Otago won a cricket trophy for the first time in 20 years in February, then nearly welcomed back the Chatham Cup when Dunedin Technical made the club football final last month.
Now it's the turn of the province's Australian Rules football team to try to bring some silverware back to Dunedin.
Yes, Australian Rules. Otago has a team and today it plays Canterbury in Christchurch for the newly-minted Waitaki Shield.
Coach Nathan Rose believes it is the first time Otago has played Canterbury in an Australian Rules game since the late 19th century.
"Otago had a team back in the gold-mining days when a lot of Australians came over. Then the sport basically died as soon as rugby took off."
Rose has played the sport since he was 14, when he was introduced to it at school in Wellington and then joined a local club. He believes it compares with any other winter game.
"It's fast-flowing and players of any size can play. It's got the physicality of rugby, it's fast like football, and it involves the free-flowing play of something like basketball."
Dunedin is the only major city in New Zealand not to have an organised Australian Rules competition. Rose hopes one may start next year, but for now the Otago team consists of students, most of whom have never played the game.
"We've had to start from scratch," Rose said.
"Getting grounds and umpires is the hard thing. But we've had a lot of interest and we've got guys who play rugby or football in the winter and are looking for a team sport to play in the spring."
Otago has a squad of about 35, with 20 travelling to Christchurch for this afternoon's game at Northwood Park.
In a slightly tongue-in-cheek nod to its student base, Otago's nickname is the Riot.
