1. The Board is under no obligation to list a sport as an
approved sport regardless of the sport’s qualifications for
listing. In coming to its decision, the Board will consider
the welfare of students as well as the human and physical
resources and the resource of time which it has available to
conduct an additional sport.
2. Essential Criteria for
listing as an approved sport:
a) A suitably qualified Regional Convenor for the sport
has been appointed by the Board for the year in which
the sport has the status of an approved sport.
b) The Regional Convenor can demonstrate that health and
safety issues have been catered for at all levels of the
Region’s involvement in that sport.
c) It can be demonstrated that a panel of suitably
qualified team coaches and team managers is available
for appointment by the Board for the year in which the
sport has the status of an approved sport.
d) The sport is listed as an approved sport at state
level.
e) It can be demonstrated that there is a sufficient
depth of talent to participate competitively at the
state level.
3. Additional Criteria which could be applied in the
consideration for listing of approved sports:
a) There is a demonstrated participation in the sport at
school and district level within the Region.
b) There is support for the listing from the sport’s
club network and particularly from clubs at junior
level.
c) The Region has demonstrated high levels of success at
state championships in the sport in previous years.
d) The sport can demonstrate that it has had consistent
success in placing students in Queensland teams over
recent years.
4. a) The Board will develop a
tentative sporting calendar
in August for the
following year.
b) The Board will set a list of approved sports for the
following calendar year at its August meeting. The
tentative calendar for that following year will consist
of the sports on that list.
c) At its December meeting the Board will adopt its
actual calendar for the following year. This calendar
will contain those sports from the tentative calendar
which have continued to meet the Essential Criteria.