AUT MillenNium - Our Story
In the 1990’s, New Zealand was falling behind the rest of the world in our ability to prepare athletes capable of winning on the world stage.
Leading North Shore businessmen, Sir Graeme Avery and Sir Stephen Tindall, decided to do something about it, and with the Founding Organisations and generous supporters and donors, established the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health, which opened on 11 April 2002.
Founding Donors
Sir Graeme Avery
Sir Stephen Tindall
Founding Organisations
Significant Donors
Sir Owen G. Glenn
Sir David Levene
Since then, AUT Millennium has gone from strength to strength, providing world-class facilities for the nation’s best athletes and local athletes alike, and highly valued community sport and exercise programmes.
AUT University, a national leader in exercise science and public health and nutrition, became the Tertiary Education Partner in 2002.
In 2009, with facilities and demand for services at capacity, the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health and AUT University joined forces to create AUT Millennium, governed by the AUT Millennium Ownership Trust, to take the founders’ vision to new levels.
In 2010, Prime Minister John Key and Minister for Sport and Recreation, Murray McCully announced plans to establish a new high performance National Training Centre based at AUT Millennium. The National Training Centre would bring together the best of sports research, coaching and management expertise from AUT University, AUT Millennium and the NZ Academy of Sport, with the goal of producing more world-class sporting champions.
On 27 May 2015 the Sir Owen G. Glenn National Aquatic Centre was officially opened by Sir Owen Glenn, Hon Murray McCully and Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown. The National Aquatic Centre, in partnership with the Auckland Council and with the generous support of Lottery Grants Board, Lion Foundation, Sport New Zealand and NZCT, meets the growing demand for flat water from both the public and high performance aquatic sport.
In 2017, AUT Millennium made some further changes to its governance structure after reviewing the way in which the organisation operates and is legally structured. Previously two trusts operated together to run AUT Millennium. As a result of these changes, on 1 April 2017 the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health (MISH) Trust transferred its assets and responsibilities to the AUT Millennium Trust.
AUT Millennium BOard
