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sporting highlights
from 2017
UCT rugby player Michael
Kumbirai played an
important role in both the
WP Super Sport Challenge
and the WP Currie Cup
teams where he was first
choice as tighthead prop.
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The UCT table tennis first
team placed in the top three
of the WP third league.
Also in rugby, Kuyenzeka
(Nama) Xaba was the shining
light of the UCT 2017 Varsity
Cup campaign. The youngest
player in the squad, he thrilled
fans with literally every touch
of the ball. Only a few greats
have managed to play first
team at UCT at the age of
19 – like Eben Etzebeth and
Damian de Allende.
In athletics the UCT club was home to
the Varsity Sports B Section Winners and
USSA Track and Field B Section Winners.
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UCT cricket won the Western
Cape Intervarsity Trophy for the
first time and were selected as
the WP Cricket Club of the Year.
They also came seventh at USSA,
qualifying for the 2018 Varsity
Sports Competition.
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The cycling club enjoyed
an international tour to
Mauritius last year, where
they competed in the
Tour de Maurice, and the
men’s mountain biking
team won the Varsity
Sports Competition for
the first time.