About Us
Who We Are
Founded in 1998, Southern Skies Events is a unique educational initiative of Brisbane Boys' College, one of Brisbane's most prestigious, oldest, and yet progressive schools. We are a self-funding organisation dedicated to enhancing the educational experience of all who attend any of our events.
What We Do
Through sport we provide a distinctive educational and cultural encounter that will remain a highpoint of students’ time at school. Our Brisbane sport events, the Southern Skies Tournament in July and the Southern Skies Challenge in December, feature different sports and cater for boys and girls.
Why We Do It
The multicultural atmosphere of all of the events is highlighted by our simple but significant motto ‘uniting the spirit of youth’. Southern Skies’ focus is to assist the building of bridges across the cultural diversity of the World…demonstrating to young people that race or religion gets lost on the playing fields of life, that participation in sport is an educational experience with team sports providing a wonderfully varied range of learning situations as well as some of those other really important qualities that people need in life…like teamwork, reward for effort and friendship.
Australian Sport Awards
For the second consecutive year, Southern Skies Events were nominated as a finalist in the Sports Tourism category of the 25th annual Australian Sport Awards. Although the accolade was won by the World Track Cycling Championships held in Melbourne, it is a great honour to be named in such prestigious company. It serves to reinforce how important the Southern Skies Tournament and Challenge have become on the world youth sporting calendar.