Winning Students aims to help talented studentathletes to achieve their academic and sporting potent

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Winning Students aims to help talented
student-athletes to achieve their academic and
sporting potentials

• Winning Students has four objectives
• To support talented student athletes to progress
  along the performance pathway.
• To enhance the levels of success of talented
  student athletes in international competitions.
• To enhance the extent and quality of partnership
  working between governing bodies of sport and
  tertiary education.
• To enhance the capability of tertiary education
  to cater for the needs of talented student
  athletes as flexibly as possible.

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The place of Winning Students in the sports
performance system

• Strengthen the existing British system
• Working closely with all agencies involved in
  high performance sport
• Complement, supplement and add value
• Tertiary education to play a greater role in the
  existing performance network

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Eligibility criteria for sports(Probably
historical)

• ESTABLISHED SPORTS (Universities/colleges and
  sport involved in the performance system)
• Appropriate infrastructure exists
• Partnerships exist
• Sufficient participation
• Scholarships exist
• SGB with effective governance
• SGB with robust performance system
• SGB actively encouraging athletes to train and
  study in Scotland
• Achieve international success
• Platform for additional investment
• Inclusive
• Widely valued

• DEVELOPING SPORTS (Universities/colleges
  potential to be involved and the performance
  infrastructure of the sport relatively
  under-developed)
• Potential to develop appropriate infrastructure
• Notable student-athlete base
• Sports governing body is willing to partner
  universities/colleges
• Effective governance
• Potential to achieve international success
• Trigger additional investment
• Make significant difference to current provision
• SGB actively encouraging athletes to train and
  study in Scotland
• Inclusive
• Widely valued

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Sports

• Hockey
• Swimming
• Disability Swimming
• Orienteering
• Triathlon

• Golf
• Badminton
• Judo
• Womens Football
• Squash

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General eligibility criteria for student athletes

• Have a British passport
• Undertaking a recognised education programme at a
  college or university in Scotland funded by the
  Scottish Funding Council
• Able to represent Great Britain and/or Scotland
  in chosen sport
• Student athletes aged between 16 and 28 years
  old.
• Disabled student athletes aged between 16 and 35
  years old.

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Educational eligibility criteria

• Over statutory school age.
• Studying at an institution that holds membership
  of the Winning Students network.
• Be registered on a recognised education programme
  at a college or university in Scotland funded by
  the Scottish Funding Council.
• Student athletes studying in colleges in Scotland
  funded by the Scottish Funding Council must be
  registered on a recognised course of study that
  involves at least seven hours of course delivery
  time per week.
• Student athletes studying in universities in
  Scotland funded by the Scottish Funding Council
  must meet BUCS eligibility criteria.

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Sports Specific Criteria

• Student athletes will be nominated by their
  national governing body of sport in accordance
  with agreed selection criteria
• For Example
• Swimming National Senior Gold Squad
• Hockey Senior Scotland National Squad
• Orienteering Members of British Orienteering
  Performance Squad, Talent Squad or Scottish Elite
  Development Squad Performance Group.

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Winning Students Athletes Summary by Institution
and SportGoverning body nominations _at_ 9 June 2009
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Summary of Winning Students awards by sport and
gender
Governing body nominations _at_ 9 June 2009
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SUPPORTING STUDENT ATHLETES

• Awards to student athletes will be worth up to
  5,500 and anything in between
• Typical award expenditures are listed below

• Initial sport science screening (100)
• Strength and conditioning (500)
• Physiotherapy (400)
• Massage (300)
• Life style management (500)
• Life style workshops (200)
• Medical insurance (400)
• Coaching (2,500)
• Competition fees (600)
• Competition accommodation and travel (1,250)
• Physiology (300)

• Physiology (300)
• Biomechanics (300)
• Performance analysis (300)
• Sport psychology (300)
• Nutrition (300)
• Training camps (500)
• Equipment (650)
• Accommodation (2,500)
• Living grant (1,000)
• Academic study materials (1,000)

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ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR INSTITUTIONS TO JOIN THE
NETWORK

• Institutional and educational support
• Institution-wide commitment to provide flexible
  academic study
• Programme management
• A member of staff to manage and administer the
  institutions Winning Students programme and to
  provide support to access academic flexibility
• Financial management
• Marketing and promotion
• Commitment to promote Winning Students through
  appropriate methods
• General infrastructure
• Child protection policy, staff have enhanced
  disclosures from Disclosure Scotland and first
  aid available on site
• Formal partnership agreement
• All host institutions must enter a partnership
  agreement with SUSE, which sets out the
  responsibilities of each party

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Challenges and opportunities

• Compliance with access agreements and
  achievements of objectives of national training
  centres in universities/colleges.
• Attractiveness to students thinking of studying
  beyond Scotland.
• Commitments of Winning Student students to
  compete in Scottish and British student
  competitions.
• Gravitational pull and the Scottish sportscape.

• Making appropriate and effective contributions to
  national governing bodies of sport.
• Unlocking tertiary educations resources for the
  Scottish sporting cause.
• Making appropriate and effective contributions to
  the national and area institute performance
  network.