Our Coaches:  The Academy is run by the Momentum Triathlon Academy (MTA), who first worked with students at Albert Park College in 2019 resulting in a group from years 7-12 enjoying keeping healthy and active through swimming, biking and running.  APC students have gone on to represent the state in national competitions and remain involved in the sport.  The Academy Coaches Chris White, Samantha Janssen and Benson Crick bring experience of developing both beginner and high performance junior athletes.  They are all accredited triathlon coaches with Triathlon Australia and have Working With Children Checks.

Our Approach: The Academy takes a ‘Health before Headlines’ approach following the coaches backgrounds in public health and education respectively.  Putting this into practice, all APC Triathlon Academy students discuss their individual needs, goals and their other sporting commitments with coaches, creating a plan to make sure that they can balance school, family and sporting commitments, as well as avoid burnout.

Our Training: Whilst traditionally triathlon is a summer sport, the APC Triathlon Academy embraces the different parts of triathlon and changes its focus each term, introducing different forms of swimming, biking and running opportunities throughout the year.  This will be delivered through 2 training sessions per week ( Swim - Monday 6am at MSAC.  Run / Bike - Thursday 4.15pm at Albert Park).  These sessions are focused on developing swim, bike and run skills and fitness and enabling Academy members to take part in local racing if they wish.  We also support those who wish to take their racing to state pathways and national level.