Sport and Exercise facilities at Moore Park
The Rugby Australia Building, built in partnership between the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Rugby Australia and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust, is located in Moore Park.
Key highlights
- More than 700 Sport and Exercise students and researchers have the pleasure of learning alongside elite athletes, with access to valuable performance, injury-management and rehabilitation data.
- This state-of-the-art centre is the official home to the Qantas Wallabies, Wallaroos and Australian Men’s and Women’s Sevens teams as well as UTS Sport and Exercise and Physiotherapy disciplines.
- Classes at the Moore Park precinct provide a wonderful opportunity to engage learning in an exciting and vibrant sports environment, in close proximity to the elite sports based at Moore Park, including cricket, rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules and football.
- This partnership marked the first of its kind in Australia, integrating an academic precinct within world-class sporting facilities.
Welcome to UTS at the Rugby Australia Building in Moore Park. This world-class facility is a first for Australia - embedding university programs in a sporting centre of excellence. It's home to more than 700 staff, researchers and students working across sport and exercise science and physiotherapy.
Our location within Sydney's elite sporting precinct provides us the opportunity to work as professional athletes, coaches and sporting organisations which is opening doors to internships and exciting careers.
Our high performance training spaces include a multi-purpose Sports Hall, a resistance training facility and this rooftop running track. State-of-the-art classrooms and study spaces make it a great place to learn, collaborate and connect.
In our cutting-edge research labs we're working on a range of projects involving exercise physiology biomechanics, training sciences, skill acquisition, strength and conditioning and injury management and prevention. Our researchers are making an impact in both sports performance and health outcomes for people of all ages and abilities.
UTS Graduate School of Health operates an on-site physiotherapy teaching facility for post-grad and research students with a focus on neuromuscular rehabilitation and injury prevention.
And there's no better place for you to learn the skills to take you into the press box then with our industry relevant sports media and journalism degree. This custom-built facility is providing unmatched opportunities for UTS students and researchers looking to build a career in Australia's Sport and Exercise industry. And it's allowing UTS to play a leading role in the future of Australian sport.
Video: Go on a virtual walk-through tour of our sport and exercise facilities
Tijana: [00:00:04] Hi, welcome to UTS Faculty of Health and welcome to our tour of the Moore Park precinct. This facility was built in partnership with Rugby Australia, Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust.
Jesse: [00:00:15] Here at Moore Park, UTS, we're extremely lucky to be surrounded by elite high performance sports, such as rugby league, rugby union, cricket and AFL. Let's come and look inside and see what's available here at UTS for Sport and Exercise students.
Tijana: [00:00:32] Our first stop is one of our two exercise physiology teaching labs. Both of these labs have rowing ergometers, cycle ergometers and treadmills for practical learning. They also have technology for v02 max testing, lactate threshold and blood ph.
Jesse: [00:00:47] Now we have arrived in the biomechanics teaching lab. In our biomechanics classes, we use these computers here for interpretation of movement analysis data that has been collected in the biomechanics research lab upstairs. This room also allows for force plate demonstrations in class, and more.
Tijana: [00:01:01] We have a number of these general teaching spaces for tutorials. Most tutorials for Sport and Exercise students are held at Moore Park, while some are held at the city campus, and some online. As you can see, we have a number of flat screen TVs available for students to plug in laptops to work on group assignments during class.
Jesse: [00:01:21] The sports hall is also on this level.
Jesse: [00:01:29] This is a versatile space used for teaching, performances, events or indoor sports, such as basketball, netball and volleyball. The change rooms and showers are just outside. And as students, we can use this space when it's not being used for teaching.
Tijana: [00:01:45] Now we're in the resistance training room. This is where Sport and Exercise students get practical experience, supervising and prescribing exercise. We also learn the fundamentals of coaching and performing power and Olympic lifts.
Jesse: [00:01:57] Now let's go look at the research labs.
Alana: [00:02:04] Hi there. This is the first of the Sport and Exercise research labs. This is the exercise physiology and biochemistry research Lab. It's equipped with treadmills, a range of exercise bikes and devices that assess physiological responses to exercise.
Zoi: [00:02:21] Now let's come through to the environmental lab. So this is a special sealed room that controls temperature and humidity, and that way researchers can investigate the effects of the environmental conditions during athletic performance.
Zoi: [00:02:34] This is a biomechanics research lab.
Alana: [00:02:36] Using technology that digitises movement, researchers can measure the impact of speed and other forces placed on the body during exercise. There's a lot of high-tech equipment like the Biodex machine, which can be used to identify and document physical impairments that can be used for pre-season screening, injury prevention and performance enhancement.
Alana: [00:02:54] There are motion and force plates in the ground, which are used for gait and motion analysis, kinesiology, ergonomics, as well as sport and performance analysis. 2D and 3D motion analysis cameras digitise movement so that researchers can analyse gait, sport performance and skill performance.
Zoi: [00:03:12] So this is a skill acquisition and motor control research lab. So in here, this is a flexible space that can be used in a variety of ways in order to measure and develop perceptual-cognitive skills for high performance athletes and officials. Depending what you're using this room for, we have a running track, a vision projection wall and 3D motion analysis technology.
Zoi: [00:03:34] Head cameras and eye tracking glasses are used by researchers to understand how athletes move and interact.
Zoi: [00:03:41] This room is sometimes set up with drum kits, and that way we can test an athlete's coordination and decision making skills when on field. We in class, have in fact used these drum kits so that we can solve coordination problems.
Alana: [00:03:55] This special room is the body composition lab. In here is the dual energy X-ray or DEXA machine. It measures athletes' bone density, muscle and fat content, providing an assessment of body composition that feeds into both health and performance outcomes. Now let's head upstairs.
Tijana: [00:04:17] So we've reached the top floor. Up here and more classrooms, student meeting areas, a student lounge and kitchen.
Jesse: [00:04:25] And this is our final stop, the rooftop terrace.
Jesse: [00:04:30] Out here this open-air running track is used for practical assessment of speed and acceleration of athletes. Up here we also have expansive views of the Sydney skyline, including the UTS Tower building.
Tijana: [00:04:38] Well thanks so much for joining us on our tour. We hope you've enjoyed this insight into being a Sport and Exercise student at UTS.
Jesse: [00:04:44] We'll see you at UTS soon.
Facilities
Activity-based workspace
This space is shared by academics and research students in UTS’s sport and physiotherapy programs. The mix of open-plan workstations, quiet rooms and social spaces are designed to support different tasks and ways of working.
Skill acquisition research laboratory
This space is used for measuring and developing perceptual-cognitive skills in high-performance athletes and officials. It incorporates a running track with a vision projection wall and 3D motion-analysis technology. Head cameras and eye-tracking glasses worn by athletes allow researchers to understand how high-performance athletes move and interact with each other.
Multi-purpose sports hall
The sports hall accommodates coaching activities among other teaching practicals. This versatile space can be used for indoor sporting games, performances or community events and can be converted into other sporting courts including basketball, volleyball and badminton. The sports hall is also used for rehabilitation work conducted by the university’s physiotherapy program.
Central stairway
Serving as a central spine extending through UTS's main floors, the stairway both encourages pedestrian movement and acts as a social gathering space. The green steps and pink handrails echo the colour scheme of UTS's former Ku-ring-gai campus, once home to UTS sport and exercise science disciplines.
Rooftop running track
An open-air running track on the top-floor roof terrace is used for practice-based teaching, including the assessment of speed and acceleration amongst athletes. It commands expansive views of the Sydney skyline, including the UTS Tower.
Exercise physiology research laboratory
Connected to the adjacent biomechanics research laboratory and biochemistry lab, this space is equipped with treadmills, exercise bikes and rowing machines as well as a range of devices used to assess physiological responses to exercise.
Biomechanics research laboratory
Using technology that digitises movement, researchers can measure the impacts of speed and other forces placed upon the body during exercise.
Environmental laboratory
A small space but an important one - the temperature and humidity controls allow researchers to investigate the impact of environmental conditions on athletic performance. The aim is to develop interventions that mitigate the impacts of heat and humidity experienced by athletes.
Strength and conditioning laboratory
Primarily a teaching space, this resistance (weight) training room is where sport and exercise science undergraduates gain practical experience in prescribing and supervising exercise.
Body composition laboratory
Equipped with a DEXA (dual-energy X-ray) machine, this lab measures athletes’ bone density – as well as muscle and fat content – providing a precise assessment of body composition that feeds into both health and performance outcomes.
Getting here
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Public transport (bus and light rail services) operate frequently to Moore Park.
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Moore Park precinct is a 28 minute walk or 15 minute bike ride from Central Station.
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UTS City campus is a 35 minute walk or 17 minute bike ride from Moore Park precinct
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There is no free parking at Moore Park precinct. Paid parking facilities are available at the Entertainment Quarter
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