High Performance Athlete Program - 2025

Before completing this application form, you should have read the program guidelines: Guidelines.

Incomplete applications and/or applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

This section of the application form is designed to help you, and us, understand if you are eligible for this grant. It is important that you complete these questions before any others to ensure you do not waste your time applying for an unsuitable grant.

If you have any questions in regards to these eligibility criteria, please contact the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing on 1300 714 990 or orsr.grants@sa.gov.au.

All application correspondence will be directed to the athlete via the email address provided. Please use an email that will be checked weekly as this will be the main source of correspondence. 

If you do contact us throughout the application process, please quote the application number below.

To be eligible for the High Performance Athlete Program applicants must be: 

• an Australian citizen; and
• competing in a sport and discipline and classification represented at the Olympic, Winter Olympic, Paralympic or Commonwealth Games; and
• live in South Australia or identify as a South Australian athlete and do not hold a formal agreement with a sports institute other than SASI; and
• meet one of the following:
  • categorised by the applicant’s National Sport Organisation (NSO) based on the National Athlete Categorisation Framework (NACF) into one of the five categorisation levels (Podium, Podium Ready, Podium Potential, Developing, Emerging)*; or
  • representing Australia at a junior and/or senior level; or
  • a South Australian athlete, aged between 13 and 18 (as at 31 December 2024) with their primary residence 130km or more from the Adelaide GPO (includes Kangaroo Island) and recognised as having the potential to transition into a SASI sport program or Individual Athlete Scholarship.
  • a South Australian athlete, identified by their NSO as having the potential to transition towards sport categorisation, and is or has been under the custody or guardianship of the Chief Executive of the Department for Child Protection or identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

*Categorisation information is provided by the applicant’s NSO. NSOs categorise athletes using a sport specific matrix based on the NACF. The NACF defines each of the five categorisation levels (Podium, Podium Ready, Podium Potential, Developing, Emerging) to inform planning and to prioritise support to best achieve system targets.