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Michael Scott is stepping down as Chief Executive of High Performance Sport New Zealand after three years at the helm.

High Performance Sport NZ (HPSNZ) has commissioned an independent audit of internal systems and processes to ensure it has a best practice framework for supporting the wellbeing of athletes, coaches and staff in the HP system.

High Performance Sport NZ (HPSNZ) has today launched the two main pillars of its $2.7 million Women in High Performance Sport pilot project which seeks to create the right environment and opportunities for far greater representation of women in high performance leadership and coaching positions.

Annette Purvis has been appointed to the High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) Board of Directors as the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) nominee. She will take up her role this week.

The 2032 HP System Strategy is a living roadmap that sets out what the High Performance Sport System as a whole in New Zealand needs to achieve between now and 2032 and how it will go about this. It provides a whole of system view and contains 12 workstreams that span the breadth of the New Zealand High Performance system.

Hetty Van Hale and Rowan Simpson have been appointed to the High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) Board of Directors. Their appointments were confirmed in April and both take up their roles from today.

Sport NZ Group Statements of Intent and Statement of Performance Expectations 

Sport NZ Group Annual Report 2020 

New Zealand Olympic and Paralympic Athletes have said they support a postponement of the Olympic Games, an approach backed jointly by the New Zealand Olympic Committee, HPSNZ and Paralympics New Zealand.

New research shows most NZ pre-HP athletes play multiple sports “Specialising later is not going to reduce New Zealand’s chances of winning on the world stage”