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22 June 2026
VIS opens permanent First Nations Yarning Circle at Lakeside Stadium
The Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) has opened the first permanent First Nations cultural gathering space at a high performance sporting institute in Australia on Bunurong Country, at the heart of its home at Lakeside Stadium. The space was formally opened on Monday 22 June 2026 with a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony, followed…
19 June 2026
‘It is time to call it stumps’: Hannah Macdougall’s 28 years of beginning again
Hannah Macdougall PLY PhD was born without a right foot. She was told, as a child, she would never run. At the 2025 World Triathlon Para Championships in Wollongong, she ran 5km, on a prosthetic blade and leg she calls Julius Caesar, in front of her family, at her first home world championships, in her…
12 June 2026
VIS Athlete Leadership Program 2026: leadership, trained and measured
Aimie Rocci stood at the front of a room at the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) last month, watching 13 athletes settle into their seats. Fourteen years ago, she was one of them: a Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) player whose days ran from an early training session, through a full day of work or…

































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