The new year means a new season for the region’s best young athletes in the Northern Inland Academy of Sport’s annual program.
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This year’s athletes made their way to Armidale City Bowling Club for the induction and growth day on Saturday which commenced the 2017 season.
The young sporting stars spent the day in a series of workshops.
Daniel Burgess spoke to the group about setting goals, Sam Bailey gave guidance on resilience, Selena Chan delivered education on nutrition, Marni Hietbrink informed the athletes about sports psychology and physiotherapist Warren Ansell explained injury prevention and management.
Ansell has worked with the academy for more than a decade and said he hoped the athletes would come away thinking about different aspects of training and performance.
"Our role at NIAS is predominantly injury prevention and injury management and helping them negotiate their sports medicine,” he said.
"Part of that is also helping to improve their performance and getting them used to managing their own bodies and their own training and becoming responsible for their own health.
"Hopefully a couple of key things they can go away with are, one it is that big picture, looking after themselves long term through a season through the next few years of their sporting careers and also some practical little stretches or techniques they can use day-to-day as part of their training.”
Ansell spends six to eight sessions with the participants throughout the year.