Wednesday, September 26, 2012

VU Taekwondo Bag More Gold


AUG 2012 Day 2 

More excellent results coming the way of VU and one or two adventures as well.


VU Taekwondo continued on their winning way bagging a host of medals in the Poomsae and Creative divisions to take a strangle hold on the higher belt levels in the competition. According to VU coaches the team was in with a chance of taking out the overall title with a series of strong performances, higher numbers and reduced teams from the other Universities. The final results saw University of Sydney in 3rd with 43 points, VU in 2nd with 61 and Monash take out the championship pennant with 87. Well done team. Fantastic results we're very proud of you.

Over at athletics the day opened in fine style with Charlie Blanch recording an outstanding performance in windy conditions to take silver in the 10,000m. A number of VU athletes performing throughout Tuesday and Brendan Ashcroft made the final of 100m against a strong field.

AFL women found their feet well and truly on Tuesday with some strong performances across the team, some fancy foot work from Guesty and a couple of chants of O'Canada from the sidelines in support of our 1st time AFL player  and international student-athlete from Canada.

AFL men are coming together nicely as a coordinated outfit... better than the, "I can't believe you're wearing that" attire they wore to the social function the night before at any rate. "Silver fox" Jack Cafarella, the George Clooney of the men's team commented how impressed he was with how the boys had come from behind to pull off the win early in the day.

Solid day for the Basketball with the women recording a significant win putting themselves back in a positive frame of mind and a series of fine performances from the men to leave them top of their pool.

Ultimate Frisbee had a nail biting game early in the day that dropped against them - the VU team going down by just 1 agonising point. Professional fortitude rebounded the team and set them up for a strong Wednesday after winning in collegial style against UND to close out the day.

Jonathon Wood recorded another consistent performance in the mens golf to finish the day in 5th. Football (Soccer) men, Handball and Beach V are all continuing to perform well setting their respective teams up for medal play-offs later in the week. Netball, Indoor Volleyball and Hockey are also performing well and far better than the scoreboard indicates.
Team Captains Julia Baker and Luke (I'm riding a horse) Renehan took charge of the VU Team in the evening with the unofficial team scribble / dinner - from all reports not exactly a literary occasion. Time will tell if it translates to poetry in motion Wednesday.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Australian University Games 2012 - Adelaide


AUG 2012 in (R)Adelaide have started with a bang... shouts of, "Get around it" can be heard from the VU team right across town as momentum builds for what will surely be a sensational week of sporting competition. 

Sunday night saw the VU team familiarise themselves with the scene in downtown Adelaide and enjoy the entertainment of the Opening Ceremony. A 2000 strong crowd revelled to a list of high energy performances including Ruby Rose and Aston Shuffle.


Day 1 has seen high quality and intense competition from the word go. VU performing well and fighting out some close games.
The Football (Soccer) boys have notched up 2 convincing wins and the AFL boys take away a win by 1 point in a tightly fought contest.

Beach Volleyball looking strong and classy with plenty of attitude right across the divisions and Jonathan Woon starred in the mens Golf to be positioned 4th going into Day 2.

Monday's highlight though came from VU's elite Taekwondo squad who once again proved why they are the number 1 program in the country taking 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 5 Bronze medals in the sparring division. With slightly lighter competetor numbers from some of VU's traditional Taekwondo rivals the VU team is looking to big things on Day 2. The Taekwondo program wraps up Tuesday afternoon.




Monday Day 1 Results
AFL M: VU 28 d USYD 27
AFL W: VU 21 d UBAL 18 and VU 0 L RMIT 139
Badminton M: VU 2 L FU 3 and VU 5 d LTU 0
Basketball M: VU 71 L UWA 78
Basketball W: VU 46 L UWS 51, VU 33 L UQ 44 and VU 59 d AU 25
Beach Volleyball M2: VU 2 d ACPE 0 and VU 2 d AU 0
Beach Volleyball Mx4: VU 2 d CURT 0, VU 2 d UNSW 0 and VU 2 d JCU 0
Beach Volleyball W2: VU 0 L USA 2
Football (Soccer) M: VU 2 d RMIT 0 and VU 2 d MDU 0
Golf M: VU(Jonathan) in 4th shooting 78 round 1
Handball Mx: VU 12 d NCLE 5 and VU 20 d GU 12
Hockey W: VU 1 L UTS 3 and VU 0 L to UNSW 1
Netball Mx: VU 42 L RMIT 47, VU 37 L MON 38 and VU 42 L UWA 49
Netball W: VU 26 L USYD 29 and VU 65 d DEAK 19
Taekwondo M and W Sparring: VU take 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 5 Bronze Medals
Ultimate (Frisbee) Mx: VU 2 L UQ 15 and VU 15 d USA 6
Volleyball M: VU 0 L UC 3
Volleyball W: VU 0 L UTS and VU 1 L GU 3


Tuesday Day 2 Schedule

Athletics, 8:40am start 1000m, throws, heptathlon, 100m, long jump, Santos stadium
Australian Rules W v UWA 9:00, v MDU 15:-00 Old Ignatious oval
Australian Rules M v MDU 10:00, MELB 16:00 Thebarton  oval
Badminton v UNE 11.00, v JCU 14.30 - WA Satterley Hall
Basketball M v USYD 9:00, v MQU 13:00 - Wayville basketball
Basketball W v LTU 13:00, cross overs tbc- Pasadena basketball
BeachV M v UOW 11.30,  Mx v JCU 9.30, v UBAL 15:30 W v MELB 12:30, v MON 14:30 - Adelaide city beach
Football M v DEAK 9:00, v AU 14.30 - Barratt reserve
Golf 8.00 - John placed in 4th pos after day 1
Handball v UWS 9:00, v DEAK 14:00 Immanuell college
Hockey W v NCLE 9:40, v USYD 13:50 West beach hockey centre
Netball Mx v UWA 8:00, v LTU 15:30 - Netball SA
Netball W v CURT 11:00, v AU 16:00 - Netball SA
Taekwondo Poomsae 8:30 - 4:45
Ultimate Frisbee v UOW 9:30, v UNDA 13:30 - Flinders Uni
Volleyball M v GU 11:00, v QUT 16:15 Marion fitness & leisure stadium
Volleyball W v GU 7:30, v ANU 12:45 - Marion fitness & leisure stadium


Stay tuned to all the latest VU action coming to you via twitter @VU_Sport and www.facebook.com/vusport 

Thursday, September 29, 2011

VU @ AUG - DAY 3 and 4 WRAP


VU AFL women's team prepare to take to the field for the Gold. 
Wednesday and Thursday and the Vultures land more medals at the athletics, Judo and position themselves for excellent results in Friday’s finals day.


On Thursday, national representative Ivo Dos Santos claimed gold in his Judo division and winning Champion of Champions and Green and Gold selection for outstanding performance at the games.

In athletics a number of competitors progressed into finals on the track with Rachel Rowe winning silver in long jump and Daniel Pagnaoccolo bronze in triple jump and silver in long jump, while swimmer Tom Houston qualified for finals in his breastroke events.

In the team competitions held over five days there has been some great contests and strong performances from VU. Finals are being held today with our defending national champion Australian Rules Women's team facing RMIT for gold and Basketball Men also defending their national title against Bond University for the gold medal. Netball Women were narrowly defeated by the University of Queensland by 2 goals in the semi and will play Macquarie University for Bronze while the Netball Mixed team also go up against Macquarie for bronze [stop press Friday: both teams win to take Bronze]. Some very close encounters across competitions meant that some VU teams were very unlucky not to go through to medal games including a game hinging on a penalty stroke play off for the Hockey Women who hadn't conceded a goal in the preliminary games, they now face UNSW for 5th/6h placing. Also a week of excellent performance for the VU Ultimate Frisbee team who were unlucky with injuries hampering their chances for a medal finish at the end of the week.




Full  results can be found at the AUG results central on this link: http://www.unisport.com.au/Events/Results/Pages/2011AUGResults.aspx

For the final University Games wrap up and results stay tuned to this blog, the VU Sport Facebook page and our constant results twitter feed @VU_Sport.

If you would like to leave a message for the VU Vulture team or one of our heroes you can do with it a comment here, post to Facebook or twitter.

VULTURES NEST - Day 5 Information


Friday - Finals Day Schedule

Football w v UWS 7.30 -9th/10th
Aus Rules W v RMIT 15:00- gold
Aus Rules m v UBAL 9:00 -7/8th
Basketball m v Bond 15:30- gold
Basketball w v UWA 11:30 -7/8th
Beach M v UWA-9:00 g2
Beach Mx v JCU 10:00 g2
Beach W v UC 11:00 - 5th/6th
Hockey W v  UNSW 8:305th/6th
Netball Mx v MQU 11:30 bronze
Netball W v MQU 11:30 bronze
Ultimate Mx v RMIT 8:30 H2
Volleyball m v RMIT 9:00

Taekwondo 9:00
Finals 15:00
Medal presentations 17:00

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

VU @ AUG - DAY 2 WRAP




AUG Tuesday and the Vultures AFL men’s team fought against the reigning pennant holder UWA, a professional outfit, sporting a team strengthened by the end of the recent WAFL season. VU put in a strong performance but were outclassed on this occasion. AFL women, continued to dominate their pool and look the strong favorites to retain their division 1 title.

Over at Runaway Bay (no seriously that is the name) with the Netball, Soccer and Ultimate a day of excellent results saw Netball women finishing the better to UQ by 2 in a nail-biter. There was great team support all day at the Netball and both the women’s and mixed teams were performing well. Great results also for Ultimate winning all 3 games and Football (Soccer) women notching a win against Curtin early in the day.

Back on the Surfers beach the men’s Beach Volleyball chalked up a win in the heavily supported twilight contest against Adelaide and Tuesday also saw an excellent opening campaign for the Athletics with; Leigh Lewellin, Rachel Rowe, Daniel Pagnoccolo and Daniel Aikos all making finals in their respective events.

Martial Arts competitions commence later in the week with Judo Thursday… VU’s international representative Ivo Dos Santos arrives today will be a strong contender for a medal in this high-class field.

VU Taekwondo is likely to control the day in the elite division on Friday and with much of the Games drawing to a conclusion at that point the event is sure to be well supported by the rest of the team. Rumor has it that Sport Manager, Scott Cashmere was putting the Taekwondo team through their paces at last night’s, “Full moon” function to ensure the players were up to Friday’s task

For up-to-date University Games articles and results stay tuned to this blog, the VU Sport Facebook page and our constant results twitter feed on @VU_Sport.

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Day 2 Results Summary

Athletics:
Leigh Lewellin qualifies for 1500m final
Rachel Rowe qualifies for Long Jump final
Daniel Pagnoccolo and Ash Beau make 100m semi-finals
Daniel Aikos qualifies for 400m final
Daniel Pagnoccolo qualifies 3rd for Long Jump final


AFL (M) VU 14          L          UWA 148
AFL (M) VU 72          d          UBAL   38
AFL (M)          14       L          UWA   148    
AFL (W)          167     d          MDU   1
BBALL (M)     78       d          UTAS   48
BBALL (M)     41       d          UTS     33
BBALL (W)     43       L          MELB  69
BVOLL (M)     0          L          FU       2         
BVOLL (M)     2          d          AU       0
BVOLL (Mx)   2          d          LTU     1
BVOLL (Mx)   2          d          UNSW 1
BVOLL (W)                 L          BOND 
BVOLL (W)     0          L          DEAK  2
FBALL (W)     1          d          CURT  0
FBALL (W)     2          L          MELB  5
HOCK (W)      0          drew   UNSW 0
NBALL (Mx)   44       d          UWA   39                  
NBALL (Mx)   25       d          MON   50
NBALL (W)     38       d          UNE    22
NBALL (W)     24       d          UQ       22
ULTIM (Mx)   11       d          CSU     3
ULTIM (Mx)   10       d          UWS    6
ULTIM (Mx)   10       d          ACPE   8
VOLL (M)       0          L          UWA   3
VOLL (M)       0          L          AU       3

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

VULTURES NEST - Information Day 3


Schedule – Wednesday 28 September

AFL (M) A2    v          B3       13:30              Southport Sharks – Field 1
BBALL (M)     v          USA     08:00              Carara Stadium – Court 1
BBALL (W)     v          USYD  11:00              Carara Stadium – Court 4
BVOLL (M)     v          RMIT   09:00              Surfers Beach – Court 4
BVOLL (M)     v          MELB  14:00              Surfers Beach – Court 4
BVOLL (Mx)   v          ANU    10:00              Surfers Beach – Court 3
BVOLL (Mx)   v          UBAL   14:00              Surfers Beach – Court 2
BVOLL (W)     v          ACPE   08:00              Surfers Beach – Court 7
FBALL (W)     v          UNE    10:45              Musgrave Park – Field 4
HOCK (W)      v          LTU     07:40              Keith Hunt Park Hock– Field 1
HOCK (W)      v          LTU     17:00              Keith Hunt Park Hock– Field
NBALL (Mx)   v          MQU   11:15              Runaway Bay Indoor – Court 2
NBALL (Mx)   v          MELB  15:45              Runaway Bay Indoor – Court 3
NBALL (W)     v          USYD  08:00              Runaway Bay Indoor – Court 4
NBALL (W)     v          RMIT   12:30              Runaway Bay Outdoor – Court 5
NBALL (W)     v          UC       17:00              Runaway Bay Indoor – Court 2
ULTIM (Mx)   v          ANU    10:00              Runaway Bay Sport Fields – Field
ULTIM (Mx)   v          QUT    13:00              Runaway Bay Sport Fields – Field 2
VOLL (M)       v          MELB  08:00              TSS Mens Volleyball – Court 1
VOLL (M)       v          UNSW 15:00              TSS Mens Volleyball – Court 2