Profiling Players, Fitness Assessment, Coach ability
Roger Keenan – Coach Development Manager
Aims
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To examine the concept of profiling players in Gaelic Games
To explore the most appropriate criteria for profiling
To look at tools that might help to clarify the key issues
To explore ways to confirm progress
To analyse the best environment for nurturing players
To examine the role of the coach in nurturing talent
To examine the critical factors that determine long-term
success – coach-ability
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Outcomes
On completion of this module participants will:
• Be able to utilise mechanisms which will enhance player
development
• Be able to deploy strategies to check for player progress
• Be able to recognise the key factors for long-term growth
• Be aware of the role the coach should play in nurturing and
developing players
Roger Keenan – Coach Education Manager
Coaching:
Employment:
2001 – Manager/Gortin beaten in
Intermediate Final Replay/Promoted
through the league
2003 – Manager/Gortin Intermediate
Championship winners
2005 – Manager/Carrickmore Senior
Championship Winners
2001-2005 – Tyrone Development
Squads
2007 – Ardboe
2005-10 – Coach/Tyrone Minors(2
Ulster/2 All-Irelands)
2005 -09 – Coach/UUJ Sigerson(2007
beaten finalists/2008 Sigerson Winners)
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1985 – 2003 – Factory Manager
2003 – 2005 – Tyrone Coaching &
Games Manager
2005 – 2009 – GAA HP Manager
2009 – Present – Coach Education
Manager
Where are we now?
GAA Performance Ladder
Ireland
Provincial
Senior
Sigerson
EXCELLENCE
Senior
Under 21
PERFORMANCE
Minor
Under 18/21
Ulster Under 17
PARTICIPATION
Under 14 / 16
Development Squads
Under 10 / 12
FOUNDATION
Nursery/Participation
School & Club
Provincial Strategy………………
Regional Squads International / Provincial County,
Higher Education & Development Squads
Nature verses Nurture?
Current Methods for Talent ID
The Process of Identifying Talent:
Scouting/observation
Trials
Blitz
Club Games
Referral/Clubs, Schools, Coaches
Training Camps
Current Form
Profiling/ Benchmarking (IRFU)
“All that glistens is not gold”
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Task 1(In Groups)–What are the
qualities that make a good club player?
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What we are looking for in good club players?
What are the 3 key areas?
Can they be measured?
How can it be measured?
How do we check for progress?
Evaluation
• Self -Evaluation
• Coach-Evaluation
• Peer-Evaluation
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Key Areas? (Assessment)
Physical Based Assessment?
Skills Based Assessment?
Functional Based Assessment?
Characteristics of Winners (coachability)?
Training Load & Social Diary?
Record Keeping
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Analyse your Coaching
Competencies
Prompts
Task 2(In Groups) – Discuss the
benefits of player profiling ?
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To establish a baseline for team/individuals
What gets measured gets improved!
To focus on the critical areas for success
To inform our training programme for team/individual
To monitor the effectiveness of our training programme
To motivate players & team
To establish norms for physical, technical, and psychological
development
• To create a pathway for success for others to follow
• To embrace best practice
Interpretation & Talent
Confirmation(checking for progress)
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Has there been significant progress in the critical areas?
Compare percentage differences(individual/team)
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 reset for each player using
their scores
Eg. Team Summary Football 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.
Task 3 (In Groups) - Discuss
• How can we positively influence the number of players who
make it to senior club level? Key actions
• List in order of priority
• Are they evident in your club?
‘Player centred, coach driven’
Personal
Support
(family / friends)
Technical
Development
Tactical
Development
Coach
Players
Mental
Toughness
Sports Science
Performance
Analysis
Club Life
(ownership)
Lifestyle
Management
Fun
Core Strength
Task 4(Coach ability)
Discuss!
• What is coach-ability?
• What are the traits of a player who has it?
• How do we recognise it?
• Can we nurture it?
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Profile model
(coach-ability)
Coach
Mental Toughness
Constructive Evaluation
Learning
Style
Motivational &
Working Traits
Mindset
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
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
Self - Assessment
Talent Profile
Physical
Tactical
Constructive
Self-Evaluation
Technical
Mental Toughness
4 C's
Mindset
Mindset
Mindset
“I want to win all tournaments, but being the best me – that’s a little more
important”
Tiger Woods
Mindsets
A Mindset is a belief
Fixed Mindset (FMS)
Growth Mindset (GMS)
Fixed Mindset
Commonly found in talented individuals
Symptoms of a FMS:
Labelling
Low effort syndrome
This is the path of stagnation!
Never tell your players that they are naturally
gifted/talented!!
Probably safe to tell Peter Canavan / Darragh O’Sé
Growth Mindset
Aware that talents can be developed/improved
Abilities are build over time – long-term view
“Coach-ability”
See commitment and perseverance as a skill to be
worked on
Above average but not always the most genetically
talented
This is the path of opportunity & success
Mental Toughness
Mental
Toughness
“Without addressing the mental deficiencies we are limiting the chances of
producing professional footballers”
Jose Mourinho
The 5 Internal C’s
Inner Competitiveness, Inner Commitment
Control (Emotion & Life)
Challenge
Confidence (Abilities & Interpersonal)
Inner Competitiveness, Inner
Commitment
“Winners never quit,
and quitters never won”
“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
“Some players dream of success,
others wake up and work hard to
achieve it”
Motivational & Working Traits
M&W
Traits
“it’s important that I am able to establish the right level of communication,
this is very important for successful management”
Arsene Wenger
The brain is like a muscle, the more you work on the
inside the more it shows on the outside
Coach
Constructive Evaluation Mental Toughness
Learning
Style
Language &
Behaviour
Mindset
Player/Athlete
Guiding Philosophy
"On a good team there are no
superstars. There are great
players who show they are
great players by being able to
play with others as a team.
They have the ability to be
superstars, but if they fit into a
good team, they make
sacrifices, they do things
necessary to help the team
win"
---Red Holzman
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---Dianne Holum
Change your limiting Beliefs!
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Questions???
Thank you!