Sport
Whanganui Collegiate School provides a well-structured sports programme that has a positive influence on all students’ ages and abilities. We aim to develop every student’s interest and ability in sport, from aspiring internationals to those for whom sport is just part of a healthy lifestyle.
Our long tradition of sporting excellence, since 1854, gives us the experience required to maximise every student’s potential, regardless of the level of sport that they play. To help us achieve this, we offer outstanding facilities and an exceptional team of coaches, comprised of former international sportsmen and women, professional coaches, staff solely dedicated to the running of our school sport and committed academic staff. This level of support guarantees the best possible environment for every student to develop their skills, including the very elite.
WCS offers a choice of 13 sports and an ever-increasing number of teams that represent the school at all levels. Our program is based around team sports, providing students with countless opportunities to enjoy, develop and represent the school in their sport of choice. All our students are expected to participate in at least one summer and one winter sport option. Well-established, longstanding, prestigious and traditional fixtures against other schools forms the basis of all our sports teams’ seasons, enabling all to experience competitive sport on a regular basis. The school is home to a significant number of elite performers, both at junior and senior international level.
Helping us deliver such an outstanding sporting curriculum are our first-class facilities and spread across our 65-acre site are numerous pitches, courts and playing surfaces to provide for all our sports. This includes three rugby and football fields, a water-based floodlight hockey turf, three hard court netball courts for winter sports codes and three turf cricket wickets, five turf practise wickets, six hard court tennis courts and a swimming pool for our summer codes.
Our rowers are fortunate enough to have a short bike ride to arguably the best tidal river for rowing in NZ and a very well-resourced boatshed. Our athletes too have the well-known Cooks Garden athletics track just minutes away from our campus for their training.
In 2015 a new sports structure was developed and implemented in an effort to take our sport programme into the professional era.
A small school with around 265 boys and 180 girls the philosophy was to maximise the student’s potential in the major teams’ sports through expert coaching as all our teams were engaged in longstanding fixtures and often having to compete against colleges (boys or girls only) of far greater numbers. The best coaching available and a structured system we believed would see all our teams compete in our sports at the highest level. To this end the School and Boards have supported the appointing of Directors of the major team sports that would direct the sport and ensure that each team, coach, and student had the opportunity to receive the best coaching available in their chosen sport.
While striving to create a winning culture, encouraging each student to achieve their sporting goals be it lifelong participation, social enjoyment, or a pathway to a successful sporting career. In the last ten years this structure has seen several high quality and very experienced coaches appointed, resulting in growth of our students within these sports, our teams progressing well in a competitive secondary schools’ sports environment and development and growth of several of our coaches.
Since 2014, and the introduction of this programme we have had much team and individual sports success, and we are proud of our students and old boys and girls who have benefitted from this program and gone on to gain selection to regional and national teams: which is testament to our program and the dedication and expertise of our coaches.
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