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Commonwealth head tours USC
27 May, 2005
Australian Commonwealth Games Association CEO, Perry Crosswhite,
toured the sport science facilities at USC in the lead up to next
year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Mr Crosswhite visited the Coast to inspect the range of
facilities available to host pre-Commonwealth Games training camps
in early 2006.
Director of the University's Centre for Healthy Activities,
Sport and Exercise (CHASE), Associate Professor Brendan Burkett,
showed Mr Crosswhite the sporting facilities both on campus and
within the CHASE laboratories.
"The University has excellent facilities for both the training
and testing of athletes at an elite level," Assoc. Professor
Burkett said.
"CHASE staff worked as the sport scientists for the Australian
Paralympic Swimming and Cycling and teams at the 2004 Athens
Paralympic Games.
"USC is also the first university to gain LSAS quality assurance
for our laboratory testing," he said.
LSAS (Laboratory Standards Assistance Scheme) is a national
program of the Australian Institute of Sport designed to achieve a
high standard of quality assurance in exercise science laboratories
involved in the assessment of state, national and international
level athletes.
Mr Crosswhite spoke to a local Sunshine Coast newspaper and said
that the University's sport science department was a definite plus
for the Coast.
"I've got to say the uni blew me away… it's one of the few
nationally-credited testing labs in Australia… and they've even got
the ability to do the testing remotely," Mr Crosswhite was quoted
as saying.