Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness (SUSF) is the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

's sporting body.Student Organisations of the University of Sydney
/ref> SUSF currently manages and administers more than 40 sport and recreation clubs, also organising sporting and recreation events, and offering student and non-student members a comprehensive range of sporting facilities. SUSF also provides sport scholarships and other support to student-athletes.

Background

On January 1, 2003, the Sydney University Sports Union (1890) and the Sydney University Women's Sports Association (1910) amalgamated and created the country's premier tertiary sporting body. In 2008, the organisation was renamed and Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness was launched. Today, SUSF manages and administers more than 40 sport and recreation clubs, organises sporting and recreation events and offers a comprehensive range of sporting facilities to students and the wider Sydney community. Sporting events run by SUSF include lunchtime social sport, short courses, tennis coaching, learn to swim and a school holiday sports program. Intervarsity Sport competitions, Intercollegiate Sport and Intramural Sport are also run by the organisation. Since 1990, SUSF has provided sporting scholarships; its Elite Athlete Program (EAP) has helped over 2000 Sydney University student-athletes to find balance and achieve their goals. With access to a comprehensive range of benefits and services and most importantly, the care and encouragement of our staff and community, has helped countless athletes realise their potential. Current student-athletes on the program include Rohan Browning, Nicola McDermott, Hannah Buckling, Carmen Marton and Angus Bell.

Registered clubs

Sydney University Football Club, founded in 1863, is the oldest rugby union club in Australia.Sydney University RLFC
/ref> The club was a member of the inaugural Sydney club competition in 1874. The club currently in the Shute Shield. In women's basketball, the

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compete in the WNBL. The Flames were transferred to owners of the Sydney Kings, TSE, in 2020. The men's and women's

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clubs also compete in their national leagues. The

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club, founded in 1864, has competed in the

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competition since its inception. The

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fielded a

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team in the New South Wales Rugby League's Sydney premiership from 1920 to 1937. It currently competes in the NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League competition. The Sydney Uni Baseball Club was established in 1904, and enters three teams in the Sydney Winter Baseball League, which is the highest calibre competition in the state for the winter season. The club also enters a fourth team into the Pacific Coast Baseball League. The baseball team are also reigning champions of the

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and have established themselves to be the champion team of the current era, winning three gold and once silver in the past four years at Australian University Games events. The Sydney Uni Boxing Club (SUBxC) was established as an independent club in 1908, having existed prior to this as a division of Sydney Uni Athletics Club (est. 1878). The Sydney University Fencing Club (SUFC) was founded in 1945 and is the oldest university fencing club in Australia. The club actively competes in all state and national level tournaments with active members on the international circuit, including several Olympians. The

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club actively participates in all regional and national level tournaments, as well as Australian University Games (now Nationals) every year. The club is a member of New South Wales Kendo Association governed by the Australian Kendo Renmei. The Sydney University Soccer Football Club was founded in 1946. The club fields elite teams for men and women in the Football NSW Super League and Premier League respectively. The club also fields all age men's teams in the Eastern Suburbs Football Association and all age women's teams in the North West Sydney Women's Soccer Association. They also have a number of junior girls' teams and an over 35 men's team. The

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club has teams in the Sydney AFL and the

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SWAFL competitions. The

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club, the

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, was founded in 1984 and is the most successful club in the Gridiron NSW league, with twenty nine championship game appearances and twenty state titles, including the last sixteen in a row (2003–2018). Sydney University Cheerleading have won several New South Wales State Championships and were National Champions in 2008. Several of the team's members competed with Team Australia, in the All Girl Elite division, at the International Cheer Union (ICU) Cheerleading World Championships, during April 2013. Through some tough competition, the girls came second only to Canada, in a sport usually dominated by North America. The Sydney University Taekwondo Club is a World Taekwondo Federation club formed in mid-2001 to cater for students who wish to learn mainstream taekwondo and represent Sydney University at the annual inter-university sporting events, such as Australian University Games. The

Sydney University Handball Club The Sydney University Handball Club is a handball team from the University of Sydney from Sydney, Australia. They are five times Men's National Champions, seven times Men's Oceania Champions and qualified for seven IHF Super Globe competitions. ...

are five times National Champions, five times Oceania Champions and qualified for the

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IHF Super Globe competitions. The men's team has won the State Championship nine times, in

, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 1998. The women's team has won the State Championship also nine times. *

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* Archery * Athletics * Badminton *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

* Basketball *Basketball (Wheelchair Flames) *

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* Canoe/Kayak *

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* Cricket * Cycling & Triathlon *

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* Football * Golf * Gymnastics *

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...

* Hockey * Judo * Kempo Karate * Kendo * Netball * Rockclimbing &Mountaineering *

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Rugby League Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

Rugby Union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

Sydney University Soccer Football Club
/ref> * Squash * Swimming * Table Tennis * Taekwondo * Tennis * Touch * Ultimate Frisbee * Volleyball *

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* Waterski & Wakeboard * Wrestling & Grappling

References

External links

Sydney University Sport and Fitness website
{{University of Sydney Health clubs in Australia Women's Big Bash League