I Knew we were here for Something

Our athletes finished near the bottom of the competition which is hardly surprising as we only had an extremely small team, which itself is very surprising considering the fact that University is the strongest athletics club in the Wellington area. However some consolation arose when K. Hawkins was awarded a New Zealand Universities Blue.

Cricket finished at the bottom of the competition. On the first day the team suffered a thrashing from Otago, not surpising considering that the team had just completed an overnight bus trip. The following two days were much closer affairs, both being decided in the last over of the match with Victoria only just losing. The fact that the team played with less than eleven players, due to last minute withdrawals from the team going to Dunedin did not help and thanks must go to members of the waterpolo and rowing teams who helped out, namely B. Auld, M. Bone, B. Jobson and A. Seerup. Our performances in the field were creditable and good bowling performances came from G. Harding, D. Hall and P. Toye.

The standard of the cricket at the tournament was not high due to a number of factors causing top players to be unavailable. Hopefully this standard may be raised in future by moves to reform the NZ University Cricket Council and hopefully for it to arrange a tour of some form in the next season or two as a spur for players. Other factors such as the unavailability of good wickets and the weather conditions at Easter, as well as the high transport costs, will all be considered in the options that are available to the council.

Our rowing team's performance was very 'entertaining' to say the least. They finished fourth overall with some good performances thrown in. Our novice teams were very impressive until they had to get their hulls in and out of the water, one crew were described as the danger side in one race but failed to live up to this standard. One of the women crew members, T. Turner, was selected for the NZU Rowing team, (to tour to Perth and Melbourne in Australia during May), as a sculler and congratulations must be extended to her.