At The University of Western Australia, sport plays a central role in the lives of students; encouraging new friendships, skills and healthy campus culture. Equal to this is the opportunities UWA Sport provides to the wider university, its sports clubs, and the community through programs, services and facilities.

In early February 2018, the UWA Executive commenced working on the planning process for the University’s decadal strategic vision. As a result, UWA Sport was invited to align its strategic planning process with the University and build a strategy that will run from 2020-2025, and extend our previous strategic plan through to December 2019. This approach was endorsed by the UWA Sport Board in December 2018.

Working in partnership with Green Eleven and facilitated by Sally Carbon, the 2020-2025 strategic plan was developed through deep engagement with our students, sports clubs, university, staff, and the wider UWA community. Input was gathered via a series of in-person stakeholder sessions and complemented by online surveys to ensure a broad cross-section of inputs is achieved. Together we built a strategy which ensures sport at UWA continues to deliver value to our students and the broader communities we serve.

The next five years will be guided by 5 new strategic focus areas – participation, performance, inclusion, people and culture, and beyond sport. Underlying all of this is our vision; to be regarded as the leading university in Australia for participation, performance and inclusion in sport, and our purpose; an asset of UWA that positively influences student recruitment, the student experience, graduate outcomes, and extends UWA's reach and impact across its community.