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

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