Once again, QUT Has dominated the Australian Uni Games, picking up Gold in the Men’s division one and division two competitions.

The QUT Women’s volleyball team was unlucky to miss out on the medals after an injury to star player Jordan Mowen during the week.  Nevertheless, the team played extremely well in the Bronze medal match, taking the University of Sydney to five sets despite starting as vicious underdogs.  Congratulations must go to the girls for how well they played in this and all their other matches.

The Men’s division two team met Monash in the gold medal match, playing some solid volleyball to take them out in three close sets.  QUT was beaten by Monash in four sets earlier in the tournament and were extremely proud to turn it around for a victory.

The Men’s division one team met a lacklustre Sydney University in the gold medal match, easily coming away with a 3-0 win.  Our first men’s team team dropped only a single set in the entire tournament, helped in no small part by some creative (illegal but funny) plays.

The Men’s division one win takes QUT to four championships in a row.  We’re really looking forward to next year where we’ve got high hopes of rounding out the five.

-Visa

The Trials for the 2008 Australian University Games in Melbourne (27^th Sep – 4^th Oct ) have now been decided. There will only be one day of trials and all players wishing to attend these games must attend. Jersey fitting and sizing will also be done at the trial. If players are wishing to play Beach Volleyball or both please send me a quick email to express your interest.

To get you pumped for Uni Games watch this first….

Please forward this email to anyone you know who is interested in playing Volleyball at this years Uni Games (but also email me their email address too so I can contact them if there are any late changes)

If you would like to know more about the AUS Uni Games you can visit their web site @ http://www.unigames.com.au/extra.asp?id=366&OrgID=1

If you have any problems I can be contacted on the number below. I wish everyone the best of luck in their Semester 1 Exams and hope to see you all soon.

Regards,

Shanas
QUT Student Paramedic
QUT Volleyball Manager
Mob: 0413 277 038

Hi everyone,

Well it’s taken me way too long to write this. Frankly it’s because I couldn’t admit to myself that it was over. Writing a post that “summarises” uni games means that it’s over.

Anyway, as I’m sure you’re all aware, we did well. Very well. The results for Volleyball are:

• Men Team 1 (Ligers) - Gold
• Men Team 2 (Tions) - 4th
• Women Team 1 (Lightning) - Gold
• Women Team 2 (Thunder) - Silver
• Men Beach Pairs - Gold
• Women Beach Pairs - Gold, 4th, 7th, 12th
• Mixed Beach 4s - Bronze

So I’m very very proud of you kids!

In other news, we’ll be having plenty of catch-up drinks to remember things like Macca’s g-string, Tino’s pole-dancing, Jonesy’s coathanger, Shanas’ testicles, and the Invincibles. The first one is on this Saturday night (6th of October) at the Normanby.

So if you’re like me and have been shedding a tear every time you hear a Timbaland song or getting strange looks when you tell someone they’re funny money, then you’ll be hanging out for it.

-Visa

Hi all,

You might have heard that we’re changing the themes for Uni Games a bit. We’re not going against the official themes for each night, but we’re twisting them a bit to make them more interesting. Have a look and start buying stuff.

Visa

Hi all,

The Division Allocations have been put up on the Uni Sport website. The ones that concern us are:

So there are some tough ones in there.  The Men’s indoor competition could be quite hard.  Everyone is in the same division, and the fact that UQ has two teams scares me a bit.  Still, we’ll walk all over them!

-Visa