{"id":29358,"date":"2025-09-25T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&#038;p=29358"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:46:17","slug":"curtin-heads-to-uninationals-2025","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/curtin-heads-to-uninationals-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin heads to UniNationals 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reading time: 1 minute. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Â鶹ֱ²¥ is set to compete at UniNationals 2025 on the Gold Coast, Queensland, joining over 6,000 student-athletes from across Australia in this massive, multi-sport university competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, Curtin is proudly represented by seven teams across a range of disciplines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Sports:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-1000x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-1000x500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-740x370.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-480x240.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-1260x630.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-1520x760.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8716-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Netball<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hockey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taekwondo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Sports:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-1000x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-1000x500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-740x370.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-480x240.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-1260x630.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-1520x760.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8742-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Futsal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hockey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Basketball<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our teams have been putting in the hard work, and we caught up with a few team captains to hear what they\u2019re most looking forward to and what makes their teams unique.<\/p>\n\n\n<section\n                class=\"block block--no-indent cards \"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n    \n        <div class=\"card-grid\"\n         data-card-size=\"standard\"         data-card-count=\"3\"\n         data-card-background=\"white\">\n                    <div id=\"brianna-bennett-netball-and-overall-curtin-captain\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Brianna Bennett (netball and overall Curtin captain)<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p><strong>What are you most looking forward to at UniNationals?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am most looking forward to competing against all the different universities. The competitive and friendly culture is amazing.<br \/><strong>How would you describe your team? What makes them special?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Women\u2019s Netball team is a talented group of young women who are passionate about netball. We have formed an encouraging and lively team environment.<br \/><strong>How long has your team been training for this?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe commenced training at the start of Semester 2, so a total of ten weeks.<br \/><strong>Which university will be your biggest challenge, and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe have only got our fixtures for the first two days but looking at who we play I would say ECU, mainly for the bragging rights of who is the best WA team.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div id=\"zoe-thomas-hockey-captain\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Zoe Thomas (hockey captain)<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p><strong><strong>What are you most looking forward to at UniNationals?<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\nI am most looking forward to the chance to play against other universities and to connecting with my fellow teammates!<br \/><strong>How would you describe your team? What makes them special?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s hockey team brings the vibe; they understand the importance of having fun and smiling along the way!<br \/><strong>How long has your team been training for this?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe have been training since late June.<br \/><strong>Which university will be your biggest challenge, and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nANU is always a tough game; credit to them for a strong team, but we look forward to seeing how we play as a team against tough competition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div id=\"beau-haynes-futsal-captain\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Beau Haynes (futsal captain)<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p><strong>What are you most looking forward to at UniNationals?<\/strong><br \/>\nMostly the futsal but also the chance to meet people from other Uni\u2019s and hang out with a good bunch of team mates.<br \/><strong>How would you describe your team? What makes them special?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy team is dynamic. Some highly competitive, some just there to have fun and others excited and energetic. We do have three players including myself that plays in the Supaliga A which is the local competitive league in WA.<br \/><strong>How long has your team been training for this?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe joined slightly late so not long at all, proper training started maybe two months ago!<br \/><strong>Which university will be your biggest challenge, and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nUTS will probably be our biggest challenge because two years ago when Curtin put a futsal team in they beat us in the final. And now they are in our pool in the group stages. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s cheer on Carnabys, good luck to all our athletes competing at UniNationals 2025!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep up with fixtures and results, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/nationals\">UniSport website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our student athletes are set to compete in the multi-sport competition, joining over 6,000 students from across Australia. | Read time: 1 min. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4412,"featured_media":29361,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[145,146],"class_list":["post-29358","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-sport-recreation","oasis-categories-student-life"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_8748-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Louis","last_name":"Humberstone","display_name":"Louis Humberstone"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 20:20:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/29358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/29358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=29358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}