Students at Glenala State High School in Durack are still waiting for covered outdoor courts that were meant to be completed by the end of last year. With early 2026 now passed, no confirmed start date has been announced for the school’s courts.
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Glenala is one of six Queensland schools awarded Category 3 funding under the Go for Gold program, with grants of between $2.5 million and $5 million earmarked for new or upgraded sports infrastructure in the lead-up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Category 3 projects are valued at between $2.5 million and $5 million. For Glenala, that funding was slated to deliver covered outdoor multipurpose courts designed to expand training spaces for the school’s netball program.
The original plan had all Category 3 projects completed by December 2025. Not a single one of the six Category 3 schools had broken ground by late last year, according to previous reporting by Over the Walter Taylor Bridge.
The Education Department has since revised its timeline, with construction now expected to begin sometime in 2026 and completion pushed to the end of the year. That revised start date remains subject to weather conditions, market capacity, and construction schedules.
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For Glenala, the delay has practical consequences. The school runs a netball excellence program, and without the planned courts, students remain without the dedicated training facilities the upgrade was intended to provide. Adequate sporting infrastructure matters both for students on elite pathways and for the broader school community.
The Go for Gold program was designed so that Queensland students could benefit from Olympic legacy infrastructure well before the Games arrive in 2032. For Glenala and the broader Durack community, the timeline for seeing that investment materialise remains unclear.
Published 27-March-2026
