Behind every VIS athlete is a community. Family Day brought them into the building. On the last day of the school holidays, the screens at Lakeside Stadium, ordinarily tuned to elite sport, switched to Disney. For one afternoon, the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) opened its high performance facility at Albert Park to the families…

Working collaboratively, the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) Community Programs, South West Academy of Sport (SWAS) Advancing Performance to Enhance Excellence program (APEX) and the Victorian Regional Academies of Sport (VRAS) are creating more mentoring opportunities for regional athletes.  The VIS Community Programs aim to connect and inspire as many Victorians as possible, and this…

Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) wheelchair basketball coach Jeremy Synot has been appointed head coach of the Australian Gliders, Australia’s women’s national wheelchair basketball team, by Basketball Australia. Synot works daily with VIS scholarship holders at the forefront of wheelchair basketball in Victoria, supporting athletes who train and develop within the Institute’s high performance program. His appointment…