Saturday 25 January 1997. Mount Gambier Gift The 120m Mount Gambier Gift was held annually on the first Saturday in December at Vansittart Oval was the 2nd richest professional footrace in South Australia. Resurrected in 2001 the athletic carnival includes races from 70m to 1600m and attracts athletes from all over Australia, mostly from South Australia and Victoria. Of the eleven Mount Gambier athletic carnivals held to date, three Victorians have won the 120 m Gift. On 3 December 2011, 21-year-old Wallace Long-Scafidi won the Gift for the second year in a row. The race has not been held since 2012, and to this date continues to go unheld. Mount Gambier Pioneers Basketball Club The Mount Gambier Pioneers Basketball Club are the city's only representative team to participate in a national competition. The Pioneers entered the South Eastern Basketball League in 1988 and currently play in the NBL1 South Conference, the second tier competition underneath Basketball Australia's premier elite professional competition the Australian NBL. Infrastructure Health The city has a major regional hospital, Mount Gambier Hospital out of which operates the Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service. Additionally there are a number of private health services including the Mount Gambier Private Hospital (now closed). Utilities The city's main catchment is the Blue Lake, the volcano lake is both a tourist attraction and the city's main reservoir. Water supply, sewage collection and disposal are provided by South East Catchment Water Management Board. Education There are six Reception to Year 6 (R-6) Primary schools: Reidy Park Primary School; McDonald Park; Compton Primary School; Melaleuca Park; Mulga Street Primary School; Mount Gambier North Primary School. There are two Reception to Year 12 (R-12) colleges: Tenison Woods College St Martins Lutheran College. There are two high schools for Year 7 to 12: Mount Gambier High School Grant High School. Post-secondary education is offered by the following providers: TAFE South Australia has a campus in Mount Gambier providing an extensive variety of vocational study. University of South Australia has a modern, state of the art campus in Mount Gambier which offers full-time or part-time undergraduate degrees in Education, Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work with enabling courses in Foundation Studies and Aboriginal Pathways Program also offered. Flinders University also operates Flinders Rural Health SA in the grounds of Mount Gambier Hospital. Transport Mount Gambier sits on a number of highways which connect the city to other