TIS National

Performance Program

(NPP)

Basketball Australia’s High Performance Objectives

Key Outcome - Ensure the supply of talented players and coaches for our national teams.– Achieving sustained international success by Boomers, Opals, Gliders and Rollers.– Develop the support, tools and resources required by participants to deliver a long term athlete development plan.– To develop world class coaches trained to meet the needs in their contextual interaction with the athletes.– To develop a culture of long term basketball development.– To provide holistic development programs in Australia to enable athletes and coaches, through to the professional

level, to pursue their goals.– Sustaining excellence through continuous improvement.

Performance Strategy– Develop and implement performance pipeline from talent identification to the senior national teams.– Establish the highest attainable goals.– Estimate the number of athletes of sufficient calibre required to fill the pipeline.– Specify the performance staff, infrastructure and operational costs.– Maximise the number of opportunities from the budget available.– Specify the essential national framework, central systems and services.

BA DRIVEN “Performance” Pathway– Establish “performance” values – what Australian teams stand for, what they are best at.– Performance Director reporting direct to BA, linked to SIS/SAS working with SSO.– Accredited Delivery Centres providing “performance” coaching, through Individual Performance Plans linked to daily training environment,

prioritized curriculum.– Athlete monitoring system providing monitoring of workloads, evaluation tools as well as online resource tools.– National Development Camps designed to identify and collect the best talent via the “performance” pathway for evaluation and elite coaching

Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence (Formerly AIS)– Develop Men’s Program as Tournament based– National Technical Leadership from Head Coaches– National Web Based Skills Techniques a & Proficiency Resource

SIS / SAS Network– Boomers / Opals linked to home state SIS/SAS when in Australia for services– Formal partnership for BA State Performance Director and National Performance Programs

Our Key Outcomes• Reinforce the AIS as National Centre of Excellence for Coach & Player Development• Develop and introduce National Player and Coach Development Framework• Create a system of Accredited Delivery Centres to deliver National Development Framework.• Develop an Athlete Monitoring System to case manage all national squad athletes and ultimately link to Accredited Delivery Centres

managing identified talented athletes.• National Strength & Conditioning Program prioritised in National Development Framework and delivered in concert with SIS/SAS

network.• National Sports Medicine & Science personnel recruitment initiative

Tasmania’s High Performance Structure

Objective of the TIS National Performance Program

1. To produce Australian Junior Representatives

2. To produce COE scholarship holders

3. To assist the development pathway to a future Boomer or Opal

Why athletes receive TIS NPP scholarships

• They have been endorsed by Basketball Australia as a potential international athlete.

• Athletes must be added to the BA Futures Depth Chart as a Projected, Potential or Monitor athlete and stay on this list to obtain and maintain their NPP scholarship. Scholarships are reviewed each year after Nationals. (1 Aug – 31 July).

• Australian profiles are rewarded as a result of performance at National Championships, Performances on tour, in National Head Coach Camps, Country Cup or through projection as a potential international athlete.

Scholarship tiers within SIS/SASNomenclature Structure

TIER CATEGORY BASKETBALL INTERPRETATION

1 World Class Athlete (WC)

An athlete that is a member of a Senior National team

which is ranked top four in the world.

2 International Class Athlete (IC)

An athlete that is a member of a Senior National team

3Developing

International Athlete (DI)

An athlete that is a member of a Junior National team /

AIS Scholarship Holders

4Potential

International Athlete (PI)

An athlete that has potential to become an IC athlete

within 4 - 7 years / SIS-SAS Scholarship Holders

5 Emerging Talent Athlete (ET)

Athletes that are involved in State Development Programs that show long-

term potential but have not yet met criteria for a Potential International

position.

TIS Basketball NPP Scholarship Tiers

PROFESSIONAL TIER (Tier 1 & 2) This tier is for those athletes that have received a TIS scholarship whilst in Tasmania but

have now progressed into professional ranks. The directive from Basketball Australia is that once an athlete makes a Senior National team depth chart that their home state would need to provide support to them whilst they are home.

Support: To provide Strength and Conditioning access whilst on return to Tasmania To provide individual workouts and daily training environment whilst on return to

TasmaniaExpectation of athlete relationship: To be involved in mentoring current TIS scholarship holders To make themselves available for TIS sessions or camps at request of the TIS Basketball

Coach whilst on return to Tasmania To make themselves available for any media on behalf of the TIS

COE SCHOLARSHIP TIER (Tier 3) This tier is for current TIS scholarship holders that have obtained an COE scholarship

and reside in Canberra.Support: To provide Strength and Conditioning access whilst on return to Tasmania To provide individual workouts and daily training environment whilst on return to

Tasmania To provide ACE support whilst on return to TasmaniaExpectation of athlete relationship: To make themselves available for TIS sessions or camps at request of the TIS Basketball

Coach whilst on return to Tasmania To make themselves available for any media on behalf of the TIS

TIS SCHOLARSHIP TIER (Tier 4) This tier is for current athletes that reside in Tasmania and have been identified

through the TIS Emerging Talent Squad (ETS), State Development Program (SDP) or U14 Regional Development Program and endorsed by Basketball Australia as an athlete that has the potential to represent Australia at the international level.

Support: Strength and Conditioning

Including Musculoskeletal and Medical entry and exit screenings

ACE support Weekly individual and team training sessions by the TIS Basketball Coach Camps by the TIS Basketball Coach Athlete training visits to the COE / National League Programs Athlete Tours to Melbourne and South Australia for competition Bi Annual International Tour TIS clothing and training gear Athlete assistance where deemed appropriateExpectation of athlete relationship: Athletes to partake in all expectations of the program set by the TIS basketball coach Athletes to make themselves available for all TIS functions, events and media requests

EMERGING TALENT SQUAD (Tier 5) This tier is for those athletes that are identified by the TIS basketball coach as having

potential as an Australian athlete at international level but have not yet obtained an Australian profile. This tier is weekly training with TIS scholarship squad team practices in their region, that allows non-scholarship holders to obtain a higher level of profile. ETS members would have to be part of the SDP and would form the bridge from the state development tier to the TIS scholarship tier.

Support: At home Strength and Conditioning programs for Targeted Athletes Athletes TIS weekly sessions in their region Athletes can be invited into TIS camps and tours by the TIS basketball coach

Expectation of athlete relationship: Athletes to partake in all expectations of the program set by the TIS basketball coach

TIS NPP Program operationDaily Training Environment:Daily Training Environment is conducted in the athlete’s home region (North West and South) or at the Tasmanian COE in Launceston Athletes will work with the TIS basketball coach two to four times a week

1 team session and 1 individual/group session per week (Regional sessions) 2 team sessions and 3 individual/group sessions per week (TAS COE)

Strength and Conditioning three times a week Additional shooting program three times a week Camp Based Training Environment: Camps Based Training will be based out of the COE in Launceston with preference to be out of the

Silverdome. Elphin Sports Centre as second option Every month athletes will have a 1 day training camp based in Launceston Every school holiday period athletes will be based in Launceston and take part in 4 day training camps

This is to replicate Australian Camp trainingsPhysical Testing: Testing will be done in accordance with Basketball Australia’s testing protocols Athletes will be tested three Four times a year

August, November, March and June of each scholarship year

TIS NPP Scholarship Year Planner2013 / 2014

TIS NPP Weekly training schedule COE Launceston

TIS NPP Weekly training schedule Hobart

TIS NPP Weekly training schedule North West

Underpinning BA/Tasmania’s High performance pathway

TIS Development Combine

July each year

State Development ProgramHigh Performance success does not occur with out sound Underpinning programs and the continued

success of the TIS NPP and our Australian representatives is reliant on a continued successful High

Performance Pathway to elite level from U12s to TIS and beyond

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