Queen’s Bursary scheme

Sporting Academies at Queen’s support students across our five priority sports as they pursue the twin goals of sporting and academic excellence. In recent years the support programmes around these students and expertise to guide them has continued to grow.

We focus resources help and challenge athletes to maintain performance throughout their time on the programmes. While the entry levels for performance programmes are based on current achievements, it is important that we ensure all athletes maintain their focus on individual and team performances throughout the season. Queen’s Sport has now adopted a performance review process in line with the university academic calendar.

Queen’s Sport Athlete Pathway

All athletes on Academy programmes should be committed to the training and testing protocols as specified by the coaches within the performance pathway of your sport. The Queen’s Sport Pathways have been carefully designed to help recognise your achievements and commitment to your sport but also challenge you as an athlete to reach towards challenging targets.

Queen’s Sport endevours to create an open and supportive environment to help students achieve their academic and sporting goals. Regular review and mentoring meetings will occur with your Head Coach along with other Queen’s Sport Performance Staff to help you maintain high standards and to provide personal development support on all aspects of your sporting and academic performance.

University and Community Engagement

Academy Academy athletes are considered leaders within their peer environments and ambassadors for Queen’s Sport and the University. You are selected with this in mind and will occasionally be asked to fulfil some duties in this regard – photo shoots, meet and greet, etc.

This will also include engagement in community and club coaching programmes which are facilitated at various sites across the academic year. You will be expected to volunteer for coaching in these programmes in each semester as they arise.

Academy Standards

Standards for entry to all five Academies are set out in the relevant section and the Sports Development Team at Queen’s Sport will be co-ordinating the support structure for all scholarship recipients and aim to make this achievement as beneficial as possible. This award entitles you to a number of benefits, which are coordinated by the relevant development officer. You will be required to commit to a balanced training and recovery programme that accommodates high academic achievement and our staff will support these ideals.

Queen’s Academies Support

Academy benefits will be available once students have been confirmed on the programme by Queen’s Sport. It should be noted that students can be awarded a place on the Athlete Pathway by Queen’s Sport at any time throughout the season provided they meet the required standard.

Each full academy member will be supported in the following:

• Personal, specific athletic development programmes throughout the season
• Academic mentoring and flexibility with course requirements
• Lifestyle and time management mentoring
• Physiotherapy and sports medicine support on a needs analysis
• All-inclusive membership to all indoor and outdoor sports facilities at Queen’s Sport
• Bespoke training and leisure clothing
• Bespoke, personal Sports nutrition advice and supplements where applicable
• Degree Plus accreditation (route A) upon full completion of Academy programme

Students supported by performance sport programmes at Queen’s University will have access to quality coaching in your chosen sport, world class facilities, Strength and Conditioning, Sports injury treatment, scholarships, sporting and academic mentoring, academic flexibility, clothing and additional development services dependant on stage of progress.

Scholarships are within the following scale and awarded by Queen’s Sport performance staff in consultation with development officers and coaches, where appropriate:

Sub Academy Support

Sub Academy athletes will have the opportunity to achieve Academy status over the course of the year and to avail of the additional benefits that entails.  Initially, each Sub Academy member will benefit as follows:

• Complimentary Off-Peak Membership to the PEC sports facilities at Queen’s Sport
• Specific athletic development programmes throughout the season constituent of gym and water based components
• The potential to move to Academy status dependant on performance within the club
• Opportunity to apply for support through individual aspects of Academy programmes, to be considered on merit and performance
• Opportunity to avail of Queen’s Sport tutored programmes