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27/04/2005
Gaelic sports coaches to get inside track on success
Coaches of Ulster’s gaelic football and hurling school sides are meeting today to get the inside track on success from the staff from the Sports Institute of Northern Ireland (SINI) which is based at the University of Ulster’s Jordanstown campus.
More than 80 delegates from primary and post-primary schools throughout the province will meet in Armagh’s City Hotel for an intensive one-day seminar on coaching knowledge and tools that may help to produce the GAA stars of tomorrow.
Staff from SINI will hold a number of workshops on topics that include strength and conditioning, video analysis, fitness for youth, player burn-out and injury management.
Dr Eugene Young, High Performance Director of Gaelic Football at SINI, said: “The purpose of the day is to engage with the teachers and school coaches who deliver Gaelic Games at this level and allow them to access the expertise that is available at SINI.
“In the last decade much of Ulster’s success in Gaelic football such as recent all-Ireland winners, Armagh and Tyrone, has been built on the foundations of solid achievement at school level. These young players then feed into their clubs and into their county teams.”
The seminar has been part funded by the Ulster Council of the GAA and the Sports Council for Northern Ireland.
(MB/SP)
More than 80 delegates from primary and post-primary schools throughout the province will meet in Armagh’s City Hotel for an intensive one-day seminar on coaching knowledge and tools that may help to produce the GAA stars of tomorrow.
Staff from SINI will hold a number of workshops on topics that include strength and conditioning, video analysis, fitness for youth, player burn-out and injury management.
Dr Eugene Young, High Performance Director of Gaelic Football at SINI, said: “The purpose of the day is to engage with the teachers and school coaches who deliver Gaelic Games at this level and allow them to access the expertise that is available at SINI.
“In the last decade much of Ulster’s success in Gaelic football such as recent all-Ireland winners, Armagh and Tyrone, has been built on the foundations of solid achievement at school level. These young players then feed into their clubs and into their county teams.”
The seminar has been part funded by the Ulster Council of the GAA and the Sports Council for Northern Ireland.
(MB/SP)
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