Packaworld takes centre court at Stadium Sports Festival

Some of Wellington’s youngest sports fans will experience one of the world’s oldest sports at Sport Wellington’s Stadium Sports Festival, held at Westpac Stadium next week.
​
The Stadium Sports Festival takes place on Wednesday 30 March and aims to give school children the opportunity to experience sports they might not generally consider.

​Packaworld’s inflatable bocce courts  will feature at the event, with an introduction to bocce from Steeven Sharpe, Regional Sports Coordinator, Special Olympics, who will show the youngsters what has made this the world’s third-largest participation based sport.

​​"The schools that went through the bocce station at last year’s event all had a wonderful time,” Mr Sharpe said.
“Bocce can be played by people of all ages and abilities. It can bring children who may not usually interact with each other together, to have fun and compete on a level playing field.” 

​Packaworld CEO Peter Roberts said the inflatable Packabocce courts were designed as a solution to help the sport overcome the issues of portability and storage posed by traditional courts.

“With attractive courts that can be set up in a couple of minutes and transported in the boot of a small car, storage and transportation issues are a thing of the past for the sport of bocce.

​​"This has always been a great participation sport, but inflatable courts enable it to be considered in a different way and offered at a lot more places. Schools and recreation programmes now have the opportunity to try it out for themselves and see if it’s right for what they have to offer.”

Six hundred school children in years five and six participated in 20 different sports at the 2015 event, giving them a chance to identify sports they enjoy and want to play regularly through school, KiwiSport programmes or clubs.