CQU marks Olympic Day 2025 with mission to move
At CQUniversity SPORT means more than a game, and its researchers, teachers and staff are all part of a mission to get more Australians moving.
Their healthy work is line with the theme of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Day 2025, “Let’s Move?”
Marked globally on Monday 23 June, this year’s event holds special significance for Australia, with just seven years to go until the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics.
For CQUniversity, it’s an opportunity to grow sporting participation, passion and knowledge, across regional communities and into peak performance – and even onto Olympic podiums.
Movement Changes Lives: CQUniversity SPORT Strategy 2025-2028 positions CQU a sector leader, and captures CQU’s array of expertise in Sport and exercise, Physical activity, Occupational and Rehabilitation Therapies, or the handy acronym SPORT.
CQUniversity Director of Sport Strategy Professor Fabio Serpiello launched the strategy in February this year, and said Olympic Day was a reminder of how sport benefits the whole community.
“Sport, exercise, and physical activity are central in our lives, and CQUniversity places particular focus on movement-related disciplines through our learning and teaching, research, partnerships and commercial activities,” he said.
“No matter how we participate in sport and physical activity, our health, wellbeing and community connection all benefit.
“The legacy of Brisbane 2032 will be measured on the benefits it delivers for healthier communities and environment, and for Queensland economies. CQUniversity will play a key role in achieving these outcomes.”
CQUniversity partners with a range of sports organisations, including Football Queensland, Cairns Taipans, and Mackay Cutters, and sponsors a wide range of clubs and competitions.
Community-connected research projects like 10,000 Steps and the U-BEACH accessibility initiative are also supporting and inspiring hundreds of thousands of Australians to get active and engaged with exercise, health and wellbeing.
“From grassroots events to global champions, CQUniversity has a long history of nurturing sport, and this SPORT strategy harnesses all our expertise, our people, and our places, to really exemplify that the ways we move can absolutely transform lives,” he said.
Researchers and educators are also involved in a broad range of sport development initiatives, across disciplines including psychology, sleep science, sporting event legacy, fitness and sport in pregnancy and post-partum, athlete high performance, event management, physiotherapy, podiatry, injury prevention and public health.
Learn more about the strategy, partnerships and study pathways at CQUniversity’s SPORT website.
