The Wollongong Warriors Quidditch Club (WWQC) is the

muggle quidditch Quidditch, also known as quadball, is a sport of two teams of seven players each mounted on a broomstick, and is played on a hockey rink-sized pitch. The sport was created in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont, and was inspired by the fictiona ...

club of the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

, in

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, Australia. Wollongong Warriors are a part of the

Australian Quidditch Association Quidditch in Australia is played by a mixture of university and community teams. Due to the geographic demographics of the country, most major competitive tournaments are held in the eastern states. There are currently over 30 registered teams in ...

(AQA), the governing body of Australian Quidditch, which is a constituent part of the

International Quidditch Association The International Quidditch Association (IQA), also known as the International Quadball Association, is the governing body for the sport of quidditch. It was founded as the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association in 2009 following the very first i ...

(IQA).

History

In the book

Quidditch Through the Ages ''Quidditch Through the Ages'' is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling using the pseudonym of Kennilworthy Whisp about Quidditch in the ''Harry Potter'' universe. It purports to be the Hogwarts library's copy of the non-fiction ...

, by

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, the Wollongong Warriors are listed as one of Australia's premier Quidditch teams. They have a fierce rivalry with the

Thundelarra Thundelarra is a conservation reserve that was previously run as a pastoral lease in Western Australia, located south east of Yalgoo and north of Dalwallinu in the Murchison region. Description It was a traditional sheep station until havi ...

Thunderers, and are the inventors of the Wollongong Shimmy, a high-speed zig-zag move designed to confuse and distract opposing Chasers.

Early days

Wollongong Warriors is now a real-world club in the

, a

Muggle quidditch Quidditch, also known as quadball, is a sport of two teams of seven players each mounted on a broomstick, and is played on a hockey rink-sized pitch. The sport was created in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont, and was inspired by the fictiona ...

league.

References

External links

Quidditch Australia page

{{Quidditch Quidditch teams Sports teams in Wollongong Sports clubs established in 2011 2011 establishments in Australia University of Wollongong University and college sports clubs in Australia

History

Early days

See also

References

External links