The Sports Brooch

The Sports Brooch is the most prestigious sporting award at Girls Grammar and was designed and anonymously donated to the School in 1917.

The award was first presented as the ‘best all round sport’ and the criterion specified that the recipient must have represented the School in three sports at the highest level. A school competition was conducted to design the brooch. Dorothea Stephens (1918), won this competition from a field of 10 other entries. Her art deco design comprised a circular centre of royal blue enamel with BGGS gold lettering and gold wings extending out each side to points in 9ct gold. This stylish design prevailed until 1971.

When Professor Dorothy Hill’s Sports Brooch was donated to the School in 1999, it was discovered that the design had changed to a sterling silver bar brooch.