Record number of Avondale students among best at uni games
Four Avondale students are among the best in their sport after being named on the Green and Gold list at the 2015 Australian University Games.
Victoria Aoke, Hillamore Faiumu, John Faiumu and Damee Kea made the list for their performances in women’s touch, women’s basketball, rugby sevens and men’s touch. Kea made the list as the only Avondale student at the Eagles’s first games in 2013. Men’s touch teammate Mark Tipple and Jordan Bailey (men’s basketball) joined Kea on the list this past year.
Appearing on the list is an “honour,” says student services director Kevin Judge. “It’s a select group of athletes on paper, but if an actual game was played, they’d represent all universities in their respective sport.”
Avondale finished fifth—up from 23 the year before—on the per capita point score behind Bond University, who kept the Doug Ellis Trophy for a third consecutive year.
Sixty students represented Avondale at the games, held on the Gold Coast, September 27-October 2. The Eagles entered teams in women’s basketball, men’s futsal, men’s and women’s touch and for the first time mixed beach volleyball and rugby sevens. The best placed team: women’s touch, which placed sixth in division one after its gold medal qualifying win in division two this past year. The men’s touch team, which also played in division one, placed eighth.
More than 8300 students—the highest number on record—from 42 higher education providers participated in the games this year. They will travel to Perth next year.
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