Friday 2 December 2005
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY GAMES GRABS
QUEENSLANDS BEST EVENT OF THE YEAR AWARD!
Australian University Games (AUG) claimed the 2005 Queensland
Sport Event of the Year award at the 11th Annual Queensland
Sport Awards. Presented by the Sports Federation of Queensland
Inc. the Awards were held at The Brisbane Convention Centre
last night.
The Hon. Peter Beattie MP, Premier of Queensland was on
hand to make the first address of the evening. This was
soon followed by the presentation of the Queensland Event
of the Year by a representative from the Brisbane Convention
Centre. Mr Peter Schofield, General Manager Operations,
Australian University Sport was delighted to accept the
award.
“This award represents the efforts of so many including
universities and their athletes to get to and compete in
the Games, staff and volunteers working hard to pull it
off, a dedicated Games Advisory Board, state and national
sporting organisations running competitions, and corporate,
university and government partners to help fund it”
Mr. Schofield said.
Mr Schofield particularly thanked Griffith University, the
partner University for the Games, and the Queensland Events
Corporation, the Game’s major sponsor.
Mr Schofield in his acceptance speech again emphasised the
real threat to sport at a university level stemming from
the Federal Government’s VSU legislation.
The room was filled with some of Queensland’s finest
athletes from the full spectrum of sports including Grant
Hackett who took out Queensland Sport Star of the Year.
The Australian University Games contested 26 sports over
a five day period during September 2005 involving over 6,700
participants and injected an astounding $11 million into
the Queensland economy.
