Due to the high demand at O-Week, our Student League competition for 2010 is completely full.

Only those students who paid a deposit will be eligible to play and will be placed in a team this Monday the 8th of February.

Thank you to everyone who showed interest in playing. If you missed out on a spot in the Student League, there is still an opportunity for you to get involved in the Touch Club through our University Games teams. Trials will be held following the mid-semester break.

Stay tuned for more information regarding these trials, or for more information email nelly@touch.asn.au.

With record interest in both Student League and our Winter Competition I would like to welcome everyone, especially our new members, to what is to be another successful year for Sydney University Touch.

If you signed up during O-Week then we will be in email contact with you soon regarding the competition. If not then turn up on Monday 8th March at 6pm to Jubilee Oval, Glebe. See FAQ for directions.

Don't forget to sign up with an account for this site so that we can contact you via our mail list. You can remove yourslef at any time. Also add yourslef as a member to our Facebook group for further information regarding social events and to meet other members. Click the link at the very bottom of this page to go to FB.

For any questions check out the FAQ link to the left, and then contact sydneyuni@touch.asn.au for further details if needed.

Sydney University Touch is looking to run a Level 1 referee course on Sunday 18th April.

Being a referee is a great way to keep fit and earn cash in hand, not just within the Sydney Uni competition, but also at school and other events that occur regularly during the week.

Read on for course & contact details.

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

The dates and information package for the upcomming winter competition are now available. Nominations are now open and will close at 5 pm Friday 5th March, if not already filled prior.

The competition will begin on Monday 22nd March & interest in this comp always excedes spaces available so make sure you nominate early.

Information is available via the Monday Night Winter link to the left or by contacting Paul Hickey.

Unfortunately all games for tonight, Monday 26th October, have been postponed due to poor weather and subsequent field closures. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and will endeavor to make up the round further in the competition.

With heavy rain on Sunday and more predicted for Monday, we are unsure if matches will be able to procede on Monday 26th October.

Games will go ahead on the provision that council allows play to occur on the fields. This decision will not be made any time before 3pm. Delegates will be notified shortly after this time if games are cancelled.

The Sydney Uni Touch Club would like to congratulate Helen "Scrubba" Scott on her recent selection as a finalist for the Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness Female Administrator of the Year Award.

Read on for more information.

Following the Touch Club's 9th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday night, we get a chance to farewell Scrubba as outgoing President of the last two years and at the same time welcome and congratulate our newly elected President for 2009.

At the BEAFS this year, outgoing president Helen "Scrubba" Scott and 2008 Club Captain Pete "Milko" Mossemenear had the honour of announcing the 2009 Club Captains.

The touch club is running a level one referee course on sunday, 14th december (in the morning). It will be run by Paul "Victa" Hickey at Tempe Velodrome. The club will cover the costs of all participants (after they have reffed at least four games in the summer competition). If you are interested can you please contact Scrubba ASAP.

With just one week before the Summer Competition begins, we have 21 teams nominated for the 2008/09 season.

There is still space available for three more teams.  If you would like to enter a team then please contact the Competition Manager Gary Reynolds or 0414 644 879 as a matter of urgency.

NSW Sport and Recreation is currently running a sports massage workshop for coaches, trainers, players, parents and anyone else that is interested in August. This practical course is conducted over two days of three hour sessions.

Six years after first going online, Sydney University Touch has a new look website. Written from scratch, this new website will be a prototype for sports club websites of the future.

The Stage 1 release today brings online all the features available in the old site. Over the coming months more features will be added as they complete development.

Congratulations to Milko (Peter Mossemenear) who has been appointed to the position of Sydney Uni Touch Club Captain! Over the past few years Milko has been involved in the Monday Night competition (wearing a lycra bodysuit), has represented us at University Games, as well as participating in many of the Touch Club's social events!

Notice is hereby given that the 8th Annual General Meeting of the Sydney University Touch Club will be held on Tuesday 19th February 2008. It will be held at the Arena meeting room commencing at 6.30pm.

On September 17th at 1pm, Channel Nine will broadcast highlights from the 2006 Touch Football State of Origin Series staged in Brisbane on August 6th.

This is the first time in over 7 years that Touch Football has received National, Free to Air television exposure and it provides viewers a chance to check out the skills of past Sydney University representatives such as Matthew Prowse, Stephen Roberts and Louise Winchester.

This Monday night...

• Do you crave a succulent piece of meat?
• Would you like it wrapped in something white and fluffy?
• Topped with a squirt of free sauce?

Then our Monday night sausage sizzle is for you!

Cost: $2.50 a sausage

Will be available from 7pm till we sell out!

NB: Students from the 6pm timeslot will receive a free drink with every sausage purchased. This is compensation for the shortened games last Monday.

Please let Sally or Krisso know if you are available to assist with cooking!

A night of nautical mayhem has been organised to kick start the year. Sydney Uni touch along with our friends at Club Mac are having a cruise on Thursday the 6th April.

The night will be a great chance to catch up with old friends and meet a few new ones along the way.

Tickets will be available on Monday night at the main desk. Bring your $15 along so you don't miss out.

Welcome to all the new members that have signed up during O-week, and a big welcome back to everyone that is returning to Sydeny University Touch for another year. 2006 looks like being another big year with plenty of social functions and Uni games definitely going ahead in July and September.

Don’t forget that if you have any questions about the club, you can post a message in the message board, and hopefully we will be able to help. Alternatively you can email sydneyuni@touch.asn.au

This is taken from the Cancer Council NSW website.

Don't back down. Enclosed areas in pubs and clubs should all be smokefree!

Last year, after an intensive eight-month campaign by The Cancer Council NSW and its allies, Premier Bob Carr announced that indoor areas in NSW pubs and clubs would be totally smokefree by 2007. However just when the 26,000 NSW residents who supported the Go Smokefree campaign thought they could relax, the hotel industry is putting pressure on the government to back down on its promise. They want to call many enclosed areas "outdoors", meaning smoking can continue.

They essentially want a room, which is as little as 25% open (i.e. a room missing a wall) to be defined as "unenclosed" or "outdoors".

Any reasonable person would suggest that if an area has a roof, it should be smokefree – that's commonsense.

To everyone that made this year great. Hope that you all have a happy and safe Christmas, along with a massive new year.

I hope that everyone enjoyed the year, from Yass to Jingle Bowls, and everything in between. It has been a busy year and at the same time lots of fun. Stay safe and see all of you in Yass or at some other touch function.

Gary 'Criminal' Reynolds has recently announced his retirement as president of Sydney University Touch Club. Gary was responsible for forming the Sydney Uni Men’s Touch Club in 1999 and subsequently merging the Men’s and Women’s clubs in 2000. From the merger Gary undertook the position of president and has remained there for the last 5½ years, during which time he has built the club into what it is today.

Gary has played an enormous role in building the club from scratch and his departure will allow for Yoni Charlupski to succeed him. Yoni was unanimously elected by the club committee to fill the vacated position.

Read on for a history of Gary’s achievements as club president over the last few years.

Stay tuned for details of a retirement dinner in mid December

The remaining 6 weeks (including the Final Series) of the Monday night competition has now been uploaded to the website. In Divisions 2 & 3, your opponents have already been determined by continuing with the second round of games.

In Mixed 1st Division however, the final round of matches will be drawn randomly on Saturday 17th September at the Crab Racing fundraiser.

She was nothing much to look at. Hardly the show-stopper you might expect and with a Touch career to match.

A maiden win at Wentworth Park and a placing at Wollongong was all she could muster at the fields.

Today the International Barbeque Federation (IBF) stunned cooks world wide with their decision to officially open the Australian BBQ season a staggering 6 weeks ahead of the traditional Labour Day long weekend in October.

In another bizarre twist, the IBF decided to hold their press conference in the Inner West of Sydney, in the backyard of two prominant Concord West residents.

We are proud to announce that Sydney University Village are on board as Varsity Sponsor in 2004.

SUV will support all Sydney University Touch teams that compete at the Eastern University Games (Wollongong) and Australian University Games (Perth).

Please be advised that the 3rd Annual General Meeting of the Sydney University Touch Club is to be held on Wednesday 21st April at 5.30pm. The venue for the meeting will be The Boardroom, Sydney University Village. The room is located above The Serve (cafeteria). Light refreshments will be provided.

For those of you who remember our British import Bunyip (aka Dan Sherlock) from EUG in 2002, you might be interested to hear that he has put his past indiscretions behind him and been accepted to train as a pilot for the Royal Navy.

Come along for a few, happy hour, drinks to the Sydney Uni Village Bar, to have a get together and catch up after EUG's.

When: Sat 2nd August
Time: 6:30 -11pm then onto retro afterwards
Where: The Well,(SUV Bar) on Carillion ave. Next to the uni
Dress: Retro Attire

Everyone is expected to be there for a fun night out in Sydney. Not only are Sydney Uni touch People goin to be there but all the other touch teams from from Coffs are invited. Hopefully we will have organised transport and cheap entry into The Retro on sussex for everyone afterwards.

Hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and an even better New years.. Remember to drink in moderation and stay safe over the holiday period.

Cheers to a sucessful year from the Family in 2002 and hopefully an even better year in 2003.

Have a great holiday people
From the entire family

In an attempt to raise some money to subsidise those going to Adelaide for AUGs we have organised a night of nautical mayhem on Wednesday the 18th September.

The night will not only act as a way to support and farewell all of our AUG brothers and sisters, but also act as another excuse to catch up with those who went away to Newcastle.