NSW Institute of Sport

NSW Institute of Sport The NSW Institute of Sport is a national high performance centre and Olympic training facility based at Sydney Olympic Park.

Today the Institute has over 400 high performance athletes on squad or individual scholarships and offers 16 sport programs across 14 sports. Under our innovative mobile/regional program, the NSWIS offers a comprehensive spectrum of support services to NSWIS athletes in their home environment, enabling them to pursue their sporting careers with minimal disruption to their family, education and employment.

13/09/2026

Meet Loci, a promising surfer from Avalon currently representing Australia at the ISA World Surfing Junior Championships! 🌊☀️🏄‍♂️

Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. 🚴 Gordon Allan grew up as a multi-sport Para athlete, but it wasn’t until wa...
12/09/2026

Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. 🚴
 
Gordon Allan grew up as a multi-sport Para athlete, but it wasn’t until watching the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on TV that he realised people with a disability could compete on the world stage.
 
Through a Paralympics Australia talent search day, Allan took his first steps towards making his own Paralympic dream a reality, eventually making his Games debut at Tokyo 2020.
 
Four years later, he stood on the podium himself, claiming bronze in the Mixed Team Sprint C1-5 at Paris 2024.
 
With a Commonwealth Games medal and 13 World Championship medals also to his name, Allan has gone from watching the world stage to leaving his mark on it.
 

When Australia won the three-day equestrian event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the home crowd altered its familiar Aussi...
12/09/2026

When Australia won the three-day equestrian event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the home crowd altered its familiar Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi chant into Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Hoy, Hoy, Hoy for New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) alumnus, Andrew Hoy OAM.

The tribute was in honour of Hoy becoming first Australian since mighty Dawn Fraser to win gold at three consecutive Olympic Games.

Hoy grew up in a farming family in Culcairn, in the Murray River region of NSW, and developed his early horsemanship skills at Holbrook Pony Club, where he rode his horse Davey. He went on to make Australian sporting history in 2020 as the only athlete to represent the nation at eight Olympic Games, and just the 13th athlete worldwide to do so.

His Olympic career which stretched from Los Angeles 1984 to Tokyo 2020, not only yielded three gold, two silver and one bronze medal but it confirmed his reputation as one of Australia’s finest riders.

When Hoy was 60, his father Jim asked, “You’re not going to do this until you’re 60, are you?” Hoy said nothing that night, but two years later became the oldest Australian male Olympic competitor when he won team silver and individual bronze in eventing at Tokyo. Today, Holbrook Pony Club presents a trophy in Hoy’s honour recognising the all-round ability of a junior rider. 
 
The club also spoke on behalf of so many when it acknowledged Andrew Hoy for inspiring people to do things “they probably didn’t think they could do.”
 

12/09/2026

Two-time Junior Aussie Champion talia tebb catches up with NSWIS media about her love of Surfing, and what representing Australia means to her at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships! 🏄‍♀️🌊☀️

Sometimes, a change of plans changes everything. 🌧️➡️🥇 Mackenzie Little grew up trying her hand at multiple sports, incl...
11/09/2026

Sometimes, a change of plans changes everything. 🌧️➡️🥇
 
Mackenzie Little grew up trying her hand at multiple sports, including Little Athletics.
 
She was in Year Seven when rain forced the cancellation of hurdles training and, almost by chance, she picked up a javelin for the first time. By 15, Little was already throwing beyond 50 metres, before going on to be crowned World Youth Champion.
 
Since then, the Sydneysider has continued to soar to new heights. Little has set personal bests at three consecutive major championships, became a two-time Olympian and two-time World Championships medallist, and this year won her first senior international title at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games…with just one throw!
 
Incredibly, that’s only half the story. Alongside competing at the highest level, Little continues to practice as a doctor, proving you don’t have to choose just one path to pursue something extraordinary.
 

NSWIS alumna Alyson Annan OAM is widely regarded as one of hockey’s greats, bringing a decisive X-factor to the Hockeyro...
11/09/2026

NSWIS alumna Alyson Annan OAM is widely regarded as one of hockey’s greats, bringing a decisive X-factor to the Hockeyroos. A prolific goalscorer, she was central to Australia’s golden era, helping secure Olympic gold in 1996 and 2000, world cup titles in 1994 and 1998, four Champions Trophy wins, and gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
 
Annan’s remarkable international career began with her 1991 debut in the green and gold and concluded with her retirement in 2001.

In 228 matches, she scored 166 goals—an extraordinary strike rate of more than 72 percent. In 1999, an independent panel named her the world’s best female player, adding to a long list of honours that include induction into the Hockey Australia Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2013, being voted FIH Player of the Year by her peers, and selection as one of  NSWIS’s Most Outstanding athletes.
 
After retiring, Annan established herself among the world’s leading coaches. She guided the Netherlands women’s team to Olympic silver in 2016, World Cup gold in 2018 and Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, before leading China to silver at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
 
As Hockey Australia has noted, by any measure, Alyson Annan OAM remains a legend of the sport.
 

It was always meant to be 🛶✨ Introduced to Paracanoe by his uncle and national Slalom coach Mike Druce, Dylan Littlehale...
10/09/2026

It was always meant to be 🛶✨
 
Introduced to Paracanoe by his uncle and national Slalom coach Mike Druce, Dylan Littlehales made his Australian debut at just 15 years old, finishing in the top eight.
 
His talent and relentless discipline soon took him to his first Paralympic Games at Rio 2016, where he finished sixth. At Tokyo 2020, Littlehales came agonisingly close to the podium, finishing fourth by just 0.012 seconds.
 
It pushed him to push harder. At Paris 2024, Littlehales finally had his Paralympic moment, claiming silver in the men’s Kayak Single KL3.
 
With four World Championship medals also to his name, the Kariong local has become one of Australia’s most decorated Para canoeists.
 

NSWIS alumnus Brent Livermore discovered his love of hockey while playing with mates in Grafton, a small town on the Cla...
10/09/2026

NSWIS alumnus Brent Livermore discovered his love of hockey while playing with mates in Grafton, a small town on the Clarence River in northern NSW.

On a dusty, uneven paddock, sharing borrowed sticks with teammates, he found belonging and purpose in the sport. He also built the resilience to keep improving and overcome setbacks — including losing the tip of a finger in a circular saw accident during a Year 12 Higher School Certificate assessment.
 
Livermore’s leadership and silky skills quickly stood out on the hockey pitch. Selected for Australia in 1997, he went on to play 318* internationals and captain his beloved Kookaburras to Olympic gold at Athens 2004. 
 
His other achievements included three Commonwealth Games gold medals, two FIH Player of the Year nominations and three Champions Trophy titles.

Since retiring in 2010, Livermore has devoted himself to coaching and mentoring emerging champions while championing hockey’s vital role, particularly in regional communities.

From a rough ‘n ready paddock in Grafton to the Olympic podium, Brent Livermore OAM has always been — and remains — in a class of his own.
 
*Some sources note Livermore represented Australia in 317 matches.

When you make your Olympic dreams a reality. ✨ Attending the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games at just four years old planted th...
09/09/2026

When you make your Olympic dreams a reality. ✨
 
Attending the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games at just four years old planted the seed of an Olympic dream for Bronte Halligan, captivated by a city filled with sport and the world’s best athletes.
 
Four years later, while watching the Athens 2004 Olympics on TV, she made a promise to her mum - one day, she’d be the kid taking her to the Games.
 
Twenty years later, the Mona Vale local fulfilled that promise, becoming an Olympic medallist.
 
Today, Halligan continues to train at Sydney Olympic Park - the place where the dream first began.
 

NSWIS alumnus Jelena Dokic, who reached World No. 4 in one of women’s tennis’s strongest eras, moved from Serbia to Aust...
09/09/2026

NSWIS alumnus Jelena Dokic, who reached World No. 4 in one of women’s tennis’s strongest eras, moved from Serbia to Australia with her family in 1994.
 
At 16, and just five years after settling in the south-western Sydney suburb of Fairfield, she shocked World No. 1 Martina Hingis in straight sets to reach the Wimbledon quarter finals.
 
Dokic had already made the Australian Open third round five months earlier as a 15 year old, and said her strategy against Hingis was straightforward: take control of the match. She did so by pushing Hingis all the way, using aggressive power-hitting, precision shot-making, and relentless focus.
 
Dokic went on to represent Australia at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and reach the 2001 French Open doubles final. Widely recognised as a prodigious teenage talent with exceptional groundstrokes, steely nerve and fierce competitive drive, the abuse she suffered from her father and coach, Damir, was described as ‘the greatest fight of her life.’
 
After courageously breaking free, Dokic rebuilt her life as a respected television commentator, interviewer, author of the bestselling memoir Unbreakable, public speaker and advocate, becoming a powerful source of hope for victims of domestic violence.
 

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