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With 50 days to go until the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) is already celebrating with Victorian athletes named to represent Australia on the world stage. The first wave of Victorian selections spans athletics, Para athletics, Para swimming and boxing, bringing together debutants, returning champions and some of the most […]

Victoria’s elite divers have a new uniform that carries a story. The Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) has launched new bathers for its divers, designed in collaboration with the VIS diving program and built around First Nations artwork by Katie Bugden. More than competition swimwear, the bathers connect performance with culture and place, carrying meaning […]

Two gold medals. Two Australian firsts. One sport. Sarah Larcombe and Oceana Mackenzie have each climbed into the record books, delivering breakthrough performances four years apart. Victorian athletes helping redefine what Australian climbing looks like on the world stage. Larcombe made history first. In May 2022, in her debut international season, she won gold at […]

Winners have been announced for the Victorian Sport Awards (VSAs), honouring the Victorian sport and active recreation industry for achievements made during the 2025 calendar year. Presented by the Victorian Government and Vicsport on Wednesday 13 May in the Members Dining Room at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 19 awards were presented that span individual and team […]

Reflection by Imogen Barnett, VIS Human Resources Administrator   Three athletes. Three different sports. Three different lives on paper. A basketballer rushing from training to a classroom. An AFLW player leaving recovery for a hospital night shift. A soccer player lacing up the boots they once wore professionally, now searching for purpose beyond the game. […]

Since its inception, the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) has been a driving force in shaping Australia’s sporting success. Behind every VIS athlete is a network of high performance experts working together to bring athlete’s ambitions to life – including the next generation of professionals stepping into the industry. VIS athletes have stood on Olympic, […]

By Chris Burke, VIS baseball athlete Ohtani will no doubt go down as one of the best players to ever play the game. I told myself, you can go out there and watch three rounds of his batting practice and be a little kid watching it, be in awe, soak it in. However, once those […]

Australian curlers Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill have claimed a historic first World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship title, defeating Sweden’s Therese Westman and Robin Ahlberg 8–4 in the gold medal match in Geneva, Switzerland. The victory marks Australia’s first ever world title in curling and an exclamation mark on the recent remarkable Australian winter sport […]

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 […]

Reflection by Andrew Palumbo, Hazel Glen College teacher  As a leader of a College Athlete Academy, at Hazel Glen College, it’s a no-brainer to welcome athletes from the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) to our campus to speak to our students. Particularly Para athletes, whose stories of resilience and perspective add a powerful and meaningful dimension to the inspiring visits.  In the past three […]