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WAIS pair Jesse Phillips (Rivervale) and Steve Bird have picked up two bronze medals at the World University Games in Poland after narrowly missing silver by 0.1 seconds in boththe K2 500m final and 200m finals.

AIS-WAIS defender Kobie McGurk has helped Australia secure a narrow victory over Japan in the Hockeyroos' first match of the FIH Hockey World Cup in Rosario, Argentina.

Keep in touch with the WAIS swimming squad as they complete a training camp in the USA. Each athlete will take you behind the scenes and share their experiences of training from a suitcase in the grand old land.

WAIS athletes Jesse Phillips (Rivervale) and Steve Bird (Mount Pleasant) produced a personal best in finishing fourth in the B Final of the K2 200m at the World Canoe Sprint Championships in Poznan, Poland recently.

West Coast Fever star defender Susan Fuhrmann has continued her rapid rise through the netball ranks and was today named in the Australian Diamonds squad to travel to Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The United States of America crushed Australia's dreams of retaining its FINA World Cup women's water polo crown in Christchurch recently.

WAIS track and field athletes were in action over the weekend, with Steve Hooker, Ben Offereins and Jody Henry all competing in Europe.

Madison De Rozario has for some time now been considered the best female junior track racer in the world, but >

The Hockeyroos, featuring five WAIS athletes, will enter the Women's World Cup full of confidence after pushing tournament favourites Argentina to >

A track record that reads 40 medals and nine world champions since the Junior World Championships were introduced in 2005, would suggest that the Western Australian Institute of Sport's Cycling Program knows a thing or two about developing young talent.