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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"talent identification"”.
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Physiological assessment in talent identification within Australian football
Predicting long-term success in talented athletes at an early age requires a multi-factorial, longitudinal approach that combines both scientific observations and intuitive judgements in the identification process. Traditionally, the measurement of physiological characteristics in the team sport …
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An Australian perspective on talent identification and development in soccer
… is one of the most popular sports discussed in talent identification and development research. However, discrepancies exist in how researchers, coaches, and sporting professionals (i.e. scouts, recruiters, and skill acquisition specialists) define optimal practice. These discrepancies arise from …
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Exploring Stakeholder Coherence in an Effective Talent Identification and Development Environment.
The research in Talent Identification and Development (TID) in sport comprises a wide literature that is categorised into five key constructs in the second study of this thesis. The fifth construct concerns the role that the stakeholders (the sport organisation, coaches and parents) have in athlete …
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Talent identification and development in South African professional football – a coach perspective
… sport have underscored the importance of Talent Identification and Development (TID) in football. This study examines the TID frameworks employed by South Africa's top professional male football clubs through the perspectives of coaches and key informants. This research addresses the lack …
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"Better people make better players": exploring the role of character in rugby union talent identification
… years have seen an increase in the prevalence of talent identification programmes in professional sports, rugby union included. However, little is known about the importance of psychological characteristics, less so character in rugby union talent identification. A literature review of …
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Moving towards an evidence informed approach to talent identification and development in Scottish soccer long term athlete development pathways.
Professional soccer academies aim to optimise the identification of talent and the development of players to create a resource as first team players or sellable assets. Since the turn of the millennium, the literature that examines the impact of talent ID and development practices has predominantly …
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An investigation of talent identification processes in the youth academies of professional soccer clubs for male foundation phase players (5-11 years old)
Talent Identification (TID) is a large field within professional soccer, helping clubs find the best young ‘talent’ to support with future success for their club. Soccer clubs can sign players as young as 8 years old into their academy system, providing player development activities such as …
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Factors assciated with success in South African Rugby Union
… Union (SARU) to identify and develop young, talented individuals to strengthen the pool of available players. Several talent identification and development programmes have been implemented by SARU with limited success and many of them are not offered anymore.
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The Physiological and Genetic Factors Underpinning Powerful Actions in Elite Youth Soccer
… could be used to optimise soccer-specific talent identification and development strategies. With this in mind, the overriding aim of our thesis was to investigate the physiological and genetic factors underpinning powerful actions in elite youth soccer. When devising an assessment of …
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A description of the profiles of U18 rugby players who attended the Craven Week tournament between 2002-2012
… competes against have clearly defined rugby talent identification (TID) and development (TDE) pathways. These pathways are not as well described in South Africa where the South African Rugby Union (SARU) has adopted a model of identifying talent at an early age through competition. For …
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Exploring the feasibility of a novel experimental method to study talent selection and decision making in high performance sport
Talent selection in sport takes place from early stages of development through professional ranks. Athletes are regularly selected for youth teams, high school teams, as well as collegiate and professional teams (Jones, Johnston & Baker, 2020). Even with so much selection occurring, identifying …
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Investigating on-field decision making in rugby union
… and thus did not warrant inclusion in talent identification programs. Chapter 2 concluded that more appropriate stimuli (structured and semi-structured patterns) should be included in future studies to investigate the viability of pattern recall tasks for talent identification purposes. …
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The science of shinty: A needs analysis and training considerations.
… programmes, improve performance, and develop talent identification processes.
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Parental decision-making regarding their child's participation in a middle-school talent search.
… child's participation in a national gifted and talented identification program for middle school students and subsequent participation in recommended educational options. One hundred sixty-nine parents of students who qualified for either the 2001-2002 or 2002-2003 Duke Talent Identification …
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The management whisperer: Ensuring organisational sustainability, viability and competitive advantage through management development via a practice based future fit talent pipeline
… performance measures as well as selection of a talent pipeline were measured against the framework of an underperforming environment. Competence was therefore benchmarked on overrated performance against underrated goals which led to ineffective performance and no validity in talent …
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Coaches' naturalistic decision-making: injury prevention in youth elite soccer players.
… are presented as guidelines for coach talent identification and development, which detail specific means for the integration of coach naturalistic decision-making as a valid and credible method for injury management in youth academies.
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'Active Sports' The First Step to Sporting Excellence?
… of the scheme on the development of sporting talent. Analysis of the data revealed that participants and coaches found involvement in Active Sport a fulfilling and enjoyable experience that had positive impact on continued sports involvement and professional development respectively. However, …
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Form is temporary, class is permanent: Statistical methods for predicting the career trajectories and contributions of players in the sport of cricket
… implications in the likes of player comparison, talent identification, and team selection policy, as coaches and selectors are able to better quantify player ability and understand the individual-specific risks and rewards of selecting certain players over others.
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Commitment, adherence and dropout among young talented dancers: A multidisciplinary mixed methods investigation
… this research was to understand why some young talented dancers stay in dance training while others decide to leave. In order to meet this aim, commitment, adherence and dropout among young talented dancers was investigated in five studies using a multidisciplinary mixed methods design. …
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Does the Relative Age Effect Exist in Elite Sport? An Analysis of Olympic Competition
… a bias selection process in identifying player talent. Athletes that are identified as talented are more likely to be born in the first three months after the eligibility cut-off for a program's particular age group. This is referred to as the relative age effect (RAE) and has been identified in …
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