{"id":2223,"date":"2021-11-25T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T02:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncas.org.au\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T02:48:47","slug":"southern-cross-university-exercise-science-students-gain-valuable-experience-with-north-coast-academy-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/southern-cross-university-exercise-science-students-gain-valuable-experience-with-north-coast-academy-of-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Cross University Exercise science students gain valuable experience with North Coast Academy of Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nExercise science students (L-R) Kiara Richardson, Kelli Miller and Jess Thodey<\/p>\n

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Story from www.scu.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n

For Northern Rivers mother-of-three Kelli Miller, becoming an exercise physiologist has been a long-time dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an avid and multi-talented athlete, Kelli was in her mid-thirties when she decided to enrol in the Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at Southern Cross University\u2019s Lismore campus.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to now, and Kelli is completing the final practical placement of her degree through Southern Cross University\u2019s long-standing partnership with North Coast Academy of Sport (NCAS), working with young athletes to improve strength and conditioning to become competition ready.<\/p>\n

Other Southern Cross University sport and exercise science students currently on placement with NCAS include Jess Thodey and Kiara Richardson, who as high school students, came through the NCAS Netball program and basketball program respectively.<\/p>\n

Kelli says the partnership has enabled her to gain real-world experience, putting her knowledge into practice with the region\u2019s future sporting leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough our placement with NCAS we\u2019re working with the top young athletes in the region in sports such as swimming, golf, basketball and netball,\u201d Kelli said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve conducted a series of education days where all the athletes from different sports get together and there are speakers who talk about everything from nutrition to drugs in sport, goal setting, budgeting, time management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we helped lead the strength and conditioning component, where we were able to write programs for individuals and teams to run through with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed all of it immensely, it\u2019s been so good to get involved and use our knowledge in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout her degree, Kelli continued playing soccer, Oztag and tennis, and regularly kayaking and wakeboarding, as well as ferrying her kids between school, sports matches and training. In late 2020 however, she suffered a devastating ACL injury during a sporting match, but quickly decided to make the most of her recovery and not let it impact her studies and everything she\u2019d worked so hard for.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t let it slow me down, if anything I\u2019ve been able to use my knowledge in the field to help with my recovery and as I\u2019m learning new things in each subject I have even more of an appreciation for it now with the personal experience I\u2019ve had,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been facing the challenge and working my physio and doing what I can to strengthen other muscles to get myself back into social sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s been great having studies and placement to focus on so I feel still really involved in sport even during my recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelli is set to graduate this year and has already been accepted to study a Masters of Clinical Exercise Physiology through Southern Cross.<\/p>\n

For her, it\u2019s not just about being \u2018fit and fabulous\u2019, but also functional.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to be able to work with elderly people, helping them to be able to stay home for longer and do normal everyday things like carrying groceries and walking upstairs \u2013 and they can do that if they have that support from an exercise physiologist who can give them specific exercises to help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor anyone who has an interest in exercise physiology I\u2019d definitely recommend they jump in and pursue it, especially at Southern Cross where we have such a great hands-on degree with amazing partnerships such as North Coast Academy of Sport. There are definitely calls for more qualified people in our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find out more about sport, exercise science and clinical exercise physiology course offerings at Southern Cross University at\u00a0scu.edu.au\/exercisescience<\/a><\/p>\n

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Media contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Jessica Nelson 0417288794 or content@scu.edu.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exercise science students (L-R) Kiara Richardson, Kelli Miller and Jess Thodey Story from www.scu.edu.au For Northern Rivers mother-of-three Kelli Miller, becoming an exercise physiologist has been a long-time dream. As an avid and multi-talented athlete, Kelli was in her mid-thirties when she decided to enrol in the Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at Southern … 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\/2223"}],"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=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncas.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}