Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 2013

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ARTICLE

THE ‘HOME-COURT’ ADVANTAGE

AUTHOR MS SALLY NORTHCROFT, DIRECTOR OF SPORT

ANYONE WHO PLAYS SPORT knows the value of a ‘home-court’ advantage. Walking in to your own locker rooms and competing on your own sports grounds can sometimes put your team up 1–0 before the match has even started. The School’s new sports campus at Fig Tree Pocket will provide our athletes with an opportunity to own their pitches, fields, diamonds and wickets. The stories generated from connecting with our home ground — along with proudly wearing the Grammar Blue and chanting the war cry after a victory — will further add to the girls’ sense of belonging to the School’s exceptional sporting culture. Parents, alumnae and the wider Girls Grammar community will be embraced in this story through their support of the facility. Brisbane Girls Grammar School is a founding member of the QGSSSA (Queensland Girls Secondary School

Sporting Association) and competes in fifteen sports, including athletics, cross country, hockey, football (soccer), touch, cricket and softball. The number of students involved means that over five hundred girls are directly benefitting from this campus now. With the introduction of Year 7 at the School in 2015, we are fully prepared to train and develop our newest and youngest sportswomen with a facility that will allow the much needed nurturing and guidance that only time on the ‘turf’ will allow. This is a very proud moment in the history of our School, already so rich in its sporting culture and heritage. As we begin to prepare the sports campus for all that it can be, I am so thrilled and so excited to be able to embrace the possibilities of sports teaching and coaching at all levels of ability.

GRAMMAR GAZETTE