Programmes
The AIS offers scholarships to over 700 athletes each in year across 36 programs in 26 different sports. Scholarships generally are all inclusive and include accommodation and food as well as coaching, competition travel, career and education support, and sports science and medicine services.
In 2012, the AIS offers Scholarship programmes for the following sports:
- Artistic gymnastics, athletes with disabilities - swimming, athletics and winter sports, basketball, netball, rowing, football (men), football (women), tennis, swimming, track and field, men's volleyball and water polo (women) administered from Canberra
- Diving, squash, softball and cricket (men & women) administered from Brisbane
- Sailing and slalom canoeing administered from Sydney
- Hockey administered from Perth
- Sprint canoeing, triathlon and BMX administered from the Gold Coast
- Road cycling, track cycling and beach volleyball administered from Adelaide
- Australian rules football, rugby union and rugby league are camps based programs
- Winter sports (in partnership with the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia) administered from Melbourne
Sports that have previously had an AIS program - weightlifting, water polo (men), volleyball (women), wrestling, shooting, archery, boxing and golf.
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