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Sports Science Department
The ASPIRE Sports Science program provides international level applied sports science support to ASPIRE coaches and student-athletes. The section administers over 17,000 tests/testing sessions annually and provides 493 days of service at training camps. It operates world class applied sports science laboratories (biomechanics, physiology, hematology and biochemistry) utilizing world class sports science equipment. Specifically, the program:
- Provides sports science support with laboratory and field-based testing to monitor and provide feedback on long-term and short-term changes in fitness qualities.
- Provides anthropometrical measurements to assess growth, maturation and body composition changes of student-athletes in the short- and long-term.
- Identifies and quantifies the physical, psychological, physiological and biomechanical characteristics that contribute to performance in each sport.
- Provides different types of performance assessments in competitions/matches and in training environments (i.e. video/ GPS-based match and competition analysis, video feedback, lactate measurements, speed measurements with timing gates and Laveg laser measurement system).
- Provides expert assistance and advice to ASPIRE student-athletes and coaches in order to improve sporting performance (e.g. acute and chronic training adaptations, adaptation to a variety of training and competition environments and sports psychology testing and goal setting sessions).
- Carries out specific applied research and develops new and innovative methods for performance enhancement and training.
- Provides sports science support in training camps and competitions abroad.
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