High Performance Update Hooked 08

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High Performance UpdateHooked 08

• David Passmore - High Performance Director

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Intended Outcomes

• Clarity on my role (what I do and what I dont)
• Aims and objectives of HP Plan
• Staffing
• Update national teams
• JAGs and seniors
• U15 Development
• Senior Programs
• Aspire
• Development Groups
• Background
• Rationale
• Impact
• Future v U21
• Funding
• FAQs and opportunity for questions

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My Role

• Develop and deliver a HP Plan
• Performance Committee
• Lead strategic direction of HP
• Overview of TID
• Liaise and co-ordinate with National
  Federations/bodies
• Irish Sports Council (ISC)
• Sport Northern Ireland (SNI)
• Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI)
• Irish Institute of Sport (ISC)
• Sport Northern Ireland (SINI)
• Manage Budgets
• Manage coaching staff and elite coach development
• Lead Sports Science and Medicine Direction
• Liaise with Branches
• Core skills development and tactical strategy

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High Performance Plan

• Fundamental Principles
• Irish Hockey is committed to compete at the
  highest level of the game. Given that the
  Olympics is the pinnacle of the hockey world,
  Irish Hockey views itself as an Olympic sporting
  organisation.
• Much work is required to engender this
  perspective within its staff, athletes and the
  broader hockey community on the island of
  Ireland.
• Olympic Focus
• Qualification and competing at the Olympic Games
  is the primary focus of the IHA High Performance
  Plan. As such planning will be focused around
  the four year Olympic cycles within which there
  will be two micro cycles
• ? Cycle 1 European Nations to World Cup
• ? Cycle 2 European Nations to Olympics

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H.P Goals

• Primary Goals
• To aim qualify at least one senior team for the
  Beijing Olympics in 2008 (possibly restricted by
  Qualification Procedures)
• To qualify both senior teams in the London
  Olympics in 2012
• To develop the game and build structures to
  ensure sustained success on the world stage
• Other objectives
• To compete in world cups and other FIH
  competitions such as the Champions Challenge
• To maintain and compete for medals in European A
  Division events at senior, U16 and U18 level
• To ensure Irish athletes and teams are prepared
  as best as they can both individually and
  collectively
• To identify, nurture and develop the best junior
  talent to compete on the world stage

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Staffing

• Issues previously
• No professional staff until 2004
• High turnover of quality staff
• Demands on staff too great too great (eg 90 days)
• Staff over worked (eg physios)
• Lack of co-ordination
• New structure
• High Performance Director (financed largely by
  ISC)
• NC and Director Player Performance (financed by
  ISC)
• SS/SM staff
• Co-ordinated approach moving down into junior
  squads (GK/Video/Physio/Conditioning)
• Sports Science Sports Medicine group
• Service agreements
• Honorariums and unpaid costs paid to core staff

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Organagram
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Talent Identification

• Regional Screening (talent prediction)
• Piloted in Munster 07
• U15 Development Squads (talent Development and
  ID)
• ii) JAG Interprovincial Tournaments (U16/U18)
• Focus on development/assessment in these age
  groups
• Junior Age Group international performances
  (Talent ID)
• U16 and U18 Ireland teams
• U21/Senior Interpros and National Development
  Group (Talent Development)
• Ireland A
• Senior international exposure first 40 caps
• (talent confirmation)

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HP Plan - U15 Development GroupsIdentify and
develop talent early

• Nomination to National U15 Development Groups
  (from regional programs)
• National Screening
• 9 x 1 Day Training Camps (dates advertised well
  in advance)
• Core skill development along with Games for
  Understanding approach
• Non representative - can feed direct to U16s
• Self financing
• Coaches Paul Cooke and Mick Mckinnon

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National Teams - JAGS

• U16/U18s
• U16B Andy Smyth U18B Arul Anthoni
• U16G Una McCarthy U18G Mary Logue
• Focus on TID individual development
• Results follow
• Top 4 finish in 5 of last 6 tournaments
• Top 4 in girls, top 5 in boys
• Increased budgets
• Development matches
• England x3 (Feb)
• Belgium x3 (Easter)
• Scotland x3 (June)
• Balance of Dev v Perf shift

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National Teams - Senior Squads

• OQTs
• Men Auckland 2-10th February
• NZ/ARG/FRA/IRE/TT/USA
• Women Vancouver 26 April-4th May
• KOR/IRE/ITA/CAN
• 1 qualifies
• Opposition programs/finance
• 1 eye on 2010/2012

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Training Volume

• In season
• 2 Strength and Conditioning sessions
• 1 or 2 running sessions as per phases of
  physical program indicated on the program
• 1 Regional Pitch session individual technical
  work (either 1.5 or 3 hrs)
• 1 Club session
• 1 Club Match
• 1 recovery or core session
• Non Season
• 2 Strength and Conditioning sessions
• 2 running sessions
• 2 Regional Pitch session individual technical
  work
• 1 recovery or core session
• Cycles of 5 weeks followed by light week
• SINI Coverage

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National Development GroupsIreland A

• Rationale
• Background (financial U16)
• Impact on U21 players (x6 men)
• Ability to do both or compromise
• Objective
• ID and nurture next senior internationals
• Only certain will make it
• View v High quality U21 opposition
• Profile of current team (U23)
• Future v U21
• Impact
• Men 7 played with 12 months of finishing U18s!

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National Development GroupsIreland A

• Coaches
• Guy Garrett (women) Turloch OSeachain (men)
• 2008 Programs critical (esp men)
• Women

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Ireland A Women

• 1. Amy Stewart (16)
• 2. Elizabeth McInerney (17)
• 3. Chloe Watkins (15)
• 4. Zara Delany (17)
• 5. Hannah Matthews (16)
• 6. Lizzie Colvin (17)
• 7. Grace Watters (20)
• 8. Nicola Evans (17)
• 9. Megan Frazer (17)
• 10. Helen Stevenson (17)

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Ireland A Men
National Development Group (reviewed after
U21) 1. David Ames (Cookstown) 2. Keith
Black (Cookstown) 3. Peter Blakeney (three Rock
Rovers) 4. Johnny Bruton (Cork C of I) 5. John
Jackson (Loughborough Students, England) 6. Jason
Lynch (Cork CoI) 7. Ryan McCrea (Mossley) - 2012
Scholarship 8. Adam Pritchard (Cork C of
I) 9. Steven Redpath (Annadale) 10. David
Robinson (YMCA) 11. Stuart Smyth (Cookstown)
2012 scholarship 12. Alan Sothern (Pembroke
Wanderers) To be assessed with a view to
inclusion 13. David Best (Cookstown) 14. Christop
her Boyce (Grange, Scotland) 15. Peter Carruth
(Annadale) 16. Colin Donaldson (Cookstown) 17. Pau
l Gleghorne (Loughborough Students,
England) 18. Bruce McCandless (Banbridge)
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Ireland A Men
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Funding

• Increased 4 fold since 2004
• Majority from ISC (E660,000 in 07)
• SNI
• Indirect support (Aspire/SINI)
• IOC Grant
• Sponsorship (ESB)
• Aspire (ESB, Eurocape, KPMG)

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Support Athletes ASP Aspire

• Central ASP fund ring-fenced for player support
• Managed by the IHA
• Disbursements co-ordinated by the IHAs HPD/NC
• Contributed to by a variety of funders
• Irish Sports Council
• Corporate Champions
• Individual Player Supporters
• SNI Lifestyle Program

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ASPIRE

• Goal
• Player longevity, player performance (on pitch),
• Leadership development, coach development
• Benefits Received
• Subsistence support - unpaid leave/reduced
• working days/cover
• Lifestyle support Non financial (travel)
• Career assistance upskilling
• How?
• 2 Bands (A and B)
• Sponsorship divided
• Paid monthly (Bi-monthly)

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Irish Institute of Sport

• Abbotstown
• One of 4 team sports (IRFU/FAI/GAA)
• Timespans
• Facilities pitches/accommodation
• Impact on 2012
• Current format
• Sport Science Greg Whyte Assistant
• Lifestyle Phil Moore
• Medical Rod Mcgloughlin
• Financing and support of sports (Chile)

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HP Coach Development

• Recognition of number of foreign coaches
• HPD
• Appointment of Coach Development Manager
• Part of NC Role
• Improve HP Coach Pathways
• The principle routes will be
• Development Programs of JAG Head Coaches
  developed with the National Senior Coaches
• Support of coaches to attend EHF/FIH Courses (to
  start 07)
• Internal feedback sessions post major event by
  Head Coaches
• Dissemination of HP coaching materials and
  resources by HPD
• Increased involvement by JAG staff within senior
  programs as appropriate
• Hooked 07 and other coaching Seminars
• Regional Centre coach education - training and
  workshop

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• Questions??