USC is a premier sporting destination with nationally-accredited facilities and support from leading health and sports scientists. High performance champions train side-by-side with beginners in a supportive sports community that drives excellence.
Facilities
Sports Stadium
The $24 million sports stadium is the only facility of its kind in the region. It is fully air-conditioned, seats 3,000 spectators with national standard facilities for netball, basketball, futsal, hockey and badminton.
Aquatic
USC Sunshine Coast has an Olympic-standard, 10-lane, 50-metre heated pool, a six-lane 25-metre pool, cold immersion and warm plunge pool and aquatic recovery equipment. The elite training ground is used year-round by recreational swimmers and Olympic and Paralympic champions.
Gyms
Two fully-equipped indoor gyms offer the latest equipment including indoor and outdoor functional training zones. Classes and instruction caters to all fitness levels from high-performance athletes to beginner.
Playing fields
Multipurpose playing fields for Rugby Union, Rugby League, Football, Cricket and AFL training are available with lighting for night-time play.
Track and field
The IAAF-standard athletics track has eight and ten lane running tracks and equipment for hurdles, steeplechase, javelin, shot-put, discus, hammer-throw, high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault and disabled throw events.
Outdoor courts
USC has outdoor hard courts for tennis, basketball and netball. Night lighting is available for after-dark competition.
High performance sport
Strength and conditioning service
Injury prevention testing, athlete periodisation and programming, and strength and conditioning services.
Physical Performance Coaching
Physical performance coaches (PPC) use assessment and screening, individualised training and conditioning, required recovery and overall load management to help high performance athletes achieve their athletic potential.
Study sport and exercise science
Explore human health and performance with research and study in sport and exercise science.
Resident teams
Sunshine Coast Lightning
USC is proud part-owner of the Sunshine Coast’s first national sports team. The Sunshine Coast Lightning trains and plays home games at the USC Stadium.
Sunshine Coast Thunder
USC Thunder netball club provides a stepping for netballers looking to progress from grassroots to professional netball.
Australian Cycling Academy
ACA is an elite training academy taking an athlete-centric approach to high performance cycling coaching
USC Spartans
USC's high performance swim team includes Olympic and Paralympic medallists. They train at the USC pool under Head Coach Chris Mooney.
Partnerships
Student sport
Intervarsity sport
Represent the USC Spartans UniSport Nationals and other intervarsity events.
Student sports teams
USC offers a range of student run sporting clubs and teams from elite to social level.
Social sport
USC staff and students are invited to join in the free social sports program. Get fit, have fun and make new friends.
Recognising excellence
USC Sports Awards
We celebrate the athletes and administrators that make sport great.
Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame
USC pays tribute to our local sporting champions.
News
News
USC Newsroom
Spartans to restart campaign for Tokyo glory
15 MayThe USC Spartans will soon restart their Olympic and Paralympic campaigns, following the easing of some COVID-19 restrictions across Queensland this weekend.
USC to restrict access to sporting facilities
17 MarchUSC will restrict access to its sport and fitness facilities from midnight Sunday 22 March.
No go-slow for snow-sailing USC researcher
27 FebruaryWhat does a USC researcher do when he arrives in rural Finland in February for an annual snow-sailing competition, only to feel the winds drop and the temperature rise above zero, making conditions either dangerous or impossible?
High performance student athlete program blog
Meet Chloe Gubecka Australian Dolphins Swimmer and dietetics student
24 MarchChloe Gubecka is an 18-year old high performance student athlete on the Australian Dolphins Swim Team studying a Bachelor of Dietetics.
Hayley Maddick is 2019 NRL Touch Premiership Female Player of the Year
5 November 2019Congratulations Hayley Maddick, NRL Touch Premiership Women's Player of the Year
Yolandie Weir wins silver at Australian Weightlifting titles
5 November 2019Yolandie Weir is an Olympic Weightlifter, single Mum, business owner/ operator and full time student studying a Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology at USC Sunshine Coast as part of the High Performance Student Athlete program.