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Country Week or Country Senior High Schools Carnival is an annual multi-sport event carnival held in Perth, Western Australia between rural high schools from Western Australia. The carnival is organised by School Sport WA. The carnival includes sports such as Australian rules football, hockey, soccer, netball, volleyball and basketball in a range of divisions. Non-sporting competitions in areas such as speech, debating and dance have also been added to the event schedule. Country Week is recognised as being the biggest event of its kind in the southern hemisphere. The event typically involves about 40 schools with around 3,000 students and over 200 teachers and support staff. The carnival is held toward the end of the second school term in late June and early July and lasts for one week. The Amanda Young Foundation has supported the event by donating water bottles to all participating students. The bottles carry messages about the dangers of sharing water bottles to prevent the spread of meningococcal disease.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amanda Young Foundation October 2007 News )〕 In 2015 the number of participants at the carnival was approximately 3,700, with the RAC sponsoring the event distributing water bottles as part of a road safety campaign, highlighting the over representation of young drivers dying on country roads. == Venues == The opening and closing ceremonies were held at Perry Lakes Stadium from 1962 to 2008. Perry Lakes Stadium was declared unsafe for use in 2009 and later demolished in 2010. As a result, the opening and closing ceremonies were held at Challenge Stadium in 2009 and 2010 and will continue to be held there in the future. UWA sports park (commonly known as MacGillvray Oval) is the focal point of the tournament with football, soccer, touch rugby and many hockey games being played on the there.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UWA Sports Newadate= 2009 )〕 The remainder of the hockey games are played on the nearby UWA hockey Club turf. The volleyball fixtures are played at Challenge Stadium, while basketball fixtures were played at Perry Lakes Stadium up until 2009, in 2010 basketball fixture were relocated to the Western Australian Basketball Centre which is located next to the Western Australian Athletics Stadium which in turn is next to Challenge Stadium. Netball Games were played at Matthews Park at the outdoor Perth Netball Association Courts up until 2010. In 2010 and 2011 netball fixtures were relocated to the indoor acrylic courts of Lords in Subiaco. Once the redevelopment of the Matthews Netball Centre Courts was completed in 2013 fixtures for netball were moved back to the centre in 2014 making use of the 47 courts 19 of which are indoors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Country Senior High Schools Carnival (Western Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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