Girls Sport Victoria

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Girls' Sport Victoria
AbbreviationGSV
Formation2001;22 years ago (2001)
HeadquartersSports House
Albert Park, Victoria, Australia
Location
Membership
24 member schools
(~16,500 students collectively)
Official language
English
Executive Officer
Michelle Barry
Website gsv.vic.edu.au

Girls' Sport Victoria (GSV) was established in 2001, and is one of the largest independent school sporting associations in Victoria, Australia, with 24 member schools from around Melbourne. [1]

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GSV provides approximately 16,500 girls, from years seven to twelve, with the opportunity to be involved in over 20 sports through weekly competitions, carnivals, tournaments and skill development programs. [2]

Schools

Current member schools

Member School [3] LocationEnrolmentFoundedDenominationPrincipalDay/
Boarding		Year Entered
Competition		School Colours
Camberwell Girls Grammar School Canterbury 7811920 Anglican Debbie DunwoodyDay2000  
Fintona Girls' School Balwyn 4561896 Non-Denominational Rachael FalloonDay2000  
Firbank Grammar School Brighton 1,0331909 Anglican Jenny WilliamsDay & Boarding2000   
Genazzano FCJ College Kew 7681889 Roman Catholic Loretta WholleyDay & Boarding2000   
Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School Ivanhoe 8351903 Anglican Deborah PriestDay2000   
Korowa Anglican Girls' School Glen Iris 7041890 Anglican Frances BoothDay2000  
Lauriston Girls' School Armadale 8931901 [4] Non-Denominational Susan JustDay2000  
Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak 1,2441924 Roman Catholic Angela O'DwyerDay2000  
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School Essendon 8091920 Anglican Elisabeth RhodesDay2000  
Melbourne Girls Grammar South Yarra 1,0391893 Anglican Toni MeathDay & Boarding2000  
Mentone Girls' Grammar School Mentone 5981899 Anglican Natalie CharlesDay2000   
Methodist Ladies' College Kew 2,0191882 Uniting Church Julia SheaDay & Boarding2000  
Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg 1,1891910 Roman Catholic Judith WeirDay2000  
Our Lady of Sion College Box Hill 9491928 Roman Catholic Tina ApostolopoulosDay2015  
Presbyterian Ladies' College Burwood 1,4711875 Presbyterian Cheryl PenberthyDay & Boarding2000   
Ruyton Girls' School Kew 8511878 Non-denominational Linda DouglasDay2000  
Sacré Cœur Glen Iris 6811888 Roman Catholic Adelina Melia-DouvosDay2000  
St Catherine's School Toorak 6301896 Non-Denominational Michelle CarrollDay & Boarding2000   
St Margaret's Berwick Grammar School Berwick 739 (461 Girls)1926 Non-Denominational Annette RomeDay2000   
Shelford Girls' Grammar Caulfield 4471898 Anglican Katrina BrennanDay2000   
Siena College Camberwell 7821940 Roman Catholic Elizabeth HanneyDay2010   
Star of the Sea College Brighton 1,1941883 Roman Catholic Mary O'ConnorDay2000  
Strathcona Girls' Grammar School Canterbury 7801924 Baptist Marise McConaghyDay2000  
Toorak College Mount Eliza 7911874 Anglican Kristy KendallDay & Boarding2000   

Former member schools

SchoolLocationFoundedYears
Competed		DenominationDay/
Boarding		School Colours
Kilvington Grammar Ormond 19232000–2011 Baptist Day   
Tintern Grammar Ringwood 18772000–2009 Anglican Day & Boarding   

Possible future member schools

SchoolLocationEnrolmentFoundedDenominationDay/
Boarding		School Colours
Catholic Ladies College Eltham 7651902 Roman Catholic Day  
St Columba's College Essendon 1,0311897 Roman Catholic Day   

History

In 1999, the principal of Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Christine Briggs, held a meeting of principals of girls' schools at the Lyceum Club. She felt the need to organise the meeting after receiving a letter of invitation from the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) inviting her school to join their association. [5] The other schools invited included Firbank Grammar School, Genazzano FCJ College, Loreto Mandeville Hall, Presbyterian Ladies' College and Toorak College.

Many APS boys' schools had introduced co-education and were finding it difficult to provide adequate inter-school sports experiences for their female students. As the oldest schools association, APS felt it was in a strong position to convince independent girls' schools to become members. Briggs was concerned that the APS saw girls' schools as the solution to their problem, and was aware that girls' schools were fragmented into so many sporting associations, that the approach might be successful for the APS, but harming girls' schools. [5]

Briggs put the issue of girls' sport to the principals at the meeting, and it was agreed that it was time to consider the idea of a new sports organisation catering for the needs of all-female schools. It was stressed by many that the heritage of girls' sport built over more than a century by the involved schools could not be abandoned or seriously affected.

Following this meeting, a forum was led by Diana Bowman, the former principal of SCEGGS Darlinghurst in New South Wales, who had much experience with the successful and foremost girls' sporting association in her State, the Independent Girls' Schools Sporting Association (the sporting arm of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools). It was at this forum that the decision was made to create a new sports organisation to which the 24 girls' schools could belong, and that existing Associations would then cease to exist. In the same year, the name "Girls Sport Victoria" was selected for the new organisation. Further, it was acknowledged that creating "Girls Sport Victoria" would take time, and therefore a Project Officer was needed to undertake the task. Fiona Preston was the person selected, and began work immediately in order to complete preparations for the commencement of the sports program in 2001. She was supported by a Committee of Principals, a Committee of Heads of Sport, and working committees for each sport. [5]

Preston, along with the first executive officer, Meredith Prime, and a small group of staff, created a program of sports and three major carnivals, track and field, swimming and diving, and cross country in three Divisions. Zoned groups of schools were established for weekly interschool competitions in netball, basketball, softball, tennis, indoor cricket, hockey, water polo, soccer, volleyball, and badminton. In addition, Saturday morning sport, which was especially attractive to boarding schools, offered golf, Australian rules football, taekwondo, and triathlon. Also organised were seasonal competitions in cricket and Surf League, and 'fun days' for students in Years 7 and 8. [5]

Many challenges were met by the organisers, such as the vast geographic spread of the schools; the varying size of schools, ranging from 300 to almost 2000 students; the differences in quality and number of sports facilities within and outside schools; the difference in strength between schools and within sports; the cost to schools to meet their responsibilities; concern about potential loss of academic time through travel to venues; the determination of GSV rules and regulations; talent identification; promotion of leadership opportunities; and the availability of quality umpiring. [5]

Previous associations

Prior to the establishment of Girls' Sport Victoria, [6] there were seven girls' schools sporting associations catering to the sporting needs of the 24 GSV schools, and a small number of other schools. These associations were subsequently disbanded in 2001. [5]

Associated Anglican Girls’ Grammar Schools (1920–2000)

Church Secondary Schools Sports Association, later the Associated Anglican Girls’ Grammar Schools (AAGGS), was created in 1920 and conducted the first combined girls’ schools sports day in Victoria on 30 April 1920, at Toorak Park, Armadale. [7] The first cultural event held by the Associated Church of England Girls’ Grammar Schools was a Combined Choir Festival at the St Kilda Town Hall on Thursday 9 October 1941, in aid of Red Cross Funds with the guest of honour being Miss Una Bourne. [8]

SchoolYears
Competed
Camberwell Girls Grammar School 1944–2000
Firbank Girls' Grammar School 1920–2000
Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School 1925–2000
Korowa Anglican Girls' School 1920–2000
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School 1921–2000
Melbourne Girls Grammar 1960–2000
Mentone Girls' Grammar School 1964–2000
Shelford Girls' Grammar 1944–2000
St Michael's Grammar School 1920–1980s
Tintern Girls Grammar School 1920–1951

Girls' Schools Association (1920–2000)

The Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (GSSSA), later the Girls' Schools Sports Association (GSSA) was formed in 1920. In the early 1990s, it changed its name to the Girls Schools Association (GSA). [5]

SchoolYears
Competed
Fintona Girls' School 1920–2000
Korowa Girls' School 1963–2000
Lauriston Girls' School 1920–2000
Ruyton Girls' School 1920–2000
St Catherine's School 1920–2000
Tintern Girls Grammar^1967–2000

^Tintern participated in the Swimming Carnivals from at least 1949 – 1953 and the Athletics Carnivals from 1956 – 1958

Zone Sports Association (1968–2000)

SchoolYears
Competed
Firbank Girls' Grammar School 1968–2000
Loreto Mandeville Hall 1980–2000
Mentone Girls' Grammar School 1968–2000
Sacré Cœur 1991–2000
Shelford Girls' Grammar 1968–2000
St Michael's Grammar School 1968–1994
Cato College (later Wesley College – Cato Campus)1968–1989
Wesley College, Prahran Campus1988–1989

Girls’ Schools Sports Association (1975–2000)

The "Girls’ Schools Sports Association", formerly the Eastern Suburbs Association and later the Eastern Sports Association (ESA), was formed in 1975. In 1984, Loreto Toorak was invited to participate as a non-voting member and in 1988, the girls at Wesley College were also invited to participate as a non-voting member. In 1993, Carey Grammar was asked to re-consider its membership of the new GSSA, as it was the only co-educational school in the ESA. Genazzano was invited to participate as a non-voting member in 1993 before becoming a full member the following year following the departure of Carey Grammar. Athletics and swimming carnivals were conducted and students competed in baseball, basketball, cricket, hockey, netball and tennis competitions throughout the year. [5]

SchoolYears
Competed
Camberwell Girls Grammar 1975–2000
Carey Grammar 1984–1993
Genazzano 1994–2000
Ivanhoe Girls Grammar 1975–2000
Melbourne Girls Grammar 1975–2000
MLC 1975–2000
PLC 1975–2000
Strathcona Girls Grammar 1975–2000

Public Schools Sports Association (1904–2000)

The Public Schools Association, later known as the Girls’ Private Schools Victorian Sports Association, was created in 1904 and conducted their first tennis competition soon thereafter. [9]

SchoolYears
Competed
Geelong Girls' Grammar School 1916–1975
Loreto Mandeville Hall 1991–2000
Melbourne Girls Grammar 1904–2000
Methodist Ladies' College 1904–2000
Presbyterian Ladies' College 1904–2000
Tintern Girls Grammar School 1991–2000
Toorak College 1991–2000

Catholic Girls Sports Association of Victoria (established 1980)

The Catholic Girls Sports Association of Victoria (CGSAV), formerly the Secondary Catholic Sports Association (SCSA) is a sporting body that promotes and provides sporting carnivals for a group of Catholic girls schools in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [10] established in 1980. Membership of the SCSA is restricted to metropolitan and country Catholic Secondary Schools, upon payment of the annual affiliation fee. Membership is open either to girls’ schools or coeducational Catholic Colleges, however events cater only for girls. [10]

Former member schools

Southern District Sports Association (? – 2000)

SchoolYears
Competed
Assumption College ?–2000
Kilvington Girls' Grammar ?–2000
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School ?–2000
Mentone Girls' Grammar School ?–2000
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School ?–2000
St Leonard's College ?–2000
St Margaret's School ?–2000
Toorak College ?–2000

NB: For a brief period, two Associations existed with the name "Girls' Schools Sports Association".

Presidents of the Association

Term [11] President [11] School [11]
1999–2001Christine BriggsMelbourne Girls Grammar
2001–2002Anne HuntLoreto Mandeville Hall
2002Rosa StorelliMethodist Ladies' College
2002–2003Jane MunroFirbank Grammar School
2003–2006Margaret WebbToorak College
2007–2012Susan StevensLoreto Mandeville Hall
2013–2015Christine JenkinsKorowa Anglican Girls' School
2016–2018Linda DouglasRuyton Girls' School
2019 – presentKristy KendallToorak College

Sports

Students from Girls Sport Victoria member schools participate in a wide range of sporting activities including:

Weekly Sports
Carnivals
Sport Skills Program
Other Events
Representative Sport
Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta

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