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Australian athletes receive over $50m in funding
The Board of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has welcomed the Federal Government’s $54.5 million investment in high performance sport, announced today by Minister for Sport, Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck.
Philo Saunders named Athletics Australia Para Athlete Coach of the Year
AIS senior physiologist and coach to Paralympians Michael Roeger, Jaryd Clifford and Deon Kenzie, was named Athletics Australia’s 2019 Para Athlete Coach of the Year last night.
Jada Whyman has a yarn to share
Storytelling is intrinsic to Jada Whyman’s Indigenous culture. Her maternal grandfather was the eldest of 14 children raised in a tin shack on a NSW riverbank, and reunited decades later with several of the 10 siblings forcibly removed as part of the Stolen Generations.
Supplement use in high performance sport PhD applications now open
The Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research (MMIHR) is partnering with the AIS to undertake research on issues that affect athlete health and performance.
Sport needs you back: an open letter to every volunteer and participant
'It was with optimism and pride that we were able to launch the Return to Sport Toolkit this week, moving a step closer to the resumption of community sport.'
Indigenous communities to Share a Yarn with elite athletes
Olympic race-walker Beki Smith and Western Sydney Wanderers goalkeeper Jada Whyman are amongst 13 current and former elite athletes who have joined together to ‘Share a Yarn’ with remote Indigenous communities across the country.
Toolkit launched to help guide return of community sport
Sport Australia has launched a suite of practical resources that focus on giving community sporting clubs and associations a roadmap for the safest return to sport at all levels.
Sport Australia thanks volunteers: 'one of sport’s greatest assets'
Sport Australia Acting CEO Rob Dalton is encouraging sporting participants to thank their local volunteers this National Volunteer Week saying they play a critical role in a safe return to sport.
Athletes give thanks to those ‘Changing Communities. Changing Lives’
Australia’s high performance athletes are putting the call out to all sporting participants to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers as part of National Volunteer Week (18-24 May 2020).
The phone call that saved Erik Horrie's life
Lifeline saved Erik Horrie. In its own, less dramatic, way, sport rescued him, too.
AIS Framework helps guide a safer return to sport
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and Sport Australia welcomes the Australian Government’s national principles for a return to sport. The AIS has published a complementary framework to help guide sports through this process safely.
Aussie athletes uniting for Lifeline in time of need
Commonwealth Games netball gold medallist Caitlin Thwaites and Rio Olympic bronze medallist Dane Bird-Smith are amongst 22 current and former Australian athletes named AIS-Lifeline Community Custodians for 2020-21.