Auskick

Auskick
Presence
Country or regionAustralia (country of origin)
Also played in Fiji, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vanuatu
OlympicNo
ParalympicNo

Auskick is a program designed to teach the basic skills of Australian football to children aged between 5 and 12. Auskick is a non-contact variant of the sport. It began in Australia and is now a nationwide non-selective program. It has increased participation and diversity in the sport amongst children, and is now being run in many countries across the world.

At its peak in the mid-1990s in Australia there were around 200,000 Auskick participants annually, and this figure has since stabilised around this number. Numerous professional, semi-professional and representative players are graduates.

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