Uddingston use sportscotland funding to boost performance hockey

Uddingston Hockey Club are continuing to reap the dividends of the funding grant received from sportscotland’s Direct Club Investment (DCI) programme by embedding an improved performance infrastructure within the club’s framework.
The national agency for sport is aiming to support clubs to create an environment where the required coaching, practice time and attitudes are fostered and displayed.
DCI investment is designed to help clubs with ambition to make a step change in their delivery through targeted resources which would not otherwise be available, for example professionalising their coaching infrastructure, developing a pathway for women or accessing a better facility.
It is available to clubs across all sports in Scotland.
Under the guidance of sports scientist, and long-standing club member, Nairn Scobie, the club are able, thanks to DCI funding, develop an international level approach to performance hockey, with the 1st XI the main beneficiaries, but also cascading down to other teams including the club’s youth sides.
Scobie, who recently assisted Scotland Senior Men in their European Championship II preparations, will undertake a season-long monitoring programme with the intention of cutting down injury rates, something that impacted on the squad last season.
With the assistance of Glasgow University intern Umer Ansari, players are therefore being tested at each training session for key performance variables and any deviation from the norm will indicate a problem may be present.
The monitoring will continue when pitch training begins with intensity being examined in detail using several different sports science tools.
Commenting on the club’s new performance initiative, Scobie said, “We will know everything we can about the players from a physiological and psychological perspective. Come the start of the season, the intention is to have all the players fitter than they have ever been”.
sportscotland’s DCI programme is a funding resource that focuses on strengthening club sport, including supporting growth in clubs which provide the correct environment to develop athletes to performance levels.
The club are also in the final stages of laying their own top of the range water-based pitch at their home ground, again supported by sportscotland funding, meaning the environment for training, developing and producing performance players will be amongst the best in the country.
Uddingston’s Director of Hockey, Steven Percy said “The pitch coupled with the DCI investment means we’ll have the resources to properly run performance elements within our club. When we start to add on the work with Nairn, video analysis and developing coaches then our performance programme fast becomes second to none.
“This level of detail means we’ll have the most advanced approach to understanding our players out of all our rivals in the national leagues. This level of support isn’t far off what the Scotland national teams receive, so all in all it will be a great boost to helping us achieve our goals this year”.

 

Uddingston Hockey Club are continuing to reap the dividends of the funding grant received from sportscotland’s Direct Club Investment (DCI) programme by embedding an improved performance infrastructure within the club’s framework.

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sportscotland’s DCI programme is a funding resource that focuses on strengthening club sport, including supporting growth in clubs which provide the correct environment to develop athletes to performance levels.

The national agency for sport is aiming to support clubs to create an environment where the required coaching, practice time and attitudes are fostered and displayed.

DCI investment is designed to help clubs with ambition to make a step change in their delivery through targeted resources which would not otherwise be available, for example professionalising their coaching infrastructure, developing a pathway for women or accessing a better facility.

It is available to clubs across all sports in Scotland.

Under the guidance of sports scientist, and long-standing club member, Nairn Scobie, the club are able, thanks to DCI funding, develop an international level approach to performance hockey, with the 1st XI the main beneficiaries, but also cascading down to other teams including the club’s youth sides.

Scobie, who recently assisted Scotland Senior Men in their European Championship II preparations, will undertake a season-long monitoring programme with the intention of cutting down injury rates, something that impacted on the squad last season.

With the assistance of Glasgow University intern Umer Ansari, players are therefore being tested at each training session for key performance variables and any deviation from the norm will indicate a problem may be present.

The monitoring will continue when pitch training begins with intensity being examined in detail using several different sports science tools.

Commenting on the club’s new performance initiative, Scobie said, “We will know everything we can about the players from a physiological and psychological perspective. Come the start of the season, the intention is to have all the players fitter than they have ever been”.

The club are also in the final stages of laying their own top of the range water-based pitch at their home ground, again supported by sportscotland funding, meaning the environment for training, developing and producing performance players will be amongst the best in the country.

Uddingston’s Director of Hockey, Steven Percy said “The pitch coupled with the DCI investment means we’ll have the resources to properly run performance elements within our club. When we start to add on the work with Nairn, video analysis and developing coaches then our performance programme fast becomes second to none.

“This level of detail means we’ll have the most advanced approach to understanding our players out of all our rivals in the national leagues. This level of support isn’t far off what the Scotland national teams receive, so all in all it will be a great boost to helping us achieve our goals this year”.

For more information about Direct Club Investment (DCI) please visit the sportscotland website

 

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