I might be moving to Melbourne soon, I'm 15 and live in MN. I play volleyball, basketball and a little soccer. (I was going to try Nordic skiing this year) I'm not the most athletic person, but sports are important to me, so i was wondering what sports high schools in Australia provide.
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there's surfing and the boomerang. no kidding, mate. learning to use the boomerang is tricky.
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For the most part - if you are going to a public school there are no sports program as such. No school against school playing. You might have a PE lesson although at 15 PE will not be a compulsory subject any more. In Australia school is for the "book teaching" thats all. When 3.30pm rolls around you go home - there are no after school activities at school. You do all this in independently from your school education. So you will need to check out soccer teams in your local area (although the season is almost over for this year). Volleyball is not popular and you might (ok will) find it hard to find a team anywhere. There is no skiing in Melbourne - but a number of hours drive away near the Vic NSW border.
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Many private schools have inter-school sporting competitions but in Australia, sport is centred on strong inter-club competitions away from school. You only need to look at Australia's international sporting strength to see how effective that approach is for us - for a nation of only 22 million people, we do disproportionately well on the world sporting stage e.g., at the Beijing Olympics, we were #5 on the overall medal tally and at Athens, Australia came in at #4. You won't miss out on your sport and you won't find the competition or training to be below the standard you're accustomed to, but you may not do it at school. In Melbourne, you won't have any trouble finding clubs for all of your sports except skiing (no snow makes that a bit tricky) - it's a very sports oriented city.
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P.E classes are compulsory up to year 9, then in year 10, 11 and 12 you can choose different sport classes. There are inter-school sports where you play against other schools. Some of the sports that you can choose from are.. football (australian), cricket, soccer, basketball, netball, hockey, baseball, softball and some schools have rowing, water polo, diving and more. Most schools (or all) have Swimming and Athletics carnivals where everyone attends to compete or just cheer on, and then the winners go on to compete against other schools.
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Australian Rules Football is all that matters here. Statistics prove IN RELATION TO POPULATION the AFL has the highest percentage of followers of any game in the world.
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