SPORT ACADEMY OF TURKU REGION
Academys main intention is to support young aspiring athletes and top level athletes by offering them professional coaching and study guidance. Main focus areas are: studying services, coaching services and supplemental sport services.
Every educational institution has Academy’s contact person, who advices and supports athletes. Contact persons help athletes to combine studying and training. Beforehand athlete students make a personal planning the integration of studies and sports.
Sport Academy of Turku Region arranges sports training four days a week, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 8-10 a.m. If for some reason an athlete cannot take part in training, it is also possible to attend lessons in the morning.
Athletes are trained in adequate facilities according to their sport. Here are some locations, to name some examples: Impivaara football and ice hockey sports halls, Impivaara indoor swimming pool, Samppalinna ball game hall, and the 994 sports hall of the Caribia hotel. After the training sessions the athletes are transported to school premises for the 10 o`clock lessons. Training staff are from the top of their own domain. Several of them have the highest training degrees possible as well as training experience from national team or national league level.
Sport Academy of Turku region is accessible to all gifted athletes. In the sports in which academy cannot arrange coaching studies can still be arranged by making a training contract between the athlete, the trainer or the club of the athlete, and our school. This means that the trainer is responsible for the morning training sessions. Training contracts are signed at the beginning of each school year.
To support the comprehensive development of the athlete, academy offers general training in multiple sports events, as well as lessons on the theory of training and sports psychology. Lectures are also held on subjects such as anti-doping, an athlete`s nutrition, media skills, sport ethics and life management.
