Sports Acadamies

Working with outstanding teachers, Loughborough University graduate interns and exceptional coaches, BISP has developed a unique curriculum, embedding its Sports Academy structure into the students’ everyday experiences.

There are four main Sport Academies… Football, Tennis, Swimming and Golf.

The vision for the BISP Sports Academies is to develop and produce world-class athletes who can compete at the highest level.

Each Sports Academy has coaches with outstanding experience in working with high performance team (HPT) level sportsmen and sportswomen.

Each Sports Academy has its own unique dimensions and specialist demands that will enable students to maximise performance - working in partnership with high performing clubs both locally and internationally in order to create pathways into professional sport or University/College scholarships.

The Sports Academies’ programmes are based on a pyramid structure:

• at its base each focuses on the fundamental skills needed to access each of the sports. These skills are built upon through both the PE curriculum and extra-curricular programmes as athletes move from participation to elite performance
• at the elite level, students work together daily with their Academy Coach to develop the individual’s maximum potential. It is here students have opportunities to compete against other high level institutes and professional sporting clubs
• students in the HPT (elite) section of the structure focus on the latest training methods, nutrition and recovery as well as receiving world-class coaching. Mental aspects of each of the sports, as well as the social-emotional skills needed to succeed, are also covered