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Illawarra Sports High School
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Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Established in 1956 as the Berkeley High School, the school changed its name in 1998 in line with becoming a sports-oriented school. The Illawarra Sports High School caters for approximately 740 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 13 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 27 percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school draws the majority of its students from the southern Wollongong area; with an increasing number of students from the larger Illawarra area who access its specialist sports programs.[2] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Gary Hampton.
Illawarra Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.[3]
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Sports offered
The Illawarra Sports High School operates a talented sports development program across the following sports: basketball, boxing, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, soccer (affiliated with the Sydney FC[4][5]), surfing,[6] touch football,[7] and wrestling.
Notable alumni
- Caitlin Foord – soccer player, played with the Matildas, Arsenal and Sydney FC[8]
- Tyson Frizell – rugby league footballer; played with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, St. George Illawarra Dragons, Newcastle Knights, Wales, and Australian Schoolboys in rugby union
- Ryan Gregson – middle-distance runner; represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics[9]
- Keith Lulia – rugby league footballer; played with the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Newcastle Knights, Bradford Bulls, and Wests Tigers[10]
- Trent Merrin – rugby league footballer; played with the St George Illawarra Dragons and New South Wales State of Origin
- Les Murray AM – former broadcaster, sports journalist and analyst[5]
- Brett Stewart – rugby league footballer; played with the Manly Sea Eagles, New South Wales State of Origin, and Kangaroos
- Glenn Stewart – rugby league footballer; played with the Manly Sea Eagles, New South Wales State of Origin, and Kangaroos
- Maddison Weatherall – women's rugby league footballer; plays for St George Illawarra Dragons
- Jayden Sullivan – rugby league footballer; plays for St George Illawarra Dragons
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