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Team Girls building strong women of the future through sport
Sport Australia and Suncorp are teaming up to build a nation of more confident girls and women through a connection with sport - and the next three years will provide a great opportunity for participation growth.
Great potential for women and girls in sport
Sport Australia chair John Wylie writes that the platform for growing sport for girls and women in Australia has been set over many years, but the next three years carry great potential.
Nestlé extends partnership with AIS
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is delighted to announce it has extended its pre-existing partnership with Nestlé Australia for another 12 months.
AIS and Sport Australia celebrates FIFA Women’s World Cup bid win
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and Sport Australia believe the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup will have an enormously positive impact on football and broader sport at all levels, welcoming today’s announcement that Australia and New Zealand will co-host the prestigious tournament.
Nestlé extends partnership with AIS
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and Sport Australia believe the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup will have an enormously positive impact on football and broader sport at all levels, welcoming today’s announcement that Australia and New Zealand will co-host the prestigious tournament.
AIS thanks Louise Burke for immeasurable impact over three decades
Chief of Nutrition Strategy Louise Burke OAM has been with the AIS for over three decades, and has had an immeasurable impact on the organisation, and on Australian sport. Appointed as Head of Sports Nutrition in 1990, Louise initially oversaw individual and team nutrition counselling, provided individual advice to AIS & Australian national teams, created the AIS Dining Hall menus and developed educational resources for athletes around the country.
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.