Woodlands embarks on R25m sport facility project

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18-07-2023
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Boksburg Advertiser
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Earlier this year the college held another groundbreaking ceremony, attended by Vivian Lottering, head of Gauteng School Sport, to mark the commencement of construction.

Woodlands International College views its R25m sports facility as the most versatile and accomplished in the country.

The facility is a synthetic astroturf multidisciplinary sporting complex on the school’s sports field on Dr Vosloo Drive.

Apart from soon hosting a diverse array of sporting disciplines, the facility will draw top athletes from every conceivable sporting endeavour on both a provincial and a national level.

Woodland’s director Brenda Sampson explained early interest has already been received from several cricket, hockey, athletics and mountain biking clubs, as well as biokinetics centres seeking to be based at the complex.

While details of phase two will be disclosed later on and completed in about three years, phase one will see the construction of the multisport Astro-turf-surfaced area of about 40 500m2 (or ten acres). It will also be home to a full-size cricket oval featuring a permanent pitch, two senior-size hockey and soccer fields, four junior-size counterparts, three permanent netball courts (with scope to add a further eleven such courts during peak season), and a 400m athletics track with standalone 100m sprint track.

The complex will also feature a 2km technical mountain bike track with night lighting, an outdoor audio system and a dedicated technical area.

An upgrade of the college’s existing sports fields on the school grounds will see the resurfacing and enclosing of its current netball, tennis and basketball courts, the building of a viewing deck and the addition of further event disciplines to include two long jump pits, two shot put circles, a discus circle, a javelin run-up, high jump platform and three cricket nets.