High is EASILY the best Selective School when it comes to sport. Although everyone seems to be boasting about how good one or two players are, what you don't seem to realise is that EVERY single sport High competes in is a TEAM sport. Even singles Tennis and Chess are played as part of a team.
There might be a couple selective schools that can match high at a few TEAM sports, (i'd say only in Rugby League i.e. Caringbah), but those schools would get absolutely obliterated in EVERY other sport. Those schools are single-sport focused.
High 1sts, Basketball is very strong this year and are Premiership contenders, and High 1sts Cricket are sporting a more experienced outfit, who are undoubtedly the Dark Horses of the 08/09 season. Rowing will probably be a narrow failure, and Tennis may do fairly average.
For the winter season Rugby will produce its share of surprises, Soccer will do well, Volleyball will undboutedly win, Debating will be Premiers (maybe Co-Premiers), Chess will do alright, and Rifle Shooting will dominate.
High has been playing in the GPS comp for over a Century, and for the most part it's been competitive. It's only been since 1997 that High Rugby has gone to the shits, but that's not because High have necessarily become worse, but the GPS comp has improved. Even then, our 16As (As vs As) have had their successes in Rugby this season, edging out Newington, and Matching Grammar play for play.
Sure the number of teams we field in certain sports (Rugby, Cricket) has decreased in part to the influx of Asians unfamiliar with the sports, but i'm sure this is a temporary hinderance, and if the Beijing Olympics are anything to go by, Asians will dominate.
And for those complaining that High Imports, well, the truth there is we have to import one or two per sport, in order to be able to compete with the GPS school's who basically import whole teams (that's you Scots, 1993 Centenary Rugby ring any bells?)
So basically, what i'm saying is the only school that can lay a better claim to being the greatest school OVERALL in Sydney is Grammar, who just happen to have enough funds to fund for everything, hahaha.