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AFL Queensland Schools Cup
The AFL Queensland Schools Cup is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by schools from across the state of Queensland. Founded in 2016 it consists of a knockout tournament starting from several regional tournaments finalizing to a state championship series held at the Maroochydore Multisports Complex. Since its inception, it has continuously generated a great amount of participation, recently having 745 teams competing for the 2024 competition. Schools of Excellence AFL Queensland runs the Schools of Excellence competition to identify the schools around South East Queensland that operates their AFL program to a high standard. These schools play against each other in a round robin competition throughout the year, with the higher placing schools earning an automatic entry into the State Quarter or Semi Finals for the Schools Cup. As of 2025 the program has 13 schools: Schools Cup Premiers Senior Male Titles Senior Female Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane, Queensland
Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of over 4 million. The Brisbane central business district, central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Brisbane's metropolitan area sprawls over the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springwood State High School
Springwood State High School is a public, co-educational, high school, located in the Logan City suburb of Springwood, in Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 549 students and a teaching staff of 51, as of 2023. The school serves students from Year 7 to Year 12, and is home to one of fifteen air quality monitoring stations in South East Queensland. History The school opened on 24 January 1977 to Grade 8 students, with its official opening occurring in 1978. In 2010, the school suspended 20 students over the creation of a Facebook page that bullied staff members of the school. Notable alumni Some Springwood High School students have become notable, including: * Steven Bradbury – First Australian gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics, * Jodie Henry – Triple Olympic gold medal winner, * Aidan McLindon – Queensland politician, * Grant Musgrove – Ex-Queensland politician (was member for Springwood), * Lorna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Graham (footballer)
Will Graham is a professional Australian rules footballer who was selected by the Gold Coast Suns with pick 26 in the 2023 AFL draft. Early life Graham was born and raised on the Gold Coast where he attended Palm Beach Currumbin State High School throughout his teenage years. He began playing junior football at six years of age when signed up to play for the Palm Beach Currumbin Lions alongside future AFL teammates Jed Walter and Ethan Read. Graham joined the Gold Coast Suns Academy at 12 years of age and has stated he is a lifelong Suns fan as well as being a foundation member of the club when it entered the AFL in 2011. He played a starring role in Palm Beach Currumbin State High School's 2023 AFL Queensland State Championship win and was voted best on ground in the Grand Final. In June 2021, at 15 years of age, Graham became the youngest player to ever debut for the Palm Beach Currumbin Lions senior QAFL team. In 2023, he was a member of the historic first Allies team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints Anglican School
All Saints Anglican School ("ASAS" or "All Saints") is a private, co-educational school located in Merrimac, Queensland, Australia. It was established in 1987 under the Aegis of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. The school is located on a 40-hectare campus in the Gold Coast Hinterland. All Saints is divided into three sub-schools: the Junior School (kindergarten to Year 6), the Middle School (years 7 to 9) and the Senior School (years 10 to 12). It has a total student body of approximately 1850 students. In 2012 All Saints celebrated its 25th year on 1 November (Foundation Day). Merrimac Campus The school houses two swimming pools, one indoor and one outdoor, both heated. It also has extensive playing fields and sporting facilities including a large three-storey Health and Physical Education Centre including a well resourced work-out room, indoor and outdoor basketball, tennis, hockey and volleyball courts and a small golf course. The campus also features a multi-level science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jed Walter
Jed Walter is a professional Australian rules footballer who was selected by as the number three pick in the 2023 AFL draft as the Suns matched 's bid. Early life Walter was born in South Perth and spent the early years of his life in Western Australia before moving to the Gold Coast at nine years of age. He began playing junior football for the first time shortly after arriving in Queensland when he signed up to play under-9s for the Palm Beach Currumbin Lions alongside future Gold Coast Suns teammates Ethan Read and Will Graham. He grew up a West Coast Eagles supporter but has stated that he always had a soft spot for the Gold Coast Suns throughout his upbringing. He was educated at renowned sporting school Palm Beach Currumbin State High School and played a starring role in their 2022 AFL Queensland State Championship win. Along with football, Walter also competed at the national level in short and long distance running, which included winning in the under-10 national 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Joseph's College, Nudgee
St Joseph's Nudgee College (commonly referred to as Nudgee College or simply Nudgee) is an independent Catholic primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys, located in Boondall, a northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The school was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1891 as a result of the large numbers of boarders at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, also operated by the Christian Brothers, and insufficient room to house the boarders. Both schools share St. Joseph's College as part of their name and follow the Edmund Rice tradition, administered via Edmund Rice Education Australia. Nudgee currently caters for approximately 1,600 students from Year 5 to Year 12, including 300 boarders. In 2006, some of the buildings of the school were listed in the Queensland Heritage Register. St Joseph's is affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Laurence's College
St Laurence's College (known colloquially as Lauries) is an independent Catholic primary and secondary school for boys, located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1915. the school is a member of Edmund Rice Education Australia. As of 2021, the college had an enrolment of over 1913 students from Year 5 to Year 12. St Laurence's is affiliated with the Associated Independent Colleges sporting association. Some of the college's historic buildings are listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register. History The college was officially opened and blessed on 11 July 1915 by the Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig. The school has been operated by the Christian Brothers since its inception. On the first day there were 270 students and a staff of five teachers. The monastery for the Brothers was built in 1917. Since 1961, the school has also operated sporting fields in the southern Brisbane suburb of Runcorn, which contains eight p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns State High School
Cairns State High School (CSHS) is an independent public secondary school located near the centre of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It was founded in 1917 and is the oldest high school in Cairns. The school caters for grades 7 though 12 and has the capacity for 1,607 enrolled students. The principal of the school is Christopher Zilm. History Cairns State High School was founded in 1917 as an annex of the Cairns Central State School, and moved to its current location in 1924 as a joint high school and technical college. In 1980, the technical college relocated, thus the site became solely a high school. In May 2014, Block A of Cairns State High School - the Cairns Technical College and High School Building - was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. This building was designed by Nigel Laman Thomas of the Department of Housing and Public Works in 1938, and built in 1939 though 1941. Curriculum Cairns State High School participates in various interschool and representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius Park College
Ignatius Park College is an independent Catholic secondary school for boys, located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The school is affiliated with Edmund Rice Education Australia network that operates under the direction of the Congregation of Christian Brothers. The school was established in 1969 at its current location in Cranbrook, though it was built as a successor school to Our Lady's Mount, the former Catholic boys' secondary that was located in Stanton Hill. The college has a student population of 1000 boys from Years 7 to 12. House system Like many other Australian high schools, Ignatius Park is built upon a system of seven houses, with the introduction of the Putney House (named after Michael Putney) in 2014. Each house has one class per year level, which is divided into two separate homerooms from Year 7 through to Year 10, and combines as one through Year 12. These houses are the Baillie House, Carew House, Nolan House, Putney House, Reid House, Rice House and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brayden Crossley
Brayden Crossley (born 16 August 1999) is an Australian rules footballer and the current co-captain of the Southport Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), serving alongside Jacob Dawson. He previously played for the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Crossley was born and raised on the Gold Coast. His father, Troy, is a Southport Sharks dual premiership player and Hall of Fame inductee. Brayden grew up playing his junior football for the Burleigh Bombers before switching to Palm Beach Currumbin in the latter stages of his junior football. He attended Palm Beach Currumbin High School throughout his youth and joined Gold Coast Suns Academy in his teenage years. In October 2016, Crossley played a starring role for his high school when he led them to victory in the Queensland Schools Cup grand final and was subsequently named best on ground for his three-goal performance. In his final year of junior football, Crossley was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Augustine's College, Cairns
Saint Augustine's College, known locally as "Saints", is a Catholic boys' high school in Parramatta Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Saints houses boarders both from its own students and girls from Saint Monica's High School, also in Cairns. History In 1930, the Marist Brothers established the school for boys. Initially there were three Marist brothers and 96 students. During World War II, air raids on Australian towns by Japan and the fear of an invasion by the Japanese led to evacuations from northern Australian towns. In March 1942, the boarders (being most of the students) were evacuated to the guest house at Lake Barrine. Boarding school Saint Augustine's offers a co-ed boarding catering for students from grades 7 to 12. The boarding community includes many students from the Far North Queensland region, along with many country students from outback Queensland and the Northern Territory. A significant number of students also board from as far away as Papua New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varsity College
Varsity College is a primary and secondary school in Varsity Lakes (Queensland, Australia). Infrastructure On 25 July 2001, Stage 1 of the school was officially opened by Hon Peter Beattie (Premier of Queensland). On 13 August 2002, stage 2 of the school was officially opened by Anna Bligh ( Queensland Minister for Education), a project costing $18 million (State and Federal Government funding). In 2002, the school opened a secondary campus, then known as "Varsity College Middle School". On 3 April 2004, the school's Senior Sports Centre, Performing Arts Centre and the Senior General Learning building were officially opened by Senator George Brandis. In 2005, the "Lake Orr" footbridge, connecting both campuses, had been constructed. In 2010, the Senior Learning Centre (SLC), originally known as the "Chinese Language & Cultural Centre of Excellence", was officially opened by Hon John-Paul Langbroek. In 2015, the Junior Learning Centre was officially opened. In 2019, an ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
