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USSA Swimming & Waterpolo Tour to East London
| VC vs. NMMU |
WON |
15 - 6 |
| VC vs. MATIES |
DRAW |
7 - 7 |
| VC vs. UCT |
LOST |
7 - 5 |
| VC vs. UJ |
WON |
9 - 8 |
| VC vs.WITS |
WON |
23 - 3 |
| VC vs.RHODES |
WON |
22 - 6 |
Varsity College entered a team for the 1st time into the USSA (University Sports South Africa) swimming gala and waterpolo tournament. The swimmers and waterpolo guys not only put VC firmly on the map in the university aquatics arena but dominated in both disiplines!
Waterpolo Results
The VC team made it through to the semi-finals with some of these fantastic results (top right) in the round robin stage of the tournament. Despite a heroic effort in the semi-final they lost 10 – 6 to Maties and then dug deep in the 3rd & 4th play-off match to beat UJ 11 – 6 coming an impressive 3rd overall! We also had one student, Mark Spencer, make the SA students team.
Swimming Results 
With a very small team we still managed to dominate and ruffle some feathers! In total the team racked up 16 gold, 10 silver and 4 bronze medals! We also had four swimmers that were chosen for the SA students team namely; Rohan Jacobs, Riaan Schoemann, Rene Warnes and Bianca Meyer. Rene Warnes was also awarded the “Best Ladies Performance” for achieving 742 FINA points in the 400IM. Rene also set a USSA record in the 200m & 400m Free and Rohan Jacobs set a USSA record in the 200m Backstroke!
 Varsity College Sunday Tribune Capital K
The Capital K which took place at Midmar Dam this past weekend and is one of the main qualifiers for the Midmar Mile. This lovely family orientated event has races for both competitive and social swimmers. 
The 10km Open Water KZN Champs took place on the Saturday and Jessica Roux, a Durban North student, came 1st in the ladies race, a fantastic achievement!
On Sunday, most of our student swimmers who had just landed back from a successful tour in East London competed for the VC team in the 1km team event and we got top honours with the team walking away with some awesome prizes for their efforts!
Rene Warnes also raced in the 1km individual ladies race and won the 14 to 30 year category… continuing to fly the VC flag high!
VC MTB Relay Challenge part of the Willows Challenge in PE
The Varsity College MTB Relay Challenge got off to an early start on Saturday, 26 November with the kiddies MTB race. VC and Choc were o ut in full force to support the future MTB stars (and who knows future Sports Life students).
The main VC MTB Relay Challenge kicked off later in the day and the 17 teams competing were given 3 hours to complete as many laps as possib le. The winning team managed 14 laps which equals 70km. The VC Chill Zone, next to the transition area, was stocked with bottomless amounts of Powerade which proved extremely popular during the relay breaks.
Team Chevrolet Warriors, with riders from the EP cricket team headed by Johan Botha, were seen “chilling” in our VC chill zone along with the SuperSport crew … watch out for this event on SuperSport from the 26th December – 6th Jan!
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