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Formal Academic and Skill Development
Qualifications for Aspiring Professional AFL Player
Formal Academic and Skill Development
Qualifications for Aspiring Athletes
Formal Academic and Skill Development
Qualifications for Aspiring Athletes
SATAC recognise the qualification as a subject (for SATAC purposes), calculated for a student’s ATAR contribution based on the average over the remaining 70 credits available for SACE Stage 2.
Unit of Competency
SISSAFL201A Perform the intermediate skills of Australian Football
SISSAFL202A Perform the intermediate tactics of Australian Football
SISSAFL304A Perform the advanced skills of Australian Football
SISSAFL305A Perform the advanced tactics of Australian Football
SISSCOP309A Design an athlete’s diet
SISSSPT201A Implement sports injury prevention
SISSCOP308A Model the responsibilities of an elite athlete
SISSCOP204A Develop personal media skills
SISXWHS101 Follow work health and safety policies
SISSCOP306A Prepare a sponsorship proposal
HLTAID003 Provide first aid
BSBWOR301 Organise personal work priorities and development
SISSCOP205A Develop a personal financial plan
SISXRSK301A Undertake risk analysis of activities
SISSCOP202A Develop a personal management plan
Program Duration: 30 weeks
Program Location: SACA Karen Rolton Sporting Complex, Adelaide SA
Tuition Fee: 2020 Program TBA
Incidental Fee(s): Student Athlete Apparel & Training Kit*
*Anticipated incidental fee(s) $375.00
SIS30613 Certificate III in Sport (Equestrian Program)
SATAC recognise the qualification as a subject (for SATAC purposes), calculated for a student’s ATAR contribution based on the average over the remaining 70 credits available for SACE Stage 2.
Unit of Competency
SISSCOP308A Model the responsibilities of an elite athlete
SISSCOP204A Develop personal media skills
SISSAFL201A Perform the intermediate skills of Australian Football
SISSCOP306A Prepare a sponsorship proposal
SISSAFL202A Perform the intermediate tactics of Australian Football
SISSAFL304A Perform the advanced skills of Australian Football
SISSCOP309A Design an athlete’s diet
BSBWOR301 Organise personal work priorities and development
SISSAFL305A Perform the advanced tactics of Australian Football
SISSCOP205A Develop a personal financial plan
SISSSPT201A Implement sports injury prevention
SISXRSK301A Undertake risk analysis of activities
SISSCOP202A Develop a personal management plan
SISXWHS101 Follow work health and safety policies
HLTAID003 Provide first aid
Program Duration: 30 weeks
Program Location: SACA Karen Rolton Sporting Complex, Adelaide SA
Tuition Fee: 2020 Program TBA
Incidental Fee(s): Student Athlete Apparel & Training Kit*
*Anticipated incidental fee(s) $375.00
SIS30613 Certificate III in Sport (High Performance Sport – Football)
SACE STAGE 2 credits are available to students for successful completion of this qualification and allows eligibility to contribute to the calculation of an ATAR in the flexible option section up to the maximum allowed for recognised studies (20 credit ‘subject’ equivalent).
SATAC recognise the qualification as a subject (for SATAC purposes), calculated for a student’s ATAR contribution based on the average over the remaining 70 credits available for SACE Stage 2.
Unit of Competency
SISSCOP308A Model the responsibilities of an elite athleteSISSCOP309A Design an athlete’s dietSISXCAI005 Conduct individualised long-term training programsSISSSOC301A Perform advanced level soccer skillsSISSSOC302A Perform advanced level soccer tactics and strategiesSISSCOP204A Develop personal media skillsSISSCOP205A Develop a personal financial planSISSCOP306A Prepare a sponsorship proposalSISXWHS101 Follow work health and safety policiesSISSSPT201A Implement sports injury preventionBSBWOR301 Organise personal work priorities and developmentBSBCMM401 Make a presentationHLTAID003 Provide first aidSISSCOP202A Develop a personal management planSISXRSK301A Undertake a risk analysis of activitiesProgram Duration: 30 weeks
Program Location: Adelaide City Football Park, Oakden SA
Tuition Fee: 2020 Tuition Fee TBA
Incidental Fee(s): Student Athlete Apparel & Training Kit*
*Anticipated incidental fee(s) $375.00
SIS30713 Certificate III in Sport Coaching
These nationally accredited VET qualifications are eligible to contribute to the calculation of an ATAR, with SATAC recognising both qualifications as a subject in their own right for Stage 2 results. Training categories include: Skill and Game Development, Physical Considerations, Personal Management and Professional Athlete Traits. Students currently completing Year 10, 11 or Year 12 studies are encouraged to apply.
A maximum of 75 SACE STAGE 2 credits are available for successful completion of this qualification and eligible to contribute to the calculation of an ATAR in the flexible option section up to the maximum allowed for recognised studies (20 credit ‘subject’ equivalent).
SATAC recognises this qualification as a subject (for SATAC purposes), calculated for a student’s ATAR contribution based on the average over the remaining 70 credits available for SACE Stage 2.
Unit of Competency
SISXIND408 Select and use technology for sport, fitness and recreation workSISSSCO308 Support athletes to adopt principles of sport psychologySISSSDE201 Communicate effectively with others in a sport environmentSITXCOM401 Manage conflictSISSSCO202 Coach beginner or novice participants to develop foundation motor skillsSISSSCO303 Plan and deliver coaching programsSISSSCO101 Develop and update knowledge of coaching practicesSISSSCO304 Customize coaching for athletes with specific needsSISSSCO307 Provide nutrition information to athletesSISFFIT004 Incorporate anatomy and physiology principles into fitness programmingSISXFAC207 Maintain sport, fitness and recreation equipment for activitiesSISSVOL301A Teach the intermediate skills of VolleyballSISSVOL302A Teach the intermediate tactics and strategies of volleyballHLTAID003 Provide First AidSISXRSK301A Undertake risk analysis of activitiesProgram Duration: 30 weeks*
Program Location: At selected SA Secondary Schools*
Tuition Fee: Contact admin@collegeofsport.edu.au on your School’s eligibility*
Incidental Fee(s): Nil*
*Subject to negotiated delivery at selected Schools.
These nationally accredited VET qualifications are eligible to contribute to the calculation of an ATAR, with SATAC recognising both qualifications as a subject in their own right for Stage 2 results. Training categories include: Skill and Game Development, Physical Considerations, Personal Management and Professional Athlete Traits. Students currently completing Year 10, 11 or Year 12 studies are encouraged to apply.
A maximum of 75 SACE STAGE 2 credits are available for successful completion of this qualification and eligible to contribute to the calculation of an ATAR in the flexible option section up to the maximum allowed for recognised studies (20 credit ‘subject’ equivalent).
SATAC recognises this qualification as a subject (for SATAC purposes), calculated for a student’s ATAR contribution based on the average over the remaining 70 credits available for SACE Stage 2.
Unit of Competency
SISSAFL201A Perform the intermediate skills of Australian Football
SISSAFL202A Perform the intermediate tactics of Australian Football
SISSAFL304A Perform the advanced skills of Australian Football
SISSAFL305A Perform the advanced tactics of Australian Football
SISSCOP309A Design an athlete’s diet
SISSSPT201A Implement sports injury prevention
SISSCOP308A Model the responsibilities of an elite athlete
SISSCOP204A Develop personal media skills
SISXWHS101 Follow work health and safety policies
SISSCOP306A Prepare a sponsorship proposal
HLTAID003 Provide first aid
BSBWOR301 Organise personal work priorities and development
SISSCOP205A Develop a personal financial plan
SISXRSK301A Undertake risk analysis of activities
SISSCOP202A Develop a personal management plan
Program Duration: 30 weeks*
Program Location: At selected SA Secondary Schools*
Tuition Fee: Contact admin@collegeofsport.edu.au*
Incidental Fee(s): Nil
*Subject to negotiated delivery at selected Schools.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of coaching in high performance equestrian. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of equestrian, including high performance coaching, professional Club performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional equestrian, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of instruction in professional cricket. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of coaching in high performance instruction in professional motor racing. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of cricket, including high performance coaching, professional team performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional cricket, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of instruction in professional snow sports. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of motor racing, including high performance instruction, professional team performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional motor racing, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of motor racing, including high performance instruction, professional team performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional football, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
Directed self-discovery forms the cornerstone of this subject.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program. They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
Practicum
Students will engage in a 100-hour work place practicum, where they will participate in a relevant industry setting. Students will be appropriately supervised during this time and will engage with their practicum in a professional manner.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of training in thoroughbred racing. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of coaching in high performance basketball. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program. They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
Practicum
Students will engage in a 140-hour work place practicum, where they will participate in a relevant industry setting. Students will be appropriately supervised during this time and will engage with their practicum in a professional manner.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of basketball, including high performance coaching, professional Club performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional basketball, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
Students will learn about the importance of communication and develop a sophisticated understanding of its application to develop their skills to a higher level. These skills will also be learned in the context of relationships pertaining to personal, sporting, and business success.
Conflict resolution, negotiation and effective management of power and influence in relationships will be examined. This interactive subject also teaches students about multicultural work, including: perceptions, cultural differences and intercultural communication models to communicate successfully across different cultures.
The subject will draw primarily on the application of best practice communication skills in a professional context.
Students will create and deliver presentations to different audiences. This subject also aims to equip students with a selection of proven techniques for creating and delivering concise, results and audience-oriented presentations. The “Storyboard Approach” will also be examined so that students can learn how to apply their communication skills to work effectively in teams.
Directed self-discovery forms the cornerstone of this subject.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program. They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
Directed self-discovery forms the cornerstone of this subject.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program. They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
Directed self-discovery forms the cornerstone of this subject.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program. They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
Biomechanics
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of coaching in high performance basketball. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
Students will understand and apply contemporary themes in psychology to help them understand and maximise their potential. These themes will be explored personally and in the context of athletic performance.
Students learn the basic topics in sports psychology and its applications at different stages of an elite athlete’s development. The main issues, as well as the challenges, opportunities and solutions are presented and discussed in an interactive way with current and former elite athletes.
In competition, athletes must be able to trust in their training. Trust is maximised when tactical preparation is done correctly.
This subject prepares athletes for competition from a tactical perspective. This includes pre-event analysis and preparation sessions as well as applying techniques and strategies commonly used at the high performance level to plan for competition. Student athletes will evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses leading into selected events and identify strategies for tactical planning to maximise performance outcomes.
Student athletes will also learn to clearly understand the specific responsibilities and roles of the coach and support staff in training, preparation and event situations and use agreed strategies and game plans, to make decisions during events. This includes consideration of external factors (including competitor evaluation), competition risk and tempo, as well as identifying weather and other environmental conditions for making relevant adjustments to tactics and strategies.
Student athletes will participate in a post-event analysis and gather statistical data and information from the event for analysis and review, which also considers pre and during event performance in identifying relevant adjustments for subsequent events.
Plans are constructed and statistics recorded to assist with long-term monitoring and enhancement of future performance.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of football, including high performance coaching, professional Club performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional football, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
In any course of study or vocation that involves interaction with other people, developing an understanding of what drives an individual, or group is greatly beneficial.
This subject introduces students to relevant theory, in an effort to understand foundation ideas about human nature and human motivation. These theories will be explored and applied in the context of high performance sport to provide students with an opportunity to understand the potency of the subject matter, both personally and professionally.
The content of this subject will reflect a broad history of theories of the mind and will include theoretical paradigms that are globally relevant for then applying specific relevance to the students’ culture. Theories included for learning in this subject include (but is not limited to) Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Cognitive Therapies, Third Wave Behaviourism approaches and a specific investigation of mental health approaches in the domestic region.
Human beings are a collection of complex and interacting systems. In order to work with people most effectively, it is important to understand key elements of these systems and where appropriate, apply them in a conscious manner.
In this subject, students will study a selection of these systems in the context of athletic performance and develop various strategies and practices for effecting positive change for the athlete.
In this subject, students will consider a range of themes pertaining to athlete welfare within a professional sporting context and gain an understanding of the physical, psychological and emotional impacts when welfare is neglected.
Students will examine historical and contemporary athlete welfare practices in a high performance context, and with student group consideration on methods to positively influence athlete welfare in a sustainable business model for the key stakeholders driving the high performance outcome. Individual and team influences on athlete welfare profiles will be explored.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance.
Upon completion of this subject area, student athletes will have an understanding of developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and modifying strength and conditioning training programs.
The platform of this subject area is individualised and builds so that student athletes will identify the strength and conditioning needs and requirements of their own physical program. There is a focus on recognising, analysing and implementing functional movement within these training programs in order for athletes to achieve optimum performance.
Service providers such as physiotherapists also participate in the education of student athletes around prehab and rehab programming and the transition of these components into linking strength and conditioning plans with technical development plans for injured athletes.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
In competition, athletes must be able to trust in their training. Trust is maximised when tactical preparation is done correctly.
This subject prepares athletes for competition from a tactical perspective. This includes pre-event analysis and preparation sessions as well as applying techniques and strategies commonly used at the high performance level to plan for competition. Student athletes will evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses leading into selected events and identify strategies for tactical planning to maximise performance outcomes.
Student athletes will also learn to clearly understand the specific responsibilities and roles of the coach and support staff in training, preparation and event situations and use agreed strategies and game plans, to make decisions during events. This includes consideration of external factors (including competitor evaluation), competition risk and tempo, as well as identifying weather and other environmental conditions for making relevant adjustments to tactics and strategies.
Student athletes will participate in a post-event analysis and gather statistical data and information from the event for analysis and review, which also considers pre and during event performance in identifying relevant adjustments for subsequent events.
Plans are constructed and statistics recorded to assist with long-term monitoring and enhancement of future performance.
In this subject, students will consider a range of themes pertaining to athlete welfare within a professional sporting context and gain an understanding of the physical, psychological and emotional impacts when welfare is neglected.
Students will examine historical and contemporary athlete welfare practices in a high performance context, and with student group consideration on methods to positively influence athlete welfare in a sustainable business model for the key stakeholders driving the high performance outcome. Individual and team influences on athlete welfare profiles will be explored.
Biomechanics
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program (on their horse). They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
Practicum
Students will engage in a 140-hour work place practicum, where they will participate in a relevant industry setting. Students will be appropriately supervised during this time and will engage with their practicum in a professional manner.
Upon completion of this subject area, student athletes will have an understanding of developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and modifying strength and conditioning training programs.
The platform of this subject area is individualised and builds so that student athletes will identify the strength and conditioning needs and requirements of their own physical program. There is a focus on recognising, analysing and implementing functional movement within these training programs in order for athletes to achieve optimum performance.
Service providers such as physiotherapists also participate in the education of student athletes around prehab and rehab programming and the transition of these components into linking strength and conditioning plans with technical development plans for injured athletes.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context (on their horse) to enhance their own athletic performance.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete (rider and horse).
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
Students will learn about the importance of communication and develop a sophisticated understanding of its application to develop their skills to a higher level. These skills will also be learned in the context of relationships pertaining to personal, sporting, and business success.
Conflict resolution, negotiation and effective management of power and influence in relationships will be examined. This interactive subject also teaches students about multicultural work, including: perceptions, cultural differences and intercultural communication models to communicate successfully across different cultures.
The subject will draw primarily on the application of best practice communication skills in a professional context.
Students will create and deliver presentations to different audiences. This subject also aims to equip students with a selection of proven techniques of creating and delivering concise, results and audience-oriented presentations. The “Storyboard Approach” will also be examined so that students can learn how to apply their communication skills to work effectively in teams.
In any course of study or vocation that involves interaction with other people, developing an understanding of what drives an individual, or group is greatly beneficial.
This subject introduces students to relevant theory, in an effort to understand foundation ideas about human nature and human motivation. These theories will be explored and applied in the context of high performance sport to provide students with an opportunity to understand the potency of the subject matter, both personally and professionally.
The content of this subject will reflect a broad history of theories of the mind and will include theoretical paradigms that are globally relevant for then applying specific relevance to the students’ culture. Theories included for learning in this subject include (but is not limited to) Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Cognitive Therapies, Third Wave Behaviourism approaches and a specific investigation of mental health approaches in the domestic region.
Students will understand and apply contemporary themes in psychology to help them understand and maximise their potential. These themes will be explored personally and in the context of athletic performance.
Students learn the basic topics in sports psychology and its applications at different stages of an elite athlete’s development. The main issues, as well as the challenges, opportunities and solutions are presented and discussed in an interactive way with current and former elite athletes.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance (Human and Equine).
Human beings are a collection of complex and interacting systems. In order to work with people most effectively, it is important to understand key elements of these systems and where appropriate, apply them in a conscious manner.
In this subject, students will study a selection of these systems in the context of athletic performance and develop various strategies and practices for effecting positive change for the athlete.
Biomechanics
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
Biomechanics
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
Biomechanics
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of football, including high performance coaching, professional Club performance and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to professional football, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
In this subject students will study financial management principles, and apply them to a variety of contexts in the sport of thoroughbred racing, including high performance coaching, horse acquisition and disposal and athlete centred activities.
It introduces the basic concepts of accounting and finance that are needed to read and understand financial statements and consider the time value of money, investment valuations, risk, capital and how these issues relate to the equine industry, but also a selection of business approaches to create commercial opportunities in the sport.
Directed self-discovery forms the cornerstone of this subject.
This subject teaches the interplay between components delivered in Athlete Development 1 & 2 in detail, to allow the student to refine their approaches for constructing their own sophisticated development plans in an overarching strategy to advance their opportunity for achievement of high performance outcomes.
Implicit memory (memory without awareness) will be examined more closely in this subject for its relevance to sensory information across numerous modality and context-specific repetitions of target behaviours.
Learning contexts will maximise student attention to sensory information, with a focus on minimising verbal analytic explanations, and include athlete training applications with a variety of training methods in physical environments that will be relevant for peak performance goals.
Students will continue to apply learnt concepts in their individualised development program. They will also apply critical evaluation techniques across a variety of educational principles taught across the qualification to properly assess their development strategy and outcomes against a fellow student.
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance.
This subject will provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of coaching in high performance football. The initial emphasis on general coaching principles is built upon, with a focus across individual and team sports at the elite level.
Students in this subject can expect to develop a strong understanding of applied theories of motivation, systems theory, group dynamics, tactical development and highly specialised communication models, as well as skills to enhance their effectiveness for coaching professional athletes.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in a supervised environment.
Nutrition and Dietetics
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance (Human and Equine).
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.
This subject introduces the key principles and concepts for motor learning, as they apply to the developing athlete. It also explores key elements derived from modern research of skill acquisition including: motor ability versus skills, skill measurement, proprioception and motor control.
Concepts will also be applied to individual learning styles, training practices, physical attributes, personalities and training environments for the developing athlete to achieve peak performance goals.
Information processing models for skill acquisition will be introduced, as well as attention theories for skill acquisition. Explicit and implicit learning and blocked versus random practice regimes, will be considered and applied to the developing athlete.
Students participate in an individualised skill acquisition program for the duration of the qualification, whereby they will apply a variety of these educational principles in their own individualised practical training context to enhance their own athletic performance.
This subject provides students with an understanding of the relationship between nutrition, health and exercise performance for a high performance athlete.
Students will examine the role of nutrient metabolism during exercise and the role of food, fluid and nutrition supplements in enhancing exercise performance, training and recovery.
Exercise Prescription and Practice
This subject provides students with an understanding of the complementary role that biomechanics, motor control and learning play in exercise prescription for athletic performance.
Particular emphasis will focus on human gait and sport specific training, as a form of exercise prescription. Exercise techniques will be examined for developing athletes and also high performance athletes.
This subject will also examine the multi-system responses to exercise and training for athletes, the adaptation methods to exercise for athletes and to properly consider fatigue, recovery and overtraining for athletic performance.
This subject is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to understand and examine the basic laws of force and motion applied to athletic movements.
These are also considered with the view to optimise human movement (and injury risk). We focus on the mechanical basis of human movement, with an emphasis on the concepts of linear and angular kinematics. Position, displacement, velocity, acceleration and projectile motion, as well as forces, laws of motion, centre of mass, torque, and moments of inertia are also considered.
Students will use this knowledge to address practical athlete applications in areas such as gait, fluid dynamics and sport specific training through a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
Human Control Systems
This subject teaches how sensations are recorded and interpreted, movements are controlled and the way the body regulates and integrates body function via the nervous and endocrine systems. This subject focuses on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal, nervous and hormonal control systems of the body and their interaction with the internal and external environments. Students will undertake an integrated study of the anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system, of the axial and appendicular skeleton, the major structural components of the central nervous system and the neuro-hormonal axis.
For high performance sport, the proper approach to technology and innovation will deliver competitive advantage through better processes for assessing information in making strategic and tactical decisions for the athlete.
In this subject, students will examine the examples of a variety of technology platforms and critically evaluate their potency to their own development.