Community Information Series: Youth Sport

In this series, Dr Job Fransen will focus on the identification of talented youth athletes and some of its pitfalls such as gross motor coordination, growth and maturation and relative age as well as how contemporary approaches to skill acquisition in youth athletes can help optimise talent development programs.

The series consists of two sessions:

Theory (1.00 – 2.30pm)

Talent identification and the development of athletes in schools (45 mins with Q & A)

Designing effective sessions for athlete learning - discovery learning and constraints led approach to learning (45 mins)

Practical (2.30 – 4.00pm)

Learn how to create the optimal learning environment for your athletes by encouraging self-discovery through a constraints-led approach to learning.

Places are limited so early registration is required.

Presenters:

Dr Job Fransen, Senior lecturer in motor control and skill acquisition

Dr Job Fransen is interested in how expertise in human movement emerges as a result of individual and environmental factors. His work has examined the importance of talent identification and development programs in youth sport with a particular emphasis on the measurement and development of perceptual-cognitive skills. Job has worked with high level athletes in national and international soccer, Australian Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, mountain Biking, volleyball, school sports, NRL referees, combat sports. 

As a practitioner, Job has experience coaching in a wide range of disciplines, including soccer, rugby union, rugby sevens, field hockey, and since 2017 as the skill acquisition specialist for the Sydney Swans Football Club, where he emphasises the role played by self-discovery and implicit learning in the process of skill acquisition.

 

Rhys Tribolet, PhD candidate, Skill Acquisition

Rhys’s research investigates the influence of training on tactical behaviour in professional Australia Football. Working with senior elite players, his research assesses whether training reflects real game sequences and events, and examines how the manipulation of drills may influence tactical game play. With a better understanding of collective team behavioural changes in response to training, the research aims to inform the type and nature of feedback and instructions given by coaches to their players.

 

Will Sheehan - PhD candidate, Skill Acquisition

Will's research investigates the tactical demands of the Australian Football and the influence of team patterns and coordination on performance. Divided into two components, the research looks into the collective team behaviour and inter-player relationships to gain insight into the specific factors that guide decision-making and behavioural responses of the team and individual players. This research aims to inform coaching staff on the tactical demands of the game and help coaches to develop training environments that replicate these demands.

 

Registrations now closed. 

To make an enquiry, contact hprc@uts.edu.au.