The Oxford Dictionary defines screening as `the evaluation or investigation of something . • ¦ to assess suitability for a particular role or purpose` [26]. For the strength and conditioning (S&C) coach, the use of screening assessment is typically part of a broad `needs analysis process required to plan and design training programmes, and is used in conjunction with the methods outlined in Chapter 9. Needs analyses can be varied in content, depending on the sport-specific requirements. There is no unified needs analysis performed across sports, although approaches taken are similar (10], The physical assessments utilised can include force, power, speed, agility, moM`mcnt (control) and stability skills, flexibility, specific strength imbalances, strength endurance, laboratory-based physiological assessments or field-based metabolic assessments, for example, assessment batteries employed by the English Institute of Sport S&C coaches tvpicallv comprise: t) a field-based fitness assessment; 2) sprint and agility assessments; }) maximal force and vertical jump tests; 4) conditioning assessments for trunk and uppt`r body; and 5) dynamic movement assessments.
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