Athlete Profile

The Athlete Profile is what the inclusion panel looks at when considering an athlete’s potential progression over the different stages of the pathway.

This approach assess the suitability of the performance squad as a development opportunity for each athlete, as well as highlighting particular areas for development. It helps provide context to the race results that have been achieved by each athlete to date.

Environment

• Academic/professional ambitions

  • Balance of sport and academic/professional commitment to ensure continuous improvement

  • Capacity to succeed in both sport and education

  • Capacity to make decisions to achieve sport success

• Support

  • Support from family

  • Support from Local Performance Environment (LPE)

  • Support from group of friends and other

  • Performance support

• Training location

  • Level of coaching

  • Access to facilities

  • Performance culture

Mindset

• Developing a Growth Mindset

  • Embracing challenges

  • Persisting in the face of set back

  • Seeing effort as a path to mastery

  • Listening to feedback in order to improve

  • Being inspired by the success of others

• Operating in a group environment

  • Capacity to train alongside other squad members and collaborate to develop enhanced performances

  • Being active in the team tasks (on and off water)

• Curiosity and engagement

  • Willingness to explore and understand the different areas of canoeing and performance

Process

• Time on Task

  • Competition background

  • Training background

• Level of Professionalism

  • Quality and availability of equipment

  • Preparation around the training sessions

  • Training session management

  • Consistency in the training plan

• Level of awareness

  • Understanding of personal standard compared to World Class age group standard

  • Capacity to articulate basic technique and training principles

Outcome

Technical

• • Range of techniques available

  • Appropriate use of techniques in environments

• Tactical

  • Range of race tactics available

  • Managing competitive race plan vs achievable race plan

• Physical

  • Capacity to physically cope with the demand (training and racing programme)

  • Level of Strength and Conditioning aligned with racing level (world class benchmark)

• Psychological

  • Capacity to mentally cope with the demand (training and racing programme)

  • Capacity to apply the right mental skills during key phases of the competition