INSPO Fitness Journal June 2017
Everything from nutrition, beauty, home and workplace wellbeing to health, performance – and so much more.
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Our next generation of<br />
OLYMPIANS<br />
Future Waikato potential Olympians have been<br />
recognised by the Pathway To Podium <strong>2017</strong>-2018<br />
programme – and earmarked to receive support and<br />
education towards their long-term goals.<br />
Now in its fourth year, the Waikato<br />
Pathway to Podium programme<br />
supports the crucial components of<br />
Waikato’s next cycle of potential Olympians,<br />
and also helps also grow the athletes into<br />
self-reliant and competent individuals away<br />
from their sport.<br />
The nationwide programme sees 36<br />
Waikato pre-high performance athletes<br />
selected by their National Sport Organisation<br />
(NSO). A consortium of regional stakeholders<br />
led by Sport Waikato deliver support<br />
services to the athletes through the High<br />
Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ)<br />
and Sport New Zealand (SNZ) partnered<br />
programme.<br />
Chief executive of High Performance<br />
Sport New Zealand Alex Baumann, explains<br />
the key driver behind the programme.<br />
“The Pathway to Podium programme will<br />
help prepare young athletes for life as high<br />
performance athletes. Athletes selected will<br />
receive early education in areas such as nutrition,<br />
psychology, and strength and conditioning<br />
training. They’ll also receive a bundle<br />
of services specifically tailored to them.”<br />
“The beauty of this programme is its regional<br />
focus. It’s bringing high performance<br />
support to local athletes in their communities.<br />
There’s no one place in New Zealand<br />
where talent springs from. Talent is everywhere<br />
and so no matter where an athlete is<br />
from, they’ll be given support at a stage in<br />
their development that can really help them<br />
gain their entry ticket to competing for New<br />
Zealand on the world stage,’’ says Sport New<br />
Zealand chief executive Peter Miskimmin.<br />
Daniella Cameron, Waikato Pathway to<br />
Podium’s programme manager explains<br />
that the programme encourages athlete<br />
self-responsibility, and places emphasis on<br />
components that will be crucial to both performance<br />
and the life of an athlete.<br />
“The long-term development of our athletes<br />
is central to their success on the world<br />
stage. I am incredibly privileged to support<br />
and strengthen the pathway for our Waikato<br />
athletes transitioning into high performance,”<br />
she says.<br />
The athletes involved in Pathway to Podium<br />
in the previous three years have found<br />
the education, experience and development<br />
very beneficial to their progression within<br />
their sport.<br />
“It is the first national programme at this<br />
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