Welcome to Wellington High Performance Aquatics

Wellington High Performance Aquatics (WHiPA) aims to develop athletes to enable them to excel at an elite level. The foundation sport is diving, with other aquatic disciplines to follow as the centre grows.

What's New

WHiPA 2011 Annual Awards

Congratulations to the 2011 Annual Award Recipients:

Most Improved Development Diver

Winner: Arno Lee

Runner Up: Helena Nagrampa

New Zealand Representatives

Yu Qian Goh

Jess Holland

Beth Edwards

Under 11 Skills Competition

Winner: Arno Lee

11 & Over Skills Competition

Winner: Alice Loretto

Group C Competition

Winner: Yu Qian Goh

WHiPA Summer Diving Clinic

Click on this flyer for the Registration form and more details.

Click here to view footage from the Asia Pacific Rim Junior Diving Invitational and Oceania Diving - Olympic Qualifying Event

Asia Pacific Rim Junior Diving Invitational and Oceania Diving - Olympic Qualifying Event

It’s becoming a bit of a tradition that everyone goes up on the diving boards at the end of the APAC competition. The 10m’s not for the faint hearted but WHiPA founder Lloyd Morrison was right up there with the kids to say a few closing remarks. Good effort!

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The biggest New Zealand diving event of the year is an opportunity to see some spectacular diving right on our own doorstep.

As organisers, WHiPA will be host to young athletes from some of the top diving countries in the world who will compete against our own Kiwi team at the Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre in Kilbirnie,19- 21 August.

The Asia Pacific Rim Junior Diving Invitational brings together 60 junior elite springboard and platform divers with competitors from China, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and India travelling to the capital for the competition. A team from Croatia will also compete.

The competition will also double as an Oceania Diving Olympic Qualifying Event with some impressive Australian divers adding some excitement to the weekend in their bid to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

New Zealand will field a team of 11 divers including Wellington High Performance Aquatics divers Yu Qian Goh, and 12 year old Jess Holland. Yu Qian, 11, is the baby of the New Zealand squad. She was recently named New Zealand under-13 diver of the year.

We are particularly looking forward to welcoming all the overseas visitors to our cool little capital and WHiPA wishes all the athletes good luck for the competition.

Daily charge: Adults $5, Children 13/under Free.

Click here to view the timetable.

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Steven Zhu - Diving Coach

Steven Zhu will provide intensive world-class tuition to both the High Performance Diving Squad and other coaches at WHPA. Steven previously spent time in New Zealand, taking the New Zealand Diving Team to the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.