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Athlete & team performance

Programmes do not lose seasons
to bad tactics.

They lose them to unavailable athletes. Your best eleven playing eighteen games together beats your best eleven playing twelve — and availability is the one performance lever a school can genuinely control.

Where the gains come from

Four compounding effects.

1
AvailabilitySquad-wide warm-up protocols and early flags help coaches keep the week on track. Continuity is what builds a team.
2
Better sessions, not easier onesKnowing who can be pushed hard today means the athletes who are ready get loaded properly instead of the whole squad training to the tired ones.
3
Peaking on purposeLoad is visible across the week, so the hard block lands where you want it and the squad arrives at the play-offs fresh rather than flat.
4
A documented returnHer return to training follows her clinician's plan and is documented, not a guess about whether she looks alright in the warm-up.

“We stopped training the whole group down to whoever was most tired. That alone changed our second halves.”

Head coach · school programme

Based on real-life events. Names and details are fictional.

What the AD reviews at season end

Numbers a board will accept.

Not engagement metrics. The four things that tell you whether the programme got stronger, measured against the season before it.

Availability rate

Sessions and fixtures available to play, per squad, across the season. The headline number.

Time-loss injuries

Count and total days lost, by sport and by injury type — with the non-contact lower-limb subset called out separately.

Protocol compliance

What proportion of sessions actually ran the warm-up. The clearest sign the programme is being delivered.

Flag-to-action time

How long between an athlete reporting something and a clinical decision being recorded. Your duty-of-care metric.

The quieter win

They keep playing.

Girls who feel looked after stay in sport. When she can see her own progress and knows the adults around her are paying attention, she keeps playing. For a school, that is participation, retention, and the culture of the whole department.

Performance follows health

The healthiest squad in the league
usually wins the league.

Not always. But it is the only edge available to every school, in every sport, without recruiting anybody.

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