New! Semester 2 Group Fitness Timetable

Starting Monday 28 July, the new Group Fitness Timetable will be up and running. Click here for timetable details.

Netball Coaches Wanted
25 July; Lisanne Jenkins

Melbourne University Netball Club is seeking coaches of all levels and experience for coaching teams in Premier League, A, B and C grades. read more...

ALERT! Weekend Group Fitness Classes Cancelled

Members please note: All Group Fitness Classes have been cancelled this weekend only (Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 July) due to a Group Fitness Convention.

Melbourne University White Train runs express to Geelong
22 July; David Ulbrick

A combination of youth and experience proved successful for Melbourne University Athletics Club’s cross country team in Geelong for the Athletics Victoria 10 mile and 4 km Cross Country Championships on Saturday, the 12th of July.  The White Train, as the cross country team is known, produced some fine individual and team performances in races featuring Beijing Olympians to maintain a fine record for the 2008 cross country season. read more...

MUS Boot Camp; Enlist Today
22 July; James Garland

At Melbourne University Sport, we see so many people with plenty of fitness ‘inspiration’, but little fitness ‘motivation’. The inspiration tends to drive people to take the first step, such as buying a gym membership and maybe even a new pair of runners. However, the lack of motivation often means people never form lasting exercise habits. read more...

Team Melbourne wins medal count at South Challenge
16 July; Amy Ehrhart

Quantity won RMIT the South Challenge Overall Championship last week, as they fielded 18 teams to win by eight points over second place finisher Victoria University 268-260. However, third place finisher, and gracious host, Melbourne University won the quality contest by earning medals in every one of the ten sports it entered. Melbourne dominated the medal count with four golds, three silvers and three bronzes, outworking Victoria University’s eight total medals. RMIT grabbed only two silvers and four bronzes for the week. read more...     

Why Games comes first for footy star
21 July; Geoff McClure

IMAGINE a prize recruit such as Carlton's Chris Judd announcing to his team in the countdown to the finals that he'd be missing a few games so as to accompany his girlfriend on her overseas assignment. Well, that's exactly what will happen to amateur team Uni Blues (sic Uni Blacks) next month when one of its bigger signings, former Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs player Marty Pask puts his footy on hold for a few weeks to head to Beijing to provide his fiance, swimmer Leisel Jones, with some moral support in her bid for gold at the 2008 Olympic Games. read more...

Beijing Bound – good luck to our University Olympians
14 July; Rod Warnecke

With the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games a few weeks away, the University of Melbourne will again be well-represented by currently enrolled students, alumni and Sports Association club members. Keep an eye out for the following members of the University family as they represent Australia and strive for gold on the world’s largest sporting stage. read more...

An Olympic Record
14 July; Rod Warnecke

The University of Melbourne has a long and proud involvement with the Olympic movement. Students, alumni, staff and club members have represented Australian at the Games on some 140 occasions. read more...

Foil play in Beijing
14 July; Rod Warnecke

Fencer Amber Parkinson is set to make her first advance on Olympic competition when the elimination bouts begin at the Beijing Olympics on 13 August. The University of Melbourne Master of Arts alumna has represented Australia at numerous World and Commonwealth Fencing Championships – but after two decades of involvement in the sport it is the first time she will compete at the Olympics. read more...

Inspired Performance
14 July; Rod Warnecke

With 50 metres to go, Ralph Doubell knew an Olympic 800 metres Gold Medal was his for the taking – the psychological tie between him and his closest rival had snapped. read more...

Good Medicine for Peak Performance
14 July; Rod Warnecke

Alison Campbell is set to help Australia win gold in Beijing, without even setting foot on a sports field. As medical coordinator, physiotherapist and anti-doping officer for the Australian Paralympic team, Ms Campbell literally has the health of 160 athletes in her hands.
And these are the very same hands that usually treat players from Melbourne’s Uni Blues football team. read more...

SUNDAY afternoon. Grey and blowing. I head off to the A.H. Capp Reserve by Merri Creek, Preston, to watch some footy.

The game has just started. The shrill voices of women footballers, and the dozens of supporters who sit rugged up and huddled together, reverberate around the ground, off the houses and the electricity towers on the creekside: "You've got to want it, Uni". read more...

AVL players selected for Australian camp
30 June 2008; Rod Warnecke

Nine University Blues volleyballers have been selected to attend an Australian training camp where a national team will be chosen to compete in the 2008 Asian Cup read more...

Norris tackles Mountain Bike World Championship
25 June 2008 by Rod Warnecke
Science student and Friends of the Sports Association scholarship holder Lachlan Norris represented Australia at the World Mountain Bike Championships in Italy last week. While he missed out on a podium finish and an Olympic berth for Beijing, he’s now focusing on London 2012. Read more about his European season, including an unlucky fourth place at the World University Championships read more...

Upcoming Community Events - Register NOW
Don't miss out on being part of Team Melbourne in some great community-spirited, healthy events:
Melbourne Marathon - Sunday 12 October 2008
Around the Bay in a Day - Sunday 19 October 2008 read more...

MUAC "White Train" perform well against La Trobe Uni
David Ulbrick
4 June 2008
Melbourne University Athletics Club's cross-country team - affectionately known as the 'White Train' - continue their impressive results against La Trobe University. read more...

Uni graduate set to fence in Beijing
Melbourne University Amber Parkinson has been confirmed as one of Australia’s two fencing competitors for the Beijing Olympic Games. She will join Jo Halls, sister of alumni and dual Olympian Evelyn Halls in the Australian team. read more...

Around the Bay in a Day
Jump on your bike and join the 2008 University of Melbourne Team in Australia’s No. 1 cycling event, Bicycle Victoria’s Around the Bay in a Day – where the largest number of cyclists in Australia get together to enjoy the health, fitness, fun and challenge of bike riding the distance of your choice around Port Phillip Bay.

Entries are now open for the ride through Bicycle Victoria. Once you have registered and paid through BV you then can sign up for the Melbourne University ATB Team via the following link on the Melbourne University Sport website.