52 AUSTRALIAN SPORTS COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 ANNUAL PERFORMANCE STATEMENTS and a further 16 athletes who reign as world champions from 2015–16 because their sport has not held a benchmark event. For Paralympic sports, there were five new world champion athletes or teams and 19 athletes or teams who hold the world championship title for a total of 24 world champions. Under the dAIS program, 983 athletes from 33 sports were identified as meeting the performance criteria. A small number of athletes were either ineligible to receive grants due to means testing or elected not to accept dAIS offers for other reasons, resulting in 936 athletes receiving the $13.12 million allocated through grants in 2016–17. Commonwealth Games Australia’s contribution to dAIS in 2016–17 enabled additional support to athletes. This included an additional 90 emerging athletes who otherwise would not have achieved dAIS funding. As of June 2016, more than 2,500 athletes are being tracked through the Athlete Management System and 861 athletes are registered on myAISplaybook, an online resource developed as part of the Personal Excellence Program providing support and guidance for elite athletes. Since the launch in 2014–15 a total of 3,227 athletes have enrolled in myAISplaybook. The AIS works with sector partners to evolve and refine the national high performance system under Australia’s Winning Edge. The NIN review was completed with actionable recommendations agreed to and the AIS Future Directions project considered the AIS’ role in the network. This project work, which included assessing the future role and responsibilities of the AIS both as a national sports agency as well as a provider of high performance daily training and research and medical facilities, is being incorporated into the ASC strategic planning process. The Centre for Performance Coaching and Leadership (CPCL) offered a range of customised solutions for coach and leader talent across 2016–17. This included the three core programs (Performance Coach, Podium Coach and Performance Leaders) which continue to be oversubscribed. CPCL have also focused on delivering sport specific coaching, leadership and coaching science programs in 15 sports which have included profiling, HP strategy development, competition readiness and coach transition support. Systemic offerings have included WC2WB Conference, Rio prebrief and debrief and Rio Benchmark Event Survey. Mental Health in Sport workshops conducted in 2016–17 were evidence-based and facilitated initiatives designed to educate and up-skill those who work in high performance sport on aspects of promotion, prevention and early intervention of mental health issues. The workshop demonstrated the relevance of mental health to performance in a sporting context and equipped participants with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to the management of mental health. There has been strong demand for these workshops with 273 people across four states and nine NSOs engaged through the eight workshops.