Adrian Geissel - TeamsApp

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Adrian Geissel

Auto-allocate bibs at session start

Kids play sport with their friends. But equally, encouraging mixing helps build trust across the whole team.

Tracking ‘Own Practice’ at home

Instilling a habit of self directed practice helps develop independence and resilience.

Feedback messaging, in private

Tracking feedback from a team with private responses is completely simplified on TeamsApp. As a category of conversations, where a single message is broadcast to all members, but each response is private, in effect a ‘Direct Message’ between athlete and coach, as are any subsequent responses by the coach. Such

Recording Athlete Attendance

Attendance tracking is core to TeamsApp, for anchoring workload, triggering request for feedback and updating contact-tracing records. Recording attendance is intended to be quick and easy and should ideally be performed at or shortly after the activity completes. Note: Attendance mode is unavailable for future activities. Where “bib” allocations are

Preserving activity records

Keeping accuate attendance records supports governance best practice.

Adding second guardian access

TeamsApp differentiates between athlete profiles and users authorised to act for that profile.

Tracking Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)

Subjective ‘Rate of Perceived Exertion’ is a widely used input into the calculation of athlete workload.

Group chat, for youths in sport

Safeguarding policies prohibit direct contact of youths (under 18 years of age) in a club context. Yet, most teenagers prefer to not to communicate through their parents, and most parents probably agree! ‘Discussion’ mode messaging facilitates open and free discussions within a team environment, and provides safety by parental and

Athlete contact-tracing report

Maintaining digital Contact-tracing records is a key feature of “Return to Sport” protocols. In TeamsApp, simply recording Attendance for each club activity ensures that these records are correctly stored and available when required. Contact information is only returned for the preceding 2 week period. Where juvenile players are included in

Acknowledgeable messaging

Occasionally, coach needs to issue a notification which requires an acknowledgement, but not a conversation, as might happen when a competitive fixture is moved to an earlier time. This is further complicated when such a change happens at short notice, and when it involves youth players (under 18 years of

Monitoring player wellbeing

How an athlete feels is now recognised as a key factor in determining potential performance. As a coach, you want to know of any issues as early as possible, to allow you to work with the player or to make appropriate decisions in advance of training or competition. TeamsApp supports

Scheduling team activities

‘Activity’ is our generic term covering ‘Skills Coaching’, ‘League / Cup Matches’, ‘Own Practice’, etc. Team activities automatically feature on assigned athletes’ timelines and help to predict workload up to 1 month into the future. Every activity includes a ‘Duplicate’ option to simplify rolling forward of training sessions and other repeating

Return to Sport: Contact-tracing completely solved

Return to Sport: Contact-tracing completely solved

Contact tracing is a key requirement for sport, and society, to emerge from #Covid19 lockdown

Return to Sport dashboard

Surpass Sport Systems provides comprehensive ‘Return to Sport’ protocol support, as required while the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions remain in effect

Session Breakdown for Activity

Adding an optional ‘Session Breakdown’ allows coach to plan / record duration and intended intensity for segments throughout the session. If set in advance of the activity, Session Breakdown is included in a reminder notifications to participants, helping them to prepare for the session. Session Breakdown is used internally to calculate

Daily Wellbeing and other subjective measures

Daily Wellbeing and other subjective measures

Qualitative and subjective metrics help determine a player’s and, correspondingly, a team’s readiness to compete.

Who has the trophy? Who gets it next?

Who has the trophy? Who gets it next?

All your hard work paid off and you won the league. Well done! Well almost…

Crowd control: managing Large Squads

Crowd control: managing Large Squads

More common with younger groups, but managing groups of 40 or more players brings its own issues. Delegating the workload. Organising coaching and training sessions Balancing selection for underage games Picking teams based on who will be available TeamsApp simplifies managing communications, availability and teams, and in keeping a balance

Shake it up a little: randomly assign bibs

Shake it up a little: randomly assign bibs

Children attending training will always gravitate towards their friends, and that’s a good thing. Such friendships in and beyond the team are important practice and development, but there’s also a risk of developing non-mixing social groups, cliques perhaps, which can be damaging to the team culture. One recommended

Bleep Testing and Performance Metrics

Bleep Testing and Performance Metrics

Regular performance testing plays a role in long term athlete development, for emerging athletes aged 13 or so years onwards, and always in context, of course. That might mean tracking 5k times, hop-skip-jump distances, or the auld faithful, bleep test runs. TeamsApp provides secure storage for these metrics with the

Supporting players in their Return to Play from Injury

Supporting players in their Return to Play from Injury

Supporting players in their Return to Play from Injury

Individual feedback, for Individual Coaching

Individual feedback, for Individual Coaching

Coaching, especially for children, relies on giving regular, timely and constructive feedback. In a team setting, you probably have a quick chat in the dressing room after a match. But what about training? Was everyone mentioned? Do you remember what was said the last time? And when? TeamsApp now supports

Coaching kids from Nursery to Adulthood (2)

Coaching kids from Nursery to Adulthood (2)

Coaching kids from Nursery to Adulthood (Part 2)

Coaching kids from Nursery to Adulthood (1)

Coaching kids from Nursery to Adulthood (1)

Coaching kids from Nursery to Adulthood (Part 1)

Continuous Learning Record (CPD) for Coaches

Continuous Learning Record (CPD) for Coaches

Continuous Professional Development is a familiar requirement of professional accreditation, helping to keep skills current and to raise awareness of best practice. Sports clubs offer internal skills and coaching training with the same objectives, and now Surpass Sport Systems offers a means to track and reward those coaches who challenge