How to get players through the academy pathway and into the first team with Luke Jenkinson, Frankie Hunter & Russ Wrigley

In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, I am speaking to Head of Sport Science and Medicine at Derby County, Luke Jenkinson, Head of Sport Science and Medicine at Blackburn Rovers, Russ Wrigley and Head of Science and S&C at Middlesbrough, Frankie Hunter. This is the second monthly roundtable podcast after the release of the Hamstring Injury Roundtable in July. I don't say this lightly but this episode is undoubtedly one of the best episodes I have done. Luke, Frankie, and Russ have an incredible experience in youth football at three category 1 academies here in England.

If you liked this youth football roundtable, you may also like another roundtable I did with Paul Bower, Kevin Paxton, and Luke Jenkinson.

Hope you enjoy this episode with Luke Jenkinson, Frankie Hunter and Russ Wrigley.

• Who is Luke Jenkinson, Frankie Hunter and Russ Wrigley (background, education and current role)
• Progressing through the pathway
  • Individual rates of development in a group setting
    • Managing this and tracking this
  • Puberty / maturation / growth rates
    • ...vs psych-emotional-behavioral maturity
      • Ways of assessment and individualisation?
    • Impact on performance
  • Slowing down and accelerating development
  • Focus at different stages
    • Examples
• Balancing structure and play
  • Assessing impact
  • Tracking progression
  • Obstacle courses (the 'in' thing)
• Real-world challenges (Frankie)
  • Identifying skills gaps and creating a plan to plug them

Russ can be found on LinkedIn HERE, Frankie can be found on LinkedIn HERE and Luke can be found on Twitter @lukegatus

Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following on Twitter @strengthofsci or visiting strengthofscience.com

Enjoy

PP