Team Training at QEC
Lakes Leisure offers both national and international sports teams the opportunity to train in a modern, fully equipped sports venue with both world class turf, indoor courts, an aquatic centre and gymnasium conveniently located on one site. Just five drive minutes from an international airport and ten minutes drive from central Queenstown.
Offering all inclusive sports training packages, Lakes Leisure will ensure your team makes the most of their valuable training time. A streamlined service that can be tailored to suit your teams specific training needs, will see your players enjoying the convenience of an internationally recognised outdoor, indoor and aquatic training facility all in one central location.
If your players also deserve some post training R&R, what better place to do it than in Queenstown! With great hotels and restaurants to suit any budget, all the iconic action packed activities on offer and scenery that rivals any in the world, there is certainly plenty to do on rest days.
Talk to our team hosting specialists about what you want to get out of your training time and let us put you together a package that will make the rest easy.
Click here for a Team Training Venue Information Sheet
For more information contact Jason “JD” Marrable, the Events & Venues Manager, via email jd@lakesleisure.co.nz or phone +64 (0) 3 450 9123.
We look forward to hosting you and your team in the near future.
Here’s what the Irish Rugby Team had to say about using the Events Centre as their team training facility during the Rugby World Cup 2012:
EVENTS CENTRE FACILITIES HAVE IRISH EYES SMILING
by Tracy Roxburgh, Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Otago Daily Times
The hard work put in by Lakes Leisure to prepare facilities for the visiting Irish rugby team has paid off, with the Irish Rugby World Cup squad yesterday giving the thumbs-up to facilities at the Queenstown Events Centre.
Captain Brian O'Driscoll said at a press conference the facilities in the resort were "exactly what we would be hoping for".
The squad arrived in the resort on Thursday via Dubai and Sydney to a noisy welcome from hundreds of people, including Irish nationals living in Queenstown and 200 school children from all over the district.
On Thursday night, the team took part in a "quick little spin class" at the Queenstown Events Centre before a 15-minute game of indoor football and a swim. There was a light training session yesterday "running out the two-day travel experience".
"The track we were playing on today, the backdrop was not something you would see too often. It was pretty special," O'Driscoll said. "It's exactly what we would be hoping for in training to get our preparations right."
While the squad planned on doing some hard work over the next week, there would be no "lock-down" for the team while in Queenstown.
Manager Paul McNaughton said there were a couple of "down days" and the team had already been inquiring about sightseeing in Queenstown.
"The guys want to go out and meet the locals, have a drink ... and have a good time on their down days and [sample] a lot of the activities that are here."
The team's first game is against the United States in New Plymouth on September 11 - a game it would be taking seriously, O'Driscoll said.
"We look at the teams in our pool [and] the obvious [threat] is Australia - they are ranked second or third in the world - but there are no pushover test matches.
"In 2007 we had it hard against a couple of lesser known international nations. We won't be taking anything for granted."
McNaughton said centre Gordon D'Arcy would be arriving in Queenstown on Monday after suffering a calf strain during a recovery session in Ireland.
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