Macquarie UniMoves Challenge winners

Our first UniMoves challenge ‘Move it Macquarie’ ran for six weeks to encourage staff and students to earn as many MOVES as possible by moving as much as possible! Almost 200 staff and students participated with almost 3 million MOVEs or 30 million steps accumulated.

Congratulations to the winners, who were presented with their prizes by Head of Campus Life, Pete Boyle. The winners received a Fitbit, Rebel Sport voucher and MQ Backpack.

Staff

1^st place: Wessels Van Heerden – 192,000 MOVEs
Wessels is a Payroll Advisor in the Human Resources team at Macquarie and finds his 30 minutes a day through running, walking and weights. His one piece of advice to encourage our University community to become more active is to ‘build activity into your routine and make it a priority’. Wessels sets a great example of how exercise doesn’t need to be intense or vigorous. He earned the majority of his MOVEs just through walking, one day alone he walked for almost 10km. Well done Wessels!

2^nd place: Cara Everson – 172,000 MOVEs

Students

1^st place: Francisco Gutierrez – 133,000 MOVEs
Francisco is an International student from Mexico who is in his last semester studying a Master of Commerce and is also on the Student Representative Committee as the postgraduate representative of Macquarie Business School. He achieves his 30 minutes of activity a day by walking from home to Uni and participating in group fitness classes (his favourite is Body Pump) and small group training sessions at the Sport and Aquatic Centre. He also has a passion for weightlifting and plays in the University Social Soccer competition on Tuesdays.

2^nd place: Khang Nguyen – 93,000 MOVEs

Another chance to win: November ‘Move and chill’ Challenge

The first inter-university challenge has started!  Since the launch of the UniMoves project, Macquarie has been leading the way as the most active university. Join us now to battle 10 other universities to see who can clock-up the most MOVEs throughout November. The winner receives a UniSport backpack and Yoga mat. To be eligible to win, complete the SportAus Survey on the app or online and download the app then find your MOVEs.

If your team or department would like to run a challenge or you would like to make a suggestion on how we can work together to help staff and students get more active please get in touch!

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