Athlete Management: An Everyone (Multi-Disciplinary), Everywhere (Multi-Organisation) Approach Martin BUCHHEIT wrote a great article on 'aligning and evaluating a Multi-Disciplinary Performance Department'. Defining, measuring and evaluating high quality, relevant work, guides the focus of a high performance team towards what matters. However, it made me consider if a single organisation approach to athlete management is appropriate? Modern athletes, more than ever before, move between multiple high performance environments (Club - National Team - Consultants - Private Performance Centres) over the course of their season/off-season. The ability for performance teams to communicate effectively (including sharing data) with one-another is crucial in supporting athletes across environments. However, sharing data between organisations has been notoriously difficult because of: 1) the legal safeguards around sharing athletes' data; 2) the practicalities of a busy performance team finding time for extra admin tasks. This has limited each organisation to their own, singular view of athlete performance. Not having the holistic, multi-environment perspective can lead to increased injury risk (especially in and around international windows/tournaments), missed performance development opportunities, and strained inter-organisational relationships. That's where an athlete-centred approach can unlock the seamless transfer of data. When an athlete controls and manages their performance data from every environment (like they do with BreakAway Data), they can share it with any of their stakeholders (automatically and in real-time). For example, every National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) player can access, control and share their performance data between club and national teams. Likewise, more The Premier League players than ever now use BreakAway to share their performance data with private practitioners (such as the quality team at 292 Performance). Supporting athletes to get their data can be so much more than players seeing what happened in matches (e.g. SkillCorner and StatsBomb) or training (STATSports, VALD Performance, etc). Once a team or organisation gets onboard, they're able to seamlessly share and receive crucial player data from every performance environment. As high-performance sport becomes increasingly complex, with more stakeholders then ever before, BreakAway Data want to help athletes, teams and Leagues navigate these challenges and successfully deliver on their commitment to excellence. Bart Caubergh Johannes Marthinussen Johannes Holzmüller Darcy Norman Alexander Bielefeld
Love your work Ben Smith
Great article! Thanks for sharing.
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8 个月Any team needs to start w an athlete centered approach. This is awesome work BreakAway Data Ben Smith Steve Gera