{"id":294,"date":"2015-08-20T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:46:57","slug":"regionalacademiesofsport","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/playerdevelopment\/regionalacademiesofsport","title":{"rendered":"Regional Academies of Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regional Academies of Sport<\/h1>\n

Tennis Victoria, in partnership with the Victorian Institute of Sport and Sport and Recreation Victoria, supports emerging elite athletes from country Victoria through the Regional Academy of Sport network.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tennis Victoria provides resources and works closely with the Regional Academy network across country Victoria to deliver tennis programs and a pathway that complement each athletes existing weekly programs with their private coach in their local environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

How the Regional Academies work<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Victorian players are aligned to an Academy catchment area based upon where they reside. For players residing in NSW (e.g. Albury, Moama or Barham), players will be aligned to the Academy catchment that the players\u2019 Victorian Tennis club is within.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are currently five Regional Academies of Sport in Victoria. They are Barwon, Bendigo, Gippsland, Southwest, and WestVic – p<\/span>lease see below<\/a> for Academy catchment areas and boundaries. <\/span><\/p>\n

Each Academy tennis program has up to 18 athletes aged approximately from 11 to 18 years of age. All players must be a registered player with a tennis club or centre in Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Benefits of being in a Regional Academy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Academy athlete positions are offered to athletes for a full calendar year and are invitation only (either by direct invitation or through an athlete selection trial day). The Academy tennis programs are delivered by Tennis Victoria\u2019s network of Regional Academy State coaches and provide a range of benefits including:<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Regular 1 day training camps (approximately 6 \u2013 8 sessions annually)<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Individual muscular-skeletal screening<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Individual strength and conditioning program<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Academy uniform and resources<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Range of sports science presentations including nutrition and mental skills training<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Tournament support from Regional Academy State coaches at one selected Junior Event<\/span><\/p>\n

✔ Annual Inter-Academy Challenge weekend held at Bendigo Regional Tennis Centre<\/span><\/p>\n

2024 Trials<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Academy<\/strong><\/td>\nCoach<\/strong><\/td>\n2025 Trial Dates & Location<\/strong><\/td>\nRegistrations<\/strong><\/td>\nKey Contact<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barwon Sports Academy<\/td>\nJackson Varney<\/td>\nSunday\u00a0November 17
\n4.30-6.00pm
\nGrovedale Tennis Club<\/td>\n		https:\/\/tennisvic.wufoo.com\/forms\/2025-regional-academy-of-sport-trials-barwon\/<\/a><\/td>\nRoss Celano<\/p>\n

services@barwonsportsacademy.org.au<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Bendigo Academy of Sport<\/td>\nCallan McCarthy<\/td>\nSunday November 17
\n3.00-5.00pm
\nBendigo Regional Tennis Centre<\/td>\n		https:\/\/tennisvic.wufoo.com\/forms\/2025-regional-academy-of-sport-trials-bendigo\/<\/a><\/td>\nMark Perdon<\/p>\n

m.perdon@latrobe.edu.au<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Gippsland Academy of Sport<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nSunday November 10
\n12.00-3.00pm
\nTraralgon Tennis Association<\/td>\n		https:\/\/tennisvic.wufoo.com\/forms\/2025-regional-academy-of-sport-trials-gippsland\/<\/a><\/td>\nAnita Pistrin<\/p>\n

anitap@sportgippsland.org.au<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

WestVic Academy of Sport<\/td>\nJeremy Quast<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nScott Watson<\/p>\n

scott.watson@federation.edu.au<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

South West Academy of Sport<\/td>\n\u00a0Nathan Isles<\/td>\n\u00a0TBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nAndrew Sloane<\/p>\n

ceo@swas.org.au<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/a>Regional Academy of Sport Catchment Areas<\/strong><\/h3>\n

View the\u00a0<\/span>Regional Academy of Sport catchment areas<\/a>\u00a0below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regional Academies of Sport Tennis Victoria, in partnership with the Victorian Institute of Sport and Sport and Recreation Victoria, supports emerging elite athletes from country Victoria through the Regional Academy of Sport network. Tennis Victoria provides resources and works closely with the Regional Academy network across country Victoria to deliver tennis programs and a pathway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":0,"parent":36738,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-modules.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}