Swimming Australia National Training Centre

Swimming Australia National Training Centre ("NTC") (formally the AIS Swimming Program) is an Olympic and Paralympic swimming scholarship program based at the Australian Institute of Sport. Set up as one of the eight founding program of the AIS in 1981 It is supported by the Australian Sports Commission under the Winning Edge 2012-2022 strategy and identified by Swimming Australia as a Podium Performance Centre.[1]

Swimming Australia National Training Centre
SAL NTC
SportSwimming
History
Year of formation1981
Former namesAIS Swimming Program
Demographics
Membership sizeApproximately 15 Athletes
Staff
Address
Chief ExecutiveMark Anderson
Olympic team managerPetria Thomas
Olympic CoachTracey Menzies
Paralympic CoachYuriy Vdovychenko
Finance
SponsorsHancock Prospecting

The programs administration and swimming coaching services is run by Swimming Australia. The sports medicine, sports science and strength and conditioning services are provided by the AIS.

History

The National Training Centre programme replaces the AIS Swimming scholarship programme that ran from the AIS's formation in 1981. As well as the AIS Paralympic Program that ran between 2009 and 2011.

The Swimming Australia NTC scholarship program is funded by the Australian Federal Government, through the Australian Sports Commission. The program provides both residential and off-site living arrangement depending on the choice of the athlete. The program provides funding to those athletes who choose to live off-site.

The NTC program was set up as part of the Australian Sports Commission Winning Edge 2012-2022 strategy and officially replaced the AIS Swimming Program on January 1, 2014.

Current coaching staff include Tracey Menzies and Yuriy Vdovychenko. The program is managed by former AIS Swimming Scholarship holder Petria Thomas.[2]

See also
  • Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
  • Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimmers

References
  1. "Podium Centres for 2014". Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
  2. "Swimming Australia launches new program at AIS". Australian Sports Commission website. Retrieved 24 June 2017.


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