UWC HOST FIRST WESTERN CAPE INTERVARSITY SPORT The University of the Western Cape (UWC) was abuzz when athletes from the neighbouring universities converged on campus for the inaugural Western Cape Inter Varsity Sport Games.
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he two-day event in September 2016 saw sports people from UWC, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University competing in no less than 11 different sport codes. After winning chess, cross country, netball, sevens rugby and becoming joint winners in cricket, UWC accumulated the most combined points to emerge as overall winners followed by UCT in the second place while Maties and CPUT finished third and fourth, respectively. The individual
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sport code results saw CPUT coming on top in basketball, football and table tennis; Maties won swimming and beach volleyball; and UCT took home hockey and joined the hosts in winning cricket. Mandla Gagayi, director of UWC Sports Administration, said the purpose of the event was to establish and strengthen relations among the four universities with regards to sport, provide opportunities for students to interact through fun but competitive activities, and to allow for transfer of knowledge and skills with
regards to hosting multi-coded sports events. The event also aimed to provide platform for participants to learn best practice from each other, test each university’s sports strength against other universities, and maximize on sponsorships potential. With the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared 20 September as International University Sports Day, as such the Inter Varsity was also used to celebrate this day.