The Mental Standard for Australian Sport

THIS IS
HOW IT
IS DONE.

The mental development platform for Australian youth athletes. Grass roots to elite. Evidence-based. Built to produce the kind of athletes that clubs, schools, and national pathways want to claim.

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Grass roots to elite pathway

Ages 5–7
Ages 8–12
Ages 13–18
GRIT /ɡrɪt/ noun

Passion and perseverance
for long-term goals.

The quality that outlasts talent. The thing that gets athletes through the hard sessions, the bad results, and the years before anyone is watching. Research confirms it predicts long-term success better than raw ability.

For parents

Sport psychology.
Made accessible.

The same evidence-based tools used by performance psychologists — structured for daily use by children aged 5 to 18. Private. Safe. Built to last.

For clubs & schools

Your athletes'
success. Attributed.

When your athletes develop mentally — your club built that. GRIT gives sporting organisations the infrastructure to claim development outcomes at every level of the pathway.

For athletes

Everyone trains.
This is different.

Your competition is training their body. You are training your mind as well. That is the edge. And it compounds — entry by entry, session by session, season by season.

The GRIT Family

The full
pathway.

From a child's first training session to the national junior pathway. One platform. Unbroken development.

01

Ages 5–7

GRIT

First Steps

The foundation is not fitness. The foundation is the adult behaviour surrounding a child's first sporting experiences. First Steps shapes that environment — systematically, daily, backed by science.

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02

Ages 8–12

GRIT

Level Up

The years between 8 and 12 determine whether an athlete learns to process pressure or be destroyed by it. Level Up builds the mental skills — self-talk, resilience, focus, goal clarity — that coaching alone cannot teach.

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03

Ages 13–18

GRIT

Run Your Race

Junior elites carry adult pressure with developing minds. Run Your Race gives them the tools that sport psychologists provide to senior athletes — private, structured, and built into their daily routine.

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Privacy & Safeguarding

Clinical-grade
standards.
None negotiable.

The same privacy and safeguarding standards expected of a clinical psychology practice. No advertising. No data sharing. No exceptions. What a child writes in GRIT is accessible to no one but that child. Parents see patterns — never words. Safeguarding runs autonomously, continuously, and without requiring anyone to ask.

Privacy Policy → Evidence Base → Support →

01 — Data

Private by design. Not by policy.

Privacy is enforced at the architecture level. Journal content is structurally inaccessible to anyone other than the child who wrote it. This is not a setting — it is the architecture.

02 — Commerce

No advertising. No profiling.

GRIT contains no behavioural tracking, no advertising infrastructure, and no commercial profiling of any kind. Children's data is not a product in this platform.

03 — Safeguarding

Autonomous wellbeing monitoring.

GRIT's safeguarding system runs continuously. When patterns suggest a child may need support, a warm, private notification reaches their parent — before anyone has to ask.

04 — Compliance

Australian Privacy Act compliant.

Built to meet the Australian Privacy Principles and designed in anticipation of the OAIC Children's Online Privacy Code (mandatory December 2026).

The evidence base

Not opinion.
Evidence.

Every feature in GRIT exists because the peer-reviewed literature said it should. No intuition. No wellness industry assumptions. The same evidence base a sport psychologist draws from — made accessible to every young athlete on your books.

Self-Talk — Meta-analysis — 32 studies

"Instructional and motivational self-talk produces moderate to large improvements in sport performance in children aged 10–12."

Hatzigeorgiadis et al. (2011) — Perspectives on Psychological Science — Effect size .48

Youth Burnout — AAP Clinical Report

"Persistent fatigue and emotional exhaustion are the earliest detectable signals of overtraining syndrome in young athletes."

Brenner & Watson (2024) — Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics — Highest evidence tier

Athlete Identity — Orygen / Uni Melbourne

"Athletes who maintain a strong sense of identity beyond sport show significantly greater mental health outcomes and long-term resilience."

Walton et al. (2024) — Sports Health — University of Melbourne

Parental Influence — 29 studies — 9,185 athletes

"Parental autonomy support is the strongest single predictor of intrinsic motivation and psychological wellbeing in youth athletes."

Gao et al. (2024) — Frontiers in Psychology — PRISMA systematic review

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The story behind GRIT

Built because
it needed
to exist.

GRIT was built by a parent who watched youth sport fail young athletes on the mental side — repeatedly, preventably, and without consequence. The physical infrastructure existed. The mental infrastructure did not.

So it was built. Not by a committee. Not by a corporate wellness division. By someone who understood the problem from the inside — and refused to accept that nothing existed.

GRIT — Australia

"We build the physical capacity to compete. We have never built the mental capacity to last."

GRIT is the infrastructure that changes that. For every athlete. At every level. From the first session to the national stage.

Pricing

The standard.
Accessible.

30-day free trial. No card required. Because every young athlete deserves access to the standard — regardless of club budget.

First Steps

Free

Always. No conditions.

For parents and coaches of athletes aged 5–7. Full access at no cost — the entry point to the GRIT family.

Level Up

$4.99

per child / month AUD

Full journalling, goal tracking, mental skills progression, and safeguarding for ages 8–12. Family plan: up to 3 children from $9.99/month.

Run Your Race

$7.99

per athlete / month AUD

Full performance journalling, race day tools, pressure mapping, and safeguarding for ages 13–18.

Club & School

Contact

[email protected]

Club and school licensing from $299 AUD/year for up to 30 athletes. Athletics Australia and school sport partnerships welcome.

Annual plans available — save up to 33% ·