Sports
Mount Riverview is home to the Mt Riv Renegades basketball team as part of the Springwood Basketball Association competition. 2003 to present. Established in early 2003 the Mt Riv Renegades started as a small, unsupported and unorganised basketball team playing in the Springwood and Districts Basketball Association (SDBA) domestic competition at the Blaxland High School Sports Centre . Team members consist of players who have attended Mount Riverview Primary School or who currently reside, or who have previously resided in the Mount Riverview area.
Mount Riverview is also the home of test cricketer Patrick Cummins, who made an explosive impact on the world of cricket with his debut test in South Africa during November, 2011, taking six wickets in an innings and hitting the winning runs in a Man of the Match performance.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)