{"id":1625,"date":"2019-10-21T04:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unisport.wpenginepowered.com\/2019-10-21-university-of-newcastle-clean-sweep-inaugural-university-rugby-league-9s\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:09:11","slug":"2019-10-21-university-of-newcastle-clean-sweep-inaugural-university-rugby-league-9s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/2019-10-21-university-of-newcastle-clean-sweep-inaugural-university-rugby-league-9s\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Newcastle clean sweep inaugural University Rugby League 9&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8e3023_838afd44fb0a4c0f82be27b49bff8210mv2_d_4032_3024_s_4_2-scaled.jpeg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\"><\/figure>\n<p>In conjunction with the NRL 9\u2019s World Cup on the weekend, the University 9\u2019s Rugby League competition kicked off in style with University of Newcastle (UON) taking out both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The competition began on Friday 18 October at the NSWRL Centre of Excellence at Olympic Park and concluded on Saturday evening  at Bankwest Stadium as curtain raisers to the World Cup 9\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>UON took on Western Sydney University (WS) in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s finals and proved too strong in both.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8e3023_6fab7aabd73a4baa8ded9bb18ce4547bmv2_d_3827_2551_s_4_2-scaled.jpg\" width=\"3827\" height=\"2551\"><\/figure>\n<p>Josh Mantellato (former international rugby league player) and Alex Langbridge (recent Australian Touch Football representative) were standouts for the men whilst a number of the UON women have come through the Newcastle Knights system, the Tarsha Gale Cup and Country Rugby League teams with the experience proving too much to match for WS.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8e3023_59a60424eb8e41558e55d3e5c2538f77mv2_d_4006_2670_s_4_2-scaled.jpg\" width=\"4006\" height=\"2670\"><\/figure>\n<p>It was an entertaining two days of League 9s with teams from University of Newcastle, University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University, University of Sydney, Macquarie University and University of the Sunshine Coast all taking part.<\/p>\n<p>University of Sunshine Coast (USC) took out the men\u2019s Minor Final which was played at the NSWRL Centre of Excellence on Saturday 19 October.<\/p>\n<p>UniSport worked in partnership the NRL, NSWRL and the NSW Office of Sport to provide this opportunity to the universities and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with the NRL 9\u2019s World Cup on the weekend, the University &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":43,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"unis_sport_category":[128],"unis_league_category":[],"unis_university_category":[88],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-member-stories","category-unisport-news","unis_sport_category-league-9s"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"unis_sport_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unis_sport_category?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"unis_league_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unis_league_category?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"unis_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unis_university_category?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}