Program Overview

Introduction

BSc (Hons) Sport Performance Analysis is based around providing objective feedback to athletes, team sport players and coaches, helping to develop performance, as well as the tactical and technical development of players and teams. Other specialist roles in performance analysis include player scouting and opposition analysis. The degree will first teach you the fundamental principles of the career, leading to the most advanced, research informed practice currently used in professional sport – from creating statistical data driven reports and presentations, to individual athlete, player and team performance profiles.

Using video and data analysis, a sport performance analyst needs to tell athletes, players and coaches what actually happened during a performance, instead of relying on the memories of those athletes, players, coaches and sports science staff alone. You will learn to work with world-leading technologies during the course, which are used extensively in the football Premier League, international and Premiership Rugby union, other leading European sport leagues, as well as other global professional sports.

It is also vitally important that you possess a sound understanding of the founding disciplines of sport and exercise science: physiology, biomechanics and psychology. This is because our work as performance analysts is often based in at least one of those core disciples. For example, sport psychology will help you understand how to best work with athletes, players and coaches, and physiology will help you understand the physical performance metrics often used in team sports. And some performance analysis is based on highly specialist analysis of movement and/or technique, so an understanding of biomechanics will be vital.