SPORT

MAC offers an extensive range of sporting opportunities that help our students develop their fitness as well as social, leadership and collaboration skills. Our extensive green spaces, including an athletics track, cricket pitch, rugby field, two basketball courts, three netball courts, a futsal field,  tennis courts, and a pump track, and our school’s proximity to Lake Wānaka and the mountains mean we can offer our students a diverse range of sporting opportunities, including rugby, netball, football, hockey, cricket, volleyball, futsal, rowing, mountain biking, triathlon, skiing and snowboarding, cross-country skiing and biathlon. Nearby Lismore Park also offers a frisbee golf course for us to use. In term 3, we run an eight-week cross-country skiing programme for students at the SnowFarm, the only place in New Zealand where you can learn to cross-country ski and become a biathlete. 

Sports days

We hold an annual athletics day, a school swimming competition, mountain bike championships in downhill, cross country and enduro, cross-country running championships, ski and snowboard and cross-country skiing championships and MAC also participates in inter-school tournaments and school sporting exchanges, and regional and national competitions in numerous sport codes.

Sport Committee

MAC offers an extensive range of sporting opportunities that help our students develop their fitness as well as social, leadership and collaboration skills. Our student-led Sports Committee promotes the benefits of being active and getting outdoors, and works to create a safe environment in sports throughout the school.

Our members

Eva Gilbertson
Lewis Turner
Tom Sides
Abbey Ragg
Kate Watson
Zavier Taylor
Millie East
Coco Bentley
Lucy Radford
Sam Soper
Eben McCamish

JUNIORS
Max Bagley
Cooper Norman
Lyndajayne Kitto
Hana Carnie

Support teachers: Neil Stuart, Hamish Crosbie, Nicola Jacobsen

Our focus

  • strengthening sports at MAC and ensuring that all students can participate in some form of sport

Our achievements

  • Quad trials
  • school cross country
  • Wakatipu/Kavanagh Exchange
  • lunchtime games in the gym and on the field

More information

Please contact our Head of Sports Ignacio Sande: sandei@mtaspiring.school.nz or our Sports Coordinator Claire Radford: radfordc@mtaspiring.school.nz