What We Do

Our Athlete Wellbeing & Engagement team assists NSWIS athletes to make informed decisions that impact their performance in both sport and life. By providing guidance, support, resources and education we aim to develop athletes who display the high performance behaviours required to successfully progress through the elite pathway.

Education Partners: 

NSWIS coaches work towards success by developing their knowledge, experience, leadership skills and technical capability. NSWIS undertakes a partnered approach to the selection, development, performance management and succession of coaches, working in collaboration with sport program partners.

The NSWIS Medical Program is responsible for minimising the potential for, and effects of injury and illness on NSWIS athletes, and to assist athletes and coaches facilitate safe, legal and effective training, and preparation for  competition.

NSWIS is linked to an array of private sports medicine doctors, physiotherapists, massage therapists and dieticians that form an elite NSWIS Service Provider Network. Each service provider has been accredited under strict criteria of excellence in sports medicine knowledge, training and experience.

The NSW Institute of Sport provides performance analysis services in order to monitor and develop the skills and performance of athletes. Our experts provide coaches and athletes with objective competition and training data, which can be used to examine and evaluate individual and team sport performance. Live video and statistical analysis provided to coaches and athletes during competition has the ability to impact the outcome.

NSWIS Physiologists quantify the physiological characteristics and monitor the training response of athletes. This information is used to help guide coaches in training prescription, identify areas for potential improvement and implement training interventions that will optimise performance.

These adaptations include aerobic and anaerobic capacity, speed, power, agility, flexibility and body composition. Additionally, NSWIS physiologists implement additive components to an athlete’s preparation, including the use of hypoxic training (artificial and real altitude) and specific programs to adapt to environmental conditions such as heat and humidity.

Our High Performance Sport and Excellence team are experts in the management, co-ordination and administration of high performance sport programs and development program where we work with sport program partners and performance teams to ensure sport targets are achieved.