Photo: suppliedILT Academy Southland celebrated two decades of supporting Southland’s best young athletes at a special function in Invercargill yesterday. Since the first pilot in 2005, the academy has supported more than 250 sportspeople. "We provide a programme that ... makes a short- and long-term difference to athletes’ performance and grows them as people. Ten Olympians, 30 Commonwealth Games athletes and many national and world champions had been supported by Academy Southland. "We develop young Southland athletes to excel at the highest level in life as well — Harvard, Duke, Princeton, Oxford and a Rhodes Scholar."

Source: Otago Daily Times December 21, 2025 16:03 UTC