West Virginia State Clinic

This hands-on session will provide coaches with a simplified, results-driven approach to teaching and integrating Olympic weightlifting (and derivatives), speed development, and plyometric training.  Participants will learn efficient movement progressons, key coaching cues, and practical drills that improve athlete performance without overcomplicating the process. 

One of the most rewarding aspects of coaching comes when you're able to build relationships with your athletes.  Training female athletes specifically requires an appreciation for the interworkings of the human body.  This means an understanding of the physiological differences that accompany each team, group, and individual and finding ways to make each experience as beneficial as possible. 

• Explain the purpose and process of conducting a tactical athlete needs analysis using an adapted sport model
• Differentiate between sport-specific and tactical-specific performance demands
• Evaluate how environmental, systemic, and policy-level factors affect tactical readiness and recovery

This session will delve into information regarding collegiate soccer players and wearable GPS trackers, to include how monitoring player match and training metrics can provide insight into individual and team sports performance program needs. 

This presentation will go over programming for men's basketball in the new age of the portal and how the speaker approaches their annual plan with a short window with the athletes now.

• Periodization
• Athlete monitoring
• Real world applied data in US NCAA football