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The Vaal Campus can look back
on a very successful USSA 2014,
with teams performing well above
expectation.
The greatest success was achieved
on the rugby field and the team from
the Vaal rose to the occasion by
clinching top honours in the C Division. The team, under the guidance
of Hans Labuschagne, beat the
team from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in a nail-biting
final match with 24-18. During the
quarter final rounds the team from
Vanderbijlpark rewrote the history
books by thrashing the team from
the University of Limpopo with 114-0
and beating the team from Walter
Sisulu University convincingly with
58-12 points on the scoreboard.
The ladies hockey team managed to
recover well after they succumbed
to a determined team from Varsity
College who clinched the first match
with 5 goals to 1. The team from the
Vaal Campus received an overall
fourth place ranking and according
to Sune van der Linde – the team
coach, the competition was fierce.
“We were very unlucky to lose
against Wits (2-1), but I am pleased
with the team’s performance,” says
Van der Linde and adds that they
played to a draw against Rhodes
University whilst convincingly beating the teams from the University
of the Western Cape (4-1) and the
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (5-2). The number of goals
conceived against each team, as
well as the number of goals scored
was used to determine the finalist in
the competition and Varsity College
took home the spoils.
This year saw – for the first time
ever, the Vaal Campus competing
in golf at the USSA championships.
The rookie team stuck it out and
won the D division. According to
Shaun Meijer, the team manager,
the NWU Vaal clinched victories
over the University of Cape Town,
Rhodes University and the University of Zululand. When reflecting on
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