National Elite Sports Council

The National Elite Sports Council (NESC) was established in 1993 and comprises the Directors of Australia’s key State, Territory and National Sports Institutes and Academies NESC is an endorsed Sub Committee of the Standing Committee on Recreation and Sport.

Through the NESC the eight State and Territory Sports Institutes and Academies and the Australian Institute of Sport form a national network of principal providers of elite sport programs and services.

The NESC network is collectively responsible to its stakeholder governments and strategic partners for provision of ‘the daily training and high performance sport servicing environment’ for the majority of Australia’s high performance athletes and programs on the Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games schedules.

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700 Athlete scholarships are offered annually at the AIS
40 Thousand kilometres were swum by Petria Thomas whilst at the AIS
1 million people visit the AIS each year
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