SportFit Active Teenagers

Sportfit is the brand name for the Sport and Recreation (SPARC) programme for young people in secondary schools. This programme supports secondary schools to fund a Sport Coordinator to work within schools, ensuring students have a wide variety of opportunities in physical activity and sport. The national Sportfit strategy includes goals to increase the sport and physical activity levels of young people, train sport leaders, achieve quality standards in school sports programmes and facilitate the training of competent coaches for school sports teams.

Sportfit Programmes include

• SportFit Ambassador Programme - inspires students by visits from sporting role models
• Sports Mark - ensures schools deliver quality sports services
• Future Champions - recognises our most promising young athletes
• Sport Leader - develops leadership skills through sport
• Sport Education - helps students become both skilled participants and ?good sports?
• SportSCID - free Microsoft Excel database that has been developed to help your school's sports department with the day-to-day running of its sports programme.

Sportfit School Opportunities

Sport Bay of Plenty offers a number of programmes for Secondary Schools some of which are listed below. Check out SportFit Latest News and Resources for further details on these programmes and more.

• ASB Secondary School Sports Person/Coach of the Month - see the Resources section for nomination forms.
• Summer/Winter Tournament Coaching Forum
• Developing Captains Seminar
• 'Chasing Your Dreams' Seminar
• Year 10 Leadership Course

For more information on SportFit in the Bay of Plenty, contact your Regional Secondary Schools Sports Director, whose details are found in The Staff section of this website.