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Training tomorrow's elite athletes

25 February 2009

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A Southwood Boys Grammar student completes an agility test.

Monash opened the doors of its new High Performance Sports Centre in Blackburn Road, Clayton, to students from Southwood Boys Grammar last week.

The school was the first to undergo the Student Health and Education Program developed by Monash Sport.

The program aims to assess, educate and identify talented students, helping them to improve their knowledge of health and exercise while identifying potential high-performance athletes.

Once known as the Melbourne Cricket Centre, the centre boasts 1500 square metres of fully netted indoor training areas, gym and circuit training facilities, a medical room, large boardroom and administration space.

The centre will double as a training area for Monash University's elite athletes.

Director Monash Sport Martin Doulton said the centre was a unique facility in Victoria, and the university sporting sector.

"This facility opens up opportunities for Monash University to establish strategic alliances based around our teaching, research and community engagement themes with high-profile sporting teams, community groups and state government sectors, while offering a quality facility to the public and schools in the south-eastern suburbs," Mr Doulton said.