$10,000 Star Athletes Scholarship in New Zealand, 2024

Background

The Prime Minister’s Athlete Scholarships allow athletes to undertake tertiary study and vocational qualifications while pursuing elite-level sport at the same time.

The scholarship scheme also helps retiring athletes move smoothly into another career once their sporting careers are over.

The purpose of the Athlete Scholarship Programme is to invest in educational opportunities that enable world-leading performances from New Zealand’s top athletic talent, by assisting athletes to develop holistically outside sport in ways that contribute towards their post-athletic career and enable the sustainability of our athlete talent pool.

Criteria

Eligibility is based on the applicant satisfying all of the following criteria:

• Be a New Zealand citizen.
• Be identified by HPSNZ as one of the following:
  • A Carded Athlete within a HPSNZ Targeted Sport or within a HPSNZ Campaign Investment Sport
  • An athlete within a Targeted Sport (or in special cases a Campaign Investment Sport) who is likely to become carded within the next 6 months and as agreed by HPSNZ
  • In special cases, at the discretion of HPSNZ, an athlete in a non-Carded Campaign Investment Sport
• The proposed study must fit within the athlete’s Individual Performance Plan (IPP) for the next 12-month period, with study requirements that do not restrict the athlete’s ability to commit to their agreed national training and competition plans.
• Be endorsed by their NSO and HPSNZ leading up to and during the scholarship, which includes having an agreed study plan and/or development plan.
• Have met all athlete requirements whilst studying under the scholarship in the previous 12 months, unless HPSNZ agrees otherwise (athletes re-applying for a scholarship only).
• To be eligible, the qualification sought by the applicant must appear on the New Zealand Register of Quality Assured Qualifications, found here.

More information

For more information, please visit the website.

You can also email the Prime Minister Scholarships Team at pmscholarships@hpsnz.org.nz.