Triathlon Australia has officially announced its five new State Performance Centres as the national governing body continues to strive for sustained international success on a competitive world stage.
The governing body’s High Performance Program, under the direction of National Performance Director Bernard Savage, called for nationwide expressions of interest from coaches/programs.
In a vibrant market, Triathlon Australia High Performance (TAHP) received 14 applications – with the five successful State Performance Centres going to:
- Carina Leagues Triathlon Club (Carina, Brisbane, QLD) – Head Coach: Warwick Dalziel
- Performance Triathlon Coaching (Canberra, ACT) – Head Coach: Corey Bacon
- QAS State Performance Centre (Albany Creek/Lawnton, Brisbane, QLD) – Head Coach: Josh White
- Rehula Performance Training (Melbourne, VIC) – Head Coach: Jan Rehula
- Sheldon College (Sheldon, Brisbane, QLD) – Head coach: Chris Lang
The five centres will receive direct financial support with agreed allocation of funding investment for the next two years from TAHP as well as being recognised as Triathlon Australia State Performance Centres (SPC).
“The establishment of our five SPCs is an important element of our new High Performance Plan,” said Triathlon Australia’s National Performance Director Bernard Savage. “They will be critical to our ability to meet our long term contribution to Australia’s ‘Winning Edge’ investment.”
The SPC Head Coaches can officially use the title ‘Triathlon Australia State Performance Coach’ and they will be actively involved in the design and establishment of the new TA National Athlete Pathway Framework (NAPF) as well as assisting with National Development Camp, NTA camps and National Performance Standard time trials.
It is anticipated that athletes who have been selected for the National Talent Academy (NTA) program and/or have been categorised as an ‘emerging’ or higher category athletes will be coached free of charge within the SPC environment.
Triathlon Australia’s National Manager High Performance Pathway, Craig Redman is excited with the appointments. He said, “The key thing for us is that we know that athletes working in a daily training environment, working face-to-face with coaches, developing long-term relationships have the greatest success.”
Redman added, “And a lot of the athletes working in these environments are well on the way to having good progression; they’re the ones working daily in that face-to-face environment. “This is about recognising those key environments and creating those opportunities for the athletes and the coaches by investing where those coaches are working daily face-to-face.
