Uni ultimate teams are part of a larger team as well

Believe it or not, ultimate isn't the only sport at AUG. It certainly seems that way for most of us, since we rarely get to see any other sports in action. A lot of campus sporting organisations take great pride in how their squads perform in the Overall Winner and Doug Ellis Trophy classifications at AUG. You can spot these unis - they're the ones with the matching uniforms across all sports, and have all teams staying together at the same accommodation. So I thought it might be interesting to look at where everyone's squads finished in the Overall and Doug Ellis Trophy classifications.

For those not in the know, the Doug Ellis Trophy is awarded to the university that earns the most points per student enrolled. It is used as a measure of how strong a university's sporting program is.


AUG Ultimate (Mixed) Final Standings
1. Flinders
2. Sydney
3. Adelaide
4. Melbourne
5. Macquarie
6. UWA
7. Monash
8. Newcastle
9. LaTrobe
10. Deakin
11. Murdoch
12. Edith Cowan
13. RMIT
14. UTS
15. ANU
16. Ballarat
17. Griffith
18. Wollongong
19. QUT


AUG Overall Classification
number in brackets denotes actual ranking

1. Monash (1)
2. Melbourne (2)
3. Sydney (3)
4. UWA (4)
5. Macquarie (6)
6. UTS (8)
7. Latrobe (9)
8. Griffith (10)
9. QUT (11)
10. Adelaide (12)
11. RMIT (13)
12. Deakin (14)
13. Newcastle (16)
14. Wollongong (17)
15. Edith Cowan (19)
16. Flinders (21)
17. Murdoch (23)
18. Ballarat (25)
19. ANU (26)


Doug Ellis Trophy Classification
number in brackets denotes actual ranking

1. UWA (1)
2. Monash (3)
3. Melbourne (4)
4. Ballarat (5)
5. Macquarie (7)
6. Adelaide (8)
7. Sydney (9)
8. Latrobe (12)
9. Griffith (13)
10. Deakin (19)
11. Flinders (20)
12. UTS (22)
13. Murdoch (23)
14. Newcastle (24)
15. Wollongong (25)
16. QUT (26)
17. Edith Cowan (27)
18. ANU (28)
19. RMIT (31)


So what can we learn from this? Well, we can identify which campus sporting organisations would give a shit in starting up an ultimate frisbee team with assistance from the ultimate community. Out of the top 20 Overall unis, 15 had ultimate teams at AUG, and 3 have teams that didn't attend. Victoria University (7th) and University of New England (20th) obviously have large sporting programs so they would be good to target. Using the Doug Ellis Trophy standings, we can add Australian College of Physical Education (6th), Bond University (11th) and Southern Cross University (14th) to our target list.

And people reckon I make this kind of shit up on the spot.