Our annual Saints Sports Festival is a much-loved and highly anticipated event on the St Stithians College calendar and this year – this iconic event celebrates its 40th year. The St Stithians family of eight schools looks forward to welcoming One and All to the 2024 Saints Sports Festival. This year the College theme is One4All All4One. This Festival embodies this in every way, a celebration of the individual, the team and the opportunity to witness the joy of our participants doing what they love best. Saints SportsFest is the largest school sports festival of its kind in South Africa and we relish the opportunity that this Festival offers us to see our Campus fields, courts and astros filled with happy and fulfilled students.
The Festival is an eagerly awaited opportunity for our community of belonging of current and past parents and students to come together, to gather, meet and reminisce – this weekend offers this in spades. Our Alumni Games, which was launched in 2019 has become a firm favourite at the Festival and adds a wonderful opportunity for our Old Stithians to step back onto the fields where they once represented Saints, to once again represent their school with pride. The Alumni Games this year is sponsored by Mitchum South Africa and we look forward to welcoming our Alumni back on Campus and for some entertaining displays of sport.
The 2024 edition of our Saints SportsFest runs over two consecutive weekends and begins with the Prep Festival which runs from 21 to 23 March followed by the College Festival which will (in line with its history) run over the Easter weekend on 27, 28, 30 March and 1 April. As always, the Festival is jam-packed, offering something for everyone to enjoy. As the oldest schools’ sports festival of its kind, it has been incredible to watch this event go from a rugby festival in its inception year of 1984, to a festival including all of our schools on campus across multiple sporting codes 40 years later. At forty, the festival has certainly come of age and proves why it has endured for the past four decades. This year we celebrate 10 years of squash being a part of the Festival and to honour this milestone, our courts will welcome 10 girls and 10 boys teams in the College Festival.
The countdown to #SaintsFest2024 has begun and we can’t wait to welcome the participants and supporters…
Rugby Fixtures below:
