Hockey Australia:
a case study in Australia’s Winning Edge
The men’s and women’s national hockey teams have continued to flourish under Australia’s Winning Edge. Strong performances
have been recorded at World Championship events and international competition with the men ranked No.1 in the world while the
women are now ranked third, climbing from sixth when Winning Edge was introduced.
The centralised training environment in Perth is considered world’s best and gives the men’s and women’s squads a considerable
competitive advantage when preparing for major competitions.
The Hockey Australia High Performance Unit has been active and values the engagement with AIS branches in High Performance,
Performance Preparation and Coaching and Leadership. A key to Hockey Australia’s (HA) success is the embedded AIS performance support staff in the daily training environment which has
created a productive working relationship with coaches and athletes.
High performance funding support
• The AIS has invested almost $28.5 million in high performance for Hockey Australia, including more than $4.2 million in direct
athlete support payments known as dAIS.
• This represents a 12 per cent increase in support compared with the four years leading into the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Participation
• In 2015-16 Hockey Australia received $650,000 in participation funding.
• It received an additional $130,000 in Participation Capability Investment Grants in 2015 to help the sport drive participation
growth in two separate projects.
• HA is also a partner in the government’s Sporting Schools program and the ASC has provided more than $100,000 for the sport
to employ staff to effectively deliver the program effectively to schools.
Sports Science and Sports Medicine
• A total of $450,000 has been invested annually for high performance support staff in physiotherapy, physiology, nutrition and
strength & conditioning for Hockey Australia.
Innovation
• HA was awarded $100,000 to develop the capability to collect live data, video footage and player statistics so coaching decision
can be made in real time and improve player and coaching performance in the daily training environment and competition.
dAIS – Supporting Australian hockey athletes
In the past four years 89 Hockey Australia athletes have shared more than $4.2 million in direct athlete funding, known as dAIS.
dAIS payments to Hockey Australia athletes have increased by 116 percent in the Rio cycle. A total of 54 males and 45 females
have received dAIS payments in the four years leading to Rio.
These dAIS grants benefit emerging and established athletes. dAIS hockey players who have been selected to go to the Rio
Olympics Games are:
Jamie Dwyer
Edward Ockenden
Jacob Whetton
Madonna Blyth
Matt Gohdes
Simon Orchard
Tristan White
Edwina Bone
Kieran Govers
Georgie Parker
Mariah Williams
Andrew Charter
Fergus Kavanagh
Brooke Peris
Matthew Dawson
Christopher Ciriello
Jodie Kenny
Casey Sablowski
Georgina Morgan
Jane-Anne Claxton
Mark Knowles
Emily Smith
Gabrielle Nance
Tim Deavin
Rachael Lynch
Matthew Swann
Kathryn Slattery
Kirstin Dwyer
Karri Lee McMahon
Glenn Turner
Grace Stewart
Gold denotes a member of the 2014 World Cup winning Australian men’s hockey team.
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Daniel Beale
ausport.gov.au
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