New Campbelltown Sports and Health Centre of Excellence a major boost for south-west Sydney

Artist Impression of new Athletics and Overall health Centre of Excellence

Western Sydney College welcomes the NSW Government’s announcement of $16.7 million from the WestInvest application to establish a Sports activities and Well being Centre of Excellence at Campbelltown Stadium.

Led by Campbelltown Metropolis Council, the College is pleased to be a essential companion on the $33 million undertaking which will produce a large range of sports activities science, well being and wellbeing, group progress and outreach plans, as perfectly as progress pathways for elite athletes in the area.

Western Sydney College will look for to establish a Overall health and Professional medical Centre in just the Centre of Excellence to accommodate a broad selection of companies, which include common apply, allied well being, clinical imaging and athletics administration. The eyesight of the University is to encourage sporting participation, training, wellbeing and wellbeing in a local community hub design.

Critically, the Well being and Medical Centre will give hands-on clinical placements and schooling options for pupils throughout the University in fields these kinds of as drugs, nursing and midwifery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, common Chinese medication, and sports activities science.

It will also supply a big raise for elite sports activities spouse athletes and community sporting communities by maximizing new expertise and progress pathways, athlete welfare and neighborhood wellness.

Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Barney Glover AO, mentioned the College is a top advocate for the Greater Western Sydney location, and is happy to be involved in a challenge which serves to enhance the health and fitness of its community communities.

“The Campbelltown Sports and Health and fitness Centre of Excellence will be a environment-course facility that will supply considerably-essential, added in depth wellbeing providers for the communities of south-west Sydney – a speedy-expanding region that activities several, normally elaborate, wellness difficulties,” mentioned Professor Glover.

“Importantly, this Centre will offer you an modern model of care that will boost entry and produce authentic wellbeing advantages for neighborhood people as effectively as strengthen the University’s have schooling of potential health care and health and fitness specialists who can remain and perform in the region, supporting to alleviate some of the pressures experiencing the health care method.”

To be co-positioned with local community partners these as the Wests Tigers, Macarthur FC and the South West Sydney Academy of Activity, the Sporting activities and Wellbeing Centre of Excellence will support nurture nearby sporting activities industry experts and future athletes, serving as a centre for elite sporting excellence nationally and internationally.

Professor Glover explained the University’s entire world-main wellness and sport science study know-how will be embedded within just the Centre, strengthening collaboration involving the College, market and the neighborhood and offering true-world influence.

“Western Sydney University looks ahead to doing the job with the NSW Federal government and Campbelltown City Council to move by way of the upcoming phases of arranging to realise our vision for this challenge – an excellent option for job creation, market collaboration and deep and long lasting engagement with the communities of south-west Sydney,” he mentioned.

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17 February 2023

Amanda Whibley, Supervisor, Media and General public Relations