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RTHE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SYDNEYO UNI SPORT & FITNESS | susf.com.auAR 33 SUMMER 2016 6/ ATHLETE INTERVIEW Matt Solomon 10/ RIO WRAP 31/ LIONESSES FEAST ON ROUND BALL Women’s soccer success GEARING UP WWW.SUSF.COM.AU A NEWSBITES + NUTRITION + FITNESS + APPS + RUGBY + SOCCER + DEVELOPMENT + EVENTS Athletes In Action AFL Hockey THREE SYDNEY UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S AFL BOMBERS SYDNEY UNIVERSITY METRO LEAGUE THREE WERE SELECTED BY GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY (GWS) IN CROWNED PREMIERS AFTER WINNING THEIR SYDNEY THE INAUGURAL AFL WOMEN’S DRAFT. WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE GRAND FINAL ON SUNDAY, NICOLA BARR CREATED HISTORY AS NO. 1 PICK OVERALL; ERIN SEPTEMBER 18, 2016. MCKINNON & STEPHANIE WALKER WERE ALSO SELECTED BY GWS THE METRO LEAGUE FOUR TEAM WENT DOWN TO UNSW FOR THE 2017 LAUNCH OF THE FIRST EVER AFL WOMEN’S LEAGUE.1 IN THEIR GRAND FINAL. 4 Athletics Rugby SYDNEY UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC CLUB CROWNED WINNERS SYDNEY UNI WOMEN’S RUGBY CLUB WON BACK-TO-BACK OF THE WINTER PREMIERSHIP IN BOTH THE MEN’S AND PREMIERSHIPS, BEATING PARRAMATTA 25-24 IN THE WOMEN’S OPEN COMPETITION FOR 2016. GRAND FINAL ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2016. THE WIN WAS THE 6TH CONSECUTIVE WIN FOR THE CLUB SYDNEY UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL CLUB’S TOM ROBERTSON IN THE MEN’S COMPETITION, WITH THE WOMEN WINNING DEBUTED FOR THE WALLABIES IN THEIR TEST AGAINST THE TITLE FOR THE 4TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR. ARGENTINA IN PERTH ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2016. 2 THE SPECIALIST TIGHT-HEAD PROP IS CAPPED WALLABY NO. 898.5 Baseball Sailing SYDNEY UNIVERSITY BASEBALL CLUB WON SUSF ELITE ATHLETE PROGRAM MEMBER, ALICE TARNAWSKI, TWO CHAMPIONSHIPS. IS NOW A WORLD UNIVERSITY CHAMPION SAILOR. BOTH THEIR 3RD AND 4TH GRADE SIDES WON GRAND AS A MEMBER OF THE WOMEN’S CREW, TARNAWSKI TOOK GOLD FINALS ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2016. IN THE 8TH WORLD UNIVERSITY SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP HELD 3 IN PERTH, LATE SEPTEMBER 2016. 6 WHAT’S INSIDE... FEATURES ATHLETE INTERVIEW Matt Solomon motors through his degree. 33 By Tom Morrison SUMMER 6 2016 FROM THE EDITOR EDITOR Laura Hanlon HISTORY REPEATS DEPUTY EDITORS Sydney and Melbourne share rowing honours in the 2016 Australian Boat Race. Rob Smithies, Graham Croker, By Laura Hanlon 16 Helen Jomoa, Harry Croker and the Women’s Rugby Sevens team PS4 Premier League back-to-back are now contemplating after writing Championships and the Premiership CREATIVE DESIGN history for their sport at the Olympics. crown (page 32). & PRODUCTION Mapping out the road ahead requires Hitting your targets might take some Southern Design some reflection so our ‘Top Eight Rio assistance so we’ve also included a guide YOUR NEXT WORKOUT CONTRIBUTING WRITERS A ‘read and rep’ circuit to elevate the heart Moments’ should spur discussion on of the best mobile apps to help you Graham Croker rate and burn fat. 20 page 10. move (page 24) and your fuel is covered By Dane Gray Harry Croker on page 22 with a trail mix recipe for that And if you thought our Olympic sprinters Dane Gray hike you’ve been putting off. The days were fast just listen to this engine roar. Laura Hanlon are getting longer and stepping outside Our striking cover star is Matt Solomon, Rebecca Hay of your local neighbourhood footpath SUSF’s first ever Elite Athlete Program Joseph Kerrigan to the bush tracks around Sydney not motorsports scholarship holder. Battling Tom Morrison MIX IT UP While this issue of ROAR hits the stands only provides a great physical challenge The snacks to pack while you explore the bush trails of the congested Sydney traffic, we can Douglas Noble Brown on the cusp of summer break, our love but also unwinds the mind. The benefits Sydney this summer. 22 only dream what it must be like to hurtle Rodney Tubbs By Rebecca Hay of regular exercise in helping manage of sport never takes a holiday. Winter around a race track with no red lights life stresses are well known and as more competition has given way to the warmer in sight. The face under the helmet is CONTRIBUTING outings cramp the calendar towards weather brigade, with a number of revealed on page 6. PHOTOGRAPHERS Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness (SUSF) clubs Christmas and the busyness of exams Laura Hanlon No highlight reel of 2016 would be hit, I encourage you to still find time for gearing up for the field once again and Jeremy Ng complete without mentioning the exercise. Clear your schedule to clear PHONES FOR FITNESS our gym-goers continue to treadmill Reviewing the apps that will make you move. opening of the TAG Family Foundation your mind in the gym and the space SYDNEY UNI SPORT towards the festive feasting time of year. By Douglas Noble Brown Grandstand and redevelopment of created for some sweat may just give & FITNESS 24 This issue is all about stepping-up, taking University No.2 Oval. I can report these you that edge. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR that next-level option towards self- world-class facilities are being fully Robert Smithies improvement. Whether it be adding an utilised by a number of our sporting extra hit of cardio to your next workout teams including rugby, football and FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION (prepared for you on page 20) or finding cricket. One of those teams, our Sydney MANAGER TACKLING THE CHALLENGES the next ‘up’ after touching down in University Soccer Football Club (SUSFC) Aleksandra Pozder Sydney University Football Club celebrate success with Australia post-Rio representation on the women, have ticked three goals off their an eye for improvement. 30 By Graham Croker world stage. Where to gold from gold? list. The triple-threat Lionesses captured Laura Hanlon HIGH PERFORMANCE MANAGER That’s what Sydney University student the 2016 Club Championship, National Editor Tristan Liles OPERATIONS, PROPERTY & PROJECTS MANAGER Ed Smith LIONESSES FEAST ON ROUND BALL THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SYDNEY UNI SPORT & FITNESS | susf.com.au The University of Sydney Women’s First Grade soccer CORPORATE & ALUMNI team have this season won, “all of them.” By Laura Hanlon 32 R RELATIONS MANAGER A 33 SUMMER RO 2016 Rodney Tubbs 6/ ATHLETE INTERVIEW Matt Solomon 10/ RIO WRAP ELITE ATHLETE PROGRAM 31/ LIONESSES FEAST 33 EDITIONS ON ROUND BALL Women’s soccer success MANAGER MORE Leonie Lum 2 Welcome 34 'Blue & Gold’ Events Recap MAGAZINE YOUNG 5 News Bites 36 Decade of Development PROGRAMS & PARTICIPATION 8 Riding with Sarah Roy 39 Join a Club MANAGER WWW.SUSF.COM.AU A GEARING UP 10 Rio Wrap 46 Facilities Guide NEWSBITES + NUTRITION + FITNESS + APPS + RUGBY + SOCCER + DEVELOPMENT + EVENTS Melinda D’Arcy 18 Choosing Supplements 48 Home Events Calendar 2 SYDNEY UNI SPORT & FITNESS WWW.SUSF.COM.AU 3 ROAR | IN CASE YOU MISSED IT NEWSBITES CRICKET IT’S EASY Sydney University Cricket Club’s (SUCC) team represented Australia at the ICC sanctioned fifth Red Bull Campus Cricket World Twenty 20 TO BECOME With two on-campus health and finals. Despite their best efforts, SUCC lost their three pool matches at fitness centres, a range of short the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo. Sydney University were AN ANNUAL all out for 74 (Ben Trevor-Jones 28) in the first round game against the courses, social sport, and more than University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh who then rattled up 75 without loss. 46 sporting clubs to get involved In their second round match against University of Pretoria, representing MEMBER South Africa, the opposition scored 6-186 before restricting Sydney in, our annual membership gives University to 8-132 (Hayden Kerr 53). Loughborough University, England at Sydney Uni you access to an amazing range of (4-211), accounted for Sydney University (8-167 – Nicholas Craze 68) in benefits at unbeatable prices. the third round match at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground. The Business Sport & Fitness Management School, Sri Lanka (9-191), won the 2016 title with a 24- run result over the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (8-167), at the Galle International Stadium. Never giving up, Sydney University won the 2016 Australian University Games T20 title to earn the right to represent PRICES Australia at the Red Bull tournament again next year. Sydney Uni Students $ 60 SAILING final. Other Division One awards for the 1000m. Sydney University progressed season went to Adam Vrahnos (best through heats, a repecharge and a semi- Sydney Uni Sport and Fitness, Elite Sydney Uni Staff forward, leading try-scorer) Jake Vrahnos final to finish third in the final behind Athlete Alice Tarnawski was part of the (leading point-scorer) and Anthony two Chinese crews from Shanghai Jiao & Community Members five-member Australian crew which won Jury (best back). Awards in the Division Tong University and Wuhan University. gold in the women’s event at the 8th $ Two ranks went to Kelvin Quinn and At the second regatta in Chengdu 65 World University Sailing Championships, Tuariki Matapuku (best forwards), Daniel the course was over 800m with the recently held on the Swan River, Perth. Rowe (best back), Kelvin Quinn (leading accumulated time after two races being Tarnawski, a Bachelor of Applied try-scorer) and Dave Turner (leading the determining factor for the medals. Science (Physiotherapy) student, was point-scorer). First year Sydney University SUBC drew Brown University from the a member of the crew skippered by student Charles Slinger was named US in both races which they duly won in Sarah Parker from the University of Rookie of the Year, and Kurt Lewis and fast times to collect the gold medal, with Newcastle. They prevailed in a series of Troy Haroyan shared the Clubman of the Brown and Tohoku universities winning tough round-robin races against sailors Year award. On a sad note, the club lost the silver and bronze.