Strategic Objective 2: Performance 18 RAISING OUR GAME A Strategy for Sport at Trinity 2015 - 2018 OBJECTIVE TO PROVIDE A STRUCTURED PROGRAMME AND A SUPPORTING ENVIRONMENT FOR INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES AND FOCUS SPORTS TEAMS TO PERFORM AND COMPETE SUCCESSFULLY, AT A HIGH LEVEL. In the main, this has been achieved via the Sports Scholarship Programme that has supported a wide range of individual athletes since its inception over twenty years ago. The creation of the Strategy challenges the current approach to the delivery of performance sport within Trinity, to being a proactive, innovative and strategic approach that reaches outward. Sport can be an influencing factor in the decision of students to join Trinity and this objective identifies actions that maximise this benefit to the student, the University and student sport. The formula for success can be found in a ‘focused’ club approach that can be complimented by supporting, as a far as possible, potentially talented or internationally recognised individual athletes and increasing the success of student clubs at a competitive level. ACTIONS 2.1 Identify Focus Sports which will be developed to a standard where Trinity will challenge for honours in those sports, at varsity and national levels; 2.2 Secure investment from the University to implement in full, the package required to attract high-performing athletes to Trinity; 2.3 Initiate a ‘schools programme’ linked to the Focus Sports that will attract the most talented secondary level students to study and compete at Trinity; 2.4 In liaison with the Programme for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, develop a fit-for-purpose support service that will provide a robust medical pathway for Sports Scholarship and Focus Sport athletes and associated research into sports injuries; 2.5 Put in place agreements and arrangements with other University services to include accommodation, health and catering, to deliver a comprehensive and fit-for-purpose support service for high-performing students; 2.6 Establish a measurement via which the development of students can be assessed during their involvement in the high performance sports programme at Trinity; 2.7 Create tangible links with relevant governing bodies of sports to strategically position the Focus Sports within their plans and to benefit from expertise and knowledge therein; 2.8 Create and implement a Student Club Development Model that attracts and retains student athletes and improves the competitiveness of Trinity Clubs. Success will be achieved when Trinity Sports Clubs are challenging regularly for honours in Blue Riband intervarsity and national championships and high-performing students choose Trinity for sporting development alongside academic achievement. This will be measured by:
TCD Strategy Document for Sport
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