Aussie Spirit

So the Aussie Women won Spirit at the World Beach Championships in Brazil.

This adds to a long list of Australian spirit winners at international tournaments.

Australia has won Spirit in at least one division at an amazing string of World Championships (Worlds, World Clubs and Beach Worlds):

• King Brown - Open - WUCC1997
  
• King Brown - Open - WUCC1999
  
• Thorny Devils - Women - WUGC2000
  
• King Brown - Open - WUCC2002
  
• Thunder - Junior Mens - WUGC2004
  
• Barramundis - Mixed - WUGC2004
  
• Crocs - Mixed - World Games 2005
  
• Thunder - Junior Mens - WJUC2006
  
• Terra - Junior Womens - WJUC2006
  
• Fear Discinsonia - Masters - WUCC2006
  
• Phoenix - Women - WUCC2006
  
• Fakulti - Open - WUCC2006
  
• Blokes and Sheilas - Mixed - WUCC2006
  
• Australia - Women - WBUC2007
• Australia - Junior Women - WUGC2008

Australia hasn't missed out since 1998. Amazing. And there are at least 10 other top 6 finishes in that period too. I think the Wombats realised this pattern only requires winning Spirit at World Championships, so they gave other teams a chance at the recent Asia-Oceania Champs :) Plus they had Woodley :)

Correction: there was no Spirit award in Taiwan - I'd assumed another team won it. You're off the hook for now, Woodley.

And as for what happened before 1997... well, the records for our sport are pretty incomplete. Who wants to be a historian for our sport? I'll back you.