Illawarra Sports High School

Illawarra Sports High School
Illawarra Sports High School
Location
	Berkeley, New South Wales; Australia
Coordinates	34°28′49″S 150°51′13″E / 34.4803322°S 150.8536685°E
Information
Former name	Berkeley High School (1956-1998)
Type	Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school
Motto	Latin: Integer vitae; (Blameless in Life)
Established	1956; 69 years ago; (as Berkeley High School)
School district	Illawarra North; Regional South
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Specialist	Sports school
Principal	Gary Hampton
Teaching staff	64.3 FTE (2018)
Years	7–12
Enrolment	737 (2018)
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Navy, light blue, white
Affiliation	NSW Sport High School Association
Website	illawaspor-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1956 as the Berkeley High School, the school changed its name in 1998 in line with becoming a sports-oriented school. The Illawarra Sports High School caters for approximately 740 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 13 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 27 percent were from a language background other than English.^[1] The school draws the majority of its students from the southern Wollongong area; with an increasing number of students from the larger Illawarra area who access its specialist sports programs.^[2] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Gary Hampton.

Illawarra Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.^[3]

Sports offered

The Illawarra Sports High School operates a talented sports development program across the following sports: basketball, boxing, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, soccer (affiliated with the Sydney FC^[4]^[5]), surfing,^[6] touch football,^[7] and wrestling.

Notable alumni

Caitlin Foord – soccer player, played with the Matildas, Arsenal and Sydney FC^[8]
Tyson Frizell – rugby league footballer; played with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, St. George Illawarra Dragons, Newcastle Knights, Wales, and Australian Schoolboys in rugby union
Ryan Gregson – middle-distance runner; represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics^[9]
Keith Lulia – rugby league footballer; played with the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Newcastle Knights, Bradford Bulls, and Wests Tigers^[10]
Trent Merrin – rugby league footballer; played with the St George Illawarra Dragons and New South Wales State of Origin
Les Murray – former broadcaster, sports journalist and analyst[5]
Brett Stewart – rugby league footballer; played with the Manly Sea Eagles, New South Wales State of Origin, and Kangaroos
Glenn Stewart – rugby league footballer; played with the Manly Sea Eagles, New South Wales State of Origin, and Kangaroos
Maddison Weatherall – women's rugby league footballer; plays for St George Illawarra Dragons
Jayden Sullivan – rugby league footballer; plays for St George Illawarra Dragons