tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35960967381459289342024-03-19T21:47:35.211+11:00TeamMONASHTeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-4818998806746907502019-12-13T13:41:00.000+11:002019-12-13T13:41:32.608+11:00Monash Cheer and Dance Champs Dominated 2019<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Monash Cheer cleaned up at AASCF.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash have once again absolutely dominated in the
Australian Cheer and Dance scene this year, finishing 2019 with an enormous
medal haul from both University and All Star events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The team won a total of six gold medals and a silver medal
at the 2019 Unisport Div 1 Nationals on the Gold Coast (LINK <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/10/monash-cheer-and-dance-blitz-2019.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/10/monash-cheer-and-dance-blitz-2019.html</span></a>),
taking out the overall prizes in both Cheer and Dance disciplines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">64 Monash athletes competed across eight cheer and dance
divisions at the event in October, which is considered to be one of the
qualifying events for the 2020 World University Cheerleading Championships in
Korea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Just when we thought they couldn’t get any better, the
Monash athletes won another eight gold medals and two silver medals at the
Australian All Star Cheerleading Federation (AASCF) Nationals early in
December! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash Apollo cheer team and Minerva dance team earned the
title of ‘Grand Champions’ for their respective divisions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash Cheer and Dance Vice President, Hayley Shreeve, said a "family-like culture" was the key ingredient in the squads 'recipe for success'.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"Obviously to perform so well you need a bit of luck, but we had great athletes and awesome staff," Shreeve said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"We just loved to support each other and build an atmosphere were everyone wanted to train and work hard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"I'm incredibly proud of our season."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After the success of 2019, the Vice President said the club has high hopes for 2020 and expects to have another strong year. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Monash Dance enjoyed plenty of success in 2019.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"Unisport Cheer Nationals are in Melbourne next year, so we want to perform really well then," Shreeve said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"We're also hoping to qualify for World University Championships next year in South Korea, which would be another amazing challenge for the team to take on."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There were also strong results throughout the year for
individuals in the team who competed with other club’s at various competitions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash Master of Teaching student Rebecca Fancke (LINK <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/07/world-championship-success-for-monashs.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/07/world-championship-success-for-monashs.html</span></a>)
placed sixth with her local team from Northcote at the International All Star
Federation (IASF) World Cheerleading Championships in Florida in April. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Bec’s team competed against 42 other teams from around the
world, including the US, Canada, England, France and Norway. She said she
is very grateful for all the opportunities the sport affords female athletes. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Being an all-girl
team, I hope that our journey to Worlds inspires many young girls to work hard,
dream big, and know that they are able to achieve amazing things in sport as
well as in life,” she said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I can only put our
success down to the sheer passion and dedication my teammates have for the
sport and for our dream.”</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Nell O'Shea Carre and Joseph Arthur, Media Coordinators</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-21079847361338481262019-12-11T12:26:00.000+11:002019-12-11T12:26:33.819+11:00Chris Leung-Chee-Hang dodges his way to the WDBF World Championships
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash’s own
Dodgeball Club President and Coach Christopher Leung-Chee-Hang represented
Australia at the 2019 WDBF World Championships in Mexico in November, following
a rigorous selection process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Australian team
came fourth in the competition in Cancun, after being defeated by Canada in the
bronze medal match following a strong start to the competition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Chris, a fourth year
Electrical Engineering and Commerce student, came from a tennis background. He
only began playing dodgeball in his first year of university after chatting
with a friend at the dodgeball stand during O Week.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Chris said he was unable to attend the tryout day for the Australian team</div>
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selection camp, so he was chosen based on a video he sent of himself</div>
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competing in a dodgeball competition. </div>
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Photo: Australian Dodgeball Federation. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“From tennis, I
think having a good shoulder and arm has helped me a lot, and also the
footwork,” Chris said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“With dodgeball, if
you play any other sport there’s always something that’s transferrable to one
facet of the game.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">To make the
Australian National Dodgeball team, Chris first had to apply by sending in a
video of himself playing. From there, 50 athletes were invited to attend a
selection camp at AIS, and the team was gradually cut down until the final 12
team members were announced in July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Chris said he had
never competed at this level before, and his goal for the competition was to
gain experiences which he can use in his role as president of the Monash University Dodgeball
Association (MUDA).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">MUDA is a relatively
new addition to Monash’s various sporting teams, becoming an affiliated club
with the University in 2018.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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MUDA teams won Gold and Bronze at Dodgeball Federation Australia's </div>
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University Championships earlier this year.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Chris said he is often asked how competitive dodgeball differs from
the more relaxed game we all remember from high school PE classes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I think the
physicality of the sport is a lot more different when you’re playing seriously.
A lot of people get injuries doing things their body has never done before,
especially in the dodging component, where you’re trained to do anything to get
out of the way,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Besides that,
there’s a lot more structure to the play. In the more competitive style of play
there’s a lot of strategy that goes on behind the scenes, a lot of counter
playing to that, and then counter-counter play. It becomes a whole mind game in
the end, of who’s going to do what.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Although some
dodgeball competitors may be stronger in certain skill sets, such as throwing,
Chris said he would consider himself an all-rounder. He plays the wing
position, covering the far right or far left of the court.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Monash Alumni Ashley Chan was also selected to represent Australia</div>
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at the 2019 WDBF World Championships.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Because this is
somewhat the safest position on court, you’re given quite a lot of
responsibility in protecting the rest of the team. So I found that being an
all-rounder has helped in that role,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The other teams
know that you’re important, and then it becomes a bit of a mind game again. Are
they going to target you, or target players that are easier to get?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Training for
competitive dodgeball involves gameplay, fitness training, and technical training,
such as finessing dodging skills and throw speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Well done Chris, we
can’t wait to see where dodgeball takes you next!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written
by Nell O’Shea Carre, Media Coordinator. </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-2926501752316209392019-12-11T11:08:00.005+11:002019-12-11T11:08:56.633+11:00Sophie Jackson takes Gold at Australian sailing championship<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sophie Jackson will
be heading into the Aero Sailing World Championships later this month with a
National title under her belt, having taken out the 2019 RS Aero Australian
Championships last weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The 19 year old
Secondary Health and Physical Education student took the lead in the first day
of sailing at the event at Black Rock in Melbourne, and was able to hang on to
finish first in the fleet of male and female competitors, despite tough weather
conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sophie has been
sailing solo since she was six years old, but is new to the Aero Class and said
the win was very exciting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“When it’s
really windy the fleet spreads out a lot, and there are a lot of capsizes. I
was actually the only boat not to capsize on the last day. But the first day
the racing was pretty tight,” Sophie said. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We’ve
had quite a lot of windy weather, especially through the winter. So I’ve been
doing a lot of training in those conditions, which definitely helped.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s my
first open national championship win, so racing against the blokes as well. It’s
pretty cool.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sophie
has competed previously in two World Championships in the 420 Dinghy, a double
handed class, but decided to take up the opportunity to compete at the local
event in the single handed Aero after struggles to find a committed crew. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Aero
World Championships will also be held at Black Rock, which Sophie said will
hopefully give a slight advantage to the home competitors who are used to the
conditions. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Hopefully
we get a bit more of a typical Port Phillip sea breeze set up for the World
Champs,” she said. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“In the
420 Class I had a bit more of a gauge of where I was in the international
fleet. Whereas this time I’m new to the Aero Class, so I’m not sure how I’m
going to be comparatively to the international boats, but definitely hoping to
be up there.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After
the World Championships, Sophie is planning to return to competition in the 470
Olympic Class, and find a crew to compete with in the 2020 470 Junior World
Championships in Poland next July. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Congratulations
on the achievement Sophie, and good luck at the World Championships! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written
by Nell O’Shea Carre, Media Coordinator. </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-52069911279121836552019-12-05T11:40:00.000+11:002019-12-05T11:40:29.801+11:00Monash raises $85,000 to support Refugees and Asylum Seekers
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This year the
incredible Monash fundraising team has raised over $85,000 to support Asylum
Seekers and Refugees to study at Monash University in 2020. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Most of this money
has been raised through the efforts of student, staff and alumni fundraisers
participating in two of Melbourne’s biggest Fun Runs for the year; Run
Melbourne and Melbourne Marathon Festival. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Hundreds of people
in the Monash community took to the streets for these events, and some even
beat thousands to win their respective event categories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This campaign was a
combined initiative of TeamMONASH and External Relations, Development and
Alumni, and the money raised will cover two years of an Asylum Seeker’s tuition
fees at Monash University, as well as a $5000 stipend for both those
years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Find out more about
how each of these events went down: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Run
Melbourne</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Over 320 Monash
students, staff and alumni took to the Melbourne CBD streets on July 28 for<a href="https://events.solemotive.com/run-melbourne/" target="_blank"> Run Melbourne</a>, raising more than $55,000 for Asylum Seeker Scholarships at the
University. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In a combined
TeamMONASH and External Relations, Development and Alumni initiative, Monash’s
collective fundraising efforts ranked the University fourth out of 264 teams
raising money for various causes at the event. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The events at Run Melbourne had a staggered start time,</div>
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but all three courses culminated at the combined finish</div>
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line on the Yarra River. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Melbourne weather
(surprisingly!) pulled through with some ideal running conditions; clear skies,
sunny, and no wind. This worked favourably for two Monash students, who beat
thousands of people to take out the win in their respective events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Biomedical Science
Student Emilie Guy placed first out of over 3100 women competing in the 10k
event, completing the course in an incredible 36 minutes and 16 seconds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Michael Kernahan, a
science student and like Emilie, also a member of TeamMONASH’s Elite Student
Performer Scheme, won the 5k run with a time of 15 minutes 42 seconds.<br />
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The scenic course looped around iconic Melbourne landmarks such as the MCG,
Federation Square, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, with participants given the
choice to compete in the 5k, 10k or Half Marathon events, or the 4km ‘Friendship
dash’ which was held the day before the main event. <br />
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Nester first got involved with TeamMONASH</div>
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when he came to the University to do an</div>
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English Bridging Course to study a</div>
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Masters of Counselling. </div>
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Monash Alumni Nestor Alejandro Ochoa managed to complete a gruelling personal
challenge: running the Half Marathon, 10k and 5k events back to back, taking
just 15-30 minutes to rest between each event.<br />
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If this wasn't enough, Nestor also managed to run a personal best in the Half
Marathon in the impressive time of one hour and 25 minutes. He said the
decision to run the 'trifecta' was an "awesome and crazy
challenge".<br />
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"The hardest part of the whole morning was following the nutrition and
hydration plan that was made before, because due to the lack of time, I had to
eat as quickly as possible and my body was not really accepting any food, I had
to force myself to eat to avoid having any physical issues during the
event," he said.<br />
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"The change from the 10km to 5km was really tough, I already had 31
kilometres on me and stopping was not really good for my body. I considered
stopping there, but being so close to the end was really
motivating."<br />
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Monash 'cheer squads' were strategically positioned along the course to provide
support and encouragement to the runners, who also had access to TeamMONASH's
free marquee cloakroom, snacks and drinks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash med student
Jacob Pope said he was ecstatic to complete his first half marathon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I didn’t think I
was going to be able to do it, and I was quite nervous about it,” he said.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Multiple roads were closed around the city to facilitate </div>
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more than 22,000 runners who took to the streets</div>
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for the event. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was a big
challenge, especially in the last five kilometres it started to get really
difficult, but the atmosphere and the good vibes saw me through in the end, and
I had a great time.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Run Melbourne began
12 years ago, and since then over 200,000 runners have pounded the pavement at
the annual event, clocking a combined distance of almost eight laps around the
world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This year 13 different
groups within TeamMONASH implemented their own fundraising campaigns for the
event. Monash External Relations, Development & Alumni team raised the most
donations for Asylum Seeker Scholarships, followed by Mannix College and the
Monash Law Students’ Society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash Giving
Programs Officer Ian Grimwood said the fundraising effort was a “huge success”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Asylum Seekers pay
full international fees for their education, so that’s $35,000 a year and they don’t
get any government support while they’re studying. So I think it’s important
for Monash, as a place that values education for all, to be fundraising at
events like this,” Ian said.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Ian Grimwood pictured in pink! </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We had people from
all over the university taking part, so being there and seeing that was really
special.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Over a thousand
people donated to the cause. Monash is hoping to raise another $45,000 for
Scholarships by the end of the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sam Robinson, in his
second year of medicine at Monash, was involved with the fundraising team at
Mannix College, a Monash affiliated residential college. Sam ran in the 10km
event, and said Asylum Seeker Scholarships were about giving everyone a “fair
chance”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I think as a
college community, and as a Monash community, we all decided we wanted to try
and make an impact on those less fortunate and who are not necessarily afforded
the same opportunities as us,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was a really
good atmosphere [at the run], and particularly towards the end that really
helped you across the line. And all the Monash people, even the ones you didn’t
know, were really supportive during the run, which was great.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Melbourne
Marathon Festival </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There were no <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-12/eliud-kipchoge-runs-marathon-in-under-two-hours/11597186" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">sub two hour marathons </span></a>in Melbourne on October 13, but
TeamMONASH certainly impressed at the 42<sup>nd</sup> <a href="https://melbournemarathon.com.au/2019-melbourne-marathon-officially-australias-largest-ever-marathon/?_ga=2.185611375.75583365.1571008391-1156662679.1566882759" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">Melbourne Marathon Festival, </span></a>raising $25,000 for Asylum
Seeker scholarships at this event alone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Over 250 Monash
students, staff and alumni took to the streets of Melbourne for the annual event,
including 100 fundraisers who have helped bring Monash’s total money raised for
Asylum Seeker scholarships in 2019 to over $85,000.</span></div>
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Runners were spurred on by volunteer Monash cheer</div>
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teams positioned at various locations along the course.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Melbourne event
was Australia’s largest ever marathon, with 37,185 people taking part. Monash
students also represented the university competitively at the event, as the
marathon was the official <a href="https://www.unisport.com.au/nationals" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">2019 Unisport Nationals competition</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The race started by
the Yarra River in Melbourne’s CBD. Marathon runners completed a scenic loop of
Albert Park, running out to St Kilda before returning into the CBD to join all
other event participants in a lap of the MCG. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash student
Declan Dempster finished his first marathon yesterday, and personally raised
over $650 for the cause by calling on donors to sponsor him to wear Richmond
Football Club merchandise during the run. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Declan said he hit
the wall between the 32 and 40km mark of the run, but was spurred on by the
four hour pacers, and inspired by the run into the MCG to the finish line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I kind of wanted to
cry, just because I was so exhausted and I was just so happy to see the
finish,” Declan said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“There were so many
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Melbourne Marathon
Festival has events for all abilities, with Monash students participating in
the full marathon, half marathon, 10km and 5km events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The sunny 22 degree
day made for pleasant running conditions despite the early morning start. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash’s Giving
Programs Officer Ian Grimwood said over 3000 people donated to Monash’s 2019
fundraising campaign at <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/07/two-student-winners-and-55000-raised.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">Run Melbourne</span></a> and the Melbourne Marathon Festival, driving
the team’s success. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“That’s a massive
show of support for the scholarships, and it really helps to send a message to
the University and to the wider public that this is really important to Monash
University’s community,” Ian said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The highlight is
always seeing people who have put in so much hard work to fundraise and train
enjoying themselves out on the day and really celebrating a big win.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Kenyans Isaac Birir
and Naomi Jepkogei Maiyo each took away $20,000 in prize money as the male and
female winners of the marathon. Birir finished the race in a time of 2:16.31,
and Maiyo followed with a time of 2:35.34. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Five dedicated
runners completed the Melbourne Marathon for the 42<sup>nd</sup> consecutive
year, and participants at the event ranged in age from 18 to 87 years. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Feeling inspired?! <a href="https://www.monash.edu/teammonash/events/community/runmelbourne" target="_blank">Sign up now</a> for Run Melbourne 2020! </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-2853063948334454772019-12-04T15:53:00.000+11:002019-12-05T09:31:35.059+11:00Laura Barden joins the Australian Hockeyroos squad in the lead up to Tokyo 2020 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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about timing, and Monash’s Laura Barden looks to have peaked at just the right
time, having been selected for the 2020 Australian Hockeyroos squad last month
just as the build up to Tokyo 2020 heads into its final stages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Master of Nursing student spent two years with the squad in 2016/17, but has
since been working to earn back a coveted spot team. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after a successful season as a midfielder with runner-up team <a href="https://hockeyone.com.au/teams/hockey-club-melbourne/women/" target="_blank">Hockey Club Melbourne</a>
in the inaugural eight week <a href="https://hockeyone.com.au/" target="_blank">Hockey One</a> competition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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selectors would be watching these matches, and she was determined to impress. </span><br />
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with how I was playing but I also knew at the end of the day, it’s quite tough
to come back when you’ve been unselected,” she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teams might not change that much before an Olympic year, because you want to
keep things consistent and just keep the same team because it’s a building
process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“So I was very
hopeful and I dreamed of it but I didn’t actually think it was going to happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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National Development squad, will now spend the next 7-8 months in the lead up
to the Olympics competing and training together in Perth, before the final team
of 18 are selected for Tokyo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one of Australia’s most successful sporting teams and are currently ranked
second behind the Netherlands in FIH Women’s World Rankings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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playing Hockey when she was seven, said her focus in Perth will be on improving
her speed and injury prevention. Last time Laura was in the squad she was
injured for a few months, and said this likely contributed to her deselection
from the team. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I definitely want
to focus on everything outside of training like doing the extra stretching,
going to see a physio or osteo, massages, ice baths…,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a job on the side, but you do have to dedicate a lot of time to making the best
athlete of yourself… you don’t want to compromise any kind of recovery.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and we look forward to seeing you smash it in Perth over the next few months! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-58851700620734197552019-11-26T13:51:00.000+11:002019-11-26T13:51:11.938+11:00Dragon Boat paddled into Melinda Koh's heart and now she is sharing the love<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Melinda Koh (third from right, front) and her team.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">At the end of last
month, Melinda Koh and the Melbourne University Dragon Boat team went to Wenzhou,
China to compete at the Wenzhou (Ouhai) Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament of
World-Famous Schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The invite-only tournament
is one of the highest quality dragon boat competitions for University students
in the world, with many top international and local Chinese teams competing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With Melbourne
University being the only Victorian University to have a dragon boat team, Koh was
recruited to join and set off for her first overseas university performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For many athletes, attendance
was all about winning, but for Monash education (honours) student, Melinda Koh,
attending the tournament was simply about furthering her experiences in the
art-form she holds so dear. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">An art-form she
first discovered six-years ago in Singapore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I started dragon boat
in Singapore – where I came (to Australia) from – because it’s a big thing in Asia.
I was just walking by the bay one day and saw a competition and thought it
looked fun,” Koh said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“So I tried it and I
got hooked to it. I’d rather be in a boat than standing up.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The niche yet
growing sport, originating in China, sees anywhere from two to 22 people aboard
a man-powered water craft, or ‘dragon boat’, paddling against opposing crafts
in races ranging from 100m to 2km. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Melbourne University Dragon Boat in action.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Competitors on each
boat are either paddlers, drummers or sweepers and crews can be male only,
female only, or mixed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The style of rowing
involves paddlers on their knees, using only one paddle each to row the boat as
quickly as possible. Drummers sit at the front of the craft and ensure the
paddlers paddle in time with one-another while sweepers direct the boat from
the rear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Before becoming a
dragon boat expert, Koh said the physical stress of the gruelling job as a
paddler took its toll, but the relationships with her peers kept her going,
fuelling her passion for the sport. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“At first it was
tiring of course, because dragon boat uses muscles you don’t usually use, so
when I first went for training I couldn’t straighten my arm for a week or climb
stairs,” Koh said.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“But I love it
because it’s a team sport, it’s really the people that have kept me going over
the years, the friendship, the comradery and the sense of belonging in the team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s never really
about winning, but about how we push one another into achieving personal goals.” <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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All smiles for Melinda (middle) and her team.</div>
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Source: Supplied.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The competition in Wenzhou
saw eight international teams and eight local Chinese teams compete against one
another in the 200m and 500m dragon boat categories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The relatively small
boats had 12 individuals aboard, ten paddlers, a drummer and a sweeper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">However, upon
arrival Koh said the upcoming races where the last things on her mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“When we first got
there (Wenzhou) the hospitality was amazing and all the student’s came down to
great us,” Koh said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We introduced
ourselves to each other...we exchanged some gifts and we trained together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“All the universities
were housed in the same hotel, so you could interact with other teams from
other parts of the world which was good. You weren’t just spending time with
your teams. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Paddling through the city of Wenzhou.</div>
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Source: Supplied.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The exchange itself
was actually the highlight…it was a good way to learn about the culture of the
university, the students and the sport.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When race day
finally came, the 30-year-old member of Monash’s Elite Student Performer Scheme
said she felt prepared. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">However, after
arriving and taking in the size of the crowd, nerves started to set in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“When we reached the
racecourse on racing day, the crowd was…whoa…I was speechless,” Koh said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I’d never seen such
crowds, not even in Singapore…it was along the river, across the river, wherever
you looked just huge crowds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I was nervous at
the start line, no matter how many competitions or races you do, you’re always
nervous at the start line.” <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Big crowds turned up to support.</div>
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Source: Supplied.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Facing off in races
against teams from China, the US, Canada, Italy, Malaysia and Macaw, Koh said
her team knew racing was going to be tough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Our team is
relatively new, we’d only been together a couple of months so…we knew racing
was going to be intense,” Koh said. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“But we trained hard
and wanted to do our best.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For Melbourne
University and Melinda Koh, the end result was a very respectable 10<sup>th</sup>
overall, finishing 11<sup>th</sup> in the 500m and 8<sup>th</sup> in the 200m. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Against 15 other
world class boats, Koh said the result was impressive and a good opportunity to
see how the team handled itself against some of the more elite and seasoned competition.
</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“For some of my
teammates it was their first racing experience, so the overseas race really
opened our eyes…it was good to see where we were at,” Koh said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With the tournament
behind her, Koh is turning her attention towards growing the popularity of
dragon boat in Australia. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tpuh9_MgeNpnbz6Np07BZSvfrt0ftnxH6qWKikzThOBgxnJ8MiCKbMEQDgVxiF_fOqlU2vG2Kdfj0Dk48IpBia_rRV6pBIJGd9i6U_i3VPA04kNucOpVo8s0VaWaVcZiPohOg64MkEE/s1600/Mel+Koh+aerial.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tpuh9_MgeNpnbz6Np07BZSvfrt0ftnxH6qWKikzThOBgxnJ8MiCKbMEQDgVxiF_fOqlU2vG2Kdfj0Dk48IpBia_rRV6pBIJGd9i6U_i3VPA04kNucOpVo8s0VaWaVcZiPohOg64MkEE/s320/Mel+Koh+aerial.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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The dragon boats have a very special look.</div>
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Source: Supplied.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The first step in
her plan is to introduce a dragon boat team to Monash, before branching out
university competition as a whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Dragon boat in
Australia is becoming very popular…but there’s no division in-between junior
and premier levels, so there’s a huge pool of people around 16-23 –years-old
who can’t compete anywhere,” Koh said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“So I thought I could
maybe try to develop a Monash team to fill this hole and possibly create a
university team’s category in the upcoming Australian Dragon Boat
Championships.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In the short-term,
Koh will hopefully be travelling with the team to an upcoming competition in Taiwan,
pending try-outs and said she is looking to transition into becoming more of a coach
in the near future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Congratulations on
your efforts in China Melinda and we can’t wait to see what you do next – hopefully
it will involve competing for a Monash University dragon boat team!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph
Arthur, Media Coordinator </span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-89430420771944128882019-11-15T14:04:00.000+11:002019-11-21T14:12:35.032+11:00Badminton is thriving at Monash and Loke Poh Wong is why<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Loke is all smiles in his badminton facilities.</div>
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Photo: Joseph Arthur.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Roughly 40 years ago, Loke Poh Wong was graduating from
Monash University with a Civil Engineering degree. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">At the time, Wong had been competing with the Monash
University badminton team at Intervarsity competitions from 1977-81, having also competed at numerous State and National competitions. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Now in his 42<sup>nd</sup> year with the club, the
61-year-old remains heavily involved with all things Monash badminton. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">As a member of the Blues committee and the clubs Public
Officer, Wong is working towards creating more opportunities to play for those within Monash who share his badminton passion. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Monash Badminton Club is very much part of my life,” Wong
said.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I’m the Public Officer for the Monash Badminton Club, which
means I’m putting up all the University teams that play in the Varsity Competition.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I’m working as a civil engineer and an environmental
engineer for my own company but the passion is always badminton.”</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Loke Poh Wong has been putting his words into action,
helping create and run four badminton facilities for both Monash alumni and
badminton novices alike. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Wong said by aiding in the creation and operation of new facilities, the sport has an
opportunity to grow. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“A group of us Monash alumni who love the game and continue
playing with the club, took over those (four) facilities and we converted them
into world class badminton courts,” Wong said. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s (badminton) a growing sport and the facilities for badminton are lacking Australia wide, so ours have been put together for
retirees, competitions, leagues, socials and school children.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">" </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span>However it isn’t just off the court where Wong is making
his mark. He also happens to be ranked in the top six badminton players in the
world in the over 60 (masters) competition and top two in Asia. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Since competing at senior level, he has won gold in the
World Masters, Australian Masters and World Asian masters. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Most recently, the badminton veteran went to Kuching,
Malaysia to defend his gold medal at the World Asian Masters and finished with
a silver medal, falling to the local Malaysian champion. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I was the defending champ (in Kuching), I won it last year
in China but this year I got silver, and I’m very happy with my silver, so now
I’ve got a gold and a silver,” Wong said. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The courts Loke created are world class.</div>
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Photo: Joseph Arthur.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When asked about how a man of his age can stay in such good
physical shape, Wong credited both his wife and his love of the game.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s just a sport I like, I play quite a high level….and
my wife has looked after me well so my body is in good shape and as I get older
I find that I can now beat former world champs,” Wong said.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I met my wife in the mixed doubles, she was on the other
side of the court and so I had to marry her so she would come over to my side
of the court and play with me.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We won the mixed doubles World Championships in Sydney back in 2009...she is a source of strength for me.”</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The future goal for Wong is simple; continue to grow
badminton both Australia-wide and from a more local Monash perspective.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He said ideally, international students who play badminton will
be excited at the idea of studying at Monash, if not for the degree’s, but for
the opportunity to improve their game.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I am trying to encourage overseas students to come to Monash
and play,” Wong said.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“If you’re overseas and a good badminton player, come to Monash
and your standard of badminton will increase. Not only will you get a degree
but you’ll get better at badminton.”</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The pathways for Australian badminton athletes are in place
and Wong hopes to see people embrace the opportunities he is trying to create
for them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He said watching people enjoy the sport and participate in
the community is a source of significant pride. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“That’s why the passion is there, it’s seeing people
playing and being coached well,” Wong said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“For top players, I put pathway's to where they can hit
with national players and meet with national coaches...so those who are able to
take those opportunities do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Being able to put these coaches and systems that we have
together for the upcoming athletes is important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“With my different hats on, whether it be for Victoria or
Australia, you want the sport to grow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Congratulations on your efforts in Kuching Loke! We are very proud and can't wait to see badminton continue to prosper at Monash! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph Arthur, Media Coordinator </span></div>
TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-85295105299731198402019-11-11T15:20:00.001+11:002019-11-12T11:59:25.048+11:002019 Chancellor's Cup Golf Day wrap-up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Despite the threat
of thunderstorms and hail, 80 people turned out to the Sandhurst Golf Club on Friday for the <a href="https://www.monash.edu/teammonash/events/community/chancellors-cup" target="_blank">2019 Chancellor’s Cup Golf Day.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The annual event is
an opportunity for members and friends of the Monash community to come
together to support the TeamMONASH <a href="https://www.monash.edu/teammonash/talented-student-support" target="_blank">Elite Student Performer Scheme</a> and <a href="https://www.monash.edu/teammonash/sporting-clubs" target="_blank">Monash University’s affiliated clubs.</a> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The golfers braved chilly conditions to support Monash's student athletes. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Around $10,000 was
raised for these programs, thanks to the generous support of all the
participants and event sponsors Harris HMC, Monash Electrical, Programmed and
UniSuper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Additionally, almost
$700 was raised for the <a href="https://www.curebraincancer.org.au/my-fundraising/11444/alyshas-army?fbclid=IwAR2TwlJqnIG1IE41zAY6bil503H6-fkNmgyPMJkXgbpqpnRa0bq7VJQT9A8" target="_blank">Cure Brain Cancer Foundation in memory of Alysha Waye,</a>
a former Monash student athlete who passed away earlier this year. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/09/remembering-alysha-purple-ribbons-on.html" target="_blank">TeamMONASH honoured Alysha at Div 1 Uni Nationals</a> in September by wearing purple ribbons in memory of the former softball captain. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Golfers participated
in an Ambrose style tournament, which was won by team Seek for the second year
in a row. Congratulations to team members Allan Sweeney, Michael Ermer, Brian
Tomlin and Eoin McGrath for their strong performance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">TeamMONASH director
Martin Doulton said the event was a great success. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The highlight of
the day was the amazing camaraderie between all of the people who joined us
for the Golf Day, and their willingness to support the University, the Elite Student Performers,
and the charity foundation,” Doulton said. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Reigning champion's from Seek retained their trophy, winning back-to-back tournaments. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Participants enjoyed
lunch and a formal presentation on the day, as well as novelty challenges such
as ‘nearest to the pin’, ‘longest drive’, ‘straightest drive’, and ‘putting
green closest’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Thank you to all our
sponsors and supporters for making the day possible! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Nell O’Shea
Carre, Media Coordinator. </span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-73152636065670563362019-10-31T12:00:00.000+11:002019-11-12T11:59:50.938+11:00Monash student Alex Scott and her team of champions finish second at Worlds <br />
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Alex (middle) in action. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">First year Monash engineering/arts student Alex Scott and
her team of sport aerobics superstars finished second overall at last month’s
Sport Aerobics World Championships. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Held in Leiden, a Municipality in South Holland and competing in the performance
section, the event was the culmination of 12 months of training and sacrifice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The event itself was highly competitive and Alex said her
teammates were really proud of their efforts, executing their performances to a
near perfect level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The performances were good, we were happy with all of our
routines,” Scott said</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We were maybe a bit over-excited at first and our timing was
a bit out at times because we had so much energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The event was really amazing to go to, it had a good
atmosphere, and everyone was supporting each other really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“All the Australians, if you weren’t competing, you were
cheering on in the crowd and it made for a really good environment.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Qualification for World Championships (Worlds), came after the team earned strong results representing their
club ‘Action Sport Aerobics’ at both States and Nationals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We represented Action Sport Aerobics at the States and
also Nationals, but when we go to Worlds we represent Australia,” Scott said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We had three Australian team’s go (to Worlds) this year
which was really good.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After 12 months of preparation, for Alex and her team to perform so well was special, justifying all of their effort, sacrifice and showing impressive team endeavour. </span></div>
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Alex (middle) embracing the circus theme.</div>
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O<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">verall, it was world class for Alex, a member of the Monash Elite Student Performer Scheme, and her team to finish second among the 10 teams competing
in the section. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">It didn't come easily however, having to earn each performance throughout the event and climb the ladder to finish second. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“(At worlds) there were preliminary's (prelims), semi-finals and finals and
you have to qualify for each of those," Scott said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“In the prelims we placed third which we were really happy
with and we were third again in semi-finals and then we moved up a spot after finals so second overall was our final result.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The performance section of sport aerobics involves teams of
five, performing a one minute, 45 second set. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Each performance is themed and must be executed in a
theatrical manner, relevant to the particular theme each team chooses for
itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Our theme was circus but everyone picks their own theme,” Scott said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“So it’s a little bit more dance-y than typical sport
aerobics sections and you can do some different sort of tricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The themes have got to tell a story and it needs to be a really
theatrical performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"Sport aerobics itself is a mix between gymnastics, dance and a bit of cheer-leading."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With Worlds in the books, Alex said she’s preparing for
try-outs next year, hoping to get back to both States and Nationals and
continue to improve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph Arthur, Media Coordinator </span></div>
TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-28085553590747226192019-10-28T13:29:00.000+11:002019-11-12T11:59:41.920+11:00Elite Student Performer Roxana Paun Trifan takes on Australian theatre and film industry<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Meet one of our
Elite Student Performers Roxana Paun Trifan! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Roxana is a
professional theatre and film actress, and recipient of several international awards
and grants for her theatre and film performances. She is currently studying a
PhD in Theatre Performance, producing her solo performance ‘Acting Chekhov in Translation’ for her thesis. </span></div>
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Roxana (centre) has won many awards and </div>
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accolades internationally for her performances.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Roxana started her
first degree in theatre performance in Romania in 1998, and has since worked with
Andrei Serban, Eugenio Barba, John Strasberg, Nikolov Perveli Vili, Carlo
Mazzacurati among others, for major companies such as National Theatre in
Romania, Teatro Stabile 'Giuseppe Verdi' in Italy, La Comédie Française,
MUST Theatre, and the National Opera in Bucharest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“On stage I feel
like I belong, I feel like home. So even in a very new cultural context, such
as Australia, which is really new from many points of view for me, I started
feeling at home when I started acting,” Roxana said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It connects me
emotionally with the place, and it connects me emotionally with the audience. It
makes me feel complete.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Roxana has conducted
several Intercultural Community Theatre Projects involving undergraduate and
postgraduate students, and her research interests involve acting
techniques, intercultural performance and theatre healing potential.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Find out more about Roxana in our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UVcRL1UcqA" target="_blank">YouTube profile video.</a> </span></div>
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Oscar is definitely not afraid of heights. </div>
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Photo: Oscar Chau YouTube</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">First-year Monash Business student Oscar Chau has been practising parkour and free-running for six and a half years. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In that time he has
gone from total novice, practicing at home from YouTube tutorials, to a rising
star of the sport, winning domestic competitions and competing internationally.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">However, it was
earlier this year, at the Australian Academy of Parkour, Exercise and
Self-Defence (AAPES) Jump Off 2019, where the 18-year-old's true potential was on
display. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Having suffered a
debilitating ankle injury just two weeks prior to the country’s biggest and
most internationally recognised parkour/free-running event, Oscar was lucky to
be competing at all. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Two weeks prior to
the competition I did a second degree tear to the ligaments in my upper ankle
and then bone bruising on the inside as well,” Chau said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was the first
time I’d been over there (AAPES Jump Off Sydney) in three years…I took a break
because of my studies.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Going in…I really
had no goal to win the competition, I just wanted to show what I was capable
of.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Parkour and
free-running are two separate terms which are often blended into one. However in
relation to the AAPES Jump Off competition, they are very different. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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No fear.</div>
<div>
Photo: Oscar Chau YouTube.</div>
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</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Parkour is about
getting from point-a to point-b as efficiently as possible,” Chau said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Whereas free-running
takes aspects of gymnastics, martial arts, other movement forms and basically
blends it all into one. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s (free-running)
not necessarily about efficiency but more-so creativity.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Parkour/free-running
competitions are made up of three categories: style, speed and skill.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Style events involve
a competitor free-running within a course for 90 seconds, where the
competitor’s goal is to pull off as many tricks whilst completing their ‘line’
or run in as stylish a way as possible. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Speed events are for
parkour competitors who simply attempt to complete a specific course in the
quickest time possible, whilst skill events are when competitors attempt to
pull off specific skill based free-running challenges.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For Oscar, a member of the University's Elite Student Performer Scheme, the
free-running style events are his passion. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Style is my
favourite format, where you have 90 seconds on a set course and you can do
whatever you want,” Chau said. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“You can really
showcase what your personal style is all about.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">At AAPES Jump Off
2019, due to being limited by injury, Oscar only competed in the style event. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The good thing was,
they are (style events) so creative…that you can change your style to fit the
needs of the environment,” Chau said. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“(At AAPES) I was at
a level where even though I was limited by my injury I was still able to work
around it and showcase what I was capable of.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Split into two
categories, intermediate and advanced, Oscar was to compete in the advanced
category against some of the best free-running athletes in Australia...with
only one good ankle. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">What ensued was
something incredible. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I did my heat run
and was scoring first overall going into the finals,” Chau said. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“In the finals I had
to do a completely different run and once again I executed it really well, I
actually surprised myself and ended up winning the competition which was really
great. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It had been a goal
of mine for such a long time and going there injured, I was quite surprised
with the outcome (first place overall in the advanced style category). <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Determination and strength. </div>
<div>
Photo: Oscar Chau YouTube.</div>
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</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“As a result of that,
I got a wildcard slot into the Asian Parkour Championships held in Singapore…It
was to be my first international competition.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For Oscar, the win
at AAPES Jump Off 2019 was only a stepping stone towards a bigger goal, but the
gravity of the effort – against such adversity – isn’t to be overlooked. The
result was incredible. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Asian Parkour
Championships were a learning experience for Oscar, still suffering from his
persistent ankle injury and being forced to adapt to heat and humidity of
Singapore. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I didn’t feel
comfortable going into the competition (Asian Parkour Championships)...my body
was pretty wrecked, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me from doing my best,”
Chau said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“On my second trick
I had a really big stumble and pretty much fell straight on my arse.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I tried to recover
as best I could but unfortunately it didn’t let me get any further into the competition.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“But it wasn’t a bad
thing, honestly, it was my first international competition, so I feel like it
was a great experience in terms of knowing my limits and what I’m capable of in
terms of injury prevention and what position I need to be in to compete at that
level.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After a successful
2019 campaign, Oscar hopes to shake his nagging injury and continue to improve
internationally this coming year.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Moving into next
year my competition goals are to uphold and defend my championship at the AAPES
Jump Off 2020,” He said. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Moving on from
there I would also like to podium at the Asian Parkour Championships in 2020
and hopefully compete at the World Championships too.”</span></div>
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It's all smiles after perfecting a new move.</div>
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Photo: Oscar Chau YouTube.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Upon reflecting on
his goals for 2020, Oscar discussed what got him into the sport at first and
what drives him to continue. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Oscar said he found
a passion for the sport after finding a sense of self-expression that didn’t
exist in any other aspect of his life. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“My passion for it (parkour/free-running)
really grew from the fact that you get a sense of achievement from learning by
yourself and successfully achieving new movements and developing your own style,”
Chau said.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Parkour and free-running
has given me an outlet to express myself where I don’t feel like I have that in
any other area in my life.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s been so
important for me to use it as an avenue to take my mind off things or work
through difficult times in my life. That’s another thing that really contributed
to the passion I have for the sport.” </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph
Arthur, Media Coordinator</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-4958939467453885392019-10-22T12:49:00.000+11:002019-11-12T12:00:21.836+11:00Monash badminton star goes out on a high<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Athi (second from right) and the badminton team with their Nationals golds.</td></tr>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash Engineering student and badminton champion Athithan (Athi) Selladurai has been a busy man. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With an impending graduation ceremony on the horizon, Athi somehow managed to
compete in four different international tournament’s this past month and he got some very exciting results. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With stops at the
Perth International, South Australia International, Sydney International and
UniSport Nationals, Athi faced everything from National Champions
to Commonwealth Games superstars. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">All of his hard work
toiling away against some of the best in the world culminated in a fourth consecutive
Nationals gold medal, but it didn’t come easily. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Prior to nationals
and after a month of rigorous training and injury battles, Athi found himself
up against a former Sri Lankan National Champion in Round 1 of the Perth
International.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With expectations
low, he decided to play freely and without pressure in what was his first
international competition of what would be a busy month.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“My training leading
up to that (Perth International) had been quite good, I knew it was going to be
a busy month, so leading up to it the training was really solid,” Selladurai
said.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I’ve got a partial
tear in my rotator cuff, which has been a problem the whole year…I was weary of
that but otherwise everything was quite good.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I knew it was going
to be a tough game…I went into it thinking that I was going to lose.”</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">To everyone’s surprise,
even his own, Athi managed to win the first set 21 – 18, before losing in three
sets.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Athi said he took a
lot out of the match and was impressed with his own efforts, forcing his
opponent to sweat a little more than perhaps he had planned.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I executed my game
plan really well,” Selladurai said.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was a confidence
booster and he (Sri Lankan National Champion) went all the way through to the semi-finals.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“After that
performance I wasn’t disappointed because I knew I’d played really well.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Unfortunately for
Monash’s main badminton man, the confidence from his performance in Perth got
the best of him in South Australia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Up against a young
British up-and-comer, Athi knew it was a winnable match, which was ultimately his
un-doing in SA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I went into that game putting a lot of pressure on myself and it totally backfired on me,”
Selladurai said.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Against the Sri
Lankan guy…I was playing risk free badminton, whereas against the British guy I
was playing so passively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I wasn’t playing to
win, I was playing not to lose.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Following a disappointing
straight sets loss in South Australia, Athi set his sights on the Syndey
International. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Pitted against one
of Korea’s top badminton players, the task was simple: forget the result and
focus on playing risk-free badminton in preparation for Nationals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">However, Athi was
overcome with illness the morning prior to the competition and there were
moments when it looked like he wouldn’t play at all. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Athi (bottom left) is now a four-time champ.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I was up against a
top Korean player so it would have been a really good experience and I knew I
didn’t have any pressure to win it,” Selladurai said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“When I stepped on
court I seemed to be okay and I gave a really good fight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Out of the three
tournaments I’d say that was my best performance and he (Korean opponent) was
probably the best player that I played.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The final result was a close, hard-fought, two
set loss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Then came Nationals.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Athi said he had learned a lot from his recent
tournaments and was ready to lead Monash to victory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We came into it as
one of the favourites but earlier in the year we lost to Melbourne Uni at Varsity,”
Selladurai said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“When we got there
(Nationals), every round was a challenge, there’s probably a national level player on every team.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The big match-up for
Athi came when he and Monash faced Melbourne Uni for the second time this year, the winner would play in the gold medal match-up.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Both Athi and his
opponent were under the weather, fighting it out fuelled only by guts and
determination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I found myself up
15-10 in the second set, but then he got up 20-18 and I was thinking ‘gee I can’t play
a third set’ because I was quite unwell and needed to win immediately,”
Selladurai said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I’ve always done
well in team events with teammates supporting me and I managed to pull out four
big points in a row and pull off the win.”</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash went on to
win against Melbourne before defeating UNSW in the gold medal match-up without
losing a set, winning a fourth consecutive UniSport Nationals gold. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s nice to get
four golds and hopefully the first and second years can carry it on (in future),”
Selladurai said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“All these
tournaments I’m playing, I’m actually looking to next year…there’s the
Australian National Championships and the Oceania Championships which are two
big goals of mine in February of 2020.”</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Athi now leaves Uni
a four-time Nationals gold medallist and with his sights set on the future, be
on the look-out for big things to come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph
Arthur, Media Coordinator </span></div>
TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-12268878474230633392019-10-14T14:16:00.000+11:002019-12-05T11:41:35.409+11:00Monash brings 2019 Asylum Seeker scholarship fundraising tally to $85,000 at Melbourne Marathon<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There were no <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-12/eliud-kipchoge-runs-marathon-in-under-two-hours/11597186" target="_blank">sub two hour marathons </a>in Melbourne yesterday, but TeamMONASH certainly impressed at the 42<sup>nd</sup> <a href="https://melbournemarathon.com.au/2019-melbourne-marathon-officially-australias-largest-ever-marathon/?_ga=2.185611375.75583365.1571008391-1156662679.1566882759" target="_blank">Melbourne Marathon Festival, </a>raising $25,000 for Asylum Seeker scholarships. </span></div>
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Runners were spurred on by volunteer Monash cheer</div>
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teams positioned at various locations along the course.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Over 250 Monash students,
staff and alumni took to the streets of Melbourne for the annual
event, including 100 fundraisers who have helped bring Monash’s total money
raised for Asylum Seeker scholarships in 2019 to over $85,000.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_Z-D2QaDXJnvWN2r1VtblRLSJbBjnluN_ySRma6rj2jvG4dAHxbbVm5XtrXR1JeiqGHdliGagBzlolkpheQAak0atf9Gzx0xrFQKq10uGFL2YQt8UgW4FR8_qIou8gLee5JxjwjAMCI/s1600/received_618951941967139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-right: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_Z-D2QaDXJnvWN2r1VtblRLSJbBjnluN_ySRma6rj2jvG4dAHxbbVm5XtrXR1JeiqGHdliGagBzlolkpheQAak0atf9Gzx0xrFQKq10uGFL2YQt8UgW4FR8_qIou8gLee5JxjwjAMCI/s1600/received_618951941967139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This will cover two
years of an Asylum Seeker’s tuition fees at Monash University, as well as a
$5000 stipend for both those years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.33px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Melbourne event was
Australia’s largest ever marathon, with 37,185 people taking part. Monash students
also represented the university competitively at the event, as the marathon was
the official <a href="https://www.unisport.com.au/nationals" target="_blank">2019 Unisport Nationals competition</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The race started by
the Yarra River in Melbourne’s CBD. Marathon runners completed a scenic loop of
Albert Park, running out to St Kilda before returning into the CBD to join all
other event participants in a lap of the MCG. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash student
Declan Dempster finished his first marathon yesterday, and personally raised
over $650 for the cause by calling on donators to sponsor him to wear Richmond
Football Club merchandise during the run. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Declan said he hit
the wall between the 32 and 40km mark of the run, but was spurred on by the
four hour pacers, and inspired by the run into the MCG to the finish line. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Declan Dempster (right) said he was </div>
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motivated to complete the marathon</div>
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and raise funds for Asylum Seeker</div>
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scholarships after participating in Run </div>
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Melbourne earlier in July this year. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I kind of wanted to
cry, just because I was so exhausted and I was just so happy to see the finish,”
Declan said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“There were so many
people watching, it was quite cool and so loud.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Melbourne
Marathon Festival has events for all abilities, with Monash students
participating in the full marathon, half marathon, 10km and 5km events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The sunny 22 degree
day made for pleasant running conditions despite the early morning start. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash’s Giving
Programs Officer Ian Grimwood said over 3000 people donated to Monash’s 2019 fundraising
campaign at <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/07/two-student-winners-and-55000-raised.html" target="_blank">Run Melbourne</a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and the Melbourne Marathon Festival, driving the team’s
success. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“That’s a massive
show of support for the scholarships, and it really helps to send a message to
the University and to the wider public that this is really important to Monash
University’s community,” Ian said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The highlight is
always seeing people who have put in so much hard work to fundraise and train enjoying themselves out on the day and really celebrating a big win.” </span></div>
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Ian (in pink) said he is hoping Monash will</div>
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meet the $100,000 fundraising goal through a</div>
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series of on campus events before the end of the year.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash is aiming to
raise a further $15,000 this year, bringing the 2019 total to $100,000. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Kenyans Isaac Birir
and Naomi Jepkogei Maiyo each took away $20,000 in prize money as the male and
female winners of the marathon. Birir finished the race in a time of 2:16.31,
and Maiyo followed with a time of 2:35.34. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Five dedicated
runners completed the Melbourne Marathon for the 42<sup>nd</sup> consecutive
year, and participants at the event ranged in age from 18 to 87 years. </span><br />
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Carre, Media Coordinator. </span></div>
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The winning Monash Mixed beach volleyball team.</div>
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Back L-R: Koen Tchia, Anika Duggan, Darcy Bolton.</div>
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Front L-R: Ellie Adler, Alex Siu, Tiffany Yeo. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">One of Monash’s
<a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/09/monash-beach-volleyball-is-on-rise-and.html" target="_blank">fastest growing varsity sports teams</a> have claimed the ultimate prize at 2019
Unisport Nationals Division 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Mixed beach volleyball team were representing Monash in a Division 1 competition on the Gold Coast
for the first time last week, and have returned to Melbourne as champions after defeating
Victoria University 2-0 in the final match of the intense one week competition.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The team, a mix of indoor and outdoor players, flew
through the tournament, only dropping one set in the first four games. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The quarter final
saw Monash defeat Griffith University 2-1, before they met the University of
Queensland in the semi-final and came out on top in straight sets against the
2018 Nationals Division 1 champions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.33px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Four-time Nationals representative for Monash Ellie Adler said the quarter final against Griffith University was the hardest in a week of challenging games and unpredictable weather conditions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"They were a phenomenal team, their skill was incredible, so for us it was about doing an offensive play when we could. It was a game of skill, and it was a testament to both teams," Ellie said. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZt5Vhj3A-OWy_Yw_XwhOmLkm5VqKaYKYXx0o0v8D83Njs8tRCRiKP3hXs15Z0VeRijEg5W3akzJxyU3oqBi8Vx6tlgfmA2IELTS5uthYBl5qcE3A4nEQil6CB2LFaZcCW2vu0exkRD8c/s1600/DSC_0746.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"I was a bit more nervous. We needed to hype each other up as a team, and sort of fake it till we make it."</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Having not previously competed in Div 1, and with limited time training together, the Monash team were unsure how they would stack up against the best university teams in Australia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The changing wind add extra uncertainty to each match, but Ellie said the team were helped by the support of the Monash Cheer team, and their reliable game plan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"We were actually more successful on the windier days, because we didn't over complicate the game," Ellie said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"It was pretty awesome to have two Victorian teams in the final, because Queensland is known for their beach volleyball."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"We played that game in really windy conditions, but to be able to play a really good game of volleyball is an absolute joy." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Before this year,
the Men’s Doubles were the only beach volleyball team to represent Monash
University at Nationals Div 1, but 2019 Nationals Div 1 were host to a Monash Men’s
and Women’s Doubles, as well as the Mixed team. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Men’s Doubles team,
which won Nationals Div 2 earlier this year, had a strong start to the
competition, winning all their matches of the main draw and then defeating
Griffith University in the quarter final. Unfortunately they were then defeated
by University of Sydney in the Semi Final, and finished up fourth overall after
losing to University of Queensland in the Bronze medal playoff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Women’s Doubles
also performed well against tough competition, and managed to finish strongly
in fifth place after defeating Edith Cowan University in the playoff for fifth
and sixth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">All three teams have
cemented their spot in Nationals Division 1 next year, and have set the bar
high for future beach volleyball teams representing Monash in varsity
competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Nell O'Shea Carre, Media Coordinator. </span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-58489281768172411112019-10-07T17:23:00.000+11:002019-10-07T17:23:20.606+11:00Monash Women's Basketball takes Div 1 by storm, winning 2019 Unisports Nationals
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Monash Women’s
Basketball team were promoted from Unisport Nationals Division 2 this year,
only to win gold less than three months later at the 2019 Division 1 Nationals
in the Gold Coast last week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Monash girls
defeated the University of Melbourne 76-71 in a seesawing gold medal match on
Thursday. Scores were level at quarter time, but the lead swung between the two
teams for the rest of the game, before Monash just managed to gain the upper
hand with a few minutes remaining on the clock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The path to finals
was just as competitive, but the Monash team only conceded one match for the
entire competition, losing to the University of the Sunshine Coast by one point
in the final match of the main draw. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Jacqui Trotto said it was a privilege to captain</div>
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TeamMONASH at the 2019 Div 1 Nationals.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash defeated 2018
champions Deakin University by just one point on the buzzer during their third
game of the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">TeamMONASH captain
and basketball team organiser Jacqui Trotto said the team gained confidence
from this win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I think we were
down the whole game until literally the last three seconds. It was pretty
close,” Jacqui said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We were definitely confident
in the team’s ability. We knew that if we played our basketball and just did what
we wanted to do, that we were going to be good.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Last week was the
first time a Women’s Basketball team had competed at Div 1 Nationals since 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Although the Monash
team had to overcome more hurdles than most to earn their place again in Div 1,
Jacqui said their preparation was rewarded by the pennant win on Thursday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was such a great
result, especially because we’d come up from Div 2 as well. All our hard work
was kind of payed off,” she said. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The team had strong support from the Men's </div>
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Basketball and other teams throughout the </div>
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competition. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It kind of helped
us too, because it gave us more time to prepare, we started earlier than what
we would’ve usually.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Several of the
athletes were also members of the Monash 3x3 basketball team, which lost to the
University of Technology Sydney on the buzzer of the final in August this year.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But this time around
Monash was able to secure a commanding win over the strong team, defeating UTS
by 24 points in the Div 1 semi-final. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was super
exciting, especially because for the 3x3 earlier this year, me and a couple of
the other girls came second in that, so we definitely wanted our redemption,”
Jacqui said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It was definitely a
good feeling. That was probably the best game.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Men’s Basketball
team also performed admirably in a tough pool, finishing in 5<sup>th</sup>
place after winning five of their eight matches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written
by Nell O’Shea Carre. </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-114788713272990582019-10-07T15:01:00.000+11:002019-10-28T12:44:16.363+11:00The wrap-up: TeamMONASH return from 2019 Div 1 Nationals with five team pennants<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monash Cheer team celebrate their incredible results. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">TeamMONASH has
claimed five pennants at Unisport Division 1 Nationals as over 5000 students
from 41 universities descended on the Gold Coast for the biggest and best
sporting event the sunshine state has ever seen (pfft who cares about the Commonwealth
Games right?)!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash Cheer and
Dance won an astonishing<a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/10/monash-cheer-and-dance-blitz-2019.html" target="_blank"> seven medals on Wednesday night of the competition.</a>
The six gold medals and one silver medal left them clear winners of the overall
pennant in both Cheer and Dance divisions.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monash Cheer and Dance athletes came down to support Beach Volleyball team organisers Dakota and Jarrah.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our Beach Volleyball
Mixed team <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/09/monash-beach-volleyball-is-on-rise-and.html" target="_blank">lived up to the hype </a>around one of Monash’s fastest growing
Nationals squads, claiming the Gold in an undefeated finals lead
up. The Men’s Doubles took fourth and Women fifth in a highly competitive draw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Badminton Men’s
team have returned as<span style="color: #000120;"> <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/10/badminton-mens-team-collect-div-1-gold.html" target="_blank">Div 1 champions for an astonishing fourth consecutive year</a></span>, after taking on one of the toughest pools of the competition and defeating close
rivals Melbourne Uni in the Semi Finals. The team faced University of New
South Wales in the final, winning in three straight matches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Women’s
Basketball team went above and beyond in their debut at the Nationals Div 1,
defeating Melbourne Uni 76-71 in the Gold Medal match to claim their second
Nationals championship of the year. The team was promoted from Div 2 after
winning the competition in July this year, and had a near perfect run to finals
despite showcasing seven Div 1 Nationals debutants. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monash Ultimate Frisbee team supporting the Respect. Now. Always initiative. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">While on the Gold
Coast, the athletes were proud to support two special causes close to the
hearts of Monash students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">On Wednesday, <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/09/respect-now-always-socks-on-display-at.html" target="_blank">TeamMONASH donned Respect. Now. Always socks</a> in a public display of University
Australia’s endeavour to end sexual harassment and assault on university
campuses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The next day, the
athletes wore purple ribbons in memory of former <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2019/09/remembering-alysha-purple-ribbons-on.html" target="_blank">Monash softball team captain Alysha Waye.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Alysha passed away
earlier this year after a long battle with brain cancer, and was remembered by
the students this year for her tireless efforts to raise money for the <a href="https://www.curebraincancer.org.au/" target="_blank">Cure Brain Cancer foundation.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Next year Nationals
Div 1 and Div 2 will be held concurrently in Perth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">RESULTS: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Badminton
Men – Gold</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Badminton Women – 5<sup>th</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Basketball Men – 5<sup>th</sup>
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Basketball
Women – Gold</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Beach Volleyball Men
– 4<sup>th</sup> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Beach Volleyball
Women – 5<sup>th</sup></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Beach
Volleyball Mixed – Gold</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Cheer –
Gold </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dance –
Gold </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Judo – 5<sup>th</sup>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Kendo – 5<sup>th</sup>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Netball Mixed – 8<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Rowing Men – 12<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Rowing Women – 12<sup>th</sup>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sailing – 5<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Squash – 8<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Table Tennis Men – 5<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Table Tennis Women –
4<sup>th</sup> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Tennis Women – 5<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Ultimate Frisbee Mixed
– 4<sup>th</sup> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Water Polo Men – 6<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Water Polo Women – 8<sup>th</sup> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">See the wrap up video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mssE5m3njNE<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Nell O'Shea Carre, Media Coordinator. </span></div>
TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-69063037986669470932019-10-04T14:25:00.000+10:002019-10-05T13:47:21.143+10:00Badminton Men's team collect Div 1 Gold for the fourth consecutive year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our Badminton Men
have returned from the Gold Coast as Div 1 champions for the FOURTH year in a
row!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The team were
undefeated heading into finals yesterday, but had to outdo tough rival
Melbourne Uni to earn their spot in the Gold medal round, where they defeated University
of New South Wales in three straight matches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The win was all the
more impressive this year as the Monash team were without Badminton <a href="http://teammonash.blogspot.com/2018/04/being-student-athlete-matt-chaus-voice.html" target="_blank">Olympian Matthew Chau.</a> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">World University Games Australian representative and Engineering/Commerce student Athi Selladurai has competed
in five Nationals, but said the competition this year was probably the
strongest the team has faced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“I think we
definitely went in as one of the favourites,” he said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“But there were nine
teams competing, and eight were really solid. So everyone across the board was
really strong.”<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKiAbDd_BuEav4SytsFevYhW6EtbfroB7w5BgwrphFTs45iWOcYkQhOBVOQJmMPJKsj1NbGAjiT3wF3p1_3NAini2YWq5w7An5kHgh-sX2NYZsXFqJpoZar7Z4a1SRSpMj3gaaHW4ops/s1600/71229168_2970942646268115_5581591909920407552_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKiAbDd_BuEav4SytsFevYhW6EtbfroB7w5BgwrphFTs45iWOcYkQhOBVOQJmMPJKsj1NbGAjiT3wF3p1_3NAini2YWq5w7An5kHgh-sX2NYZsXFqJpoZar7Z4a1SRSpMj3gaaHW4ops/s1600/71229168_2970942646268115_5581591909920407552_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKiAbDd_BuEav4SytsFevYhW6EtbfroB7w5BgwrphFTs45iWOcYkQhOBVOQJmMPJKsj1NbGAjiT3wF3p1_3NAini2YWq5w7An5kHgh-sX2NYZsXFqJpoZar7Z4a1SRSpMj3gaaHW4ops/s320/71229168_2970942646268115_5581591909920407552_n.jpg" width="238" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Melbourne Uni
defeated Monash in a varsity competition earlier this year, so were the team’s
biggest competition heading into Nationals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The two teams played
off in the Semi Final, and unlike earlier in the year Athi was able to get the
better of Melbourne’s number one player, landing the Monash boys a position in
the Gold medal round. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Despite the rivalry,
Athi said the Victorian teams have a close relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Melbourne Uni
supported us in the final, and we went and supported them in their Bronze medal
round,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We’re quite close
with the Melbourne team and the RMIT team, so it was good to have their
support.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The team’s second
player Kenneth Choo has remarkably not lost a single match at Nationals since
he first represented Monash in 2016, earning himself the nickname ‘Mr
Dependable’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The engineering
student was the key to Monash’s success in the gold medal round, as he managed
to maintain his winning streak despite facing a strong UNSW player while
suffering heat stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Kenneth and fellow
Monash engineering Gen Sheng Teoh have been competing in doubles together since
before they moved from Malaysia to Australia several years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Athi, Kenneth, Teoh
and Business student Yongwei (Thomas) Bao will be graduating this year, so the
team can expect some big changes in the leadup to next year’s Nationals, although
Athi is confident 2019 Div 1 debutants Elton Zhang and Felix Wang have what it
takes to step up into leadership roles for the team. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Last year the Women’s
team won silver, but this year finished up in 5<sup>th</sup> place, having won
five of their eight rounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Nell O'Shea Carre, Media Coordinator. </span></div>
<br />TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-28469827070860137762019-10-03T13:38:00.003+10:002019-10-03T13:58:25.668+10:00Meet the 2019 Nationals Div 1 Golf team!!<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">How has your team gone in the past at Nationals?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Our team has placed in the medals in 2016 and 2017 Uni
games. No team was sent in 2018.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">How is the team looking this year? How have you gone in
competitions so far in 2019?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The team is looking strong and firing in all cylinders.
With no competitions held this year to date, the boys met up for a practice
session and an absolute ball striking clinic was put on by the boys.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">What is the goal of your team at this year's Nationals?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The obvious goal is for a medal, however with the
change of format favouring the team with less depth this could allow previous
irrelevant universities to have a run at gold which could be detrimental to our
very deep and solid squad. However we will take it one shot a time, and strive
for the gold medal all week.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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over the last few years with Monash being one of them. However teams like UTS,
RMIT, Bond, UNSW and others always have a few good players, and with the format
change to only 3 scores counting per team, the pressure will be on all the boys
to get dialled, fire at pins and go low.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Who should we look out for on your team? Any Div 1
debutants or veterans?</span></b><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The 2017 Veteran Sean Smith's return to golf has been a
fairytale, carding a 3-under par round upon return followed with a square and
1-under- he's definitely a smoky to take home the individual prize as well as
being the player the team can rely on to carry us home. The ever consistent 3rd
year veteran and Captain, Cameron Kaye is starting to find form in his home
town of Ballarat. Cam is well regarded as a generational iron player in the
Monash golfing community. Ben Fynmore is looking for redemption after a
disappointing first debut Nationals two years ago battling the shanks amongst
other things, however has seemed to find his form in Metropolitans GC colts
pennant team earlier this year. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It was a long off season of recruiting for the managers
Cameron and Ben but they believe they have found 3 diamonds in the rough to
debut this Nationals in Jason Watkins, Ben Rosen and Charlie Wackett. The long
hitting Jason Watkins has been known to heat up and fly very close to the sun
early on the front nine, however when flying so high, oxygen is thin and he can
come crashing back to earth. Team Monash will rely on Jason maintaining
composure during this time to grind out a respectable number on these days.
Furthermore, with the loss of Monash golf legend Shaan Marne to Uni Melb, the
recruiters went looking for a similar player and found that in Ben Rosen. For
what Ben lacks in length off the tee and flash in general, he makes up for in
grit. Ben is the man for those 78's on a tough windy day, an asset every team needs.
Lastly, there is Charlie Wackett. Charlie is coming off a career low 73 just 2
weeks ago however is well known to have battled the shanks for the past 2
years. Charlie is the short priced favourite to shoot a three figure score one
day however will always bounce back with a score in the high 70's.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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teams blitzed the competition at 2019 Unisport Nationals Div 1 on the Gold
Coast last night, taking out the overall prizes in both disciplines and seven team
medals!</span></div>
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team had 64 athletes competing across eight divisions at the event, and
finished the night with six gold medals and a silver.</span></div>
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Shreeve said the group had high hopes going into the competition, but were not
anticipating going this well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We were really
excited, we did feel like we had a really good team going forward this year. We
had good results at comps throughout the year, and everyone’s put a lot of
training into it,” Hayley said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“But you only have
2.5 minutes on the floor, and sometimes things go wrong. So much training can
go into it, but those 2.5 minutes are everything, and you just never know what
other teams are going to bring.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Six different Monash Cheer and Dance teams won gold: 'Apollo' level 3 coed Cheer, 'Atlas' level 6 all girls Cheer, 'Minerva' Pom, 'Harmonia' Jazz, Pom doubles and Jazz doubles. Hip Hop doubles took silver, and the 'Hercules' Hip Hop team are still waiting for the results of their event, in a commendable performance that did not land them a top three spot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Several of the competing athletes this week were part of the successful World Championships team in 2018, but as with all university sports there is a high turnover of players, so many of the team members were making their Unisport Nationals debut last night on the Gold Coast. </span></div>
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World University Cheerleading Championships in Korea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The team will be bidding for another spot on the World’s
team at the AASCF National Cheer & Dance Championship in Melbourne this November. </span></div>
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Today we support Alysha.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today our athletes
will be supporting a cause very close to the hearts of everyone who is a part
of Team Monash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Former Monash Softball
Team Captain Alysha Waye was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015 and had to
step aside from her much loved sport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">However Alysha didn’t
let cancer get her down and throughout her treatment worked tirelessly to raise
money for the <a href="https://www.curebraincancer.org.au/" target="_blank">Cure Brain Cancer foundation</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Team Monash Director
Martin Doulton said Alysha’s team members all got behind her after her
diagnosis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The rest of the
crew decided that they would recognise her contribution to the teams and
recognise that she wasn’t able to make it (to Nationals) by wearing something purple
on the day,” Doulton said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We got behind the
brain cancer awareness network and for the last four years, every year the
teams have worn something purple on the Wednesday to recognise Alysha’s contribution.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Heartbreakingly, we
lost Alysha to her battle earlier this year, but we will never forget the woman
she was and her incredible efforts to help others even in the darkest of times.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s important to
wear them (purple ribbons) to recognise it’s not just sport that we’re here
for,” Doulton said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today, athletes will
once again don purple ribbons and wear something purple throughout their events
to honour Alysha’s memory and continue her work in putting an end to brain
cancer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Have a look at the <a href="https://www.curebraincancer.org.au/" target="_blank">Cure Brain Foundation website</a> to find out more about how you can get behind the cause. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">#PlayForAlysha
#CureBrainCancer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph Arthur, Media Coordinator </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today our athletes will be wearing green ‘Respect. Now.
Always.’ socks in support of Universities Australia’s endeavour to end sexual assault
and harassment on university campuses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The initiative provides universities with support in
developing training resources, specialist counsellors, guidelines for responding
to sexual assault and respectful relationships education. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">It’s a very influential program that has gone a long way to
ensuring universities are safe and inclusive environments where people can be
free from sexual harassment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">It’s terrific to see Monash and all of its athletes
supporting the Respect. Now. Always. initiative as it makes an important public
statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Team Monash Director Martin Dalton said it’s essential to
recognise the program and all it is doing to make universities safer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s a very important part of the universities activities
with regard to ensuring that we provide an inclusive and respectful community,”
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Monash University takes pride in recognising the ‘Respect.
Now. Always.’ program and we are really pleased that the university teams get
on-board to demonstrate that publicly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Good luck to all our athletes today, wear your socks with
pride and help support Universities Australia in making universities across the
country safer and more respectful places to study and learn. </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-88138268785510362302019-09-24T14:20:00.000+10:002019-09-24T14:20:01.706+10:00Monash beach volleyball is on the rise and it’s time to prove it<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Jarrah Brownhill (left) and Dakota Lipton (not pictured) will lead Monash volleyball at Nationals.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In the past 12 months Team Monash beach volleyball has grown from
having one team and only </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">two athletes, to three teams and ten athletes. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Much of this growth can be attributed to the hard-work of
two superstar athletes, Jarrah Brownhill and Dakota Lipton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Last year we sent only Jarrah and myself (to Nationals) for
Team Monash, whereas almost every other Uni had multiple teams,” Lipton said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We thought ‘there’s plenty of volleyball around Monash’,
so we put out the feelers to try and get more teams together and we were
successful.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Despite being the only two beach volleyball athletes representing
Monash at last year’s Division 2 (Div 2) Nationals, the pair managed to win
gold in the Men’s competition and qualify for Division 1 (Div 1) this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">With Div 1 on the horizon, Lipton said not only do he and Brownhill
have something to prove, but so does all of Monash volleyball. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Last year (Div 2 2018) was to set up this year, it was to
go and get in the finals and come away with gold so that we could go up and
play Div 1 this year,” Lipton said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“This time (Div 1 2019) the goal is pretty much the same - go
and win gold again - prove that we should have been in Div 1 all along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Jarrah and I feel pretty confident that we’ve got a good
chance of coming away with some sort of medal if not gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The other teams have a lot of experience in volleyball
as-well, so we’ve got a really good chance of getting some pretty good results this
year.”</span></div>
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Expect big things from Monash volleyball on the Gold Coast.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">As National’s veterans and the catalysts for Monash beach volleyballs growth, Lipton and Brownhill have been open in providing guidance
and support for the less experienced squad members. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“A few of the mixed and the girl’s pairs are feeling
a bit anxious because none of them have done it (attended National’s) before,
so we’ve tried to break down that barrier but overall everyone’s mostly
excited,” Brownhill said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Monash beach volleyball has grown exponentially this past year
and will look to continue to grow and compete at the highest level. A strong effort at Nationals could go a long way towards continual growth in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Brownhill said he is already enjoying everything that’s
come with a bigger collective of Monash beach volleyball athletes and is excited to
get after it on the Gold Coast in the coming weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“It’s actually quite amazing,” Brownhill said. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“We’ve got a little community now which feels really good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“As a group we want to achieve our best, we’ve got very
good athletes…and we know we can perform well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">"It’s (Nationals) going to be a bit different which is
exciting. More teams, more competition, different levels and as always we are keen and ready.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph Arthur, Media Coordinator</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-25714079409595742272019-09-24T12:12:00.000+10:002019-09-24T12:13:07.112+10:00Division 1 Nationals preview: Ultimate Frisbee mixed<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Australian ultimate star Cam Lyon will lead the way for Monash.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Monash's ultimate frisbee mixed team is returning to Nationals in fine form after coming 2nd at University Mixed Ultimate Championships 2019. </span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">In 2016 Nationals in Perth, the Men's side earned bronze, however Monash ultimate hasn't medalled since - it's time for that to change. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">The squad spoke with TeamMONASH and had plenty to say ahead of this years competition. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">"Earlier in the year we
competed at the University Mixed Ultimate Championships 2019 (UMUC 2019) and finished in
2nd place. Since then, we've added a few additions to our team and hopefully
they'll guide us to victory!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">With a medal in its sights, the squad has set itself the goal of a top four finish; weary of the competition, the team feels well prepared. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">"Our goal for Nationals is
finish in the top 4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">In the past, Nationals has
been dominated by UNSW and USyd, but based on the results of UMUC 2019, ANU is a
sneaky competitor we need to pay attention to."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">The squad has a good mix of experience with the majority of members having represented Monash at Nationals before; superstars Cam Lyon and Michael Truong are set to lead the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Excitingly, a<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"> couple of debutants will also be kitting up for Monash as well. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">"Definitely be on the lookout
for Cameron Lyon and Michael Truong; who have both represented Australia for
Ultimate."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Best of luck to all our frisbee pros, we know you'll do us proud! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">#BleedBlue #MonashPride</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>TeamMONASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640748681148074275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596096738145928934.post-3264426299298259472019-09-20T15:47:00.000+10:002019-09-20T15:47:42.326+10:00Team MONASH official Div 1 Nationals Team Captains' announcement
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Sailor Maddy Salter will lead Team Monash at Nationals 2019.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We would like to officially congratulate our two Team
Monash captains for UniSport Division 1 Nationals 2019, Maddy Salter and Jacqui
Trotto! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Both ladies are brilliant students, athletes and people and
we couldn’t be prouder to have such an exemplary pair representing our University
as captains in Queensland next week. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Maddy is a National’s veteran and will be competing as part
of the Monash sailing team. The para-medicine student said she is looking forward
to making more amazing memories at yet another nationals. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“The best bit of nationals past has been the amazing
friendships I have made with each one of my team members over the years,”
Salter said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“This year I look forward to competing at a high level
whilst embracing team culture and having fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Hopefully we (Monash Sailing) can finally bring home the
gold after four years!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Maddy will share the role of team captain with basketballer,
Jacqui Trotto. </span></div>
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Basketballer Jacqui Trotto will lead Team Monash at Nationals 2019.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Jacqui will lead the Monash Women’s basketball team in what
will be her fourth consecutive nationals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Her basketballer’s have won the 3x3 event twice in the past
three years and Jacqui said they will be looking for another gold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“A past highlight for me was winning 3x3 two years straight…but
most importantly, all the people I have met and lifelong friendships I have
made (along the way),” Trotto said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Trotto has high hopes for her first year as Team Monash
captain, expecting to “win gold, but other than that have a week of good times
and (good) weather”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Congratulations to both of our 2019 Team Captains, we know
our team couldn’t be in better hands and you’ll both represent Monash with
pride. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Written by Joseph Arthur, Media Coordinator </span></div>
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After many interstate competitions over the last 12 months, Monash Cheer & Dance is ready for QLD.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After a big finish to 2018 and an awesome start to 2019,
Monash Cheer & Dance has never been more ready for Nationals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The squads have a myriad of interstate and even
international expirirnce and won't be overawed by the occasion. Expect some big
results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here what the athletes had to say ahead of their trip to
Queensland:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Next up in our Div 1 previews are the Monash Cheer &
Dance teams <br />
The squads had plenty to say ahead of Nationals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">How is the team looking this year? How have you gone in
competitions so far in 2019?<br />
"Our teams have been looking very strong so far this season, coming away
with a, four and the overall highest score for University Cheer at our season
opener at AASCF Winterfest!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">What is the goal of your team at this year's Nationals?<br />
“We're really excited to display the high calibre of skill we have on our teams
at Monash Cheer & Dance across a number of divisions at the Div 1
Nationals. We're especially excited to be premiering our Level 6 All Girl
team!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Who should we look out for on your team? Any Div 1
debutants or veterans? <br />
“The Div 1 Cheer & Dance team is enormous - we have a total of 64 athletes
competing across eight divisions in the cheer & dance sector of the
competition.” <br />
“We have a number of athletes competing in multiple divisions and our athletes
range through from many first-timers to athletes that have represented Monash
at these events since 2016!”</span></div>
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