About us

TASS is a Sport England funded partnership between talented athletes, institutions and national governing bodies to provide a variety of support to the country’s most exciting young talent allowing young athletes who are over 16 in education the opportunity to get the very best of their sporting and academic careers without having to choose between the two.

We are one of 38 delivery sites across the country and are currently supporting athletes in a range of sports such as Netball, Rugby League, Fencing, Swimming, Hockey, Taekwondo and Wrestling. Athletes are placed at delivery sites by TASS on a yearly basis with NTU regularly supporting a mixture of Man Met University and non – Man Met University students in areas such as Strength & Conditioning, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, Psychology and Lifestyle, as well as gaining access to a variety of medical support through a very generous medical support scheme.

We have the TASS Dual Career Accreditation which has endorsed the variety of support we offer to our student–athletes, covering our commitment to provide an institution wide dual career policy. As part of this, the university will provide a variety of provisions to talented athletes, including access to online notes, access to online lectures/resources and planning sessions with academic advisors to create an appropriate academic timeline. We will also do all we can to give athletes maximum flexibility when it comes to their study programmes, such as opportunities to moving seminar/lecture groups (where there are multiple options available), flexible deadlines to assignments (when agreed with academic staff well in advance of the deadline), catch up sessions with lecturers, and, where possible the option to offer an uneven split of credits in the academic year.

Athletes are nominated to be part of the TASS programme through their NGB, however if you have any questions in regards to TASS at Manchester Met University, please email Phil Cook - p.cook@mmu.ac.uk.

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Our Clean Sport Commitment

MMU Sport adopts the UK Anti-Doping and World Anti-Doping Agency position that doping in sport is fundamentally against the spirit of sport and aims to help protect clean sport so that athletes can compete on a level playing field.

Understand the importance of Clean Sport education - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NmfnZhBWTU

MMU Sport commits to support Clean Sport in the UK in the following ways:

• Supporting the mission of UK Anti-Doping and WADA in achieving a doping-free sporting environment.
• MMU Sport athletes are expected to train and compete in line with the spirit of sport, including the Anti-Doping rules.
• MMU Sport coaches and athlete support personnel are expected to perform their role in line with the spirit of sport, including the Anti-Doping rules.
• Employed and associated ‘staff’ will not condone or support the use of prohibited substances and methods (unless permitted by a Therapeutic Use Exemption).
• Breaches of this will be acted upon accordingly.
• All employed and associated staff should contact UK Anti-doping should they become aware of any athlete using or considering using a prohibited substance or method. Protect Your Sport | UK Anti-Doping (ukad.org.uk/protect-your-sport)
• MMU Sport will uphold any sanctions placed upon an athlete or athlete support personnel by UK Anti-Doping in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code.

How we support Clean Sport:

We are committed to supporting students with clean sport education so they can be best prepared and equipped with the knowledge needed to train and compete clean. This support is offered to MMU Sport scholars, club members and coaches as well as TASS athletes.

Students are also advised to ask a member of the MMU Sport Performance Team if they have any questions around clean sport.

“MMU Sport will put into place, support and promote the Clean Sport policies of UK Anti-Doping and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). We’re committed to educating our athletes, coaches and athlete support staff. We instil in them the values, attitudes and beliefs of Clean Sport, so that we can keep all our sport clean. We will will protect the ethos, integrity and spirit of sport, in part, through our Clean Sport policy. We will inspire, support and enable student athletes to be the very best they can be. They will celebrate this success in the knowledge that it was achieved honestly and fairly.”

Phil Cook, Head of Development

Contact

For more information on Clean Sport, get in touch with the University Anti-Doping point of contact:

Chloe Golding - Performance Sport Officer

Email - c.golding@mmu.ac.uk

Useful links

Homepage | UK Anti-Doping (ukad.org.uk)

Raising the game for clean sport | World Anti Doping Agency (wada-ama.org)

Global DRO - Home (globaldro.com)