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2017 | SEMESTER 1 BOND BACKS WOMEN’S SPORT PROFESSIONAL women’s sport is not new: think tennis, surfing, golf and swimming. What is new is the rise of women’s team sports, especially in the traditionally male dominated football codes. Late last year, Super Netball players signed a dramatic increase to the minimum wage, the Australian Women’s Sevens team won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics, and the Women’s AFL Competition kicked off to widespread acclaim. Bond University is at the forefront of this new push for women’s sport, which has been embraced by the public and the sports community at large. “Sport is part of Bond’s DNA,” says Executive Director of Sport, Garry Nucifora. “We are staunch champions of women’s sport and the creation of pathways to enable more opportunities for young players to develop into elite female athletes and professionals through coaching, conditioning, mentoring and education,” he said. The University’s support of women’s team sport has a four-pronged approach, spearheaded by its roles as the Official Coaches’ Partner of the Brisbane Lions Women’s team in the Women’s AFL. “In the past few months we have witnessed the nation getting behind women’s football to an extent never seen before, and Bond University is proud to cement its support of women’s AFL through this partnership with the Brisbane Lions,” says Mr Nucifora. Additionally, Bond is a naming-rights sponsor of the Golden South Jaguars in netball and of the Gold Coast City Football Club women’s senior team in the NPL. The University is also represented in the new National Sevens University Series this year – Australia’s first national women’s sevens rugby competition. Jackie Parra, Manager of Sports and Programs, says the University has an emphasis on equality. “Women’s team sport is making headway into the Australian sporting landscape and it is really exciting and productive that Bond is partnering with some of the highest levels of female sporting teams,” she says. “These girls are elite athletes and also wonderful role models, and we want to help provide a pathway for female athletes to achieve their sporting goals and dreams.” 2017 is Bond’s third year as a naming rights partner of the Golden South Jaguars, which competes in the Queensland State Netball League, and two Bond students are playing in the division one team: Ashleigh Keefe, the 2017 ADCO Sports Excellence Scholarship holder; and Laura King. Two Jags players recently competed at the highest level of domestic competition, the Super Netball League, including the club captain Kristen Oxenford. “It shows the Jaguars are a high performing team that provide a stepping stone to the top level of netball in Australia, and they have had several outstanding performers,” says Ms Parra. Golden South Jaguars head coach Linda Peterson says the sponsorship has allowed the team to step up its training programs. “It is a big step up for the girls, and for netball in the region. The sponsorship means that we can run full strength and conditioning programs with access to the new Sports Centre – once a week we have a squad session there,” says Ms Peterson. These partnerships not only allow Bond to attract elite athletes as students, but provide existing students with pathways to the top level of sport, both for competitors, and sports science students, who get the opportunities to work with the teams. It is a win-win for women’s sport in the region. Bond Women’s AFL team 40 www.arch.bond.edu.au
SPORT In the swim of things KICKING GOALS L-R: Ms Jenna Strauch, Ms Laura Taylor BOND breeds elite swimmers in droves, and the University’s latest rising stars are Jenna Strauch and Laura Taylor. Bendigo-born 19-year-old Ms Strauch has competed at an international level, representing Australia in the 2013 World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai. She also swam for Australia at the 2013 Youth Olympics Festival in Sydney, winning two gold medals and breaking two world records. Like Ms Strauch, local girl Laura Taylor, from St Hilda’s School, has her sights set on the next Olympic Games hosted by Tokyo in 2020. Ms Taylor made the Australian Junior Pan Pac Team last year, as well as the Queensland Short Course Team and, for the third consecutive year, the Queensland Talent Identification Squad. At the Rio Olympic trials (2016 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships), Ms Taylor took home bronze in the 200 metre butterfly. She also won five gold medals at this year’s Georgina Hope Foundation Australian Age Championships. Both Ms Taylor and Ms Strauch have been awarded the celebrated Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship to study at Bond University in 2017. First offered in 2015, the scholarship gives recipients the opportunity to compete at an elite level while studying. Ms Strauch, who was crowned the fastest 15-year-old female breaststroker in Bond AFL Australia Women’s in team 2012, started a Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Bond this year. “The ongoing discoveries made and extended through science and medicine that improve humanity and its purpose really inspire me and is why I have chosen to study Biomedical Science at Bond,” says Ms Strauch. “I have a lot of smaller goals for my studies in the future but my next major sporting goal is to qualify for the Open Australian swim team and to represent Australia at the 2020 Olympic Games.” Ms Taylor is looking more closely into the health arena too, has begun a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science this year. “I’m really interested in seeing how the body works and which muscles are used while training and competing to help maximise sporting success,” says Ms Taylor. “Becoming a physiotherapist will not only help me to understand my body and how it works to a greater degree, but to assist other athletes and sports enthusiasts to reach their goals.” Bond Executive Director of Sport, Garry Nucifora, says the Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship provides a unique mentoring experience for the recipients. “Our Bond alumni include an impressive cohort of Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medal swimmers who are on hand to provide both career and sport mentoring, and techniques to help our athletes prepare for life beyond sport.” Bond Sport Ambassador and current Medical student, and Olympic gold medalist, Melanie Wright, is an example of one such significant mentor whom athletes can access. A NATIONWIDE search was conducted last year for the next John Eales Rugby Excellence Scholar for 2017. The Year 12 student received the John Eales Rugby Excellence Scholarship for being an exceptional rugby player who also possesses leadership and community skills. The undergraduate scholarship is designed to allow students to focus on their rugby careers while preparing for life after sport. Scholars train with the Bond University Rugby Club under Head Coach Sean Hedger, and also receive mentoring from Mr Eales. Mr Blyth, who hails from Casuarina but graduated from The Southport School (TSS), recently signed with the Queensland Reds. The talented defender was also selected for the Australian Schoolboys Barbarians team last year, following two strong seasons in the First XV for TSS and having trained with the Reds schoolboy development squad. Mr Blyth started studying a Bachelor of Commerce in January 2017. “I would like to continue my passion for business after my rugby career has finished and this scholarship will give me the ability to set myself up to be successful in both my chosen fields,” says Mr Blyth. “I plan to work on my off-season fitness to be able to play in the Queensland Under 20s in 2017, then after that I hope to make the Australian Under 20 squad to play in Georgia at the Under 20 Rugby World Championships. “Having the assistance of an iconic player such as John Eales, who is someone I have looked up to my whole life and seen as a real hero, will be a major asset in helping take my rugby career to the next level.” www.arch.bond.edu.au 41
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