Sporting
Wade High School hosts annual swimming and athletics carnivals. The swimming carnival is held early in term one at the Griffith Aquatic Centre and the athletics carnival is held in term three at the West End Oval. The school's students are divided into four houses for these carnivals and points are given to each house based on student participation and placement in each event. The four sporting houses of Bradman, Fraser, Laver and Mackay are named after Australian sportsmen. High performing students can progress to regional, zone and state carnivals after the school carnivals.
Wade High and Griffith High School host the Nugan Shield every year, which consists of a series of sporting events.
Wade High has been very successful in the sporting area, including:
- The Bill Turner Soccer Cup - Won the Riverina area of the competition in 2007 and 2008 before losing to the South Coast winner in the next round.
- The Bill Turner Soccer Trophy - the girls won the Riverina area in 2012 and progressed to the quarter finals where they lost to the eventual competition finalists. They have twice been area runners up as well.
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Famous quotes containing the word sporting:
“The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)