Students from the Fremantle Dockers Sport, Business and Leadership program, in partnership with the Purple Hands Foundation, recently took part in ‘Exercise Right Week’ in collaboration with Curtin University.
 
Exercise Right Week occurs every year and allows the first and second year students from Curtin University’s Exercise Sport Science and Sport and Rehabilitation programs to showcase their skills and run testing on their fellow peers.
 
The Sport, Business and Leadership program students were divided into two groups, with the first focusing on Sport Psychology and the other on Exercise Sport Science.
 
Both fields link to the areas of study that the SEDA students had focused on earlier in the year through the Dual Diploma program.

The first and second year Curtin University students worked collaboratively to run through a range of testing with the SEDA students, including things like blood pressure, height, weight and a physical activity questionnaire.
 
The purpose of this activity is to allow the Curtin University students to test and communicate with clients they wouldn’t usually work with, pushing them out of their comfort zone and giving them a taste of a real-world scenario.

Program teacher Liam Thompson spoke about the importance of the partnerships between SEDA, Curtin University and the Fremantle Dockers.
 
“It’s a fantastic way to really showcase the partnership between the Fremantle Football Club and Curtin University by providing Curtin with clients that their students can run their tests on and gain some data,” Thompson said.
 
“It also allows the Sport, Business and Leadership program students to have a visual representation of what goes into a course like this and help them decide if it’s a path they want to take.

“The partnership provides a lot of benefit to our students and it’s certainly something we’ll look to continue next year.”

Curtin University students also provided the SEDA students with some guidance on what exercises might suit them best on an individual level, taking previous or current injuries and their current exercise regime into account.
 
This meant students had to undertake further physical testing such as a sit and reach test, grip strength, vertical jump, time trial running and more.

“Naturally there’s an interest in a lot of the tests that the students were doing because they’re all based around sport in some way,” Thompson said.
 
“It just gave them a really good hands-on insight into all the different aspects that a Sports Science course has to offer.”