Inching up the ladder

Third term sports was a time of great success for Fenner Hall. A period of time that I find quite trying due to the quality of sports offered to the male student population: soccer, volleyball, and aussie rules football.

I love college volleyball, this year we had a fantastic team - in seven games we only lost four sets

After a two year break representing my hall in soccer I returned to the playing field raring for a big season. It was a close competition that saw the Fenner rabbits finish fourth from eight. A trifle disappointing as we could have beaten the eventual pemiers. However we did cap off the season with a monumentous 4-1 win against Bruce Hall despite starting the game with only 10 players (and our regular goalkeeper as striker).

Me preaparing to bludgeon someone twice my size, story of my AFL career.

For the first time in a decade the men of Fenner bludgeoned their way into the aussie rules Grand Final. This year I was used as a utility player, spending time on the half forward and half back flank, on ball, the wing and the forward and back pocket.

Look at the ripplig muscles of the Fenner back pocket, that poor John's player isn't going to know what hit him.

After a huge game against John XXIII in the regular season I was finally thrown to full back to stop their ramapaging full forward who kicked 7 goals against us the first time we met.

Running on for the AFL GF

In the finals he only scored one goal, and that was when I was playing through the middle to give our on-ballers a rest.

Taken down, Gatt style

Even though we were thoroughly pumped in the GF we were happy with our efforts to get that far given that training is considered punsihment.

Our Aussie Rules supporters, cheering for us even in the bad weather

Once again I co-coached the mens and womens volleyball teams with Isaac Lim. It was a weekend competition in which I managed to consume too much alcohol on both nights of the tournament. The alcohol combined with injuries to my hands and kness from the gruelling aussie rules season made it difficult to play at full capacity.

BAM! At 5'9" no one expects a block from the tiny setter. Toad Hall experiences Fenner domination.

Huge efforts from the guys saw us easily in to the Grand Final. B&G were ladder leaders without dropping a set and seven victories (21 pts) followed closely by us with six victories and only one loss (18 pts). The next closest team had only three victories (9 pts). It was a repeat of last years GF against B&G, which we lost (again) in straight sets (25-13 25-15). The women's team dominated day one with two victories and a loss, but struggled on the second day picking only one win to finish in fifth place.

Don't let the height of the serve fool you, my well aimed power serve demolished many opposition

Most importantly our destruction of Burgmann college in aussie rules, volleyball, and womens soccer (2nd place) allowed us to creep past them on the sports shield to take second place heading into the final term. With only a one point lead on them, we will need solid performances from our touch football, road relay, and table tennis teams to maintain our lead.

One more term of hard work is required from these blokes to finalise our spot in second place