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Scott Kuehn, LSU’s Manager of Applied Sport Science, joined Teamworks for a webinar to highlight a day in the life of a sport scientist managing LSU’s football team. With his extensive expertise, Scott demonstrated how he uses the Teamworks Athlete Management System (AMS) to revolutionize athlete training and performance. Through advanced data analytics and automated processes, he showcased how Teamworks AMS helps him optimize athlete preparation, recovery, and peak performance.

Below are a series of dashboards and tables that Scott uses daily to prepare the football team to reach its maximum potential both in pre-season and in-season. 

Overview Home Page

• Centralized Dashboard: Central hub for monitoring athletes’ readiness and wellness, providing immediate insights for performance coaches, sports medicine staff, and sports science staff.
• Key Wellness Metrics: Highlights critical wellness factors like sleep quality, enabling quick identification and resolution of potential performance issues, especially under high-intensity training conditions.
• Integrated Data Analysis: Combines data from Catapult and wellness surveys, allowing assessment of both external workloads and physiological responses for informed training adjustments.
• Live Snapshot of KPIs: Displays essential metrics such as body weight changes, speed training data, and wellness survey summaries, offering a quick snapshot of the team’s status and prompting further analysis when needed.

Wellness Survey

• Core Pillar: Integral to Coach Kelly’s approach, with wellness results displayed throughout the facility, emphasizing its importance to all staff and players.
• Real-Time Tracking: Uses color-coded indicators to show survey completion status, promoting a player-led culture with teammates and coaches ensuring timely participation, enhancing accountability and engagement.
• User-Friendly: Surveys can be completed on phones or kiosks, covering key wellness metrics like sleep quality, meal intake, motivation, soreness, energy levels, and stress.
• Automated Feedback: Provides personalized alerts and tips based on the data, such as encouraging additional sleep or suggesting optimal nap strategies, helping athletes improve recovery and performance through actionable insights.

Max Velocity 

• Automated Data Integration: Seamlessly integrates data from the Smart Speed system, providing instant updates and real-time insights into athletes’ performance.
• Group and Individual Analysis: Categorizes athletes into groups (Power, Big Skill, Skill) and provides top 5 rankings for speed, along with hit scores that factor in both speed and body weight for a comprehensive evaluation.
• Contextual Drill Info: Includes a quick reference to specific drills performed on a given day, helping coaches contextualize the data and understand outputs relative to the type of training.
• Threshold Flagging: Flags significant performance thresholds and provides summaries for the head strength coach to highlight, promoting positive reinforcement and incentivizing high-intent training.

Performance Monitoring 

• Integrated Testing: Performance monitoring within training sessions provides real-time insights without disrupting athletes’ schedules, considering academics, sports medicine, coaching, and NIL commitments.
• Automated Analysis: Data from tests like the Nordic eccentric test flow automatically into Teamworks AMS, allowing immediate comparison with historical data and quick identification of performance changes.
• Strength and Asymmetry Analysis: Tracks leg dominance, strength changes, and asymmetry data, offering a clear view of each athlete’s strengths and weaknesses. This information helps tailor training plans to address specific needs and prevent injuries.
• Needs Analysis: Categorizes athletes based on test results for personalized training, ensuring that critical areas are improved and overall performance is optimized.

Bodyweight Analysis

• Efficient Weigh-Ins: Bluetooth scale and iPad setup allow easy weigh-ins with automatic data syncing to the Teamworks AMS app, streamlining body weight monitoring.
• Compliance Reporting: Provides a high-level snapshot of compliant and non-compliant athletes, tracking those over or under their target weight, with percentage changes and initial weights for context.
• Long-Term Trends: Tracks body weight changes over various time spans (e.g., 3 months, 6 months, a year), helping coaches notice significant changes that might otherwise be overlooked.
• Automated Alerts: Sends automated email alerts to strength coaches if an athlete’s weight shows a significant trend above or below a threshold, enabling timely intervention and distinguishing between positive and concerning trends.

 BK Ratings

• Gamified Training: Uses video game-like ratings, combining athletes’ all-time best outputs and their three most recent training sessions to incentivize consistent high performance.
• Objective Ratings: Provides clear performance measures, with top performers achieving a coveted 100 rating, motivating athletes to excel and fostering healthy competition.
• Weekly Updates: Ratings are updated weekly and displayed throughout the facility, allowing athletes to track progress, see top performers, and engage in friendly competition.
• Comprehensive Attributes: Rates athletes on various attributes such as acceleration, hit power, speed, jumping, explosiveness, strength, durability, and accountability, providing a well-rounded evaluation.

GPS Reverse Engineering and Summary

• Optimal Preparation: Systematically builds athletes from summer training to game-like workloads, ensuring each phase prepares athletes for the next.
• Comprehensive Monitoring: Tracks metrics like player load, RPE, distances, accelerations, and decelerations, providing a complete picture of an athlete’s workload.
• Strategic Distribution: Helps distribute practice workloads over six months, balancing intensity to optimize performance and recovery.
• Individual Adjustments: Allows personalized workload adjustments to prevent overtraining and minimize injury risk, ensuring peak performance.
• Enhanced Communication: Converts complex data into layman’s terms, facilitating better coach communication and planning.

Through Scott Kuehn’s strategic use of Teamworks AMS, LSU’s football program achieves a higher standard of training and performance management. By integrating advanced analytics and personalized insights, he ensures athletes are consistently at their peak. Scott’s approach exemplifies the transformative impact of technology in sports science.