Victorian School Sports Awards
The annual Victorian School Sports Awards are the highest sporting accolade in the Victorian primary and secondary government school sectors.
Presented for the first time in 1994, the awards recognise excellence across all categories of major school sports and are given to students, teams, coaches and volunteers who have excelled or made an outstanding contribution to school sport.
The individual student awards, each known as a Blue, are based in the history of English sport, when in 1936 during a boat race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities, a Cambridge oarsman tied a light blue ribbon to the bow of the his boat (the colour of his school, Eton College). A dark blue ribbon was then ascribed to Oxford (the colour of Christ Church College).
Subsequently, a Sporting Blue became identified around the world as an accolade of sporting excellence by young people, and is distinguished by a two-coloured blue ribbon attached to a traditional bronze medallion.
The Victorian School Sports Awards incorporate individual Sporting Blue awards as a reflection of the high standard of talent and dedication demonstrated by aspiring young athletes in Victorian government schools.
For further information about the awards, contact the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Sports Unit:
Kirsteen Farrance
Email: farrance.kirsteen.a@edumail.vic.gov.au
Phone: (03) 9488 9464