With a possible Brisbane Olympics just over ten years away, the next crop of Australia\u2019s sporting heroes are already in the current NSW Regional Academy System. This year 3200 athletes were talented identifies with 2400 going into pre-elite development programs in 27 different sporting codes.<\/p>\n
Chairperson of RAS, Ian Robilliard OAM, outlined the need for investment for long term success must occur now and be guaranteed for a number of years,<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery young Australian regardless of their location deserves access to world class regional training to make their dreams of sporting greatness possible. The Regional Academy collective system allows for high quality, cost effective program for the nations sporting bodies. To put it bluntly, RAS can deliver high performance development programs at a fraction of the cost that each individual sporting organisation can, \u00a0while at the same time providing the content specialists and what is regarded as best practice defeating the tyranny of distance for regional families. If the RAS network didn\u2019t exist athletes could be lost in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n
In NSW, from a political standpoint, sport sits in what is known as a Stronger Communities Government Cluster, where Youth Development, Communities and Justice and Multiculturalism also belong.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Regional Youth development programs are worth so much more than Sport,\u201d Robilliard continued, \u201cWe know that we are creating job ready, mentally resilient people. We have\u00a0strong leadership programs and the benefits of being in our programs far outweigh that of sporting skill development.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Your Local Club Academy Games will occur on April 16-18th<\/sup> of this year bringing over 1200 junior regional athletes to the Hunter Region for strong competition that acts as a identification and development tool for many sports.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Games is a mini-Olympics of sorts for the talented youth, giving athletes experience in an high performance environment and above all a chance to compete against quality opponents,\u201d Brett O\u2019Farrell, CEO of the Hunter Academy of Sport and Games Host said. \u201cThe event delivers over 7000 bed stays and millions of dollars in economic return to the region each year making it a boost in tourism for Regional NSW as well as a vital experience for athletes in the sporting pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n Support for Brisbane\u2019s Olympic bid will continue to build, and whilst a big part of the funding will focus on infrastructure for the Brisbane bid, the discussions surrounding funding long terms<\/span> athlete development programs must be held and to ignore the next generation of Australia\u2019s sporting heroes would have a significantly adverse impact on our country\u2019s success in 2032.<\/p>\n The NSW Office of Sport and the NSW Government have been great supporters of the RAS network for over thirty plus years. It is the opinion of many that a strong investment into the future stars sporting strategy must occur now to ensure future success at Brisbane in 2032.<\/p>\n The NSW Regional Academies of Sport (RAS) welcomed the recent news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will start a targeted dialogue with the Brisbane 2032 Committee and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) in relation to Australia hosting the Olympic Games for a third time. Recently Brisbane’s\u00a0bid to host the\u00a02032\u00a0summer Olympics also got the backing … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Basketball20-20photog20Peter20Dovgan20-20lo20res20-2044_preview_jpeg.jpg\")
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\nImage: North Coast Academy of Sport and Central Coast Academy of Sport competing in Basketball at the Your Local Club Academy Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"