Perth

Overview

Diving Australia (DA) is establishing a Talent Identification Program in Perth, Western Australia to identify and fast track junior elite athletes for National squads and teams.

DA and Western Australian Diving are conducting a search for athletes who have the potential to become world class divers. We are looking for young people between the ages of 10 - 15 years who have the ability to be fast tracked for the TID program by testing for the skills that show they are suitable for the sport.

Chantelle Newbery, DA's National Talent Identification Coordinator will work with the National Talent Identification coach Jack Taylor to implement the program.

Talent Identification Program

Up to twelve athletes will be offered an invitation to join the Talent Identification squad for a trial period to be considered as a squad member. The training venue will be the Challenge Stadium Perth.

Testing Day

When

• Sunday, 30 November 2008
• NTID / Diving Australia registration form
  

Where

• Challenge Stadium
• Stephenson Avenue
• Mt Claremont

Time

• 9:45am registration for a 10:00am start

Brisbane

Overview

Diving Australia (DA) established Elite Talent ID program in Brisbane by maximising the current national high performance structure to identify and fast track junior elite athletes for future Australian Teams.

Under the guidance of National TID coach, Wang Jin Lan, the athletes in the program have made exceptional progress in their skill base. Always motivated and prepared to do what was required, the athletes successfully demonstrated the outcomes that could be achieved when good technical coaching was provided within a well thought out and prepared program utilising a world class dryland facility and pool access.

DA is conducting another search for the next generation of champion divers to join our current TID program. We are looking for young people between the ages of 10 - 15 years who have the potential to to be fast tracked for the Talent Identification Program by testing for the skills that show they are suitable for the sport.

Olympic Gold Medallist Chantelle Newbery is DA's National Talent Identification Coordinator and will work with the TID Coaches and oversee the program.

Testing Day

When

• Monday, 22 December 2008
• NTID / Diving Australia registration form
  

Where

• AIS Dryland Centre
• Sleeman Sports Complex
• Corner of Old Cleveland and Tilley Roads
• Chandler QLD 4152

Time

• 12:45pm registration for a 1:00pm start

Expression of Interest

For enquires for either the Perth or Brisbane program please contact Chantelle Newbery at Diving Australia on 07 3823 1444 or mobile 0439 492 805 or email newberyc@ausport.gov.au

or Register for the testing here

Sport Overview

‘The Diving Spring’ program is a combined effort of Diving Australia and the NTID program. ‘The Diving Spring’ program is aimed at maximizing the current national high performance structure and streamlining the identification and fast tracking process to produce junior elite divers for the state institutes and academies of sport, national training centres (NTC), and ultimately the Australian Institute of Sport program and future Diving Australia national teams.

'The Diving Spring' program aims to create an ‘eternal spring’ of divers flowing into the NTC programs who have the potential to win medals at Olympic Games. To achieve this, the focus of 'The Diving Spring' will be on both talent identification and talent transfer.

‘The Diving Spring’ is Australia’s biggest ever search for the next generation of champion divers.

Diving is a multi-medal sport which has achieved consistent success at the international level over the past six years.

Australian results in diving

Olympic Games

• 1924 1 Gold
• 2000 2 Bronze
• 2004 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze
• 2004 Ranked 2nd Nation in the world
• 2008 1 Gold, 1 Silver
• 2008 Ranked 2nd Nation in the world

World Championships

• 1998 2 Bronze
• 2001 1 Silver, 2 Bronze
• 2003 2 Gold, 2 Silver
• 2005 2 Silver
• 2007 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

We are now looking to repeat the success of the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games by improving the calibre and number of athletes coming through the athlete pathway to the AIS Residential program.

Olympic gold medallist Chantelle Newbery is coordinating ‘The Diving Spring’ Program and will work with the TID Coaches to implement the program.

Current Projects

Stockland Park, Sunshine Coast

Diving Australia and NTID have joined forces with Stockland Park Corporation to establish a talent identification program on the Sunshine Coast at Quad Park. The aim of the program is to identify and fast track junior elite athletes for Queensland and national squads and teams.

A search for athletes who had the potential to become world class divers was conducted. Eight athletes were offered an invitation to join the talent dentification squad.

We were searching for athletes with the following characteristics:

• males and females
• aged 10 to 15 years
• short stature
• coordination
• strength
• power
• enthusiasm and availability to be part of an intensive elite development program
• a background in gymnastics, trampolining or aerobatics would be valuable
• No diving experience was necessary.
  

Olympic gold medalist, Chantelle Newbery, worked with Barbi Donnet Carver, coach of the Stockland Park TID squad and Jin Lan, National TID Coach to implement and oversee the program.

The testing and training venues are located at:

• Kawana Aquatic Centre at Stockland Park, Sportmans Parade, Bokarina and
• Sleemand Sports Complex, Chandler, Brisbane

Brisbane

Diving Australia in cooperation with the Australian Sports Commission’s NTID program launched its inaugural ‘Diving Spring’ talent identification program for diving at the Chandler Dryland Training Centre in Brisbane in May 2007.

52 males and females aged between 8 to 16 years arrived at the Dryland Training Centre on Saturday 26 May for the ‘Diving Spring’ Talent Identification Testing session. The majority of the enthusiastic athletes had a background in gymnastics, trampolining, acrobatics or diving.

Diving Australia’s NTID Coordinator, Chantelle Newberry welcomed the athletes and introduced them to AIS National Head Coach Hui Tong, QAS Head Coach Xiang Ning Chen and Talent Identification Coach Jin Lan Wang who worked with the athletes through the skills component of the testing session. AIS divers were strongly represented as they ran the various testing stations to assess body shape, flexibility, upper and lower body strength and power, and core stability and strength.

A squad of eight athletes have been selected to form the first ‘Diving Spring’ squad and have commenced training at same pool as the QAS and AIS squads at the Sleeman Sports Complex in Brisbane under the guidance of Jin Lan Wang.

Squads

Stockland Park Sunshine Coast ‘Diving Spring’ Squad

Coach: Barbi Donnet-Carver

Brisbane ‘Diving Spring’ Squad

• Beth Nicolson
• Kelly Baker
• Madeline Phillips
• Lara Tarvit
• Taneka Kovchenko
• Matthew Skennar
• Rebecca Stafford
• Brittany Broben

Coaches: Jin Lan Wang and Chantelle Newbery

Program Supporters

• Diving Australia
• Stockland Park Corporation
• Australian Institute of Sport
• Australian Sports Commission

Contacts/Links

Diving Australia

Stockland Park

For further information and enquires please click here

Testimonials

“Diving Australia is very excited that we had such a great turn out to the first Qld talent testing day. There were many kids that showed they had the makings of a champion diver and with the help of Jin Lan, QLDTID coach, we stand a solid chance of boosting the young talent in Queensland. The athletes understand that this is a unique opportunity that has been presented to them and they are taking full advantage of their big break into elite diving.”Chantelle Newbery, Olympic Gold Medallist and Diving Australia National Talent Identification Coordinator.