:: The Centenary Sport Centre:: 

Updated: 1st November 2007

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The Centenary Sports Centre provides the School and the local community with the best sporting facilities on the Gold Coast, all in one place.

Adjacent to the Nerang River, the Centre is located only 5 mins from the Surfers Paradise beachfront, 25mins from Coolangatta Airport, & 50mins from Brisbane, & is in the heart of the Gold Coast, at Southport.

Open 363 days a year, The Centenary Sports Centre provides a variety of indoor and outdoor community activities including Swimming - heated 50m (12 lanes) & 25m (6 lanes) pools with electronic timing; Basketball - three undercover courts, Tennis - five quality courts; Cricket - ten practice wickets and 4 turf wickets; Rugby - five international sized pitches; Soccer - three quality pitches; Winchester St. Physiotherapy rooms; a gymnastics hall and weight training facility; sporting ovals that cater for most outdoor activities.

A variety of function rooms, class rooms - fully AV equipped, commercial sized kitchen facilities are available for general hire to cater for special functions, conferences, lectures, sporting events and trade shows.
 
 

Centenary Centre Construction - watch the Centre being built with timelapse - >>link here

Enquiries and Bookings
For further information and bookings, contact the Centre Manager. Our rates are competitive and you will be delighted with what The Centenary Sports Centre can offer you!

Office Hours : Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Tel : 07 55319915
Mobile: 0414 319915

Fax : 07 55319804
Email : sports@tss.qld.edu.au
Address : Winchester St. SOUTHPORT. Qld. 4215

:: Overview of Facilities ::
 

Indoor Area


 

The venue hosts international, national and community events in a wide variety of sports. The indoor sports arena is home to the Gold Coast Goannas Basketball team, and the training camp base for the Australian Boomers.

A highly versatile venue with a seating capacity of 1,000. The venue can be adapted to suit modes of 100, 200, 500, and up to 1000 people for seminars, conventions and small/large sporting events. The unique tiered seating can be configured for any style of event.

The indoor surface is considered by may National teams to be one of the best in the country, for sports including basketball, badminton, volleyball, indoor soccer, table tennis and other activities including judo, fencing and indoor tennis.

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Outside Facilities

 

Located outside of the Centre, is the venue’s undercover area. The versatility of this area enables it to host activities including basketball, rockclimbing, tennis, volleyball, and during the summer months it is transformed into four quality cricket practice nets for international, national and local sporting team to hire, as did the Australian Cricket Team in November 2004.

Adjacent to this covered area is the Village Green, the School's No.1 Oval. This international standard field in the summer has a four turf wicket block centre, and in the winter it provides TSS Rugby with an arena to host up to 8000 people to watch the Rugby 1st XV on a Saturday afternoon.

In the past TSS has hosted many visiting teams, including the Australian Wallabies, New Zealand All Blacks, Queensland Reds, Scotland, Japan, Samoa (Rugby), Australian Cricket Team, and many other international sides.

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Weights Area

 

The fully equipped weight room caters for a variety of needs including the school community, sporting athletes and teams, rehabilitation, and personal training clients.

This area has a fully qualified Level III supervisor who maintains bookings of classes, and oversees all strength and conditioning programs for the entire School. For more information, contact Rick Martin on 0412 593195

The equipment available in the Weights Room includes; Computerised workout area consisting of upright and recumbent bikes, cardioclimbers, concept 6 rowing ergometers and 2 treadmills. Pin Loaded Machines offering a wide range of Calgym equipment provides a safe and effective way of weight training. Free Weights cater for the more experienced lifter and advanced resistance trainers.

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Gymnastics Facility

 

The well established TSS Gymastics Club caters for all levels of competitors, with qualified coahing staff teaching the latest skills to beginners through to State & National level qualifiers. For more information, contact Andrew Martin on 0755319826

The Centre host annually the GPS Gymnastics Championships (over 450 competitors) through a range of mens events including floor, bars and rings.

In the past the State Championships have been host here, utilising the Centre's full competition sized sprung floor.

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Hall of Fame Function Facility

 

This versitile venue over looks the nature landscaping of the venue with views of the Nerang River in the distance. A superb venue for all types of functions, including tradeshows, weddings, cocktails parties, lectures and seminars.

Seated-style functions are available with seating for 220 people, or cocktail style parties for up to 400+ people have been held in the Hall of Fame in the past.

With a fully equipped Commercial style kitchen available, caterers can come in and prepare well in advance to your functions needs. On site caterers are available or select your own. Car parking for over 150 vehicles is an additional bonus to the Centre and its function facilities.

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Aquatics Centre

 

TSS Aquatic swimming club have the best facilities on the Gold Coast, and possibly the best in Qld, to coach an Elite program. That is also why the British Swimming have based their Off Shore program at TSS to utilise this superb complex, which includes; a heated 50m pool (12 lanes) with electronic timing, & heated 25m (6 lanes) pool used for warm downs, recovery sessions and the large Learn to Swim program of TSS Aquatic. For more information please contact Jason Cooper on 0755319919.

Visit the website; http://www.tss.qld.edu.au/tsssport/swimming/swimming.asp

Other TSS Aquatic programs include squad training, stroke correction, lap swimming, water polo and special events. This pool can be turned into one of the finest water polo fields in Australia. The covered grandstand supplies seating for over 1100 people, with grassed areas as well.

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Tennis Centre

 

Five hardcourt with lighting for two championship courts are situated alongside the Centenary Sports Centre and the Aquatics Cente. These all have wind break netting and lights and are very popular in the warm summer evenings for recreation.

TSS Tennis have qualified coaches teaching students at all levels the nessessary skills to make players champions. Bookings are essential to secure a court or enquire about lessons at any time. The courts, as with most of the facilities, are available to the public to hire.

Visit the website; http://www.tss.qld.edu.au/tsssport/tennis/tennis.asp

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Winchester St. Physiotherapy

 

Located at the Centenary Sports Centre is Winchester St. Physiotherapy.

This well established practice caters for all patients from the local community, providing services ranging from sporting injuries, workplace rehabilitation, and all general physiotherapy needs.

Please call 07 55283490 for all information and bookings.

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Ovals

 

Looking over the pool you will see our five international standard Rugby Ovals, the finest on the Gold Coast due to their soft sandy bottom, excellent drainage and thick grass. Some of the rugby ovals also have lighting for night training sessions. Equipment and scrummaging machines are also available to hire.

During the Cricket season, four turf, and three synthetic wickets are available for hire along with four undercover and six outdoor practice nets.

With three superb Soccer pitches, along the banks of the Nerang River, there is no place better to train, providing space for a variety of differing sports.

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Additional Facilities for hire.

Climbing Wall
Commercial Kitchen
 
Changerooms
 

Enquiries and Bookings
For further information and bookings, contact the Centre Manager. Our rates are competitive and you will be delighted with what The Centenary Sports Centre can offer you!

Office Hours : Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Tel : 07 55319915
Mobile: 0414 319915

Fax : 07 55319804
Email : sports@tss.qld.edu.au
Address : Winchester St. SOUTHPORT. Qld. 4215

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Sports Roundabout Forms

For many years, Sports Roundabout camps have provided a multisports camp during the holiday period. For enrolment forms please.....click here

DATES:

Monday 23 June to Thursday 26 June

Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July

TIME: 9am to 1pm Daily

 

Resurfaced Floor

The Sports Centre has recently had its Floor Re-Surfaced, bringing it up to the highest standard. This annual event ensures that we provide the best possible floor surface for our clients.

For all email bookings or enquiries, please contact the .Centre Manager...

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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