Sport on the Sunshine Coast

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Queensland's Sunshine Coast has sporting teams across national, state, and local levels. Some Coast based clubs trace their history back to the early 20th century. [1]

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The most recent club to be established on the Sunshine Coast is the Sunshine Coast Lightning who compete in the national Suncorp Super Netball competition.

Sports

Australian rules football

The Caloundra Panthers, Maroochydore Roos and Noosa Tigers all compete in the Queensland Football Associations division 1 competition alongside other South East Queensland clubs. The Hinterland Blues and Gympie play in division 3 of the same competition and Maroochydores 3rd XVIII plays in Division 4.

Beach Volleyball

Sunshine Coast Beach Volleyball is a not-for profit organisation which manages public volleyball courts at mooloolaba, weekly social competitions, weekly training, junior competitions and monthly tournaments. Ex Olympic coach Peter "Chico" Jones runs training's and promotes the sport through the organisation. [2]

Cricket

Some club games are played over three days.
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The Sunshine Coast Cricket Association is the region's cricket competition. The competition has been established for over sixty years. [1]

Netball

The Sunshine Coast region has several district netball competitions based out of Nambour, Maroochydore and Caloundra.

The Sunshine Coast Lightning compete in the Suncorp Super Netball league. They are the first national level sporting team based in the region, and play their home games at the University of the Sunshine Coast's indoor arena.

Soccer

Sunshine Coast Football runs the region's primary association football competition. It has 10 clubs playing in its top division. [3] In late-2018 it was announced that Sunshine Coast Football had admitted an additional 4 Gympie-based clubs (Columbia, Golden City, Gympie Diggers, Gympie Lions) and Baringa from the new Aura/Bellvista/Bells Reach development near Caloundra as part of its 2019 competitions taking the total number of affiliated clubs to 23.[ citation needed ]

The Sunshine Churches Soccer Association also has 19 clubs and 3,950 registered players both juniors, senior men and women. [4]

The Sunshine Coast is currently represented in the state level National Premier League Queensland by Sunshine Coast FC. Sunshine Coast Wanderers FC will join the Queensland second tier from 2018 while the Fire will remain in the first tier NPL. [5] It was reported in 2016 that the Fire were in the process of applying to join the national A-League. [6]

Rugby league

Caloundra playing Stanley River in the 2021 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season. EDIT Caloundra Sharks v Stanley River Wolves 21-03-27 2.jpg
Caloundra playing Stanley River in the 2021 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season.

The Sunshine Coast Falcons compete in the Queensland Cup and serve as a feeder club for the professional Melbourne Storm that compete in the National Rugby League.

A local competition originally formed in 1920 when all of the clubs playing rugby union at the time switched codes. [7] [8]

Rugby union

Sunshine Coast Rugby Union Round 4 2014 game between University and Maroochydore

The Sunshine Coast Rugby Union runs the local rugby union competition. Its top division - referred to as A grade - has six teams contesting the 2019 season, [5] up from four the two seasons prior. [9] These clubs are Noosa, Maroochydore, university, Wynnum Caboolture and Caloundra.

The second division - reserve grade or reggies - has the six A grade clubs as well as Eumundi, Gympie, Nambour, and Maleny. [5] [10]

Roller derby

Roller Derby is played out of the Caloundra Indoor Stadium.

Coastal Assassins Roller Derby is a roller derby league based out of the Sunshine Coast. Most of their home games are played out of the Caloundra Indoor Stadium. [11]

Their travel team participates in the Tropicarnage Cup.

They are currently ranked 137th in the world by the WFTDA. [12]

Media

Local media regularly cover all four football codes and cricket. Win and Seven [13] provide a coverage in half hour bulletins during the week. The local channel 9 provides an hour long bulletin every weeknight.

The Sunshine Coast Daily does written coverage on Mondays and Fridays.

Individuals provide their own coverage on their own websites and YouTube channels. [5]

Wikinews has previously provided coverage of the Sunshine Coast Rugby Union, [14] Coastal Assassins Roller Derby [15] and Sunshine Coast Cricket Association. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "About Us". Maroochydore Cricket Club. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2007. Maroochydore Cricket Club (MCC) has been established for over 60 years.
  2. ↑ "Sunshine Coast Beach Volleyball". Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Fixture for McDonald's Premier Men". Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Sunshine Coast Churches Soccer Association | SCCSA". Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Gympie in Rugby A Grade 2020, Coolum get first 2A win". Around the Grounds. Sunshine Coast. 12 November 2018. Archived from the original on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Sunshine Coast's A-League bid progresses to next stage". Archived from the original on 20 January 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "FOOTBALL". Chronicle And North Coast Advertiser . Queensland, Australia. 16 April 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2020– via Trove.
  8. ↑ "FOOTBALL". Chronicle And North Coast Advertiser . Queensland, Australia. 4 March 1920. p. 3. Retrieved 28 May 2020– via Trove.
  9. ↑ Patrick Gillett. SCRU 2017 (online video). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Glasshouse just miss home semi, other games washed out, Dragons at home 1st up - Around the Grounds". Around the Grounds. Sunshine Coast. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  11. ↑ "City defeat Country, Assassins at Trop Cup, Yandina in Div 1 - Around the Grounds". Around the Grounds. Sunshine Coast. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  12. ↑ "Current International WFTDA Rankings". WFTDA Stats Home. WFTDA. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  13. ↑ "7 News Sunshine Coast – Sport 26/06/17". 7 News Sunshine Coast. Seven Queensland. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Sunshine Coast Rugby Union". Wikinews. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  15. 1 2 "Sunshine Coast". Wikinews. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

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