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Last modified: 15 Aug 2023 10:58am

A group of children playing hockey in the Selwyn Sports Centre

National and regional sports tournaments are joining the crowds enjoying the Selwyn Sports Centre and Foster Park turfs.

After turning just two earlier this year, Selwyn Sports Centre is continuing to grow and surpass expectation, while after a year of use the artificial turfs are also attracting good use and attention, including being used as one of the venues for the New Zealand Secondary Schools Boys Premier Football Tournament.

Selwyn Sports Centre Operations Manager Dave Tippett says in July there were more than 37,000 visitors to the Sports Centre. “For the 2022/23 financial year we had 277,540 visits which is 27,540 more than our target. The Centre is predominantly used by Selwyn residents, and this is one of the things we are most proud of because these numbers tell us that our community are heavy users of Selwyn Sports Centre,” Dave says.

Among the many clubs and teams that regularly use the facilities to play over 15 different sports, the Centre also attracts anywhere between 600-800 casual Basketball visitors each month, as well as hosting walking groups, fitness classes, and school groups.

The centre is also gaining popularity as a venue for regional and national sports tournaments, he says.

“We hosted the Mainland Invitational Basketball Tournament here in the July school holidays which attracted 45 teams from across the South Island and Canterbury Basketball Trials are being held here on 20 and 27 August. In addition, we are really looking forward to hosting the Parafed Canterbury Games on 30 September and 1 October this year. We will also be hosting the National Boccia Championships in 2024 and 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for Selwyn to be attracting events to the Selwyn Sports Centre."