Wintec tutor, Dave Williams is training to climb a 20,000-foot Alaskan peak but to "keep it local", he ran every road in his hometown, Raglan recently, a marathon effort which raised more than $1,600 for mental health.
One of the biggest challenges to students is time, especially when they are parents, and it’s also one of the reasons why some students don’t complete their study.
Scott Wrenn is going to great lengths to find out what makes the perfect cricket player. Scott has worked in professional cricket for seven years and has witnessed a lot of positive change both at domestic and international levels.
Dave Harwood’s journey to completing Wintec’s Certificate in Exercise isn’t your typical one.
Wintec graduate Josh Trewin says he feels lucky to be working as Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club’s Sport Science and Performance Specialist. We don’t think luck has got anything to do with it.
Studying the postgraduate diploma at Wintec, developing her personal brand, and tapping into networks paid off for the sport enthusiast who is now working as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist at the Advance Wellness Centre in Hamilton.
Helping cyclists making informed decisions while training is just part of the challenge of training track cyclists for Wintec Sports Science student Vicki Fleming.
Unfulfilled in her customer services role, Jamie Ogilvy made the brave decision to quit her job and study her passion – sport.
Sport has always been a dominating force in Lydia Tuaiti’s life. She says "sport has the power to bring change. The reason I chose to study sport was to support kids like me, to achieve and go as far with their sport as they want.”
Todd Barker’s domain is still the gym but he’s traded working with big strong rugby players, to working with some of New Zealand’s up-and-coming sports stars at St Peter’s School in Cambridge.
Rugby star and community champion Liam Messam and comedian and documentary-maker Te Radar (aka Andrew Lumsden) were awarded honorary degrees for their contribution and commitment to sport and media respectively at Wintec this week.
Ngahuia Muru’s dream to become a nurse will become a reality next year, thanks to a new Wintec scholarship. The young Māori female achiever from Whakatane will study a Bachelor of Nursing as the first recipient of the Wintec Midlands Hockey Scholarship.
Jako Bekker, an academic staff member from Wintec’s Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance was a Wintec student before he got the opportunity to work in the industry he loves while continuing to study. In the challenging world of sport science, there is a constant demand to improve.
A passion for exercise helped Wintec student Shane Way overcome personal adversity and take out the Student of the Year at the recent 2016 New Zealand Exercise Industry Awards in Auckland.
Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science
Nick Read completed a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science in 2014. He now works for KiwiSport as a Rugby League Officer for the Waikato District. "I had a very positive experience at Wintec and continue to be a great advocate. Aside from meeting likeminded people, with whom I am still very close friends; I was most impressed by Wintec staff."
Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science
Brad Mayo is a Wintec graduate who was willing to put in the hard yards early, and it has paid off with both a wealth of knowledge and respect in the industry. Brad brings a lot of what he learnt from his time at Wintec to his job with Waikato Rugby.
Certificate in Fitness industry training (2011 )
Since finishing Wintec, Cairo has been working as a personal trainer running his business from a home-based gym and working out of Les Mills Hamilton. Cairo’s professional boxing career has also excelled since holding an undefeated pro record of 11 – 0 (five wins by knock-out).
Winter sport is in full swing and a partnership between Wintec and Waikato Hockey Association is creating new opportunities for hockey players and sport science students.
When 20-year-old Wintec sport student Anna Blackburn got the call to say her study fees were going to be covered thanks to a scholarship, she thought someone was playing a practical joke.
A new partnership with Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty will see Wintec provide a range of high-performance services to help boost the netball organisation’s talent development programme.
Two Waikato secondary school students have beaten the competition to become the 2019 winners of Wintec Champion of the Codes.
When we think of medicine in the western world, images of pills and potions come readily to mind but there’s a growing realisation that exercise is medicine too.
Two Cambridge students have beaten close to 100 Waikato athletes to win Wintec’s Champion of the Codes.
St Paul’s Collegiate isn’t afraid to do things differently and Wintec's sport science students are working with St Paul’s to help them achieve their best.
St Peter’s Cambridge aims to have one of the best sporting programmes in New Zealand and they are working with Wintec to achieve this.
ACC claims for gym-related injuries have soared to 52,964 in 2017 from 17,694 in 2011. These figures, recently reported in the media, are alarming and there are calls to investigate the claims, improve public awareness and regulate the sports industry in New Zealand.
Twelve students will study at universities in Japan and China in 2018 now that Wintec has been confirmed for two prestigious Prime Minister’s scholarships for Asia.
Wintec’s Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance has once again received international recognition from the American College of Sports Medicine.
Do you have big goals to achieve this year? Wintec has opened Waikato’s first sports performance and wellbeing clinic to help improve your health, enhance your training, sort your nutrition, or level-up your athletic prowess.
Elderly people living with chronic health conditions are getting a new lease on life thanks to a specialised exercise rehabilitation clinic run by staff and students from the Waikato Institute of Technology’s (Wintec).