🥉 Meet Australia’s first Paralympic medallist in Para Canoe, Susan Seipel. She was inspired after meeting a Paralympic champion as a child, and is now intent on encouraging future Paralympians! ✨ “I find it really motivating that I can be inspiring the next generation!” Go behind the scenes of Susan's extraordinary journey with the QAS to become a two-time Paralympic Medallist! 👉 https://bit.ly/3SIJWE0 Paddle Australia Susan Seipel PLY #Qldacademyofsport #Susanseipel #paralympics #paracanoe
Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)
Spectator Sports
Brisbane, QLD 9,273 followers
Inspiring extraordinary sporting success
About us
Our goal is to provide world-class support, in particular expert Performance Services, to Queensland’s pre-elite and elite athletes, ensuring that the State remains at the forefront of National and International sporting success. The QAS currently supports over 450 athletes ranging from talented juniors through to Olympic, Paralympic and World Championships medallists. We support both in-house squad programs, partnership Programs with National Sporting Organisations and/or scholarships for individuals who are on medal-winning trajectories for international success. We have a bold and ambitious vision and strategy, working in close partnership with sports, to enable more medal-winning moments by Queensland Athletes to ultimately inspire the State and the Nation ahead. This is also in the backdrop of transformational 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The QAS has a 2032 Vision to “Inspire Extraordinary Sporting Success”, with an immediate 2024 Mission to enable athlete performance resulting in Queensland’s best ever medal contribution. We have 7 Key Objectives to achieving this: • Ensuring Queensland has an oversupply of Athletic talent capable of winning on the world stage. • High performing coaches enabling world-class outcomes at each level of the athlete pathway. • Delivering expert Performance Support Teams (physiotherapists, sports physicians and nutritionists) that maximise the availability and enhance the performances of athletes. • Delivering cutting edge performance solutions to athletes by fostering enterprising partnerships. • Investing resources strategically, objectively, and efficiently to optimise success. • Enabling a data-driven competitive advantage. • Attracting and retaining a talented and motivated workforce, capable of operating in highly complex, high-performance environments
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https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/sports/academy
External link for Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)
- Industry
- Spectator Sports
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Brisbane, QLD
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1991
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Level 1, Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (QSAC)
Kessels Road
Brisbane, QLD 4111, AU
Employees at Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)
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Tim Oostenbroek
Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist - as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapy in 2022
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Mark McKean
Interested in Problem Solving, Organisational Thinking & Performance Strategies
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Ivan Hooper
Sports Physiotherapist - Swimming at Queensland Academy of Sport
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Charmaine Wright
Industry Engagement Manager, Performance Partnerships at the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)
Updates
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YouFor2032 is on the lookout for the next generation of para-sport champions! Could it be YOU? 🥇👩🦽🏃 Join us at the Sunshine Coast para-sport testing day to put your athletic abilities to the test. 📍 Location: USC, Sippy Downs 📅 Date: Saturday, 31st August 🕒 Time: 12:30 PM If you’re aged 13-30 and ready to chase your dreams, sign up today! RSVP at 👉 [email protected]
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We are still in awe of what our talented athletes achieved in Paris, contributing to Australia’s greatest ever Olympic performance! 💚💛 Queensland athletes won 28 medals at the Paris Olympics including 9 gold, 12 silver and 7 bronze. There were 40 Queensland medallists across 10 sports and an incredible 17 debutants won medals. 🥇🥈🥉 We’re so proud of the record 142 Queenslanders who were part of the Australian team and the 40 QAS staff selected to help support Australia perform at their best! 🏊🤽🏇🏄🛶 What was your favourite moment of the Paris Olympics? Let us know in the comments below! 💚💛 #AllezAus #Paris2024 #Qldacademyofsport
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How do you prepare for the biggest competition in the world? 🤔 In 7️⃣ days our Paralympic swimmers take to the pool in Paris 🏊♀️🏊♂️. Before they left, our Performance Support team put them through their paces, working with their coaches to deliver a time trial…with a twist. Find out more about how we support our Aussie Paralympians to help them perform when it matters most 👉 https://lnkd.in/grX3bev8 Swimming Australia #imaginewhatwecando
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"To be able to give back to the game that I absolutely loved playing and to be able to coach now, is just phenomenal." Tahnee Norris - Hall of Fame #132 Congratulations to QAS Gen2032 coach Tahnee Norris who has been inducted into in the NRL's Hall of Fame 👏 With an incredible 33 test career, Tahnee is the most capped female player for Australia and one of six women who will enter the Hall of Fame in the first-ever class of women’s players to be selected. This group of female leaders are pioneers of the sport, we congratulate them, and their fellow Hall of Fame inductees, on this significant achievement. Hall of Fame #132, Tahnee Norris 👉 https://lnkd.in/gwFDWV7z 📸 National Rugby League
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Calling all sports scientists and researchers 📣 We're partnering with Australian Catholic University to offer an exciting new PhD scholarship analysing coaches' intuition and standardised testing in Olympic sports With so many exciting opportunities in high-performance sport over the next eight years, it's an exciting time to get involved! If you're interested in talent identification and development, skill acquisition, and coaching science, find out more about how you can apply ➡ https://lnkd.in/gy_eMEHW
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Our history-making Freestyle BMX athletes are set to be stronger than ever thanks to our new partnership with AlphaFit 🤝 By helping us fit out a new gym on the Gold Coast, AlphaFit is supporting local athletes to perform at their best. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gdZpgnM2 #Qldacademyofsport #Alphafit
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Alexa Leary cheated death in a cycling accident three years ago. Now the swimmer is preparing to compete at her first Paralympic Games! 🏊♀️ Go behind Alexa Leary’s remarkable recovery story and learn about the extraordinary support team who helped her reach her dream! 👉 https://bit.ly/3Mb1IvZ #moveforlex #Alexaleary #qldacademyofsport #Paralympics #paraswimming #imaginewhatwecando
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It feels good to be home! 💚 💛 Hear from the Olympians themselves about what it meant to be greeted at the airport by so many smiling faces and loved ones! ✈ Australian Olympic Committee Qantas Brisbane Airport Corporation Gold Coast Airport #AllezAus #Paris2024 #qldacademyofsport
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That’s a wrap on the Paris Olympic Games! 🥉🏀 The final day of competition saw the Opals win a Bronze Medal against Belgium, and four-time Olympian Genevieve Gregson contest the fastest ever Women’s Olympic Marathon event! 🏃♀️ What was your favourite moment from the past two weeks? 🥇🥈🥉 Catch up on all the details from the final day of Olympic competition! 👉 https://bit.ly/3SHkH4Y #AllezAus #Qldacademyofsport
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