Sports
Sports facilities include a swimming pool, a multi-purpose sports hall with badminton, basketball and volleyball courts as well as climbing facilities and an astro-turf. All are shared with Sha Tin Junior School, the College's neighbouring feeder school.
Additional activities such as canoeing, rowing and hiking are available to students during CAS Week and camp, while many existing extracurricular activities offer golf or other sports. The annual inter-house Sports Day is commonly held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education stadium in Tai Po. Given the school's mountain-top location, the inter-house cross-country run is held on-site. Students are expected to run up and back down the hill, circle around Mei Wo Circuit, a neighbouring residential area, with students in middle school and above needing to run back up and down the hill again, finishing at the gates of the school.
Basketball has been a long standing tradition of Sha Tin College. The school is often regarded as the best ESF school at basketball. Competitions are held at both the inter-house level and at the inter-school level. A-Grade boys have beaten every single ESF school this year by an average margin of around ten points. This shows the dominance Sha Tin College has over other schools in this respect.
Football used to be popularly played on the main netball court before class, during long break, lunch hour and afterschool. However as the population density increased in the school and the space was limited, it has been disallowed due to safety issues. Now it is more often played on the roof of the hall and the sports hall with astro-turf.
Cross country
Netball is a popular sport at Sha Tin College and is an inter-house as well as inter-school sport.
Volleyball is a neglected sport in Sha Tin College, the only major event being the annual staff-student charity volleyball game.
Rugby union is a popular choice for students; previously, the school had an excellent reputation for it, but due to the graduation of most of the senior players such as the League winning Classes of 2004 and 2005, and the school slowly becoming more local, with academics becoming the top priority. The U19's girls squad recently won the U19 'B' League, whilst the C grade boys won the 2008-2009 season undefeated, beating FIS 48-10 in the final.
Badminton is quite a popular choice for students during their selection of activities for P.E. classes. Badminton is also normally used for charity events; such as '24-hour badminton' where students go on shifts to play badminton continuously for 24 hours and stay sleeping at school. Each year it raises nearly $30,000 going to various charities such as Oxfam.
Field Hockey is a popular sport played at Sha Tin College. It has teams for both senior and junior boys and girls. It also contains many students that are currently playing for Hong Kong development squads.
Fencing is played by some people at shatin college, at a club in Jubilee plaza. The team is very successful, as they have won many titles in the interschool tournaments.
Swimming is yet another popular sport at Sha Tin College. The Sha Tin College swim team has competed many years in both local and international inter-school swim meets, and have made many notable achievements.
Track and Field
Tennis is played by some students and they have participated in the HKSSF New Territories tournament various times, winning every single time they participated.
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