roger keenan talent id – profiling players, progressing talent, producing stars 14-18 years
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Roger KeenanTalent ID – Profiling Players, Progressing Talent, Producing Stars
14-18 Years
Outcomes• Where are we now?
• What are we looking for in “talented players”?
• Why & what should we measuring?
• What is an exceptional development environment?
• Assessment/Profiling – What & How?
• The Mental Profile – coach-ability “the 80% in the mind”
Where are we now?GAA Performance Ladder
Sports InstituteSports Institute
Provincial Strategy………………Provincial Strategy………………
Under 10 / 12
Under 14 / 16
Under 18/21
Senior
Development Squads
Ulster Under 17
Minor
Under 21
Sigerson
Senior
Provincial
Ireland
School & ClubSchool & Club
Regional Squads International / Provincial Regional Squads International / Provincial
County,County,
Higher Education & Development SquadsHigher Education & Development Squads
PARTICIPATIONPARTICIPATION
PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE
EXCELLENCEEXCELLENCE
FOUNDATIONFOUNDATIONNursery/Participation
Talent ID
Talent ID
Nature verses Nurture?
ResearchRecent Studies of Track & Field Sports have shown that many
athletes identified at 14-16 are not making it through! Why?• Poor Talent ID Systems – incorrect criteria – no confirmation
criteria!
• Biological Development (Relative Age Theory) – Physical (Don’t look for what is but what might be)
• Lifestyle Choices – Priorities
• Poor Talent Confirmation System – no progression/feedback
• Hunger – Some believe that they have “arrived”
Relative Age Theory• Gaelic Relative Elite Age Theory - some Gaelic players may miss out on a spot at the top level. This is
simply due to the month that they are born on. Development difference greatest at U14/U16.• Even when groupings are limited to 1 year categories, e.g. U15; U16; U17; U18, development
differences can be great. In such cases players born in January and December will have almost a year difference in their age.
• Ulster Elite Squads U16 – 7 times more people born in first 3 months than last 3• 3 out of 4 born in first half of the year
Age factored performance
• Taking the elite squad and testing their performance in several areas the result was that the older players outweighed the younger always proving age is a factor.
• Question: Do we take a short term view of what is rather than what might be???
Current Methods for Talent IDThe Process of Identifying Talent:Scouting/observationTrialsBlitzClub GamesReferral/Clubs, Schools, CoachesTraining CampsCurrent FormProfiling/ Benchmarking (IRFU)
Task 1 - Why Profile ?• To establish a baseline for team/individuals• To inform our training programme for team/individual• To establish the critical success factors• To monitor the effectiveness of our training programme• To motivate players & team• To establish norms for physical, technical, and psychological
development• To develop a pathway for success – What should a talented
24 year old look like?• To embrace best practice
Reasons for Assessments• A Functional screen can be used to assess competence in general dynamic
movements.
• A Fitness assessment can identify general capacities of agility, endurance, flexibility, speed, strength and power, and relate these to body composition.
• A Skills assessment can identify technical proficiency and bi-lateral transfer in developing players
• Assessments are therefore used to;– Establish each player’s strengths, weaknesses and priorities for development– Help maximize the sports potential of each player– Monitor team/player fitness progress– Determine the effectiveness of the training programme– Monitor individual player response to training/playing– Ensure that a player is ‘fit to play’
Task 2 – Talent ID Criteria (Sheet 1)
• What we are looking for in talented players?
• Can it be accurately measured?
• How can it be measured?
• How do we check for progress?
What to benchmark? (Assessment)
Physical Based AssessmentPhysical Based AssessmentWhy?Why?
Skills Based AssessmentSkills Based AssessmentWhy?Why?
Functional Based AssessmentFunctional Based AssessmentWhy?Why?
Characteristics of WinnersCharacteristics of WinnersWhy?Why?
Training Load & Social DiaryTraining Load & Social DiaryWhy?Why?Record KeepingRecord Keeping
Talent Player Profile
Functional Movement• Used to scan general posture & review of
previous injury
• Exercises used to identify flexibility, mobility and / or stability issues
• Exercises include overhead squat, in-line lunge, double hurdle-hops and active straight leg raise
Typical range of movement from other disciplines (prior to entry to The Institute)
The GAA Player – poor flexibility and mobility due to over use and poor programme structure (prior to entry to The
Institute)
Interpretation & Talent Confirmation
• Meaningful changes should be highlighted• Compare percentage differences• Comparisons within positions may be useful• Compare results with benchmark data• Provide individual feedback to players in the
form of a hard copy of their results• Realistic individual targets should be set for each
player using their scores
Eg. Team Summary Football U16
Eg. Team Summary Hurling U16
Summary• The initial assessment is used to establish the strengths, weaknesses, and
priorities for development for each player, allowing an individualized programme to be prescribed.
• This represents a baseline level and further evaluations allow the effectiveness of the individualized training programme to be determined.
• Although sports performance is multifaceted, improvements in functional movement and physical fitness should facilitate enhanced performance during competition.
• For any structured yearly training, the coach and sports physiologist should decide on and plan all testing dates in advance. Generally appropriate testing times are at the beginning and end of each training phase, allowing assessment of the effectiveness of each phase. The coach can then use this information to plan the next training phase at both the team and individual level.
Skills Profiling
Agility Ball Control
Speed and Ball Control
Moving Punt Pass
First Touch - Fielding
Kicking for Scores
Task 3 (Sheet 2)
• What are the key aspects of a good training environment?
• Are they evident in your club/county?
• Which ones are missing?
‘Player centred, coach driven’
Lifestyle Management
Technical Development
Mental Toughness
Tactical Development
Coach
Performance Analysis
Personal Support
(family / friends)
Core StrengthSports Science
Athlete
The key areas of athlete preparation
Psychological preparation
Physical Preparation
Technical preparation
Tactical preparation
Lifestyle Management
Profile model (coach-ability)
Constructive Evaluation
Mental Toughness
Mindset
Motivational &Working Traits
Learning Style
Coach
Player/Athlete(Coachability)
Talent that fails
To maximise your potential you need to have the mental capabilities to deal with setbacks and successes
“The mind messes up more performances than the body”
Jimmy Bolt
Constructive evaluation
“one of the characteristics of a top player is that they are able to deliver a genuinely honest assessment of their own performance and ability”
Arsene Wenger
Constructive Evaluation
Self-Awareness
Simply put, it means having an understanding not only of your own strengths & limitations, but also of psychological functions
‘People with a strong self awareness are realistic, neither overly self critical nor naively hopeful. Rather they are honest with themselves’
Talent Profile
PhysicalMental Toughness
4 C'sMindset
Technical
ConstructiveSelf-Evaluation
Tactical
Mindset
“I want to win all tournaments, but being the best me – that’s a little more important”Tiger Woods
Mindset
Mindsets
A Mindset is a belief
Fixed Mindset (FMS)
Growth Mindset (GMS)
Fixed Mindset
Commonly found in talented individuals
Symptoms of a FMS:LabellingLow effort syndrome
This is the path of stagnation!
Growth MindsetAware that talents can be developed
Abilities are build over time
“Coach-ability”
Above average but not always the most genetically talented
This is the path of opportunity & success
Mental Toughness
Without addressing the mental deficiencies we are limiting the chances of producing professional footballers”
Jose Mourinho
Mental Toughness
The 5 Internal C’s
Inner Competitiveness, Inner Commitment
Control (Emotion & Life)
Challenge
Confidence (Abilities & Interpersonal)
Inner Competitiveness, Inner Commitment
“The body should never tell the mind it is tired, the mind has the strength to out will and
Push the body”General George Patton
Confidence & Commitment
Motivational & Working Traits
“it’s important that I am able to establish the right level of communication, this is very important for successful management”
Arsene Wenger
M&W Traits
Language & Behaviour (LAB)
Purpose is to help coaches gain a higher level of performance in your players
Through
Understanding the individual by identifying their motivational and working traits through the
players language
Learning Styles
Both players & coaches need to be aware
Ultimately we are teaching players to play football, if we are not aware of learning styles can we effectively maximize their learning
“Coaching should enhance learning not get in the way of it”
Learning Style
How styles of Coaching can affect learning
Data from many research projects
Told Told & ShownTold, shown & with your input
70% 72% 85%
10% 32% 65%
Recall after 3 weeks
Recall after 3 months
Individual Mental Skills Training
Athletes report, during competition mental attitudes account for 80% of their success. Few training programs train their athletes to control their mental
attitudesMindmapping
T-CUP/Thought stoppingPositive Reflection
Mental imageryInfluencing language
Team Talks/Training sessionsBio-dermal feedback training
Turning a Skill into Skill Resilience
The brain is like a muscle, the more you work on the inside the more it shows on the outside
Constructive Evaluation
Mental Toughness
Mindset
Language & Behaviour
Learning Style
Coach
Player/Athlete
The Role of the CoachTHE EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COACHImproving players’performance throughhigh quality coachingKey outcomes of a player centeredapproach:1. Increased self awareness2. Increased self reflection3. Increased responsibility and understandingof their own performance& developmentThe coach has a clearresponsibility to the players and theDevelopment programme to help create acoaching and learning climate thatmust be of a higher standard than theplayer receives back in their own clubor school environment.Effort and commitment are obviousprerequisites to success. However,they are not enough on their own; theplayers’ development will largelydepend upon your coachingmethodology and the effectivedelivery of game related knowledgeand skills.
Guiding Philosophy
“When winning is kept inperspective sport produces children
who enjoy being skillful, who strive forexcellence, who dare to risk error tolearn and who develop with practice
and constructive feedback.When winning is kept in perspectivethere is room for fun in the pursuit ofvictory – the pursuit of victory is fun”
Geoff Gleeson - The growing childin competitive sport: Hodder Staughton
(1987)