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Join #TeamCSU for the Eastern Uni Games!

Picture yourself wearing your CSU colours with pride as part of #TeamCSU for the Eastern University Games! In 2017 we’re upping the ante and taking our best teams to the Eastern Uni Games. This is part of a new nation-wide push to raise the standard...

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Elite Athlete #3: Lachlan Hinds

We’ve all heard of tennis, rugby league and AFL because they get plenty of publicity, but what about all the other sports you never hear about. What about cross-country skiing, rugby sevens, cycling and marathon swimming? I bet you didn’t know CSU...

Elite Athlete Harriet Elleman makes a break in a women's rugby match

Elite Athlete #2: Harriet Elleman

Harriet Elleman follows her passion for rugby through the Elite Athlete program and studies Animal Science in Wagga Wagga at the same time. Harriet started playing rugby union in her first year of university. She was also part of the CSU Sevens team...

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Elite Athlete #1: Alana Thomas

Number crunching and coaching a rugby team might seem like opposite ends of the career spectrum for some. However, Elite Athlete and accounting student Alana Thomas thinks they’re very compatible. As a former Australian Women’s Rugby player and...

Homecoming celebrations for Olympic champions

Our Olympic champions have touched down in Australia after a successful Rio 2016 Olympics campaign and congratulations are in order to all who participated in the games, including our very own CSU sport stars. If you’ve been keeping up with the...

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It’s all about balance for Elite Athletes

Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary) student Clare Warwick is in CSU’s Elite Athlete Program and has been selected to play for Australia at the World Softball Championships in Canada, which start today. I was someone who was lucky enough to get a...

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Online student joins Uni Games fun

By Emily Mulquiney Emily McKenny is paving the way for online students who are keen to get involved in university life. Emily currently lives in Denmark, a small town in Western Australia, and has travelled more than 10,000km to compete in her...

Michael Maxwell and Alex Turner in CSU sport uniforms at Uni Games

Boys bowl into Uni Games

By Emily Mulquiney Lawn bowls enthusiasts Michael Maxwell and Alex Turner are the only two Port Macquarie Campus students representing CSU at the 2016 Eastern University Games. This week in Wollongong, they are both competing as members of the lawn...

Alicia Quirk playing rugby sevens

Physio student shares tips for study and sport

Juggling study commitments can be challenging at the best of times but imagine doing it while representing your country as an elite athlete. Bachelor of Physiotherapy student Alicia Quirk is part of the Australian women’s rugby sevens team, which...

CSU students in uniform playing netball

Get close to the Uni Games action!

If you want to be involved in all the fun of the Eastern Uni Games, but actually taking the field is not your thing, here’s your chance! CSU Sport is looking for students to take on the roles of University Games Media Assistant and University...

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