Search Results - Track Coach
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Examining a successful high-performance triathlon environment from the coaching team perspective
Andronikos, G., Westbury, T., Souglis, A., Travlos, A., Martindale, R. J.Published in International Sport Coaching Journal (2026)“…This research aims to investigate an environment designed by a head coach with a track record of both highly successful talent development and world-class performance outcomes in the sport of triathlon. …”
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Trends in American female youth and junior weightlifting performance from 2015 to 2023
Healis, J., Adams, K. J., Lawrence, M. M.Published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2026)“…Performance was evaluated using strength-to-mass (SM) ratios, tracking the highest SM ratios, and allometric scaling in 3-month timeframes using each athlete's best total per timeframe for the first 3 years and 6-month timeframes over the study period (~9 years). …”
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Associations between swimmers` dry-land lower- and upper-limb measures and butterfly sprint performance
Holub, M., Glyk, W., Stanula, A., Weiss, K., Rosemann, T., Knechtle, B.Published in Sports (2025)“…Our study demonstrates that targeted dry-land training programmes using exercises like vertical jumps can enhance competitive swimmers` performance and offer coaches an accessible means of tracking athlete progress. …”
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Muscle typology of youth track-and-field athletes predicts their adult performance: a prospective study
Vandecauter, J., Van Vossel, K., Van de Casteele, F., Derave, W., Lievens, E.Published in 29th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, 2-5 July 2024, Book of Abstracts (2024)“…INTRODUCTION: Current talent identification programs struggle to successfully identify track-and-field talents at a younger age, mainly because of poor relation between youth and senior performances [1]. …”
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Visual tracking and its relationship to dynamic visual acuity among national youth foil fencing team athletes
Oudah, I. G., Jari, H. S., Taih, H. S., Sameer, A. H.Published in Modern Sport (2025)“…The significance of this study lies in its focus on the relationship between visual tracking and dynamic visual acuity, both regarded as essential perceptual abilities influencing technical and dynamic performance in foil fencing. …”
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Is maturational growth more influential than training engagement in longitudinal adolescent physical performance development?
Abbott, S., Javet, M., Bested, S., Hackett, D., Romann, M., Cobley, S.Published in European Journal of Sport Science (2025)“…Prospective mixed longitudinal tracking over 3 years. Participants were N = 78 selected male volleyball players, aged 11-15 years (M = 13.81, SD = 1.20 years) from N = 41 competitive Swiss clubs. …”
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Can heat conditions affect the heart rate responses, perception of effort, and technical performance of young male football players during small-sided games? a comparative study
Kang, Z.-H., Chen, Z., Liu, G.-Y.Published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation (2024)“…Background Soccer coaches often employ small-sided games (SSGs) to elicit both physiological and technical responses from players. …”
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Effects of a 10-week athletic performance program on match performance variables in male professional football players
Jiménez Rubio, S., Estévez Rodríguez, J. L., Escamilla Galindo, V., Jiménez-Sáiz, S. L., Del Coso, J.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2025)“…The APP included indoor track sessions and micro-doses of on-field stimuli, focusing on specific performance attributes. …”
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Longitudinal performance trajectories of young female sprint runners: a new tool to predict performance progression
Romann, M., Javet, M., Hernandez, J., Heyer, L., Trösch, S., Cobley, S., Born, D.,P.Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2024)“…Background: Longitudinal performance tracking in sports science is crucial for accurate talent identification and prognostic prediction of future performance. …”
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Narratives of Swiss football players about talent - and positive youth development: The role of social agents and agency
Koch, P., Charbonnet, B., Ronkainen, N.Published in Current Issues in Sport Science (2025)“…Both highlight the critical role of proximal social agents within the family (parents, siblings) and the sport subsystem (coaches, peers; Dorsch et al., 2022) while advocating for relational-developmental systems (RDS; Overton, 2015) as a guiding theoretical framework. …”
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Training psychological skills: Efficacy and assessment of a nonclinical psychological sports coaching e-intervention for young elite athletes
Bonetti, R., Crettaz von Roten, F., Hauw, D.Published in Current Issues in Sport Science (2025)“…Methods The study sample consisted of 105 athletes (73 males, 32 females), comprising 61 skiers (33 males, 28 females), 29 male footballers, and 15 track and field athletes (11 males, 4 females), recruited from four sports clubs in Switzerland and France. …”
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Introduction
Grix, J., Houlihan, B., Brannagan, P. M.Published in Comparative elite sport development. Systems, structures and public policy (2025)“…The GDR elite sportscape is recognisable in China's current elite sport system (see Chapter 6), with its sports schools, talent identification practices, abundant facilities and high levels of investment in coaching. One modern addition to China's system has been the `naturalisation` of Chinese athletes to boost some sports where they remain weak, a practice usually associated with states with little home-grown talent (cf. …”
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Coach development as assemblage: mobilising assemblage thinking to examine coach learning within an endurance-running coach development intravention
Avner, Z., Skebo, K., Jones, L., Denison, J., Konoval, T., Hall, E. T., Radowits, R., Downie, D.Published in Sports Coaching Review (2024)Subjects: “…coach…”
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Validity of a motor-cognitive dual-task agility test in elite youth football players
Friebe, D., Sieland, J., Both, H., Giesche, F., Haser, C., Hülsdünker, T., Pfab, F., Vogt, L., Banzer, W.Published in European Journal of Sport Science (2024)“…Twenty-one male youth elite football players (age:17.4 ±0 .6; BMI:23.2 ± 1.8) performed two agility tests (reactive agility, reactive agility with integrated multiple-object-tracking (Dual-Task Agility)) on the SKILLCOURT system. …”
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Load and recovery monitoring in Swiss top-level youth soccer players: Exploring the associations of a new web application-based score with recognised load measures
Anderegg, J. M., Brefin, S. L., Nigg, C. R., Koschnick, D., Paul, C., Ketelhut, S.Published in Current Issues in Sport Science (2024)“…The comprehensive LRS offers a solution to that problem because it can track different load parameters in elite youth soccer players and present multiple accepted recovery and load measures separately and on an individual level so that athletes, coaches and staff can use it to enhance their knowledge of responses (Bourdon et al., 2017) and determine future training and match load as well as suited means of recovery. …”
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Bridging the gap (combining on-the-field-experiences and new technologies in training)
Oldham, M.Published in Techniques Magazine (2024)“…National pride soars and athletes, and their coaches, are applauded for the ultumate prize. USA Track and Field (USATF) has been a dominant force in that medal hunt over the last 50 years, both on the men´s and women´s side, for numbers of medals awarded, world records, and overall dominance with over 1,900 athletes competing since 1896 and 865 medals won (Landry, 1987; Mallon and Mason, 2013) Yet, of the 24 Olympics, where USA entered a decathlon athlete, only 27 medals have been won, and since 1984 only four USA heptathlon athletes have medaled. …”
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Running periodization (part 4 - high school and college periodization)
Karp, J.Published in Techniques Magazine (2023)“…The high school and college cross-country and track environment presents a unique training problem. …”