Sports team coverage
On the sideline
since 1993
From Saturday morning netball courts in Penrith to World Championship finals, our physiotherapists have covered sport at every level. Members of our team are APA Sports Physiotherapists and preferred providers with the NSW Institute of Sport.
Teams and organisations we have worked with
Current partnership
Penrith District Netball Association
Current
We have supported Penrith District Netball Association for around 25 years, and it remains the partnership we are proudest of. We provide all weekend competition coverage and look after the representative teams.
Working with netball at a local level matters to us as much as working with the Australian Diamonds did. It is the same standard of care, delivered courtside on a Saturday morning.
Weekend coverage
First aid, acute injury assessment, management and advice across competition days.
Representative teams
Physiotherapy support at State Age and State Championships.
Annual screening
Extensive pre-season screening for junior representative players, with individual feedback to athletes, parents and coaches.
Preventative work
Taping, ankle guard fittings, and education sessions on taping and self-management before State Age.
Two decades of elite netball
NSW Swifts and the Australian Diamonds
The practice provided physiotherapy to netballers from grassroots to international level for over two decades.
1998 – 2016
Sydney Swifts and NSW Swifts
Physiotherapists for the Sydney Swifts from 1998 to 2007 in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, then for the NSW Swifts through the ANZ Trans-Tasman Championship from 2008 to 2016, and into the first season of Suncorp Super Netball in 2017.
2005 – 2011
Australian Netball Diamonds
Sean Mungovan was physiotherapist for the Australian Diamonds from 2005 to 2011 — including the 2007 World Championship team in Auckland, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, and the World Championship winning team in Singapore in 2011.
From 2016
Panthers Premier League Netball
An extension of our Penrith relationship — physiotherapy services for the Panthers Premier League Netball team in the Netball NSW Premier League, led from our Penrith rooms by Stephanie Leeson with Keiren Jurkovic.
2011
World Championship winners, Singapore
2010
Commonwealth Games, Delhi
2007
World Championship team, Auckland
Beyond netball
Other sports and organisations
Coverage our clinicians have provided across other codes and at major games.
Norwest Rugby Bulls
From 2018
Sideline first aid and run-on physiotherapy for this junior rugby union club at Alwyn Lindfield Reserve, Glenwood — teams from under 6 to under 17, plus girls’ sevens at under 12 and under 15.
Softball NSW
2018
Support for the NSW Softball under-19 women’s team, National Championship winners in 2018 — continuing a long tradition of Softball NSW physiotherapy from this practice.
Softball Australia
2018
Coverage with the Australian team at the Asia Pacific Cup.
Basketball
Various
The Emerging Opals at World University Games and on international tours, the Australian Gems under-19 women’s team, and the Australian Gliders women’s wheelchair basketball team.
Paralympic sport
2011 – 2016
Wheelchair basketball, track and field, goalball, shooting and boccia. Includes the under-25 women’s wheelchair basketball team that won silver at the 2011 World Championships, and the Australian Medical Headquarters Team at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.
Deaflympics
2017
Coverage with the Australian team at the 2017 Deaflympics.
Commonwealth Games
2010 · 2014 · 2018
With the Australian Diamonds in Delhi in 2010, and as part of the Headquarters Medical Team in Glasgow 2014 and on the Gold Coast in 2018.
Rugby league
2006 – present
Team physiotherapy across Cumberland Rugby League Football Club in the NSW Tertiary League, NSW Universities State of Origin, the ARL Junior Kangaroos tour, and NSW Tertiary tours of Japan.
Dance
Ongoing
Assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for dance injuries, tertiary dance screening for entry into dance institutions, and pre-pointe assessments.
Also covered over the years
Swimming NSW · Swimming Australia · Commonwealth Youth Games · Western Sydney Wanderers · Nepean FC · Netball NSW representative teams · Hockey NSW · Shooting Australia · NSW Institute of Sport
What coverage involves
What your club actually gets
Sideline coverage is not just someone with a strapping kit. The value is in what happens before the season starts and after the whistle goes.
- Match-day first aid and assessmentOn-field injury assessment, immediate management, and a clear decision on return to play or removal.
- Preventative taping and bracingIncluding ankle guard fitting, done properly and fitted to the athlete.
- Pre-season screeningExtensive screening for representative squads, with individual feedback to the athlete, their parents and their coaches.
- Education sessionsPractical sessions for junior teams on taping and self-management before major carnivals.
- Return-to-play pathwaysInjured players come into the clinic and follow criteria-based rehabilitation back to the court or field.
- ContinuityThe same clinicians season after season, who know your squad and its history.
Looking for coverage for your club?
We take on a limited number of clubs so that coverage is consistent. Enquiries go through our Penrith clinic.