27  Training and Coaching (9.1)

27.1 Introduction

27.2 Invited Speaker

Dr Matthew Weston is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and Reader at Manchester Metropolitan University. Matthew has 25 years combined experience of working as a practitioner in elite sport with university and industry research positions.

Applied positions include Head of Sports Science for the Professional Game Match Officials (England), Senior Football Researcher at the Aspire Academy (Qatar), and Director of Sports Science with the Professional Referee Organization (USA).

Matthew is a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and has published widely in sports performance.

27.3 Preparatory Reading

Prior to this tutorial, you should access and review the following papers:

• M. D. Hughes and R. M. Bartlett, “The use of performance indicators in performance analysis,” Journal of Sports Sciences, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 739–754, Jan. 2002. [1]

• D. Radke and A. Orchard, “Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics,” 2023. [2]

• C. Fernández-Echeverría, I. Mesquita, J. González-Silva, and M. P. Moreno, “Towards a More Efficient Training Process in High-Level Female Volleyball From a Match Analysis Intervention Program Based on the Constraint-Led Approach: The Voice of the Players,” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, Mar. 2021. [3]

These papers are available online via the library module reading list.

[1]

M. D. Hughes and R. M. Bartlett, “The use of performance indicators in performance analysis,” Journal of Sports Sciences, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 739–754, Jan. 2002, doi: 10.1080/026404102320675602.

[2]

D. Radke and A. Orchard, “Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics,” 2023, doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.13660.

[3]

C. Fernández-Echeverría, I. Mesquita, J. González-Silva, and M. P. Moreno, “Towards a More Efficient Training Process in High-Level Female Volleyball From a Match Analysis Intervention Program Based on the Constraint-Led Approach: The Voice of the Players,” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, Mar. 2021, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645536.