THE GREATEST ABILITY IS AVAILABILITY

The greatest predictor of winning is availability of top talent on game day.

Welcome to our latest episode of 2-Rep Tuesday, where we bring a question (Rep #1) and an insight (Rep #2) from the world of high-performance to get your wheels turning.

 🎯 Insight

Across sport there is a single metric that determines a team’s probability of winning. Availability of top talent.

As the value of winning climbs, keeping players healthy and ready to compete has never been more important.

In professional sport, this is a well understood phenomenon, and is the reason performance and medical teams have ballooned in size and deepened in specialization, sport science tools and technologies have exploded, and new leadership roles have emerged to optimize models and integration strategies.

In college athletics, this phenomenon has been slower to unfold. However, progressive leaders are starting to connect the dots between the student-athlete experience, availability, and the quality of expertise supporting development, performance, and well-being. A significant competitive advantage rests in the wings for programs ready to embrace a modern high-performance approach.

🎯 Question

Do you know the availability trends across your department (administrators)? Are your medical and performance units radically aligned (philosophically) and seamlessly integrated (structurally) to optimize this critical outcome?

For further reading on this topic, Teena Murray and Hope Bender co-authored an article supporting the future of DI Collegiate Athletics: Wholistic & Integrated High-Performance Model: A New Model for a New Time

Who are we?

We are THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE PROJECT, a division of The PICTOR Group, created to bring fresh eyes and modern strategies to optimize health, performance and winning in elite sport. We leverage complex systems and human-centered design to advance integration and alignment from the inside out. On our team, we have global leaders in medical, performance and sport science.

Set up a 15 minute phone call with THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE PROJECT director Teena Murray to learn how we can partner with you to make data-driven improvements to athlete health and performance.

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