Better athletes, better humans.

What MTE is

Mentoring The Elite is a youth athletic development company. Not a gym that lets teenagers in, and not an academy for one code — a centre built from the ground up for athletes aged 10 to 19, bringing elite training, recovery, mindset coaching and sports science together under one roof in Artarmon.

Founded in 2022, MTE is Australia’s first high-performance centre of excellence built for youth athletes.

Athletes are not separated by what they play. They train alongside each other, because the qualities underneath every sport — speed, strength, power, changing direction, resilience — are the same qualities, and a young body develops them the same way.

The mission

To give young athletes the tools, the environment and the mentorship to become not only better athletes, but better humans. That second half is not decoration. Most of the athletes who come through here will not go professional, and the confidence, discipline and way of handling setbacks they build will outlast whatever they play.

Why everything sits in one building

Strength work in one place, recovery somewhere else, nutrition and mindset nowhere at all — that is the normal experience for a young athlete, and it asks a 14-year-old and their parents to be the ones joining it up. MTE is built the other way around. Strength and conditioning, recovery, pilates, mentoring, mindset and nutrition run as six session types in the same facility, programmed against the same testing data.

Look inside the Centre of Excellence, or see the six session types.

Development designed for their age

A 10-year-old and a 19-year-old are not the same athlete, and neither is a scaled-down adult. Loading, coaching and session length are all set for the age group rather than borrowed from an adult gym, and every athlete’s programming starts from what their testing actually measured.

How performance testing works.

The people

What makes MTE different is the calibre of its mentors: world-class coaches, performance specialists and industry leaders with decades of experience in elite sport. From high-performance coaching and strength and conditioning through to nutrition, mindset mentoring and personal development, they are united by one thing — wanting to guide the next generation properly.

MTE was founded by Ryan Comerford, who is also its CEO. Meet the founder.

Keeping athletes safe

MTE works with children and young people, and has published policies covering child safety, complaints handling, medical emergency response and privacy. Read the policies.