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Ensuring that talented young athletes in New Zealand sport are also supported to achieve and realise their academic potential is an extremely important aspect within the New Zealand sporting landscape. Acknowledging this, Football South have recently partnered with the University of Otago and the Otago Polytechnic to provide scholarships for talented young football players who have academic aspirations. Read more here and watch out for these again in 2017.

UTSNZ is seeking two highly motivated individuals to help lead and manage the NZ University Men's and Women's Hockey Teams at the Hockey NZ Affiliates Tournament, 1-7 April 2017.

New Zealand university representative teams, Auckland University of Technology (Men’s) and the University of Auckland (Women’s), have returned home after an excellent performance at the World University 3x3 Basketball League in China.

The University of Auckland Women's and AUT Men's 3x3 Basketball teams left for China today to participate in the FISU 3x3 Basketball World University League. The WUL will take place from 21 to 23 October, 2016 in Xiamen.

One of the key objectives of the new university and tertiary sport entity UTSNZ, is to revive competitive inter tertiary sporting competitions, lift the standard of these competitions and develop pathways to international opportunities. At the heart of this are New Zealand’s tertiary students and increasingly in the world of sport, the athlete’s voice is being formally recognised in the governance structures of national sporting entities. As a result, UTSNZ has recently established the first NZ Tertiary Student Athlete Commission.

Under the new watch of University and Tertiary Sport NZ, and in a new era of inter-tertiary sport in New Zealand, the University of Auckland has been awarded the prestigious overall National Tertiary Championship Shield and been named the UTSNZ Overall National Tertiary Champion for 2016.

Hockey NZ and UTSNZ are pleased to announce the NZ Universities Men's and Women's teams to play in the 2017 HNZ Affiliates tournament in Napier next year. The teams were selected based on performance and skills shown at the UTSNZ National Tertiary Hockey Championships played in Wellington last week.

On Wednesday night Victoria University of Wellington and Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) celebrated the Victoria University Blues Awards, the highest recognition the university can give to people who have, by their sporting achievements or contribution to sport, brought credit to the university. Two students with links to UTSNZ were awarded honours. Joanah Ngan-Woo was named the Pasifika Sportsperson of the Year. While working towards completing a Bachelor of Arts at Victoria, Joanah represented Samoa as part of the Manu Sina Women’s Sevens team, and New Zealand in the World University Sevens Tournament. Joanah plays for the Oriental Rongotai Rugby Club and is a member of the Wellington Women’s Pride Rugby team.   And Brooke Walker was named the Sports Administrator of the Year. Brooke, who is completing a Bachelor of Economics and Finance, is the captain of Victoria’s Rowing Club and has been instrumental in the recent rebrand of the club. She is one of the three lead coaches for the Wellington College Rowing Club programme and the lead coach of the Wellington College Rowing Club’s junior squad. Brooke has completed two Rowing New Zealand coaching modules, and is the sole Victoria representative on the University and Tertiary Sport New Zealand Student-Athlete Commission.

In additional to UTSNZ National Tertiary Championship events, a number of Universities have their own long standing rivalries and tertiary events. The annual sporting exchange between rival agricultural universities Lincoln and Massey was recently hosted at the Manawatu campus with Massey taking out both the LA Brooks Cup and Enid Hills Memorial Trophy on Saturday.

The New Zealand University rowing team men’s pair of Corey McCaffrey and Louis van Velthooven have taken a silver medal at the 2016 World Rowing University Championships overnight. The championships in Poznan, Poland, feature the world’s top university rowers including several Olympians.

The 3rd edition of the New Zealand University Ultimate Championships was hosted by the Auckland University Ultimate Club at Colin Maiden Park from 29-30 August. The 3rd edition of the New Zealand University Ultimate Championships was hosted by the Auckland University Ultimate Club at Colin Maiden Park from 29-30 August. The 2016 tournament saw a record nine teams competing for the trophy.

Massey University have claimed the Tertiary Teams Title after some strong performances from their team against the Auckland University, Victoria University and Waikato University teams. The Squash Tertiary Teams Challenge started in 2014 and sees teams of 4 players (male, female or mixed) graded or social, who all belong to the same Tertiary Institute battling out to be the best Tertiary Team. This year the Tertiary Teams challenge was held at the North Shore Squash Club, 21 Shea Terrace, Takapuna, North Shore on the 26-27 August.

The Canterbury Women's Rugby Team has been named with a strong representation from both the University of Canterbury and Lincoln University showing the strength of university rugby in the region.

Otago Daily Times sports reporter Matt Smith talks to Otago University rower Alistair Bond about the Rio Olympics.

The on-court action may not have gone their way but the teams that represented New Zealand at the FISU World University Futsal Championships in Brazil will return home safe in the knowledge that their efforts were not in vain.

Lincoln University go back-to-back in Canterbury Metro rugby. From 14-12 ahead at half time Lincoln went on to win 49-12 with a huge second half.

The NZ Tertiary Women's Sevens team finished 9th on the table at the World University Championships Played in Swansea, Wales 6-9 July, beating Australia in their last game 14-5.

The Fair Play title, in both the male and female categories at the World University Futsal Championships played in Brazil have been won by New Zealand teams. View the full Press Release from Brazil organisers below.

Mortgage Link have signed up as the major sponsors for NZ Universities Women's Sevens Team bound for the FISU World University Championships in Swansea.

Logo finalised for the new University and Tertiary Sport NZ organisation...

Sarah Anderson has been appointed the first Executive Director of University & Tertiary Sport New Zealand (UTSNZ)...