St Andrew’s College had a magnificent showing at the recent 2021 SUSF Awards.
Both nominations for the prestigious Sydney University Sportsman of the Year for 2021 were Androvians. The winner was Rohan Browning (Fr 2016) currently the fastest man in Australia, and the first Australian male to qualify for the 100M sprint since 2004. During last year’s Tokyo Olympic Games, Rohan ran a 10.01, the fastest 100 metres ever by an Australian at the Olympic Games. Also nominated for this award was alumnus Jack McCalman (Fr 2014), current Student Representative of the Sydney University Football Club who captained SUFC 1st Grade to an undefeated 2021 season.
Alumna Hannah Buckling (Fr 2010) was nominated for Sportswoman of the Year for 2021 following her win of this award in 2020. Her Olympic debut was at Rio 2016 in the Australian Women’s Water Polo Team and the team was awarded 5th place in the Tokyo games.
St Andrew’s was also well-represented amongst the perpetually named scholarship recipients of the night:
- Allan Kendall – Alexandra Bozovic (Fr 2022) for Tennis
- Blue & Gold Club – Annabel Martin (Fr 2018) for Soccer
- Blues Association – Connor Murphy (Fr 2020) for Athletics
- Bruce Ross – Jacob Ratcliff (Fr 2020) for Rugby
- Collins/Peasley – Rohan Browning (Fr 2016) for Athletics
- David Chadwick – John Downes (Fr 2018) for Rugby League
- Enrizen – Charles Dummer (Fr 2018) for Cricket
- Gavin Brown AO – Daniel Botha (Fr 2019) for Rugby
- Mollie Dive OAM (Hockey) – Sorita Pho (Fr 2022) for Hockey
Two Senate Awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement were awarded to Drew’s students, Ashley Dribbus (Fr 2019) for Soccer and Lucy Mauviel (Fr 2020) for Athletics, as well as two Business School Joint Awards (Undergraduate) to Daniel Breden (Fr 2020) for Rugby and Charles Dummer (Fr 2018) for Cricket.
The Sydney University Residential Colleges – Joint Awards, St Andrew’s College were awarded to:
- Daniel Botha (Fr 2019) for Rugby
- Alexandra Bozovic (Fr 2022) for Tennis
- Darcy Creagh (Fr 2021) for Rugby
- Jeremy Elliot (Fr 2020) for Rugby
- Lucinda Gillis (Fr 2020) for Water Polo
- Anna Hunt (Fr 2022) for Soccer
- Emma Illjoski (Fr 2021) for Soccer
- Tom Morrison (Fr 2022) for Rugby
- Connor Murphy (Fr 2020) for Athletics
- Henry O’Donnell (Fr 2022) for Rugby
- Olivia O’Donnell (Fr 2020) for Rugby
- Sorita Pho (Fr 2022) for Hockey
- Jacob Ratcliff (Fr 2020) for Rugby
- Laura Roderick (Fr 2022) for Athletics
- Henry Ryan (Fr 2020) for Rowing
- Katherine Stanbridge (Fr 2021) for Soccer
- Aidan Wearne (Fr 2020) for Rugby
- Sophia Wightman (Fr 2022) for Rowing
General Scholarships were awarded to:
- Jack Lynch (Fr 2021) for Athletics
- Angus Jones (Fr 2021) for Australian Football
- Benjamin Fakira (Fr 2021) for Basketball
- Charles Cassell (Fr 2018) for Cricket
- Jamie Hemmingway (Fr 2019) for Hockey
- Sam Wright (Fr 2019) for Hockey
- Jamie Podmore Taylor (Fr 2022) for Netball
- Eleanor Price (Fr 2019) for Rowing
- George Coates (Fr 2022) for Rugby
- Harry Johnson-Holmes (Fr 2016) for Rugby
- Jemima McCalman (Fr 2018) for Rugby
- Alex O’Reilly (Fr 2019) for Rugby
- Louis Corker (Fr 2019) for Tennis
- Mia Glasel (Fr 2019) for Water Polo
- Tyler Krenkels (Fr 2022) for Water Polo
This year was another magnificent year for sport at St Andrew’s College. Congratulations to all.