Sport
Five Olympians have been produced from the school as of 2006, and since the foundation of the school sport has had considerable emphasis placed on it within the college curriculum as a means of promoting team work, sportsmanship and fair play. The College also produces numerous sporting professionals and state and national selected players in rugby union, rugby league, soccer (football), basketball, Swimming, athletics, cricket, AFL and water polo.
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“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)