{"id":12093,"date":"2019-06-24T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2019-06-25T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:27:39","slug":"trifecta-of-athletes-shoot-for-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2019\/06\/24\/trifecta-of-athletes-shoot-for-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Trifecta of athletes shoot for the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Flinders University athletes have been selected for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.com.au\/aa\/2019-world-university-games\/\">World University Games<\/a>, competing in running and shooting competitions over 3 to 14 July 2019 in Naples, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Rossiter and Emma Adams comprise two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/2019-uniroos-shooting\">five-person Australian shooting team<\/a>, giving Flinders fantastic representation in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rossiter represented the University last year at the World University Championships for shooting, so has high hopes with the additional experience under his belt. As a former Olympian (2016), he knows what it takes to compete on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow student and shooting team-mate Ms Adams also knows about the big events, having competed for Australia at both the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Cocks rounds out the Flinders contingent, who will head out to his second World University Games. Previously finishing in 8<sup>th<\/sup> place in the Men\u2019s 10,000m running event, his sights are set on a higher place this year and he will also compete in the Half Marathon at the 2019 games.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cocks has recorded solid form recently, completing his debut Half Marathon in Gifu with a time of 1:04:09, which awarded him a 19<sup>th<\/sup> placement in the Japanese event.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Adams is studying a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Mr Rossiter a Bachelor of Business in Marketing and Mr Cocks a Bachelor of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Flinders University Sport &amp; Fitness provide financial support to all three students, together with allied health and specialist coaching to scholarship holder Riley Cocks to help him successfully combine sport and education.<\/p>\n<p>As an EAFU (Elite Athlete Friendly University), Flinders provides support to these athletes so they can continue participating in their sports at an elite level while completing their studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Flinders University athletes have been selected for the World University Games, competing in running and shooting competitions over 3 to 14 July 2019 in Naples, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":12094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,10878],"class_list":["post-12093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-flinders-sport-and-fitness","tag-world-university-games"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}