Gary Keegan is Director of Performance Management in the Irish Institute of Sport. The Institute of Sport is a government agency set up in 2006 to manage and coordinate high performance sport in Ireland.    Its mission is to create an environment of support which ensures that talented Irish athletes achieve sustained levels of excellence in elite sport.  

This involves a variety of supports including enhanced delivery and development support to high performance athletes in;

• Management, Coaching and Systems

•  Performance Science; Psychology, Nutrition, Strength and Conditioning, Physiology, Performance Analysis, Biomechanics,

• Performance Medicine; Medicine, Physiotherapy and Specialist referral.

• Athlete services Scholarships, Career  Development and Performance Mentoring

Previous to Gary's current role, he spent five years as high performance director with the IABA's high performance boxing programme.  There Gary devised a world class high performance management programme which was under pinned by a process driven business model.  Over a five year period the Irish high performance programme achieved Major European, World and Olympic medal success with no fewer than 29 medals achieved at these levels across the age spectrum.