Sport
The College promotes a variety of sports which includes Aussie Rules, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Futsal, Gaelic Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Softball, Squash, Tennis, Touch, Volleyball and Water Polo.
The College participates in the Moreton Bay and Caboolture district where it wins a large majority of competitions. After winning the district or zone final, the school has the chance to compete in Metropolitan finals, where it is the most successful school in QSS recorded history. Grace Lutheran College is the current metropolitan champion in:
- Open Girls Softball
- Open Boys Soccer
- Open Girls Soccer
- Open Boys Australian Rules Football
- Open Girls Golf (Ellen Davies-Graham)
- Open Boys Futsal
- Year 10 Girls Softball
- Year 10 Baseball
- Year 10 Boys Tennis
- Year 10 Girls Basketball
- Year 10 Girls Netball
- Year 9 Girls Soccer
- Year 8 Girls Netball
- Vicki Wilson Girls Netball (Winner of Sunshine Coast)
- Independent Schools Australia Rules Football
The school has no excellence or scholarship program in place but has a history of succeeding in district and metropolitan finals and co-curricular competitions such as ISSA, Uhlsport Cup and Bill Turner Cup. Soccer achievements include for the girls the Uhlsport Cup in 2006, the ISSA Cup in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2006 and the final 8 of the 2007 Bill Turner Cup. The boys have also made the semi-finals in both the Uhlsport Cup in 2008 and Bill Turner Cup in 2007. In 2007, student Robbie Buhmann was also named star player of the 2007 Bill Turner Cup, a nationwide competition.
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