A Sport For Everyone Gallery

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Whether you have big goals or small goals, be it winning a national championship or catching hard passes, running a successful training or organising an interstate tournament, the quidditch community is one where every victory is celebrated. This is a sport where achievement at any level can be acknowledged, and you are welcome to set your own goals and have them be recognised and celebrated.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. While players come from all walks of life and many different backgrounds, what unites them is a passion for the sport, compassion for fellow players, and a strong sense for the competitive but collaborative spirit of the game. If you want to find like-minded, progressive people who are trying to make a difference, you'll meet them in quidditch.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Our players and community members come from all genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, and the rules of the sport explicitly include people who identify outside the gender binary.

Today on Mardi Gras, we want to take the opportunity to acknowledge, be grateful for, and be proud of the diversity in our community and the opportunity many people have to be able to fully express their identity in whatever way feels right to them.

We wish everyone out at Quidditch goes to Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney, as well as all around the country, a fun and safe night, we thank everyone who has done so much to fight for equal rights, and we hope that as a community, we continue to improve at including everyone.

Photo: Taylor Angelo Quidditch Shots

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. While there are many teams across the country, with new clubs forming every year, what has always been true is that for many, their teammates become a second family and some of their closest friends, even a decade on.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. One major barrier to sport and fitness is often the prohibitive costs of most regular sports or gyms, often several hundred dollars. Quidditch is one of the most affordable sports out there, with full year membership with Quidditch Australia including insurance costing only $60/year ($10 for a trial), and many clubs charging annual membership fees under $10. It's never been easier to get into sport.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. No matter what background, sporting experience, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or walk of life, anyone is welcome. Bringing a diverse array of people together is one of the most rewarding aspects of being a coach, captain, manager, or other leader in quidditch, and one of the best parts of the community.

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Many players who avoided sport their whole childhood find themselves pushing themselves to train harder and become better. Others, who come from even elite sporting backgrounds find a whole new ballgame in quidditch, with game mechanisms that totally change how they think through tactics. Whatever your background, you can find ways to challenge yourself physically and tactically in quidditch, and achieve things you never knew you were capable of.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. The critical importance of exercise and an active lifestyle for everyone's mental and physical well being is well understood in today's society. As a fast paced and physically demanding sport at times, many players find that quidditch is a fun but effective way of improving fitness, building strength, and motivating new physical goals - from those who have previously avoided sport and exercise, to those who have always loved it.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Sport is incredibly important for physical and mental health, as a source of exercise, team building, and community - yet many aspects of society systematically push women away from sport. Quidditch aims to be a space where women can play competitive or casual sport alongside all other genders, develop their skills and confidence, and take on leadership positions. Quidditch Australia is committed to promoting and facilitating women playing sport, eliminating barriers to their full involvement, and ensuring their space within our community is upheld.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. While the sport is competitive, there is nevertheless a strong culture of cooperation and camaraderie between teams, just as much as there is within. Quidditch teams support and respect one another, and bring a culture of community to competitive sport that makes for an experience that is more enjoyable for everyone.

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. There are many different positions and roles on pitch that can suit a wide variety of different people. Keepers play a role in helping to coordinate the team in both the defence and offence. They can drive or distribute on offence like a playmaker, and are often the last line of defence, blocking shots and making tackles. Keepers are some of the most tenacious players, and many players thrive in challenging themselves to step up to this role as a leader on pitch.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. There are many different positions and roles on pitch that can suit a wide variety of different people. The chaser position is most analogous to other sports like basketball and rugby, and many players start here. The position offers a myriad of different roles from receivers and cutters to drivers and tacklers, and anyone can find a role that lets them play the sport of their dreams to their full potential.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. There are many different positions and roles on pitch that can suit a wide variety of different people. It's not all about the players though - referees are the unsung heroes of quidditch, and everyone is encouraged to master the rules, undergo training, and volunteer in a variety of different referee roles to help grow their confidence, raise their voice, and learn how to control the game.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. There are many different positions and roles on pitch that can suit a wide variety of different people. While many people have preconceived notions of what quidditch might be like, the actual sport can be highly tactical. The Beater position plays a big part in this, adding an element of tactical nuance to the game and rewarding strategic decision making in a way that makes it unlike any other sport.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. There are many different positions and roles on pitch that can suit a wide variety of different people. The snitch provides one of the most exciting aspects of the sport, where the two seekers vie to land their team an additional 30 points and end the game. In close matches, there is an adrenaline-fuelled feeling of anticipation and excitement with the game being able to go either way at any moment, and the eventual snitch catch, final referee whistle, and the euphoria that follows creates an atmosphere unparalleled in any other sport.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. As a community founded on inclusivity, being accepting of all genders, sexualities, races, and religions is a core value in the sport. Many players are able to find a place in quidditch where, often for the first time, they can openly express who they are, be themselves, and love whom they want. Quidditch is a LGBTQ+ friendly space, and always will be.

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Quidditch is a sport for everyone. As a team sport with a multitude of different roles for different kinds of people, players work together, support each other, and trust their team mates to have their back. Off pitch, many of our players find that this support from teammates extends through friendships, relationships, and community through tough times and mental health challenges.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. As much as quidditch is a full contact, tackle sport, it’s also the kind of place where you’ll be helped up if you get knocked down. Many players also find that their team mates and friends in quidditch provide invaluable support networks for their mental health needs. Whether it’s your mind or your body that’s got you down, there are people in quidditch who can help you get back in your feet.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. As a full contact sport, whether a keeper, chaser, beater, or seeker, you're going to end up on the floor at some point. Developing the resilience required to get back up, dust yourself off, and go again is something intrinsic to the sport, and an invaluable life skill, especially in the hard times we find ourselves in. Quidditch has not only taught many people how to overcome physical and emotional setbacks themselves, but how to help lift up others as well.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. The sport's gender rule states that no more than 4 of the 6-7 players on pitch can be of the same gender. This not only makes the sport mixed gender, but also makes it one of the only sports in the world that explicitly includes trans, non binary, and other gender diverse people alongside all other players, rather than sorting according to binary sexes.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. While there are many ways and many levels to be involved in the sport, all involve improving fitness, developing confidence, gaining leadership and teamwork skills, and becoming a better athlete - whether you play for fun or for the national team.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. While many people are attracted because of the sport, most stay because of the passionate people they meet and the inclusive and supportive community they find with us.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. One of the best things about quidditch is that no one has played it before - it's a new game for everyone who joins, and everyone learns and picks up new skills together. Besides building fitness, ball skills, and confidence on field, players also find the opportunity to develop leadership, event organising, and other soft skills.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. One core aspect of the sport and the community that players and spectators alike love, is how exciting it is. The game is fast paced and entertaining, and high stakes matches, whether it's a grand final or just against a rival team, are just as thrilling to play as they are to watch. Many members say they never cared about sport before they found quidditch.

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Quidditch is a sport for everyone. As league preseasons begin to kick off around the country and many university and community based clubs in recruitment mode, there has never been a better time to join. Quidditch is a fast paced, full contact sport that is completely gender integrated, and open to all levels of sporting experience.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. With the preseason only just beginning across the country, now is the best time to get involved. Many teams are 100% open to new players simply coming to a training session and diving straight into the game, and will be happy to help you learn how to play, no matter your sporting experience. While it can seem complicated from the outside, people pick up the basics league easily, and are welcome and encouraged to start participating in regular matches from the very beginning. The best way to learn is to play.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Outside of playing, many of our members participate in the sport through all manner of roles that both help serve the community while exploring and developing their own skills and passions. These can range from photography and videography to writing and analysis, graphic design to sustainability, teaching and coaching to commentating, even small business and events management.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. As a relatively new sport, there is a wide open field for innovation, and players every year come up with new ways to play, new tactics to employ, and new ideas to try out. Many people love the opportunity to get creative in sport, develop new offences and defences, and change the game with their ideas for years to come.

Photo: Taylor Angelo Quidditch Shots

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Whether you play competitively or casually, for fitness or for fun, many players gain a strong sense of achievement from setting goals, working and training towards them, and fighting through the season to push through barriers and meet them.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. One aspect that many people love is the tactical side of the sport. With at least four balls in play at any given time, and an emphasis on quick decision making and coordination on offence and defence, tactically minded players love the elements of complexity and nuance in a fast paced game that no other sport offers.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Here, anyone can find a community that encourages an active lifestyle in a highly accessible way, and helps everyone to continue to push themselves, develop their fitness, and push whatever their individual limits are. Even during the Coronavirus closedown, teams remain active, through online sessions and fitness challenges, and many people who come to the sport having never been interested in exercising before, now find themselves actively wanting to train and improve even outside of organised sessions.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a sport for everyone. For some, quidditch is a highly competitive sport, and for others, it’s a casual sport they play for fun. Quidditch allows you to define your own goals, play at the level you want to play, and push yourself to achieve what whatever you want to shoot for.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Whether you are studying or working full time, finding the right balance between work and life is essential. Quidditch offers a low commitment and highly affordable way to play sport, engage socially, and be a part of a community outside of work life, that provides exactly the kind of break that many of our players love. How much time you want to commit to quidditch is up to you, with teams usually being flexible about how many hours players are involved for, and players can still participate in leagues with minimal experience.

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Quidditch is a sport for everyone. Fast paced, mixed gender, and highly exciting, quidditch has taken off as a new sport over the last 10 years in Australia. Whether you want to play sport for fun, or love the thrill of competition, there's a team for you.

As teams prepare for the pre-season with abundant free and open sessions, there's never been a better time to try something new.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Not only is the sport open to any gender, but it is increasingly multiethnic, and played in over 40 countries across 6 continents around the world. In Australia, many local, international, and exchange students and workers find a home in the quidditch community, and the diversity of players in their cultural backgrounds, abilities, experiences, and more, is something the community values immensely. In a sport with such a wide variety of roles and positions, the best teams are the most diverse.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. At the end of the day, the main reason people stay around playing quidditch is that they enjoy it. Not only is the sport itself a lot of fun to play, but the community is also filled with fun-loving people. Whether you are playing just for fun, or whether you're playing competitively, everyone can find aspects of quidditch that they enjoy, be it at tournaments or at the socials, and the community is abundant with smiling faces, on and off field.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Not only is it played all around Australia, but it's played all around the world, and Australians regularly compete internationally at World Cups and other flagship events. Not only does quidditch present players with the opportunity to travel for competitions, but it facilitates friendships around the world, with a global network of dedicated, inclusive, and progressive people who all share their passion. Travelling quidditch players can find friends and communities they can trust all over the world, and travelling for quidditch abroad is one of the most fun and exciting events on the calendar.

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. The community takes a lot of pride in being a safe space for anyone of any gender or sexual orientation, and pushing to be somewhere where anyone can just only be open about who they are, but be proud of it and not have it affect their ability to play sport or participate fully in the community. There is a large queer population in the quidditch community, and many people have found a supportive network of peers within their own teams and across the country.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. In the quidditch community, people are not just accepting of others, but welcome new players with open arms. Many recruits approach the sport concerned whether teams will in fact want them - the reality is that most teams are always looking for new players and will welcome anyone and everyone who is willing to give it a go, no matter their sporting background, experience, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or age. As long as you are willing to accept others, you'll find a community that's glad to have you.

Photo: Maddi Moulton Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. One of the central values of the community is in how supportive it is. Players not only support their own clubs but will cheer for other teams, and even rivals can get behind one another. In times of strife like we are in now, the community has again come together to support everyone and anyone who may be struggling, and find ways to persevere through.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. From sports positions like captains and coaches to administrative positions like presidents and directors, quidditch offers many opportunities for anyone to develop leadership skills. Many young people come into quidditch and are empowered to take on challenges, inspire others, grow communities, and in doing so, grow their own skills and confidence, and do things they could never have imagined themselves capable of.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. For many players, the national championships, where any and all teams from all around Australia come together to compete in one big weekend tournament, is the highlight of the year. Few sports offer an opportunity to travel to play for nationals and test out the work a team has put in over the year against the rest of the country, and between the huge community vibe and unfailingly exciting final stages of the competition, attending nationals is at the top of many players bucket list.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Beyond Australia, the sport is played in over 40 other nations around the world, but Australia remains one of the very best in the world. The top players from around the country are selected for the Australian Dropbears, the national team, which competes in the Quidditch World Cup. In what was one of the biggest moments in international quidditch, the Dropbears broke the US hold on the cup by becoming World Champions in 2016.

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Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. With many levels of competition available around the country, the sport is open to anyone, no matter their competitive inclination. Top level athletes from major states are selected for state rep teams that compete against each other in Quidditch Australia's State Shield. As a young sport, players even in their first and second years of playing have been able to compete at this high level.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography

Quidditch is a Sport for Everyone. Whether or not you participate in the actual playing of the game, the sport at large has a abundant opportunities for volunteering, as an entirely volunteer led and driven community. From referees and photographers to tournament committees and exec boards, quidditch is a community where anyone can volunteer, and the many who do can build valuable skills, build their CV, and build a network of supportive, positive, and empowering people.

Photo: Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography