SUMMER sports are still going strong but new registrations for winter are ever closer.
The Bate Bay surf lifesaving clubs are North Cronulla, Wanda, Cronulla and Elouera.
There are 5000 youngsters and adults who are members of these clubs, which have a rich history in the community.
Only last weekend Wanda beach hosted two different surf lifesaving carnivals for competitors of all ages.
The annual TJM Southside Intercities event on Saturday was an overwhelming success, said Wanda club sponsorship manager Gay Curtis.
Then on Sunday, former ironman Zane Holmes brought the Medibank Wave Juniors Challenge leg of the series to our shores at Wanda.
There are 76,000 registered members in the surf lifesaving movement in 129 member clubs in NSW (figures from Surf Life Saving NSW).
Touch Football Australia has 624,000 registered members, says their 2013-14 annual report.
TFA is the official body for the sport nationally and it is the role of the organisation to develop and grow touch football in this country.
TFA held the 2015 Youth Trans-Tasman Challenge series on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Remondis Stadium, Woolooware.
The matches were between the Australian and New Zealand under-18s boys' and girls' teams.
Australia won every division over the three-day event.
Affiliated touch football associations in St George and Sutherland Shire are St George Junior Touch Association and Taren Point Touch Football Association.
St George Football Association and Sutherland Shire Junior Football Association are preparing for big winter seasons.
St George junior league starts on the April 11-12 weekend and Cronulla's season kick-off will be on Saturday, March 28.
What sport will you be signing up for this winter?
