Melbourne University Water Polo

Yet another Uni Games has come with MUPolo representing Melbourne Uni with a fine team of players. 

The first day of competition saw the Men’s team play two matches, the first against our fellow Victorians, Monash University, in which were convincingly victorious, beating them 15 – 2. The Men’s second game, against University of Technology Sydney showed how strong the men’s team were with yet another strong win, 22 – 2.

Michael, Chris and Chris at AUG Adelaide 2006

On the second day of the men’s competition MUPolo played Queensland University of Technology in their first match with yet another great win, the final score being 17 – 5. Our forth match for the tournament proved to be a little tougher against RMIT, the final score being 6-4, MUPolo victorious of course. (more…)

Another year rolled around and another year of MUPolo Women’s dominance of Victorian University Water Polo. The team selected for AUG Brisbane this year got together for their first real hit-out and to ensure qualification of that tournament. Qualification was never in question however as only three teams entered and all were ensured automatic entry for Brisbane. What was on the line however was pride, and we quickly established that in the first game against Deakin.

Deakin had a couple of tricky players that the girls had to manage, but our superior speed and overall skill easily accounted for them. The final score ended up 21-3, with A. Maloney A. Gronow good contributors with a number of goals each. K. Woolley and K. Roberts were also solid and N. Brandt had an easy job in goals. Acting captain N. Brandt said after the game, “It was great fun… I always like giving Deakin a good spanking!” (more…)

Buy me a beer and introduce yourself

This years AUG was an interesting and yet intense affair, filled with love, lust, passion, drama, tears, sex, no sex, violence, hatred and crime. Yet there is one thing that remains an overall theme, is an adjective and a noun (and for some a verb and for the clever, an adverb) of course I’m talking about BUNK.

The games were held in Brisbane, or “Brisvegas” for those in the bizz, and the weather was hot, the sun was out and people were all Goths. We knew we were in for an interesting adventure when we arrived at the venue of our accommodation. It was an impressive and complex structure; a backpackers youth hostel known as Bunk, a place of wonder and yet filled with hate. It did however have one glorious attribute and this, my friends, was $7 jugs. Oh how thee great lord be praised.

After many nights of drinking and fun, which included toga parties, bands at the showgrounds, gamblor, a high police presence and sneezing, some quite skilful water polo was played. The girls team had a good result, winning a number of games and finishing up 6th, the coach, Greg Thompson being quite happy with this result and saying “I haved no legs, that’s right ‘haved’ “. (more…)

SUC Water polo was held on the weekend of 31 July – 1 August at Monash University Clayton. This competition was held to organise rankings for AUS South region in the upcoming Australian University Games Perth 2004 competition, and MUPolo continued its form from last years AUC Gold Coast tournament. The Men’s team played exceptionally well against the much fancied RMIT and came away with a well fought draw 8-8, in the game of the tournament. The Women’s team followed up trouncing RMIT 11 – 1 with K Roberts leading the charge scoring 5 goals, and N. Brandt unstoppable in goals. Coach G. Thompson was delighted with the win, stating “It was an excellent opener for our campaign, considering a large number of these girls hadn’t played together before.”

The second and third matches for MUPolo were more convincing for the Men’s team, beating La Trobe 21-3 and Monash 10-2. Excellent performances by S. McCombe, C. Gronow, and N. Wawryk, with special mention to B. Chan for dominating in goals once again. The Women’s team had another relatively easy match against La Trobe, winning 11-1, with goals coming from C O’Donnell, B. Davidson and M. Zebrowski. However, the following match against Monash was a much tighter affair, and the team ended up drawing 6-6 in a tightly fought contest. K. Woolley was a standout with two early goals, and L. Wall having an excellent defensive game. However, the team began to tire in the last half and only managed to hold on for the draw against an underrated Monash. (more…)

Australian University Games Perth 2004

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We don’t just raise the bar, we drink you under it!

Late in 2003, the twenty-six team members made a journey up to the sunny Gold Coast for a week of fun in the sun and a little bit of polo. The week kicked off with a night out on the town soaking in the many schoolie boys and girls, hitting the Rose & Crown hard until the wee hours, and finally ending the evening with a late night kebab from legendary Theo’s and a nice 1k stroll home. While the competition didn’t start until Monday, MU Polo set the standard for other universities on the Sunday night when all freshers were punished with compulsory “No Underwear” for the entire evening. Let’s just say nobody would argue with the logo “F$%K Football” ever again. Matches were competed at a fierce level, with the men’s team excelling in a ‘weak’ pool, and making it to the semi finals without dropping a match. The women’s team had a much more difficult assignment, and struggled to grasp the finer complexities of the game against some well drilled opposition. (more…)