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Sport & Wellbeing Internships with Te Ratonga Hākinakina | UC Rec&Sport

Are you looking for an organisation to do your internship with?     UC Rec&Sport have been mentoring students for over 10years with internships across a broad range of sport & wellbeing contexts.  So, if you are in need of a place to call home for your internship requirements, why not check us out?

First up – check out our Sport Internship Website. On it, you’ll find more information about what we do, and what kinds of things you can expect to learn.

Why choose us?
  1. We have a highly experienced and qualified team who are well respected by their colleagues in their specialties. All have experience and connections in high performance sport, be it as coaches, players, management or governance.
  2. We support our UC sport clubs directly – you’ll be working with UC student athletes in Football, Hockey, Basketball, Netball and Rugby with both women and men’s teams available in most codes.
  3. We provide excellent real-world training, using the latest equipment, technology and training techniques.   We’ll wean you in slowly, and by the end of the season, you’ll be running your own sessions.
What types of Internships do we have?

1.  Strength & Conditioning – You’ll start by observing and learning how our coaches get the best out of our student athletes.  By the end of your internship, you’ll be writing and delivering athlete programmes in a professional academy setting.

2. Performance Analysis – You’ll start with filming, and then with additional teaching sessions with our PA co-ordinator, you’ll learn how to code using HUDL software.  By the end of the season, you’ll do the whole process solo, including delivering the information back to the coaches and players.

3. Governance and Sport Development – Supporting sport clubs in how they operate is crucial to keeping sport alive!   We can connect you to sport committees in the area you are keen to get experience in, and provide you with mentorship throughout.   You could do social media, marketing plans, sponsorship plans, strategic plans – you tell us what you’re interested in!

4. Event & Team Management – Keen to hold the reins and run an event?  It could be an existing one we offer, or it could be something new and wonderful you’ve dreamt up that our students would love to do.  We’ll help you navigate the best way to attract participants and run an exciting (and safe) event.     We also take interns to assist with our UTSNZ programme, where you may even be able to attend the tournament weekends as a manager.

Fill in an online application and then we’ll be in touch to discuss your needs, if the timing works and how we can work together.

Ngā mihi
UC Rec&Sport | Te Ratonga Hākinakina

Lift # 14 Puaka-James Hight Out of Service from Wednesday 16 October

Lift #14, located in the corridor behind the retail outlets in Puaka-James Hight, will be out of service from 8am Wednesday 16 October until 5pm Friday 31 January while Facilities Management contractors, OTIS, complete lift equipment upgrades to Lift #14.

While lift #14 is out of service for these planned works and you need to change floors, or enter or exit the building, please use one of the 3 alternative lifts or use the stairs.

Follow usual evacuation procedures in the event of an emergency.

Please direct any enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz

Thank you for your consideration as we complete these required upgrade works.

Facilities Management

Campus Lift Inspections – Tuesday 15 October

Facilities Management will be undertaking site inspections on eight (8) lifts on the Ilam and Dovedale Campuses between 10am and 3pm on Tuesday 15 October. Each inspection is expected to take approximately 30 minutes.

Affected Buildings

• Elsie Locke (lift 22 & 23)

• College of English

• Henry Field Building (lift 55)

• ICT Building (lift 25)

• Julius Von Haast (lift 1 & 2)

••Ōtākaro Building (lift 57 & 64)

• Wheki (lift 53)

• Macmillan Brown Library (lift 37)

If you need to change floors or enter or exit the building during an outage, use the stairs or an alternative lift (if available) and follow usual evacuation procedures in the event of an emergency.

Please direct any enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz

 Thank you for your consideration as we undertake these inspections.

Facilities Management