Sports success at South Surrey secondary school<\/p>\n
Published 2:15 pm Tuesday, June 16, 2026<\/p>\n
As the school year draws to a close and barbecues, grad ceremonies and awards banquets take place, one thing stood out for Elgin Park Secondary this year: students were busy with their academic studies as well as sports.<\/p>\n
The South Surrey school has 1,430 students, and of those, nearly 650 were registered and participated on a school sports team over the past school year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really proud to say that 647 of our students were registered and participated on a school sports teams at Elgin Park this year. This doesn\u2019t even include students participating in sports clubs and intramurals,\u201d Elgin Park athletic director Chris Ellet said. \u201cFor a school of 1,430, it\u2019s pretty awesome to have nearly half of our students participating in school sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
While winning isn\u2019t everything, as coaches and staff like to focus on the development of the students as people as well as athletes, several teams won Surrey and South Fraser championships throughout the year, and many made it to provincial championships as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, we like to win and we want to win,\u201d Ellet said, noting the banners brought back to the school\u2019s halls. \u201cWe even had 11 teams qualify for BC School Sports provincial championships and another four qualify for invitational junior championships. That\u2019s pretty good!\u201d<\/p>\n
Computer\/PE teacher and longtime ultimate coach Greg Worsley noted they were able to run both a junior and senior team this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning or even just making provincials is great, but having kids playing sports together is so much more important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ellet and other coaches shared that often, student athletes return to help mentor and coach younger students after they graduate.<\/p>\n
Some teachers noticed there were several students who wanted to participate in athletics but weren\u2019t able to make the highly competitive varsity basketball teams, so they created a junior basketball club for students Grade 8-10 guitar teacher and basketball coach Jim Black said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was completely inclusive. There were no tryouts and we just got together weekly to ball,\u201d he said. \u201cWhile the goal was just inclusion, many have developed and even made it on to the varsity teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
While so many students are involved in sports, Ellet says they\u2019re always looking at ways to get more kids involved, like the unified programs for basketball and soccer started by the Surrey school district last year, which blend neurotypical and neurodivergent students together.<\/p>\n
At the start of the year during assemblies, Ellet said he always encourages students to participate in athletics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you think you\u2019re good, whether you don\u2019t think you\u2019re very good or you\u2019re not really sure of what level (you\u2019re at), show up and try anything,\u201d he said. \u201cShow up and give it a shot. And if you find out this is something that you\u2019re not interested in, at least you can say you tried.<\/p>\n
And you may find that there might be a passion for something that\u2019s there that you didn\u2019t already have beforehand.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also a chance for some great rivalries with neighbouring Semiahmoo Secondary, which issued a neighbourly challenge for a friendly game of ultimate versus Elgin Park in a previous Peace Arch News story.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t care if Semiahmoo plays in a higher tier than us,\u201d noted Grade 9 ultimate player Ella Chen. \u201cWe just love to play. Challenge accepted!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports success at South Surrey secondary school Published 2:15 pm Tuesday, June 16, 2026 As the school year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-741426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}