Relay runners at Athletic Sports Day

	School Equestrian Team

	2006 Columba College cross country event

Sport is a very important part of school life with girls able to participate in a wide variety of sports and sporting activities. There is something for everyone, from the high achiever in sport who becomes an Otago representative or who is awarded a South Island or national distinction, to the girl who enjoys playing social netball.

Personal fitness and healthy activity are encouraged as is the development of leisure activities and pursuits for the years beyond school.

A full-time Sports Co-ordinator assists the Head of Physical Education and Sport with the management of school sport.

Annual Inter-House sporting competitions are held, and all Years 7 to 13 students participate in the Athletics and Swimming Sports.

Columba College joins with John McGlashan College in an annual Summer Tournament with St. Andrew's College, and in the annual Winter Quadrangular Tournament with Craighead, St. Hilda's and St. Margaret's.

Year 9 students have a five-day ski camp at Coronet Peak, Queenstown. Students, teachers and parents stay in ski huts on the mountain, and students have daily tuition in skiing or snowboarding.

Year 10 students participate in a four-day outdoor education camp at Doubtful Sound.

In 2006 a ski weekend to Coronet Peak was also organised for International students.

Students doing the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme have opportunities to become involved in Outdoor Education, and curriculum-related studies take a number of students out on valuable field-trips such as the one undertaken by the Bursary Geography class to Queenstown to study the Wakatipu Basin.