Sport and recreation
GUGC Sport delivers and oversees sporting life on the Gold Coast campus, ranging from social sports to student clubs, University Games, and local competition. Australian University Sport events, particularly the Northern and Australian University Games (AUG), are calendar highlights, and Griffith University Gold Coast (GUGC) continues to perform to a high representative standard.
Christina Hickman Sports Officer
At the 2017 Northern University Games (NUG) held in Rockhampton and Yeppoon, GUGC registered a team of 202 participants. It was a successful week with a gold medal result for mens 3x3 basketball, womens basketball, open golf, womens netball, mixed netball, and womens touch football, awarding Griffith Gold Coast a total of six pennants. In the last ever Northern University Games, GUGC had a dominant performance winning the Jodie Martin Trophy (Overall Champion). The NUG and AUG will move to a more elite format in 2018, named Nationals Div 1 & 2. The Australian University Games were held on the Gold Coast where 230 participants from the Gold Coast campus competed in a combined Griffith University team. Within the combined Griffith team, 77% were Gold Coast students, 20% 20
of those being GUGC Sport Ambassadors. Griffith University progressed through to 10 gold medal pennant finals with open baseball, womens basketball, mixed handball, mens rugby 7s, and womens touch football each securing the win. Griffith finished 7th of 42 universities - a great result considering how condensed the top ten results were - and 5th in per capita. The GUGC Sport Ambassador program plays an important role in securing and providing financial support to high level student athletes to represent Griffith. In 2017 there were 33 Gold Ambassadors, 88 Silver Ambassadors and 7 Bronze Ambassadors. Overall 128 Griffith Gold Coast student athletes were ambassadors and Griffith certainly benefited from their representation at the Northern and Australian University Games.