Western Region Academy of Sport - WRAS

Nancy is still overseas for two more weeks and has been having a great time seeing glaciers in Alaska, visiting friends in America and cruising around Canada. While back here in Australia everyone else is working hard preparing for our end of year festivities. Doesn’t quite seem fair.

The squad programs are being finalised for the 2008/2009 Athletes Festival of Sport in Bathurst. We look forward to meeting up with out new and existing coaches, managers, TASS team and interns who will be working with our 2009 athletes.

The dinner plans for the WRAS ‘lympics are underway. They will be organised by our Professional Practice student Laura Schwab. We are really looking forward to the night to honour our 2008 WRAS athletes for a very successful and rewarding year of sporting achievements.
View the names of the athletes who have been selected in the 2009 squads

Don’t forget that the forms for 2009 Athletes and the R.S.V.P’s for the 2008 Graduation Dinner are due on the 10th October. Look forward to seeing you all.

The WRAS Rookie Camps are over again for another year and WRAS has been blown away with the sporting talent throughout the western region. The Lawn Bowls camp kicked off the big week on Sunday 6 July with 51 athletes and coaches attending including 5 athletes from the Far West Academy of Sport and 11 from the NSW Institute of Sport Silver Tier squad. The Hockey rookies arrived on Monday 7 July for their two and a half day live in camp and trained at the Bathurst Hockey Centre. The Basketball camp was headed by Ex-AIS and Australian University Team coach Debbie Cook and held at CSU on 9-11 July. The Netball and Triathlon Rookie camps concluded the week with 53 and 25 people (respectively) in attendance over the weekend of the 11-13 July. All athletes who attended the camps stayed on campus of CSU, had two full days training with some of NSW best coaches and had physical testing completed by the School of Human Movement Studies Testing and Sports Science team.

A special thanks to all the camp staff (John, Ross, Deb, Bob, Wally, Michelle, Beth, Jason, Thomas, Debbie, Deidrie, Sharon, Nancy, Cate, Tracy, Trish W, Trish M, Tegan, Robyn, Nicole, Kim, Nick K, Nicholas K, Nick N, Jody and Ronda)  who gave up their time to attend the camps, we could not have done it without you! Thanks also to Professional Practice students Tamara Cavanagh and Sam Gaal who did a spectacular job assisting with the coordination of all camps.