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ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17 FOREWORD Forewords Premier’s Foreword 1 MESSAGE FROM Chairman’s Report 2 Executive Director’s Report 3 THE PREMIER Goals & KPIs 6 Strategy WAIS Board 9 WAIS Structure 11 WAIS athletes and staff pursue excellence with passion, and as a Staff & Hall of Champions 12 team. It was with great pride that I Scorecard Athlete of the Year 14 accepted the invitation to become Athlete Performance Scorecard 15 the Patron of the Western Australian PED Podium 16 Institute of Sport in 2017. National Teams 20 This report provides a high level National Programs 24 of detail into the valuable role that Innovation 28 WAIS plays in supporting Western Australia’s high performance High Performance Sport 30 sport structure. A body of work that enables our athletes to Research Centre achieve at the highest levels of international sport. Corporate Finance & Operations 34 I believe I speak for all West Australians when I say how very Services Human Resources & 36 proud I was to see so many home-grown athletes wearing the Administration green and gold of Australia at both the Olympic and Paralympic Corporate Communications 40 Games last year. In all, WA sent 55 athletes to Rio and they WAIS Sponsors 43 represented our State with distinction. Financial Financial Statements 44 Sport plays a pivotal role in the life of our Sport plays a pivotal role in the life of our State. Sport is socially State. Sport is socially inclusive, enables inclusive, enables greater community engagement and provides greater community engagement and a positive pathway to better health. provides a positive pathway to better health. I was pleased to see the establishment of a Southern High Performance Training Centre for swimming in 2017. This new Centre will create greater opportunities for developing and elite athletes in our city’s southern corridor. The State Government is proud to continue its support of WAIS and shares its commitment to assist Western Australian athletes as they strive towards international sporting goals. I express my thanks to WAIS Chair Mr Peter Abery, WAIS CEO Mr Steven Lawrence and all members of the WAIS Board for their work in guiding WA’s high performance strategy. I also acknowledge the great support WAIS receives from its strategic partners, including the Department of Local Communities, Sport and Cultural Industries, Lotterywest, the Australian Sports Commission and Venues West. As the Patron of the Western Australian Institute of Sport, I congratulate WAIS on a successful year and wish the best of luck to all athletes preparing to seek representation at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and other important international competitions in the year ahead. Rhys Grant Mark McGowan MLA | Premier of Western Australia 1 FOREWORD FOREWORD CHAIRMAN’S REPORT CEO’S REPORT expressed and demonstrated his strong interest in sport and we look forward to his guidance. WAIS was very well supported by the former state government and our gratitude is extended to Ms Mia Davies and her staff for their support of WAIS during her term as minister. The change in government also saw the previous State Premier Colin Barnett retire from his role as the WAIS Patron. Colin’s passion and understanding of the value of sport was mirrored by his willingness to support many sports related projects including the WAIS High Performance Service Centre. WAIS will continue to benefit for some time from the outcomes of Colin’s The 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics will be remembered by Australians for patronage and our sincere gratitude is extended to him. many reasons but most of all for the performances of our athletes. From a WA The Board focus for the past year has been primarily on We are delighted that the new WA Premier Mark McGowan has perspective the highlights were medal winners across four Olympic and two supporting the transition of WAIS operations from the 2016 accepted the position of the WAIS Patron continuing a tradition to the 2020 Olympic cycle and on finalising the Institute’s new since WAIS’s inception in 1984. Paralympic sports. strategic plan and associated goals, objectives and KPIs. The new government’s decision to reduce the number of state The transition process has constituted two major elements, departments has seen Ron Alexander move on from his role operationalisation of the 2020 sport programs agreed with as Director General of the former Department of Sport and the National and State Sporting Organisations and the revision Recreation. Ron has been one of WAIS’s strongest advocates Russell Boaden and Colin Harrision were gold medallists in number and individual athlete capability to deliver their potential of structure, policy, process and staffing to deliver improved and supporters throughout his near 20-year tenure and it is Paralympic sailing while Olympic cyclist Sam Welsford, Olympic at this highest level of competition. athlete performance operational systems. The transition process appropriate that his contributions are acknowledged as he swimmer Tamsin Cook, Paralympic swimmer Maddison Scott was largely completed on time, however, marginally impacted by moves on to new opportunities. We of course look forward During the reporting period the Olympic and Paralympic and athlete Maddison de Rozario secured silver medals in national system reviews and delayed decisions on funding. It to continuing a positive and productive relationship with the Games were the major competition targets but three Olympic contributing to a team performance. Maddison de Rozario also was pleasing to note that in this transition process WAIS still Sport and Recreation Division within the Department of Local and three Paralympic sports also held World Championships. secured an individual silver medal to add to her collection. WA maintained full operational capacity and achieved positive Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. WAIS continues to rely This small number of World Championships is an important Olympic archer, Taylor Worth and diver, Maddison Keeney along progress towards key goals. heavily on the sport facilities provided by VenuesWest. The Board factor influencing the significant variance between our athlete has noted the positive relationship that exists between the two with Paralympic athlete Ella Pardy earned bronze medals in team representation and medal winning performance results. The Board has released the Institute’s new strategic plan which entities that benefits both in achieving their respective objectives. performances while Paralympic athlete Chad Perris secured an Athlete representation was well under target at these World can be found at wais.org.au. This plan is the outcome of an individual bronze. These medal winning performances were It is a great privilege to Chair a Board with an excellent Championships but our contribution to Australian gold and extended and detailed review of the current and anticipated complemented by displays of sportsmanship and personal blend of skills, and a passion and understanding of high podium performances at the same events significantly exceeded future environment that WAIS will work within to achieve its endeavour by all WA representatives that ensured pride and joy purpose. In this plan WAIS is continuing to respond to the performance sports that allows the Board to expertly perform our targets (pages 90-91). Special mention needs to be made of were the overwhelming emotions of all who supported them. positive evolution of National Sports as the leaders of their its responsibilities. I would like to sincerely thank all our Board cyclists Cameron Myer and Sam Welsford who between them national high performance systems. This evolution and the members for their continued voluntary contributions to WAIS. The detail of athlete performances against our KPIs at the accounted for 38% of all Australian gold medal performances Olympic, Paralympic and World Championships during the at the 2017 World Track Cycling championships and 18% of all varying nature of sport has been accommodated within our The decision by the Minister of Sport and Recreation, Mr Murray, reporting period are presented within the Key Performance Australian podium performances at these championships which plan so that we may play an appropriate and valued role across to reappoint Ms Maryanne Wilson and Mr Todd Pearson for Indicator section (pages 86-92) of this report. Further athlete saw Australia ranked as the number one nation. Cameron’s a range of sports important to WA and Australia. Our plan further terms is recognition of the excellent contributions they return to track cycling is a fillip for Australian cycling given recognises that not only are we partners to National and State have made to WAIS during their initial terms on the board. performance outcomes are provided at a sport by sport level Sporting Organisations but we are also part of a national system within the Athlete Scorecard presented on page 15. not only his class (9 times World Champion and counting) but Finally I would like to pay tribute to our long standing CEO Steve of sport institutes which includes the AIS and the individual also his leadership qualities which have been demonstrated Lawrence who continues to perform his role with a high level of The WA team representation results for Olympic and Paralympic state and territory institutes and academies. WAIS believes by his significant influence on many WA cyclists, including Sam motivation and commitment to the values and goals of WAIS, and Games were within our acceptable performance range and in line that continued change is both required and inevitable to this Welsford and our current cohort of junior cyclists. also to our management, coaches and staff who have worked with our 2012 sport investment decisions forecast for 2016. The network of sport institutes if we are to be successful in our tirelessly to advance the performance of WAIS and our athletes. WA contribution to Australian medal performances were not within In setting our performance targets for the new Olympic cycle pursuit of international sporting success.