BPL kicks of its first season for 2008 on Thursday 14 February, and its an honour for the Brisbane Ultimate Blog to finish its preview of each club with the exciting University of Queensland.
The University of Queensland has been central to the story of Brisbane Ultimate since year dot, with Brisbane's first Leagues being run by the club at the St Lucia Campus. UQ has sent teams to Halibut and the Australian University Games from the mid '90's onwards. With the growth of the Brisbane open scene, 2004 saw UQ enter the Premiership in 2004.
After winning the first season in 2007, the UQ Ultimate Lovers split for the last season into two squads - UQ Lovers and UQ Passion.
Squad List - Passion
Co-Captains: John McNaughton and Julian Sacre
New Players: Dan Young, John McNaughton, Dean Vlahaki, Aaron Webber.
Returning Players: Will Churchill, Tom Daley, Bart Edgar, Geoff Grundy, Nathan Litzow, Ben Lucas.
Squad List - Lovers*
Captain: Al Don
New Players: Brock Cunliffe, Will Larkin, Bruce Wells.
Returning Players: Peter Allan, Chris Cunliffe, Rohan Ferris, AJ Joshi, Robert Lowe, Geoff Spurling, Erhart Stockhausen, Piers Truter Tristan Bec, Piers Truter.
Departing players: Brett Matzuka, Jonathan Potts, Chris Burwell, Chris Garrick, Dan Wiechec, Jason Stritter.
Other stats and trivia:
- UQ has won the most Spirit Prizes in the history of the Premier division.
- UQ have come second in grand finals more than anyone – four (Winter 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2006 and Winter 2007).
- UQ are the slackest at providing information to the Brisbane Ultimate Blog's 2008 BPL Preview. Maybe they're busy with their new website (see top right), or starting the new season of the UQ League ... so I can't blame them too much!
*(most of the Lover squad is guesswork by ye blogger due to limited info - apologies for any errors)
5 comments:
Did UQ really come 5th and 6th last season?
After winning one of the other seasons?
What gives?
I blame brett was lack of info and last season's results, that is what I used to do when I was there!
Passion were second or third from memory, but we lost most of our team, so chose to allow another team to play in our place for the semi's.
Also...That website is done JDR (Or done enough that it is actually up.) It will continue to grow in content as time goes on.
Can I put a tenner on the Lovers? Any team with two Piers Truters on the list must be pretty decent.
Lovers = Maroon
Passion = Pink
Your friendly correcting person.
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