read more.
August
University Football Club Back on Top
The University of Queensland Football Club is celebrating a return to the top level of Brisbane Football after a convincing 6-1 win over fellow western suburb rivals The Gap on Sunday. Read More
The University of Queensland Premier Rugby Team took out the 2010 Premier Rugby championship after downing Sunshine Coast Stingrays 19-11 in the Grand Final at Ballymore last weekend. Read More
Two UQ athletes, Francesca Paterson and Angus Morton, along with the University of Queensland Boat Club’s Head Coach (UQBC), Andrew Cruickshank, represented Australia at the recent World University Rowing Championships in Szeged, Hungary earlier this month. Read more
Sporting Scholars off to Delhi
Three of UQ Sporting Scholarship Program’s athletes are off to Delhi in October to compete in the XIX 2010 Commonwealth Games. Read more
UQ Sports Achievement Scholarship holder and UQ Women’s Hockey Club member, Jacqui Day has been selected in the Junior National Squad. Read more
The University of Queensland Rugby Club are pleased to report that they won the Club Championship - Doughty Shield last week. Read more
Sargent & Alexeenko in World Cup Event
UQ Sports Achievement scholar Caitlin Sargent and Clem Jones sporting scholar Sasha Alexeenko spent their holidays at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Canada. Read more
Here is a snippet of recent sporting successes at UQ in the fields of fencing, cricket, water polo and many other sports. Read more
June
UQ Sport expands scholarship program
The Sports Development division have expanded the Scholarship Program to include two new scholarships. Read more
Clem Jones Sporting Scholar and UQ Medicine student, Campbell Schmidt has finished 19th in the World University Triathlon Championships held in Valencia, Spain at the end of May. Read more
UQ premier rugby have premiership in their sights
After eight rounds of the Premier Brisbane Rugby Competition, The University of Queensland are leading the premiership ladder – five points clear of second place team, Sunnybank. Read more
UQ Sports Achievement Scholarship holder and UQ Women’s Hockey Club player, Jacqui Day is currently fighting it out in the Australian Hockey Leagues Finals Week being contested in South Australia. Read more
May
Wood a strong hand in netball QLD victory
UQ Sport’s Athlete Development Coordinator, Anthony Wood, has helped Netball Queensland’s U19 state team to victory at the national titles last month. Read more.
2010 Clem Jones Sporting Scholar and UQ Medicine student, Campbell Schmidt is about to leave Aussie shores for Valencia, Spain, to contest the 2010 World University Championships at the end of May. Read more.
UQ Woman's Hockey - representative honours
2010 Sporting Scholars and UQ Women’s Hockey Club (UQWHC) members have returned to the Sunshine State after finishing runner’s up at the 2010 U18’s National Hockey Championships held in Port Lincoln, S.A last month. Read more.
UQ Rowers to Represent
UQ Boat Club rowers Cameron Smith, Thomas Amies and Jake Edwards will don their national uniforms after a successful campaign at the recent national trials. Read more.
March
There is much to celebrate and look forward to in the year ahead with many of the 2010 sporting scholars achieving stellar results thus far, and others preparing for major competitions such as the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October. Read more.
2010 Sporting Scholars Announced
The 2010 Sporting Scholars were formally announced on March 19 at the UQ Annual Blues & Sports Award Dinner held at Hillstone, St. Lucia. Executive Director of UQ Sport, Kim Guerin, presented the 2010 sporting scholars to the 200 plus guests assembled at the gala event. Read more.
UQ Blues and Sports Awards Dinner
Olympic and Commonwealth Games athletes were amongst those honoured last week at the 2010 UQ Annual Blues and Sports Awards Dinner, held at Hillstone, St Lucia. Read more.
Hartley named Sheffield Shield Player of the Year
UQ Student, UQ Cricket Club member and UQ Blue Award Winner, Chris Hartley, has received the honor of Sheffield Shield Player of the Year. Queensland Cricket has the full report.
UQ Sport’s Learn to Row Coordinator, Emily Tidey will be among the first group of athletes to be inducted into the Australian University Sport (AUS) Honor Roll. Read more.
UQ Star named in Commonwealth Games water polo squad
Current UQ Sport Achievement Scholarship holder and UQ Engineering student, Sam Robertson, has been named in the Australian Open Men’s Water Polo squad to contest the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October. Read more.
February
UQ Sport Scholarship recipient just a small jump away from world record
World Championships long jump bronze medallist and UQ student, Mitchell Watt, has taken the athletics world by surprise with his speedy rise to success, taking out the long jump event at the Brisbane Athletics Classic held at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre on Saturday 6 February. Read more.
University of Qld and the UQ Cricket Club's Nicholas Buchanan was part of the Australian Cricket Team that won the ICC U/19 World Cup in New Zealand last weekend (30 January) when they defeated Pakistan by 25 runs in the final. Cricket Australia has the full match report.
January
Steele head first into Winter Olympics qualifying event
Former 2006 UQ Sport Scholarship holder and University of Queensland student, Michelle Steele finished in 2nd place in the skeleton event at the Intercontinental Cup in Lake Placid, USA last week. Read more.
The University of Queensland Cricket Club’s 1st grade Twenty20 team won their semi-final last week and will face Toombul in the Edev Property Group Grade Twenty20 Final at Allan Border over this weekend. Read more.
Buchanan bowls 'em over at World Cup
University of Queensland and UQ Cricket Club youngster, Nicholas Buchanan has bowled over the opposition taking 4 wickets for 16 runs in the U19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand last week. Read more.