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Prep Sports Festival (26-28 March 2015)

We are pleased to announce that the St Stithians Easter Sports Festival is being extended to include a Prep Sports Festival in 2015, to be held from Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th March.

The Prep Sports Festival builds on the base of the well-established Boys’ Prep Rugby Festival for the Open age group hosted by St Stithians Boys’ Prep the weekend before the Easter Festival in recent years. In addition to the Boys’ Prep Rugby Festival, St Stithians Girls’ Prep will be hosting a Netball Festival for U11, U12 and Open sides.

The Boys’ Rugby Festival will be played under floodlights on the Wayne Joubert field, and the Girls’ Netball Festival will take place under floodlights at the netball courts.

BOYS’ RUGBY TEAMS: St Stithians Boys’ Preparatory School, Bryanston Primary School, HeronBridge Preparatory School, Highbury Preparatory School (Durban), St Andrew’s Preparatory School (Grahamstown), St David’s Marist Preparatory School, St John’s Preparatory School, St Peter’s Preparatory School, The Ridge School, and Waterkloof House Preparatory School (Pretoria)

GIRLS’ NETBALL TEAMS: St Stithians Girls’ Preparatory School, Bryanston Primary School, Bryandale Primary School, Kingsmead Junior School, Roedean Junior School, and St Andrew’s School for Girls Junior School.

St Stithians Easter Sports Festival (2, 4, 6 April 2015)

The Easter Sports Festival has grown into a unique sporting event in the South African schools’ calendar. Beginning as a Rugby Festival in 1984, 32 years ago, the Easter Sports Festival has grown to include another five sporting codes, including hockey (boys and girls), netball, tennis (boys), basketball (boys) and squash (boys and girls).

This family-oriented weekend caters for young and old, offering a full programme of sporting action, entertainment, hospitality and food, and attracting up to 25 000 spectators. Around 130 fixtures are played over the Easter weekend, involving over 1 200 sportsmen and women from leading schools across the country. The St Stithians Easter Sports Festival is the largest school sports festival in South Africa.

2015 Participating Teams

RUGBY TEAMS: St Stithians Boys’ College, Clifton College, Grey High School, Helpmekaar College, Maritzburg College, Michaelhouse, Pretoria Boys’ High School , Schoonspruit Invitational, St Alban’s College, St Andrew’s College, Windhoek High School, and Wynberg Boys’ High School

HOCKEY TEAMS (BOYS): St Stithians Boys' College, Bishops (Diocesan College), Jeppe High School for Boys, Maritzburg College, Pretoria Boys’ High School, St Alban's College, Westville Boys' High School, Worksop College (UK), and Wynberg Boys' High School

HOCKEY TEAMS (GIRLS): St Stithians Girls’ College, Diocesan School for Girls (Grahamstown), Hoërskool Garsfontein, Hoërskool Waterkloof, Hoërskool Noordheuwel, Pretoria High School for Girls, Windhoek High School (Namibia), and Worksop College (UK).

NETBALL TEAMS: St Stithians Girls’ College, Saints Festival, Assumption Convent, Bryanston High School, Crawford Lonehill, DSG (Grahamstown), Fourways High School, Krugersdorp High School, Leeuwenhof Akademie, Redhill School, Roedean School, St Marys DSG (Pretoria), St Peter’s College, Tholulwazi Secondary School, Trinityhouse, and Windhoek High School

TENNIS TEAMS (BOYS): St Stithians Boys’ College, Afrikaanse Hoër Seunsskool, Clifton College, Grey College, Pretoria Boys’ High School, and St Benedict’s College

BASKETBALL TEAMS (BOYS): St Stithians Boys’ College, Saints Invitational, Crawford College, Heideveld High School, King Edward VII School, Michael Mount Waldorf School, Royal Bafokeng, St John’s College, St Peter’s College, Westville Boys High School, Zimbabwe Schools Select, Soweto Invitational, Jeppe High School for Boys, Wynberg Boys’ High School

SQUASH TEAMS (BOYS): St Stithians Boys' College, Egoli Development, Festival Invitational Team, Kingswood College, Maritzburg College, Michaelhouse, Northcliff High School, Pretoria Boys’ High School, St Alban's College, Westville Boys’ High School and Wynberg Boys’ High School

SQUASH TEAMS (GIRLS): St Stithians Girls’ College, Egoli Development, Festival Invitational Team, St Mary's DSG Pretoria