The module adopts an applied focus to examine how performance analysis and skill acqusition concepts can be integrated into and support the coaching process.
Employing a hybrid approach, students will be introduced to a range of performance analysis and skill acqusition principles, before applying these in practice to effectively quantify and analyse performance, and inform and reflect on coaching practice.
Students are tasked with quantifying physical, technical, and tactical aspects of performance in order to faciliate athlete and team development.
Students will also develop their skills to capture real-time data during performance and enhance their knowledge and understanding of how one might adjust the coaching practice accordingly depending on the desired output/aims for that session.
As a result of the above, students will develop the necessary skills to feedback and communicate effectively with key stakeholders in the coching process, from athletes and coaches, to the wider sports science team.
- Module Supervisor: Alice Harkness-Armstrong