Community Voice: What the Cancellation of State Shield Means for Australian Quidditch

Community Voice: What the Cancellation of State Shield Means for Australian Quidditch

Cameron Walker is one of the co-coaches for new club, Eastern Sydney Universities (previously UTS and UNSW), and has previously played on the NSW Bluebottles in 2018 and 2019. In this Community Voice article, he examines the decision to cancel the annual State Shield event for 2021 and the impacts this may have, as well as ways to mitigate these with proposed alternative events suitable to the current post-Covid climate of uncertainy.

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Quidditch in 2020: What We're Doing Right and What We Can Be Doing

Quidditch in 2020: What We're Doing Right and What We Can Be Doing

Cameron Walker is one of the co-coaches for new club, Eastern Sydney Universities (previously UTS and UNSW). In this article, he questions whether quidditch is doing enough to be returning to sport under the pandemic conditions, as many other community sports in NSW have done. He also expresses concerns over the impacts of the pandemic and lack of gameplay on recruitment, suggests solutions, and goes on to describe the successes ESU have had over the last several months in keeping trainings going, keeping players motivated, and continuing to prepare for potential games in the future, with the hope that other clubs, similarly impacted by the pandemic, may be able to learn from what has worked for ESU.

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