Partners
Australian Sports Commission
Australian University Sport
The partnership with Australian University Sport (AUS) is a critical element for an effective national system of talent identification. The ability of the NTID program to provide a talent identification service throughout Australia requires metropolitan, regional and rural infrastructure. This relationship with AUS will coordinate specific Universities all over Australia to align with a systems approach that will provide unprecedented opportunities for the identification access of Australia’s limited talent pool. AUS currently provides sport funding support for 41 Universities throughout Australia and through integration into this network, the NTID program will be able to better instigate opportunities for talent identification through the student populations and in many instances their boarder community networks and talent transfer in late specialisation programs. Through this relationship, the NTID program was able to implement a mass screening initiative at the annual Australian University Games, held on the Gold Coast in September this year.
SIS/SAS & RAS
The SIS/SAS and RAS network provides an ideal framework for the implementation of a NTID talent transfer model for athletes exiting the system (e.g. deselection from team based program, non-renewal of individual scholarship or retirement). In addition, unique opportunities also exist within this network to establish NTID Talent Assessment Centres at these locations, increasing the number of results received by the NTID program thus improving talent detection opportunities.
Talent Assessment Centres
An intergral partnership of the NTID program exists with the establishment of NTID Talent Assessment Centres (TAC) across Australia. These registered testing centes play a cruicial role in assisting us in providing a significantly improved service to the general public in terms of physical screening opportunities. They have been setup all around the country for vertification of testing results directed from eTID, in a controlled and safe environment.
Whilst the university network (specifically Human Movement/Exercise Science faculties and University Sports Associations) constitutes the major framework of the above mentioned TAC infrastructure, other key stakeholders such as Regional Acadamies of Sport (RAS) have also joined the network. As an intergral partner to the eTID resource, a major benefit of this system is the inclusion of regionally based universities which extends screening opportunites to those located outside major metropolitan centres.
