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RACE RULES TO REMEMBER
1. General Conduct

1.1 Competitors must not obstruct or interfere with the forward progress of another competitor, or jeopardise the safety and welfare of another competitor or race official or spectator of member of the public.

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The National Talent Academy Programme

What is the National Talent Academy?
The Triathlon Australia High Performance programme has established the National Talent Adademy (NTA) in order to help achieve it's vision of “Sustained International Success”.

The NTA is a camps based program established to provide a link between existing state junior development programs and the SIS/SAS network. The key deliverable of the NTA is to support talented athletes emerging from existing STTA junior development programs or via talent identification/talent transfer by:

• enhancing their daily training environment through advice and mentoring to the NTA
  athletes home coach
• offering a camps-based program which will provide specialist coaching and technical
  support in sports science and sports medicine
• offering national and international (subject to selection) triathlon races opportunities

Who will deliver the NTA?
The NTA is divided into four regions each of which will be driven and managed by appointed National Talent Coaches (NTC).  The four regions and coaches are:

• NSW & ACT – Keiran Barry
  Email: keiran.barry@triathlon.org.au
• WA & SA  - Dan Atkins
  Email: dan.atkins@triathlon.org.au
• VIC & TAS – Jan Rehula
  Email: jan.rehula@triathlon.org.au
• QLD & NT – Craig Walton
  Email: craig.walton@triathlon.org.au

Each NTA will deliver at least three technically based camps over 5 – 7 days during school holidays. The camps will be coordinated and driven by the National Talent Coach (NTC) who will act as Head Coach during the camp. The NTA camps will be supported by the SIS/SAS coach and other specialist coaches or technical experts as relevant to achieve the purpose of the camp.

How do I become a part of the NTA?
To be considered for selection into the NTA, athletes must first ensure they meet the eligibility criteria detailed in the information pack below. If an athlete does meet the eligibility criteria, then they may be considered for the NTA subject to the Automatic or Discressionary Selection process. The eligibility criteria and selection process can be found in the NTA information booklet at the bottom of this page.

Automatic selection can be achieved by meeing the National Performance Standards (NPS) minimum times during official Time Trial events. If you wish to be considered for selection into the NTA, then you can attend the NTA Time Trial events being conducted by the National Talent Coaches around the country.

For more information and an expression of interest form, download the National Talent Academy Information Booklet

Click here to download the National Talent Academy Athlete & Coach BLUEPRINT

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