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YEARS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT SYDNEY UNI SPORT & FITNESS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 1 C 2 PRESIDENT’S REPORT O 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT 6 BLUE & GOLD REPORT 10 COMMERCIAL & REGULATORY REPORT N 12 HIGH PERFORMANCE & CLUB DEVELOPMENT 16 ELITE ATHLETE PROGRAM T 18 MARKETING & MEMBERSHIP REPORT 20 PROGRAMS & PARTICIPATION REPORT E 24 OPERATIONS & INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT 26 BLUES ASSOCIATION REPORT 28 STAKEHOLDER CHART N 31 CLUB REPORTS 75 ORGANISATIONAL CHART T 78 OFFICE BEARERS 79 HONOURS & TRADITIONS S 80 SCHOLARSHIPS SYDNEY UNI SPORT & FITNESS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2 EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT’S DIRECTOR’S REPORT REPORT 2015 WAS ANOTHER YEAR OF PROGRESS AND There were many notable sporting achievements in 2015 including our 2015 MARKED 125 YEARS SINCE THE INCEPTION OF for the Building on Excellence Campaign in support of the grandstand University’s dominance at the Australian University Games where we won project – even raising that record sum would have left us without a number SOLID ACHIEVEMENT FOR SPORT AND PHYSICAL fifteen first place pennants, more than twice as many as the second- THE MEN’S SPORTS UNION IN 1890 AND SUSF ONCE of critical parts of the project. Within a few weeks after launching that RECREATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY. STUDENT placed university. AGAIN GOT ON WITH THE BUSINESS OF WHAT IT’S campaign we had exceeded that target and began adding extra scope Our men’s Rugby Club won its twelfth straight Sydney club championship to the building thanks to the Soccer Football Club and the TAG Family USE OF OUR GYMNASIUMS AND MEMBERSHIP OF OUR as well as winning four grand finals out of the seven grades it contested. BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 125 YEARS – DELIVERING Foundation’s pledges – the second floor of the David Mortimer High Our Australian Football Club finished third in the very prestigious NEAFL Performance Gym and the club offices only exist because of these very CLUBS SHOWED SIGNIFICANT GROWTH THROUGHOUT competition, while our Athletics Club has been undefeated in every senior OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY generous donations. At the time of writing we are closing in on raising THE YEAR. IT WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASING TO elite competition for the past two years. In the NSW State Relays the Club TO BE INVOLVED IN PARTICIPATION AND ELITE SPORT. $2,500,000 and have enough money to fit out almost the entire project. won 15 gold medals, 10 of them by our female athletes. The other huge developments during 2015 were the fundraising campaigns for the new boatshed and the new hockey turf at the Cumberland campus. NOTE THE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT OF OUR In fact, 2015 might be characterised as the year of women’s sport at The Hockey community pledged $1,750,000 towards the new turf and the Sydney Uni. In women’s hockey we were undefeated first grade premiers. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. IT IS AN EXCELLENT WAY What made 2015 remarkable was that women’s sport was the cornerstone Rowing and Boat Clubs (which merged to become simply the “Boat Club” We also won first grade premierships in women’s soccer and women’s rugby. of our elite sport success in a year celebrating the origin of the Men’s during the year) are closing in on $1,500,000 for their project. FOR OVERSEAS AND LOCAL STUDENTS TO DEVELOP In women’s cricket our joint team with UNSW won the 20/20 competition. Sports Union. It’s not that our men are doing poorly (they’re doing We were premiers in netball and our women’s AFL team were grand finalists. All in all, these fundraising ventures, when complete, will have raised nearly FRIENDSHIPS AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING. incredibly well also) but more a case of our women steadily increasing their $6,000,000 towards new and improved infrastructure for our clubs. The Individual female performances included Angie Ballard winning two more levels of professionalism and dedication year after year and having a lot of old way of thinking was “SUSF will build it when it gets funding and gets World Championship Golds in wheelchair racing, breaking two world records that culminate in multiple success stories in the year just gone. No-one can around to it”. The new way of thinking is “SUSF, together with The University in the process. Sydney Uni Velo Club’s Lauren Fitzgerald won a stage in guarantee that it will continue at this rate every year, but for the moment of Sydney can provide some funds if you can do some fundraising, and During the year the new development at the renamed Sydney University the National Capital Tour just one week after making her competitive it’s time to celebrate our 125th year, where our women won a lot of elite together we can get extraordinary things done”. Two projects are now Football Ground neared completion. This is a huge undertaking made road cycling debut. In October Milly Clark finished third in the prestigious titles and our men consolidated their success across the board. basically complete – the SUSAC Extension and the TAG Family Foundation possible by partnership between the University, Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness Amsterdam Marathon, a qualifying performance for the Rio Olympics. I’d like to begin this year’s report by thanking our volunteers across every grandstand. Two more are on the way – the new boatshed and the (SUSF), its member clubs and its sporting alumni. The facility provides an Also Michelle Jenneke, Anneliese Rubie, Ella Nelson & Emily Brichacek are sport that we have. SUSF has a number of full-time staff, but without the new hockey turf. When all of these projects have been completed, outstanding boutique stadium together with a sports institute standard National Champions who competed in World Athletics Championships. small army of volunteers we have, we would struggle to exist. These are the approximately $40,000,000 worth of new infrastructure will have been built elite training facility which will free up space at SUSF’s gymnasiums for use Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness have an ongoing commitment to its people who cook sausages, run the line, get the team sheets completed, over a 6 year period. Yes, we lost HK Ward Gymnasium in the process, and by the general University community. This is the culmination of years of Women’s Sport Initiative. update the website, coach, manage, fundraise, donate, administrate, and a significant portion of this building program was to replace that facility. planning, fundraising and attention to the complex details of construction. generally run our huge club sport program. Yes, they have some help from We should also bear in mind that the boatshed project is simply replacing Many SUSF staff and club officials were involved but special mention should Bruce Ross SUSF but without them we wouldn’t have a club sport offering that looks the old boatshed which was destroyed by arson. However, our philanthropic be made of the tireless contributions of Rob Smithies and Ed Smith. PRESIDENT anything like what it does today, and after 125 years it is stronger than ever endeavours have improved our facilities well beyond what the HK Ward thanks to their tireless work. In addition, our contingent of club and SUSF gymnasium and the old boatshed could ever have delivered. This has sponsors, led by Lee Hagipatelis and Vicki Lang at Brydens Lawyers, have changed SUSF in profound ways and will continue to influence our thinking been so good to us yet again. Without these two groups, we’d have had a and our actions for many years to come. Our next big fundraising initiative very different 2015. Thank you all for your support. will be for sports scholarships, and this will be an ongoing need. Focusing on 2015 itself, I’d like to thank everyone that donated to the PHILANTHROPY various fundraising initiatives we presented. Your contributions are They say that if you change nothing, then nothing changes. The biggest incredibly valuable and we simply couldn’t achieve what we’ve achieved recent change in our organisation started in 2013, expanded drastically in without them. Our infrastructure projects would not have happened or 2014 and was confirmed in 2015. Philanthropy is now part of SUSF’s DNA, would not have the “bells and whistles” that they do without people’s and as painful as it is sometimes to begin raising money for a project or donations – thank you so much. It’s challenging to single out donors an initiative, the end results are worth it. In 2013 we raised $250,000 for but David Mortimer made a terrific contribution to enable the high the Finishing Touches Fund in support of the SUSAC Extension – we raised performance gym in the TAG Family Grandstand to be fitted out – thank these funds in 16 weeks, and at the time this was a record amount for you David. David has given a huge amount of his time and resources to infrastructure fundraising. In 2014 we began the task of raising $1,250,000 the Football Club over the last 16 years and his retirement as Football Club 3 SYDNEY UNI SPORT & FITNESS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT SYDNEY UNI SPORT & FITNESS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 4 President late last year marks the end of one of the more spectacular finished third, and Lauren Fitzgerald won our first ever National Road Series the Management Committee he is more determined than ever to see SUSF infrastructure, and the Campus Infrastructure Services (C.I.S) team have (and successful) contributions to the Football Club and SUSF – thanks title for the Velo Club. Early in 2016 our women’s water polo team went one succeed. He continues to say that our story is only beginning, and he’s been helped out a lot during 2015 particularly with regard to the delivery of David for all that you’ve given to the cause, seen and unseen.

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