Overview - The mission of the USA Rugby High Peformance program is to focus our resources on our elite players who project to wear the Senior Eagle jersey from 2008 to 2011 and provide them with a professional approach and platform to achieve success at the international level.
Identify
- Engage leading Coaches, Scouts and Operatives to identify our best rugby athletes through systematic criteria at the club and regional competition levels
- Cast a wide net with standard assessment and nomination forms
- Integrate High Performance assessment at the territorial trial level to identify elite athletes
- Use LTC’s for local athletic testing to confirm elite athletes previously identified by the support network
- Identify our best athletes
- Rugby players and converted athletes
- Fast track them into the elite player squad
Commit
- Two way commitment between HP Program and Player
- Commitment to Player
- Best resources
- Professional approach
- Individually-tailored development plans
- Signed Agreement
- Player accepting and committing to following the High Performance program
Improve
- HP Managers dedicated to implementing individually designed player development plans and tracking player progression
- Continued monitored performance and testing
- Strength & Conditioning
- Skill
- Positional Criteria
- Specialty Elements
- Medical
- Injury Prevention
- Injury Management
- National, Regional, Specialty Camps, and periodic local training assembly
- Programs developed and tracked centrally, customized and modified regionally, and applied locally through support network
- Aligned approach with Local and Regional Coaches
- Create Licensed Training Centers to test
- Conduct High Performance training and assemblies at various locations within each region
Compete
- Placement in Best Competitions
- Territorial Competitions integrated with high performance assessment
- Expanded International Calendar
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Keywords
elite, high performance, development, international, athlete