Carding

High Performance Sport New Zealand and National Sport Organisations (NSOs) work together to make sure that funding for elite sport is invested in the areas that will achieve the measures of success in Sport New Zealand's High Performance Strategy

Athletes who are 'carded' are eligible for an allocation of performance services as determined by their NSO and delivered by the HPSNZ.

Carded Athletes as at 12 December 2011 (XLS, 76 Kb)

What does carding achieve?

Your card gives you access to your personal allocation of performance services, which can include sport science, sports medicine, performance planning, Athlete Life and performance analysis.  Each athlete has different combinations of services available to them, based on the needs of the individual and their sport.  The level of support and services is determined by the NSO.

Carding Criteria

Carded athletes can receive services from HPSNZ.  The carding criteria are aligned to the athlete pathways of National Sports Organisations (NSOs), create consistency across NSOs and align with Sport NZ’s High Performance Strategy. This alignment helps ensure support is provided to athletes tracking to deliver NSO and Sport NZ high performance outcomes.

Athlete carding is available to:

• Sport NZ'sTargeted Sports being Athletics, Bike, Netball, Rowing, Swimming, Triathlon and Yachting (but excludes Rugby and Cricket);
• Canoeing, Equestrian, Women’s Football, Men’s and Women’s Hockey, Paralympics, Winter Performance Programme and;
• Other sports/athletes as agreed by the NSO and Sport NZ.

This is intended only as a guide.  Sport NZ, NSOs and HPSNZ jointly consider and agree the case for each athlete being awarding carding status.

Carding Criteria for printing purposes (DOC, 39 Kb)

Carding Criteria

Scenario 1

The following carding criteria are aligned to the NSO’s high performance athlete pathway, which is agreed with Sport NZ.

Level 1

• Athletes who are on track to medal in the forthcoming Olympic Games, Paralympics or World Championships (Netball only)

Level 2

Athletes who are either:

• On track to post a creditable performance (1)  in the forthcoming Olympic Games, Paralympics or World Championships (Netball only) and/or
• On track to medal in the following Olympic Games, Paralympics or World Championships (Netball only)

Level 3

• Athletes who are on track to medal in the two further Olympic Games or World Championships (Netball only)

Scenario 2

The following carding criteria are used in the absence of a NSO high performance athlete pathway agreed with Sport NZ.

Level 1

• Individual athletes (2)  in an Olympic discipline that placed in the top 8 at their most recent PEGs qualifying event (3) 
• Hockey or Women’s Football or Netball teams (4)  that placed in the top 3 at their most recent PEGs qualifying event (3)
• Athletes from Paralympics that placed in the top 3 at the annual pinnacle event agreed with Paralympics New Zealand and Sport NZ.

Level 2

• Individual athletes (2) in an Olympic discipline that placed 9th-16th at their most recent PEGs qualifying event (3)
• Hockey or Women’s Football or Netball teams (4) that placed 4th-8th at their most recent PEGs qualifying event (3).
  

(1)  Creditable performances are defined and agreed between the NS, HPSNZ and Sport NZ and in the context of the NSO’s athlete pathway and Sport NZ’s High Performance Strategy.

(2)  Athletes from teams of eight or fewer e.g. cycling team pursuit, swimming relay, rowing four will be treated as individuals for the purposes of these criteria.  The exception is for a rowing eight and coxswain, who will all be treated as individuals.

(3)  PEGs qualifying events are determined annually between the NSO, HSPNZ and Sport NZ.

(4)  The team size will be determined by the NSO, HPSNZ and Sport NZ, with consideration to the NSO’s athlete pathway where it exists.

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