The Western Australian Institute of Sport has announced its first specialist Paralympic program.
The WAIS Wheelchair Basketball Program will call the WAIS High Performance Service Centre, in Mount Claremont, home from December 1, 2017.
The WAIS Wheelchair Basketball Program will make an immediate impact for athletes, with many members of the inaugural training squad in strong contention to represent either the Australian Rollers (men’s) or Australian Gliders (women’s) at next year’s World Championships in Hamburg.
Australia recently qualified for both championships at the Asian/Oceania Qualifiers in China. Shaun Norris and Kim Robins represented the men’s team while Amber Merritt, Clare Nott, Sarah Vinci and Georgia Inglis were all members of the women’s squad.
The WAIS Wheelchair Basketball Program is a partnership with Basketball WA and Basketball Australia.
The WAIS High Performance Service Centre, opened in 2015, is entirely wheelchair accessible, meaning all program athletes will have access to the complete range of high performance services on offer within the centre, which includes state-of-the-art facilities in strength and conditioning, sports science and recovery.
WAIS works with more than 200 athletes across 11 dedicated sporting programs including cycling, swimming, track and field, hockey and kayaking as well as a host of individual athletes from sports outside of WAIS.