The Gippsland Sports Academy develops the sports skills, and personal skills, of talented young athletes through its sports programs.
Our pages provide information about these young athletes and their sports. We also acknowledge the individuals and sponsoring organisations whose support has enabled their high achievements.
2 July 2008 - Great Vic squash titles outcomes
Three Academy players achieved excellent outcomes in last weekend's Victorian Junior Championships.
Kasey Soutar won the 15 years girls' title, Darcy St John won the 15 years boys', and Ben Tomison was third in the 13 years' boys.
All three have since been confirmed with Victorian no.1 rankings in their age groups and have been selected into the Victorian team.
They will travel to Perth in September for the Australian Junior Championships.
Brad Soutar, with the Academy until last year, won his event for 19 years boys and will be in the Victorian squad as well.
27 June 2008 - Young lawn bowler in Vic squad
Lisa Phillips has been selected to represent Victoria at the Australian U18 Championships.
She will be part of a five member junior girls team and has been selected as skip of both the pairs and fours. This will be her third appearance in a Victorian side.
The championships will be held at Newcastle at the end of September.
23 June 2008 - Great performances at inter-academy golf
Our golf squad contested the Alex Calvert Trophy against three other regional sports academies on June 15.
The competition used the Stableford scoring system with extremely close results. Bendigo won the competition (32.6 average) with Gippsland a close third (31.9).
There were some excellent performances by the Gippsland squad members. Geoff Drakeford top scored with a 1 under par 71. Nathan Doyle, with 75, had the second best off-the-stick result.
Ben Matthews was close behind with 79 and Reanna Matthews, with her 81, was easily the best female golfer.
Mark Ferguson and Anthony Mills played consistently in their first tournament with the Academy and both show promise of future improvement.
The competition was the second day of the combined academies' SuperCamp with squads having trained at the Sandhurst PGA facilities on the previous day.
19 June 2008 - Beijing dream comes true for Amanda
Amanda Drennan, a member of the Academy's swimming squad from 2000 to 2002, has been selected to the Australian squad for the Beijing Paralympics.
Amanda's career shows the pathways concept in which regional sports academies have an important foundation role. The academies' capacity to nurture and support young talent assists next-level organisations, like the Victorian Institute of Sport, in developing them into world standard ones.
This year Amanda will be a member of the 35-strong squad contesting the Beijing Paralympics, in September, following the Olympic Games.
The full story is on our Swimming News page.
News Summaries - link to all stories
June Gippstar Awards to national level athletes
Winners of the June Gippstar Awards are junior basketballer Alex Sheedy and Morwell masters archer Merv Grinstead.
Beijing Olympics - Australian Team News
You can keep in touch with Australian news from the Beijing Olympics at the Australian Team web site.
