World Championships

Going Soft is Hard

It is not just in Australia that the impact of a sport being dropped from the Olympic Games is far reaching. The Great Britain women’s fast pitch softball team looks like missing the World Championships in Canada because they cannot

The Real Karate Kid

India Roberts from Cornwall in the UK is one tough nut. The eleven year old won a gold medal at the World karate Championships in Germany in the under 12 Kata category, despite having a broken arm. She took part

Champions One and All

WAIS held its Champions Breakfast this morning and once again it was a privilege to be in the room with so many talented young athletes. Lachlan Cooke took out the WAIS Career and Education Excellence Award. This is one remarkable

Embarrsing Exclusion

One other thing that was disappointing at the WAIS Athlete of the year awards was the fact that Wheelchair Sports WA Junior Athlete of the year Madison de Rozario was not included in the list of nominees for WAIS Junior

Simply the Best – Not categorized.

Steve Hooker deservedly won the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) Athlete of the Year award on Friday evening for his remarkable performance in the pole vault at the World Championships earlier in the year. Justin Eveson from Wheelchair basketball