SA Rugby Team of the Year

The Ikey Tigers have been nominated by SA Rugby as a Team of the Year finalist. This is a huge honour, and greatly deserved after their terrific season.


The nominees in the Team of the Year award are:

1. Regent Boland Cavaliers
2. MTN Golden Lions
3. Springbok Sevens
4. DHL Stormers
5. University of Cape Town

The award of course also includes several Player of the Year section and is gleaming with talent and big names.

The  awards ceremony will be held at the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City. Tickets are available to the public from Computicket and the ceremony will be broadcast live on Supersport from 19:30 on November 3.

The full list of awards and nominees is availble on the sarugby website: http://www.sarugby.co.za/article.aspx?category=sarugby/springboks&id=1092071

UCT Sports Awards Dinner

The 2011 UCT Sports Awards Dinner is taking place on Friday 21 October. If you are a finalist for an award you would have been notified already, and you have a complimentary ticket to the dinner. If you do not have your ticket yet, please speak to your sporting code's chairperson.

The guest speaker for the evening is Ryan Sandes, who is UCT Alum. And don't forget the formal dress code :)

Suit up and see you there!

SSU Exec for 2012

Congratulations to the new Students Sports Union Executive voted in last night:

Chairperson: Sarah Bishop (Rowing)
Vice-chairperson: Mikhaela Levitas (Mountain & Ski)
Treasurer: Kyle Hanck (Rowing)
Secretary: Geoff Kilpin (Yachting)
Development: Ziningi Madonsela (Netball)
Media & Marketing: Langa Mahamba-Sithole (Soccer)

And also congratulations to the new SRC Sports Coordinator
Lorne Hallendorff

SSU AGM

The Students' Sports Union AGM is on tonight (Mon 10th Oct) at 18h00 in the Lower Council Room of the Sports Centre. All chairpersons please to attend.

Photos of the WP League Champions

Photographer Peter van As took some awesome photos of the Ikey Tigers final game where they clinched the WP Super A League Championship Title. Check out the album here

Article on Ikey Nic Groom

Check out this cool interview with Ikey Tiger and WP scrumhalf Nic Groom on the Varsity Cup website