The 'Associated Public Schools of Victoria' (APS) are a group of eleven independent schools in
Victoria,
Australia. Since 1900 the schools have been competing in sporting competitions, including the
Head of the River rowing regattas, the APS Combined Swimming & Diving Championships and the APS Athletics Championships. The headquarters of the APS is situated on Morrison Street,
Hawthorn,
Victoria.
===Association with
Girls Sport Victoria (GSV)===
In 1999, Christine Briggs, Principal of
Melbourne Girls Grammar School hosted a historic meeting of Principals of girls’ schools at the
Lyceum Club. She was impelled to call the meeting after receiving a letter of invitation from the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) inviting her to put
Melbourne Girls Grammar’s sporting fortunes with this group. Many (APS) boys’ schools had introduced coeducation and were finding it a challenge to provide strong interschool sports experiences for their girls. As the oldest schools association, the (APS) felt it was in a strong position to attract girls’ schools to its ranks. Christine was concerned that the (APS) saw girls’ schools as the solution to their sports needs, but saw that girls’ schools sports were fragmented into so many associations, that the (APS) would think their approach might be successful. Out of this encounter,
GSV was formed separate to the APS.
Schools
Sports
'Boys'
★ Athletics
★ Australian rules football
★ Badminton
★ Basketball
★ Cricket
★ Cross Country
★ Hockey
★ Rowing
★ Rugby (VSRU runs this competition)
★ Soccer
★ Squash
★ Swimming & Diving (combined with diving from 1998)
★ Table tennis
★ Tennis
★ Volleyball
★ Water Polo
'Girls'
★ Athletics
★ Badminton
★ Basketball
★ Cross Country
★ Hockey
★ Netball
★ Rowing
★ Soccer
★ Softball
★ Swimming & Diving (combined with diving from 1998)
★ Tennis
★ Volleyball
★ Water polo (Currently Wesley College runs this competition)
Carnivals
Students from the associations member schools participate in a number of carnivals during the year including Athletics and Swimming & Diving.
APS/AGSV Sport Competition
From 1968 to 1999 Tennis was the only sport played between the
Associated Public Schools of Victoria and the
Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria. In 2000 a full range of Summer and Winter Combined matches at Firsts level commenced.
Current member schools
Sports
★ Badminton
★ Basketball
★ Cricket
★ Cross Country
★ Football
★ Hockey
★ Netball
★ Soccer
★ Softball
★ Table Tennis
★ Tennis
★ Volleyball
Head of the River Regatta
Famous athletes
The following is a list of people who attended APS schools, and who are notable as sportspeople:
★
Ben Drysdale - National 100 and 200 metre swimming champion (
Haileybury College)
★
Peter Antonie -
Olympic rowing Gold medallist (
Xavier College)
★
Luke Ball -
AFL footballer (
Xavier College)
★
Travis Brooks -
Hockey (
Brighton Grammar)
★
Jerry Hazlitt - Test Cricketer for Australia (
Haileybury College)
★
Campbell Brown -
AFL footballer (
Scotch College)
★
Robert de Castella - former marathon runner;
Commonwealth Games Gold medallist (
Xavier College)
★
Andrew Cooper -
Olympic and World Champion rowing Gold medalist "
Oarsome Foursome" (
Brighton Grammar)
★
Bob Cowper - former
Australian test cricketer (
Scotch College)
★
Chris Dawes -
Footballer (
Brighton Grammar)
★
Brett Deledio -
AFL footballer (
Caulfield Grammar School)
★
Drew Ginn -
Olympic rowing Gold medalist "
Oarsome Foursome" (
Scotch College)
★
Steven O'Dor - Young Socceroos and New Zealand Knights soccer player (
Haileybury College)
★
Xavier Ellis -
AFL footballer (
Melbourne Grammar)
★
Brendon Goddard -
AFL footballer (
Caulfield Grammar)
★
Chris Judd -
AFL footballer; 2004
Brownlow winner (
Caulfield Grammar)
★
Michael Klim -
Olympic swimming Gold medalist (
Wesley College)
★
John Landy -
Olympic Runner (
Geelong Grammar)
★
Sam Sheldon - AFL Footballer, Brisbane Lions (
Haileybury College)
★
Andrew Lauterstein -
Commonwealth Games swimmer (
Brighton Grammar)
★
Tamsyn Lewis -
Olympic athlete (
Caulfield Grammar)
★
Stuart Maxfield -
AFL footballer, former captain of
Sydney Swans (
Caulfield Grammar)
★
Paul Hopwood - AFL Footballer, Melbourne Demons (
Haileybury College)
★
Sharelle McMahon -
Australian netballer (
Wesley College)
★
Andrew McQualter -
AFL footballer (
Caulfield Grammar)
★
Craig Mottram -
Olympic athlete (
Geelong Grammar)
★
Sam Newman - former
AFL footballer (
Geelong Grammar)
★
Brett Moyle - AFL Footballer, St Kilda (
Haileybury College)
★
Dean Pullar -
Olympic diving medalist (
Scotch College)
★
Andrew Schauble -
AFL footballer (
Xavier College)
★
Will Slade -
AFL footballer (
Scotch College)
★
James Tomkins -
Olympic rowing Gold medalist "
Oarsome Foursome" (
Carey Grammar)
★
Paul Trimboli - former
Socceroos player (
Xavier College)
★
Stefan Martin - AFL Footballer, Melbourne Demons (
Haileybury College)
★
Jobe Watson -
AFL footballer (
Xavier College)
★
Anthony Raso - AFL Footballer, Carlton (
Haileybury College)
★
Fergus Watts -
AFL footballer (
Wesley College)
★
Matt Welsh -
Olympic swimming medalist (
Scotch College)
★
Rob Woodhouse -
Olympic swimming Bronze medallist (
Scotch College)
★
Graham Yallop - former
Australian cricket captain (
Carey Grammar)
★
Lindsay Hassett - former
Australian Test cricket captain (
Geelong College)
★
Danni Miatke - World & Commonwealth 50m butterfly champion (
Carey Grammar)
★
Paul Corrigan - AFL Footballer, Geelong Cats (
Haileybury College)
★
Ryan O'Keefe -
AFL footballer (
St Kevin's College)
★
Adrian Radley - Commonwealth Swimmer (
St Kevin's College)
★
James Tyson - AFL Footballer, Adelaide Crows (
Haileybury College)
★
Josh Mahoney -
AFL footballer (
St Kevin's College)
★
Ian Hewett - Victorian Cricketer (
St Kevin's College)
★
Allan La Fontaine -
AFL footballer, 4 time winner of best and fairest for Melbourne (
St Kevin's College)
★
Simon Garlick -
AFL footballer (
St Kevin's College)
★
Dylan Smith - AFL Footballer, Fremantle Dockers, North Melbourne Kangaroos (
Haileybury College)
See also
★
List of schools in Victoria
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