Rod Siegel

Rod Siegel is an applied sport scientist and high-performance leader with more than 15 years’ experience across multiple sports, organisations, performance environments and high-performance systems in Australia and New Zealand. He has contributed to medal-winning campaigns at Olympic, Paralympic and World Championship level across each of the past five Olympic and Paralympic cycles.

Rod has held leadership roles as National Physiology Network Lead at the Australian Institute of Sport and Performance Science Manager at the Victorian Institute of Sport, where he led multidisciplinary performance science delivery and helped connect and strengthen performance support networks across the Australian high-performance sport system.

Now High Performance Manager for Wheelchair Basketball at Basketball Australia, Rod leads the strategic and operational delivery of the national program, aligning athlete pathways, coaching, competition exposure, and daily performance environments to enhance performance at benchmark events. He is also actively involved in applied research and innovation, translating evidence into creative performance solutions that challenge established thinking, strengthen decision-making and improve competition performance.