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Chloe is USC’s first Sportsperson of the Year
Buderim triathlete Chloe Turner has become the University of the Sunshine Coast’s first Sportsperson of the Year.
Chloe, 19, who won a silver medal in her division of the ITU World Triathlon Championships at the Gold Coast in September, received the title and a huge trophy at USC’s inaugural Sports Awards Ceremony yesterday (Tuesday 3 November).
The Sport and Exercise Science student’s stellar year included finishing first in her age group at the Australian University Triathlon Championships at Mooloolaba in March, winning USC’s Great Court Race, and finishing third in the Open category of last Sunday’s Noosa Triathlon.
Chloe also was one of two students who yesterday received the University’s first “Full Blue” awards for sporting achievement.
The other recipient was Billy Miller who was a member of the gold-medal winning Australian men’s waterpolo team at the World University games in Serbia in July.
USC presented “Half Blue” awards to Emma McKenzie (surf lifesaving), James Boyce (rugby league), Strachan Kerswill (triathlon), Brodie Gardner (triathlon), Julia Linnan (touch), Cameron Sullivan (touch), Nathan Katterns (surfing) and Firas Zein (football).
USC’s football team, which won gold at the Northern University Games in July and bronze at the Australian University Games last month, claimed the Team of the Year trophy.
A special “USC Green” award – to recognise a student who voluntarily assists the University’s sporting teams – went to Sam Poulsen who coordinated USC’s touch football teams.
USC graduate and 2004 and 2006 world surf ironwoman champion Kristy Munroe was MC at the Sports Awards Ceremony.
She said the introduction of “Half Blue” and “Full Blue” awards highlighted the University’s growth and its developing culture.
— Terry Walsh