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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
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:: Overview of Facilities :: |
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Indoor
Area
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Commercial
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Changerooms |
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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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