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Our school is a regional sports secondary school where children gifted at sports and who are going to become professional sportsmen or specialists in sports, can study and do sport.

The aim of our school is to provide basic and secondary high-quality education together with sports education which matches to child’s talents and abilities and to raise competetive personality which is able to adapt in modern society.

“ A person must be in the first place in a person. Then a person becomes healthy, beautiful, attractive and wise” Vydūnas

The school was founded in 1961.

The school was reorganised and became Šiauliai Sports secondary school in 2014 –09 –01.

There are 197 students in our school from Šiauliai and from other parts of Lithuania.

91 students live in dormitory

There 36 teachers and 23 coaches at our school.

THERE ARE VARIOUS SPORTS PROGRAMMES IN OUR SCHOOLFootball

Basketball

Rugby

Volleyball

Handball

Grass hockey

Greek - Roman wrestling

Free wrestling

Women‘s wrestling

Judo

Taekwondo

Track and field athletics

Kayak and canoe rowing

Rowing

BMX

ŠIAULIAi SPORTS SECONDARY SCHOOL