The New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) is a

high performance sport High performance sport or elite sport is sport at the highest level of competition. In sports administration, "high-performance sport", where the emphasis is on winning prestigious competitions, is distinguished from "mass sport" or "recreational ...

s training institute located in

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, Australia. The

government agency provides world leading coaching, performance support and daily training environments to support targeted athletes achieve podium performances. In conjunction with a holistic approach to athlete welfare, career and educational assistance, the NSWIS supports and develops targeted elite and emerging athletes to achieve their highest potential. Located at Sydney Olympic Park, in Sydney, the institute was established as a statutory body under the ''Institute of Sport Act, 1995'', following a review recommending central coordination and monitoring of high performance sports programs in New South Wales. Operations officially commenced in 1996. During 2021, the institute developed 564 athletes, across 46 sports in 18 programs. The services ensure that NSWIS athletes have access to coaching and sports technology while also receiving tailored support to help balance their sporting commitments with personal development and a career. The agency is responsible to the

Minister for Tourism and Sport The Minister for Tourism and Sport was a minister in the Government of New South Wales with responsibilities for the administration and support for all sporting bodies and tourism in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The most recent Mi ...

, presently The Hon. Stuart Ayres . Ultimately, the minister is responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.

Structure

The institute offers support to athletes across the following nine areas: * Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement * Biomechanics * Coaching * Corporate and Communications * Nutrition * Performance Analysis * Performance Health * Performance Psychology * Physiology * Research * Sports Management * Strength and Conditioning Under the institute's Mobile/Regional program, the NSWIS offers support services to NSWIS athletes in their home environment, enabling them to pursue their sporting careers with minimal disruption to their family, education and employment. The institute's principal partner was ClubsNSW, who provided 1 million a year in sponsorship.

Sports

The NSWIS runs programs in a number of sports with the objective of preparing young athletes for national and international competition. , programs are run in the following sports: *

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

, including wheelchair track & road *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

and

wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...

* Canoeing *

Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ...

Diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

Field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cou ...

* Surfing *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

Triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the ...

Water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

Winter sports Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold are ...

References

External links

NSWIS websiteNSWIS newsroom
Sport in New South Wales Australian Institute of Sport Sports institutes in Australia {{australia-sport-stub

Structure

Sports

See also

References

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