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The future elite sport framework must:
- support coaches as essential persons in elite programmes
- optimise the potential for sport specific centres and the critical cohesion
of sport specific support on a networked basis
- ensure the athletes’ and coaches’ needs for elite sport training facilities
are unrestricted
- ensure selected advisors and support staff are of the highest quality
In meeting the needs for elite sport, the delivery structures must:
• Develop fully integrated sport specific programmes that serve their sports
and have the appropriate coaching director, national coach and other
coaches located at coordinated sites.
• Develop a fully integrated package for elite sport that is coach driven and
includes training and practice facilities, coaching, and stringently monitored
sports medicine and sport science support through an athlete carding
system.
• Recognise athletes’ needs for an appropriate and supportive environment
that recognises individual needs in a context of elite competition
expectation e.g. education scholarships, career education and flexible
employment schemes.
• Ensure the provision of leading edge knowledge, information, service
delivery, facility use and programmes on a coordinated and networked
basis. In doing so, elite coaches will benefit from the interaction with
coaches from other codes.
• Ensure, in conjunction with national sport organisations, a clear and
supported pathway is available for all talented athletes.
• Ensure each elite sport academy has the ability to encourage higher
standards of regional sport through association with leading coaches and
athletes and specialist facilities and services. In doing so each site must be
assisted by Territorial Local Authorities, post-secondary education
institutions and specialist health authorities.
• Improve coordination and usage of existing facilities and the planned
development of new facilities. The operation of all sport specific academies
must be closely linked and provide the sharing of expertise within each
sport and across sports.
The core operational costs of the elite academies should be fully funded by
Active New Zealand. Any additional funding for elite academies must comply
with Active New Zealand guidelines.
Ministerial Taskforce on Sport, Fitness & Leisure January 2001 page 79 of 153