{"id":22159,"date":"2023-07-27T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&#038;p=22159"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:44:11","slug":"2023-nationals-futsal-championships","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/2023-nationals-futsal-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Nationals Futsal Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday 9 July, nine carefully selected students travelled to the Gold Coast to represent Curtin University in the 2023 Nationals Futsal Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition was held over four days at the Gold Coast Sport and Leisure Centre and the Carrara Indoor Stadium in Queensland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Curtin University Carnabys team included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mouhanad Akle<\/strong>, Science and Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lloyd Allen<\/strong>, Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fortune Aniyi<\/strong>, Health Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Beau Haynes<\/strong>, Science and Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bevis Lau<\/strong>, Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Josiah Liew<\/strong>, Health Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Justin Pearce<\/strong>, Health Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James Toth<\/strong>, Business and Law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ron Yip<\/strong>, Health Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The team headed to the East Coast ready to defend the gold medal they won in last year\u2019s Nationals Futsal Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Day 1, 10 July<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Carnabys\u2019 first game of the four-day competition, they dominated 10 \u2013 2 against Queensland University of Technology (QUT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate the win and enjoy some downtime, the Carnabys had a team dinner in Surfers Paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Day 2, 11 July<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the second day of the competition, the Carnabys won by seven points in a 9 \u2013 2 match against Swinburne University of Technology (SUT). Also in the same pool was Southern Cross University (SCU) \u2013 a game which resulted in a draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finishing at the top position of Pool A, the Carnabys were through to the Quarter Finals for Division 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip was further enriched by a team bonding session of canoeing along Southport beach. The squad also enjoyed a dinner with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams from Edith Cowan University (ECU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Day 3, 12 July \u2013 Quarter Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in the Quarter Finals, the Carnabys just had one match on the third day after topping Pool A with two wins and a draw. The game was against the Australian College of Physical Education and the Carnabys were victorious with a 4 \u2013 0 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The men\u2019s squad enjoyed a revitalising swim in the Pacific Ocean and then spent the rest of the day at their leisure before the big games on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Day 4, 13 July \u2013 Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the last day of the 2023 National Futsal Championships, the Carnabys played against QUT in the Division 1 Semi Final. The score was 3 \u2013 1 in favour of the Carnabys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now playing for the gold medal, the Carnabys versed the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in the Finals round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an exhilarating final match, UTS scored two points early in the game. With a couple minutes to spare, the Carnabys scored a point. Unfortunately, the Carnabys were one short, and the final score was 2 \u2013 1, in favour of UTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a commendable performance from the Carnabys who still brought home a silver medal and placed second overall in the Men\u2019s Final Rankings for Division 1. A fantastic effort from the Curtin Carnabys who consistently proved they are a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Carnabys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, nine carefully selected students travelled to the Gold Coast to represent Curtin in the 2023 Nationals Futsal Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"featured_media":22160,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[145,146],"class_list":["post-22159","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-sport-recreation","oasis-categories-student-life"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}},"post_components":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Carnabys-futsal-team-photo-1000x500.png","author_meta":{"first_name":"Nikita","last_name":"Osckar","display_name":"Nikita Osckar"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 20:36:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/22159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/22159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=22159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}