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What I would love to see is more intramural sports at the H.S. level. We have some of this, I've heard of lunchtime doge-ball & basketball tournaments. But they are informal & parents don't necessary hear about it if a child isn't involved. All of the larger pubic university's in my area have extensive intramural sports for their students. These are informal groups of students, who play low stakes games mostly for the fun & exercise.

university in nz is relatively cheap and student loans are easy to get (an arts degree isn't much more than $20000, although a medical degree is $100k plus)most doing top flight degrees do a stint overseas to gain experience and earn more to pain off their student loans before returning home. Aussie is the same pretty much.
Sports stars can get school scholarships, but so can gifted kids. At college level as far as I'm aware there isn't anything -the focus is on academia not sports.
Players come up through provincial teams and I guess universities have nothing to do with selection.

Just a quick check of the scholarships page for NZ unis shows no sporting scholarships other than for support staff ie: coaches and physios'and most are no more than $5000.00 total. There aren't any free rides unless you have extreme hardship and even then I don't think so

It is a major difference. There is a lot of sport at primary and high school but when you get to university it is pretty low key. There are university teams but unless you play you wouldn't know. Most sports players here don't have higher education all though as I said many rugby players did before it became professional. I would like all schooltheorumivetheorW values from umiversity. We had a free gym and heaps of clubs but we knew we were there to learn not play. Please note that although I went to school in the seventies I went to university in the nineties so my experiences don't match that well.