Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 15 1970
Sportsman of the Year
Sportsman of the Year
Rod Barltrop has been awarded the 1970 Vic Sportsman of the Year Award. The announcement and presentation was made at the Blues Dinner last Friday night, 2nd October.
A number of sportsmen were considered. However, the number was eventually reduced to three before the difficult final choice was made. Those three were Rod Barltrop (Golf), Mark Gazley (Diving) and John Armstrong (Ski-ing).
Rod is a Vic Golfing Blue (1965-70) and a New Zealand University Golfing Blue (1966-70). This year he was reserve for the N.Z. Eisenhower Cup team which was recently placed second in the world amateur championship. He has played in the Freyberg Rosebowl for the last 3 years representing Manawatu-Wanganui (1968) and Wellington (1969-70). Among other successes have been the 1968 and 1970 Wellington Matchplay Championship and the 1969 and 1970 Wellington Strokeplay Championship.
Rod has been Vic's Golf Club Captain since 1968 and a selector for Vic's tournament teams.