Tātai Whetū Waitaha

Tātai Whetū Waitaha empowers athletes, whānau, and coaches in Canterbury to achieve their full potential in both sports and life.

We support our athletes to achieve goals without social restraint.

The Tātai Whetū Waitaha Athlete Support Programme is delivered by the Canterbury Sports Development Academy (CSDA). The CSDA is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to provide targeted development opportunities for young talented athletes within Canterbury to ensure readiness to achieve their potential in sport and life.

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We are committed to promoting equality and diversity in sport within Waitaha.

With a wider range of sports now attracting government funding at the high-performance level, there is an opportunity for the region to assist these smaller sports in the early stage of the performance pathway. Assisting in talent identification as well as the support around foundation performance elements, is where we work to provide value and partner with these emerging sports.

We inspire the next generation.

When Tātai Whetū Waitaha was first mooted by a number of passionate Canterbury-based sports leaders, it was agreed that any young aspiring athlete needs to look up to those who had gone before. The standards set and behaviour of these role models is aspirational and this formed a fundamental aspects of the programme. Each athlete who is invited to join the Programme Leaders on Tātai Whetū Waitaha Athlete Support Programme must be a positive role model for the community, club, sport and the next generation that will follow in their footsteps.