Sport
Harrow aims to provide a very high standard of coaching and competition for the best sportsmen while enabling the less gifted to find something they can enjoy.
Pupils can play sport every day if they wish, and for the enthusiast there are outstanding opportunities to play and excel.
Opportunities for all to enjoy sport
The School fields teams in all the main sports and they play to a high standard. For the less serious player there are friendly games and inter-House competitions that can be enjoyed at a less demanding level. Pupils are entered in regional and national competitions where appropriate and for the First XI cricketers there is the opportunity to play at Lord's cricket ground in the annual Eton versus Harrow match.
Facilities
The playing fields are extensive and include two all-weather pitches which can be used for rugby practice, soccer and hockey.
The Sports Centre has an eight metre indoor climbing wall, weights room, 25m swimming pool and sports hall with indoor cricket nets for winter practice. There are courts for tennis, rackets, squash and fives and the School has its own nine hole golf course.
The athletics facilities were re-built in 2005 and include an Olympic-standard running track, facilities for long jump, high jump, discus and all the main athletics events, plus a water jump for the Steeplechase and an area for the pole vault event - relatively rare features in school athletics facilities.
Inside the athletics track is the Sixth Form Ground rugby pitch, a state-of-the-art pitch of extremely high quality which also features an electronic scoreboard and terraces for spectators.
Coaching
The School employs professionals to coach cricket, rackets, tennis, athletics and fencing. Many of the teachers involved in coaching are accomplished games players in their own right; Head of Sport Roger Uttley is an ex-England and Lions international rugby player, for example.
Tours
In most years a sports tour abroad is organised; recent years have seen tours to South Africa, India, Japan and South Korea, Australia and Zimbabwe. A Harrow soccer squad played the first ever match between an English and a Chinese school on Chinese soil.
Every spring the First XI cricket squad plays a pre-season tour in Malta, and every summer holidays see the First XV rugby squad training in Biarritz in France.
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