Great Southern Academy of Sport

GSAS Juniors Holiday Session 🏃‍♀️

Looking for a fun and active way to keep the kids moving these coming school holidays?

Join the Great Southern Academy of Sport for a dynamic session focused on balance, coordination, movement skills and athletic development. Led by our Head Coach and supported by GSAS athletes, this is a great opportunity for young athletes of all sporting backgrounds to learn, move and have fun.

📅 Friday 10 July
@ Albany Leisure & Aquatic Centre (Court 6)

Ages 8–10 years
⏰ 8:30am – 10:00am

Ages 11–13 years
⏰ 10:00am – 11:30am

$25 per athlete (includes ALAC entry)

Whether your child plays basketball, netball, football, athletics or simply loves being active, this session will help build confidence, movement skills and coordination in a fun and supportive environment.

👉 Register now via the JotForm link below. Places are limited.

https://form.jotform.com/261741070241850

Fliss Appreciation Post 🙌

A huge shout out to our Sports Dietician, Felicity Willis.

Fliss brings so much warmth, positivity and energy to the GSAS team. Through her fortnightly fuel up visits, one-on-one nutrition support, and genuine care for every athlete, she helps fuel both performance and well being.

Fun Fact 🤡 Fliss was a WAIS rowing scholarship holder and previously worked with the British Paralympic swimming team!

Thanks for all that you do, Fliss! 💙💪🥗🙌

📸 Jenny Feast Photography

Such a hard working, motivated young woman 🤩Well done Jess 👏

Jess Baines is set on a soccer career and has made the big switch from Albany Caledonian to Perth RedStar for this season.

Read about her story below.
https://www.albanyadvertiser.com.au/news/albany-advertiser/albany-caledonians-jessica-baines-heads-to-perth-redstar-for-a-new-challenge-after-thrilling-dallas-cup-trip--c-22383398?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Scholarships don't pause when athletes get injured.

Whether an athlete is in full training, returning from injury or completing a modified program, our goal is the same: keep them engaged, moving and connected to the team.

Recovery can be a frustrating, challenging and isolating time. And we think no one should go it alone 💪

Different Sports.
Same goals.
Building strength and sustainability.

📸 by Jenny Feast Photography
💪 by Chris Dorman Strength & Conditioning

From the Great Southern to the Green & Gold💚💛

What a week it has been for Mason and Ginger who have proudly represented their country for the first time at the Oceania Athletics Championships in Darwin. 🥇🥈

Mason will take away a Gold medal in the U18 Triple jump after an explosve 14.55m first jump and Ginger brings home a Silver in the U18 400m Hurdles with a great time of 1:01.92.

This is truly why we exist 🙌 To watch, support and develop athletes like Mason and Ginger in their home environments, so they can stay in our communities while still reaching their full potential.

Thank you to CITS Great Southern for their ongoing support that makes our program possible.

New Athletes Part 2 ✌️

We are excited to introduce you to our 2nd round of new GSAS athletes:

Phoenix Brown - Basketball 🏀
Patrick House - Cricket 🏏
Kaylah Langdon - Basketball 🏀
Jenson Henderson- Basketball 🏀
Kate Levett - Surf Life Saving 🏄‍♀️
Beau Sobey - Cricket 🏏
Asher Asher Hotchkin - Basketball 🏀
Bryce Berwick - Basketball 🏀

Time to get to work 💪

Wow, what a career Trish has had - well worth the read!

We are so lucky to have her back in the Great Southern and on the board of the Great Southern Academy of Sport 👏🙌

Hockey, heart and Olympics: Tricia Heberle’s inspiring story From Albany’s hockey fields to the Olympic stage, Tricia Heberle has spent a lifetime shaping sport at its highest level — a journey from grassroots hockey to the very heart of Olympic sport.

Albany Sportsperson of the Year Awards 👏

We had such a great night at the City of Albany SPOTY last week. So proud of all our nominated GSAS crew with 13 of the 18 junior nominations coming from our athletes, and four finalists overall. A true reflection of the hard work being put in across the board.

Special congratulations to Keely Berry who, off the back of her 2025 National Squad selection, was named Albany Retravision Junior Sportsperson of the Year. Huge achievement and very well deserved.

Big thanks to the The City of Albany and all the sponsors for putting on a great event, and congrats to all nominees and winners.

Not too mention, great to hear from key note speaker Peter Bol 👏

📸 Jenny Feast Photography

NEW GSAS ATHLETES 🤩

We have just completed our recent athlete application round and we are so excited to announce SIXTEEN new GSAS scholarahip holders. This has been our largest intake yet and we were blown away with the number and quality of applications.

The first new GSAS athletes to introduce are:

Tea Zizek - Tennis 🎾
Jack Spencer - Basketball 🏀
Mikayla Holden - Equestrian 🐎
Zachary Riddell - Swimming 🏊‍♂️
Charlotte Mitrovski - Athletics 🏃‍♀️
Mori Hamilton - Basketball 🏀
Holly Froehnelt - Football (Soccer) ⚽️
Joel Weller - BMX 🚲