Evaluate the provision for elite sport performers with reference to two sports.

By Danny OCallaghan

The Bath university has great sporting facilities and great sports coaches. There is a team you could get in to which is called Team Bath. The university is host to Team Bath F.C. as well as some of the UK's top Olympic athletes. It has one of the best sports facilities in a United Kingdom university. Bath university provides sporting facilities for the best athletes in the world. There aim is to enhance University life for our students whether they play for fun or competitively. Looking back at Bath university history they have a lot of past medal winners that trains at this university. These people are: Amy Williams Jason Gardener Jack Green

The Bath university thinks young people are the way forward and believes they should have every opportunity to enjoy sport in a fun and safe environment. Bath university have trained coaches that introduce young people to new sports and develop their existing skills.

The inspiration that made Bath University set up our martial arts dojo at the Sports Training Village is mainly the heart of Team Baths judo activities. This is grounded on a old-fashioned Japanese style, the dojo has been a training base for certain of Britains top judo players.

The Bath university has train many success athletes, a recent one would be Ben Fletcher who achieved a bronze medal at the World Junior Championship in South Africa a other recent one would be Emmanuel Nartey who achieved a silver medal at the Judo World Cup in Liverpool, Emmanual was representing Ghana.

Team Bath judo has its base in our purpose-built martial arts dojo within the 30m Sports Training Village. The dojo is based on a traditional Japanese design with a world-class IJFapproved tatami mats area that can be used both for judo training and competitions, as well as a wide range of other uses.

Bath university has outstanding facilities for judo. Bath university provide: Sport halls Gym Hydrotherapy pool Renowned sports science and medicine support

The dojo walls are decked in wooden panels in the traditional Japanese style. Our dojo also features a drying and ventilation system for mats and judo suits. Within the dojo there are a series of crash mats that can be used to develop throwing techniques and some climbing ropes used to develop grip.

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Team Bath judo is dedicated to helping players to achieve their goals, whatever their level. Team Baths coaching programme is headed up by Head Coach Juergen Klinger, a 6th Dan judo player and former Assistant National Coach of the German Judo Federation. Among the athletes he coached before coming to Bath, were Franck Wieneke, who condemned Britains Neil Adams to silver at the 1984 Olympic Games.

Name: Juergen Klinger Date and Place Of Birth: 1951, Hannover, Germany Dan grade level: 6th Dan Bio: Juergen is the Head Coach and he provides leadership and experience to the coaching team. Formerly the Assistant National Coach of Germany he has worked with many world and Olympic medalists. Juergen is a 6th Dan. His role is to build a system to challenge on a global level. He is a very effective coach as you can see o what he has achieve already.

Judo is a very physical and physiological game and ones you step on to that mat you nobody to help you, so Juergen Klinger give his athletes the best possible start he said that his athletes are made to take certain classes to make sure they are at highest fitness level for up coming competitions. There are some of the support judo players do to keep them in shape: Strength and conditioning - Judo players need to last on the judo mat for up to 5 minutes to fighting there opponent so therefore the players need to be at the peak of there fitness in order to be ready to fight. The strength and condition coach advises athletes to stick to a training program which he will set for the judo players but depend on the judo players weight will depend what sort of exercises there will be doing. Sports nutrition - players need to know what to eat and drink because this will have an big impact on there sporting performance, by having this nutrition support will really help you to win or lose these big events. The sport nutrition coach helps the athletes by letting them know what to eat and drink throughout training and not training in order to reach there goals.
Sport phycology - Weather the judo athletes are recovering from a

injury or are not mentally ready to face there opponents on the judo mat. The sport phycology can help the athletes know what they are facing and making sure they will not back-out at the last minutes under the pressure when fight.

Juergen Klinger, the head judo coach at the University of Bath, said: "It's tough for the self-funded athletes but they have a real passion to try to qualify for the Olympics. As you can see from this quote the head coach is saying there no funding for these athletes but then on the other hand you do get a shot at being in the Olympics so it kind of balance out. A few elite athletes gain funding. There are lots of organisations that offer donations to judo associations to create more accessibility of judo for example the Sport England offer money but this is for participation and not for development of elite athletes.

The Judo club is one of the most pioneering and inclusive clubs on campus. There are three full time coaches to work with all levels of players. A number of BUCS champions are in the squad, which dominated 2007s championships, taking both the Mens and Womens overall titles. This extends all the way through the levels to include around 60 novices. The clubs proud tradition is to turn complete novices into black belts during their time as undergraduates. Overall bath university provide Judo players really well as you can see from the coach's, facilities and the support which is give to them is at a very high level.

Team Bath offers a huge range of badminton from performance players seeking to represent their country to sessions for young people and also recreational players. Bath university host one of Badminton Englands two High Performance Centres. The university has a impressive track record of developing players such lead to these players representing England at a senior level. The university has also hosted international and national competitions and also have training camps for the Malaysian national team.

At the university there are sprung wood floors in both of the main Sport Hall. Both of these Sports Hall are use by the performance players and for the recreational game.
By having these facilities it make it a perfect venue for badminton tournaments at all levels. Bath university has hosted England vs Japen in 2009 and also hosted the Badminton England elite open circuit. The Founders Hall - a multi-purpose hall (8 badminton courts, 4 squash courts and 25m swimming pool). Multi-purpose hall (12 badminton courts).

Former England international Peter Bush is Team Baths Head Badminton Coach at what is one of Badminton Englands two High Performance Centres.

Our high performance centre also hosts a Team Bath Futures squad, which trains at Team Bath once a week. We can also offer one-to-one coaching for players who arent members of our performance squad, while young people can try out or develop their games through Team Bath Tribe.

Name: Peter Bush Date and Place Of Birth: 1967, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire Players coached: Richard Vaughan (world no 15 and Commonwealth games Bronze medallist 2002), Nick Kidd (National mens singles champion), Toby Honey (U19 National Mens singles champion and 6 Nations champion), Robert Nock and Rebecca Pantaney (Senior England Internationals) Rachel Howard, Heather Olver, Hayley Connor, Mariana Agathangelou (all of which were National Champions at U19 level). Bio: He has caps England 13 times, been highest English Ranking: 2 (1993), highest World Ranking: 31 (1991), Highest Danish Ranking: 10 (1995) and he became the University of Bath Head badminton coach to run the University teams along with the High Performance centre.

Badminton is a very high destiny sport which involves a lot of training and support to these high level athletes. At Bath university there is a highlyqualified team open to the public, we have a team of highly-qualified therapists and practitioners that offer cutting edge services whether you are an elite athlete, a fun-runner or simply recovering from a recent injury or accident. Here are some of the support badminton players get: Physiology lab and video analysis suite This facility would be very important when reviewing a games or session of badminton. It will allow the coach and athlete to depict the faults of the session or game and improve on those errors. Knowing what you are doing is incorrect or how you missing a certain point can be valuable information for high performance athletes. Athletics track Badminton matches can last for a long time also they consist of quick burst of movement. Alongside with endurance training if peter recognises that recently there has been a little of a lazy spell in the athletes performance he might take them out onto the track, this shows the nostrusture format of his training. Physiological & Fitness Testing- New elite athletes that have freshly arrive to bath university to train the coach will have to do these test to show the baseline of which he can measure the athletes progress, they would use this to provide a strong sign of how her/he is moving ahead.

British badminton officials have welcomed the increase in government funding for elite athletes ahead of the London Olympics in 2012. UK Sport will provide an extra 65m to aid Olympic and Paralympic events, with badminton's funding up 25% to 6.95m. "This is positive endorsement for all the hard work that has gone into the achievements at elite level," said Badminton England boss Eric Brown. "Our next task will be to ensure the money is invested wisely." Jon Austin, Badminton England's elite programmes manager, added: "It is good news for all players from the Home Nations who are hoping to qualify for Beijing and for those younger emerging prospects who have London 2012 as their target. "It reflects UK Sport's commitment to badminton and, from our point of view, secures future development."
British Olympic hopefuls Robertson and Emms won gold for England at the Commonwealth Games

The University of Bath badminton club is currently the most successful sports club at the University. In the 2010/2011 BUCS Championships the club gained a total of 302 BUCS points, just under 1/7 of the Universitys total points in the overall BUCS league table, making us the second most successful university badminton club in the UK. This year the Badminton club is hoping to continue its success within BUCS, whilst also offering a good club and social structure for other players. Overall Bath university provide badminton players really as you can see the facilities here are one of the best over England, there coaches here that have had a lot of success and still are by coaching the younger talent all there skills.

EIS TASS PROFESSIONAL SPORT

N=?
SELECTED PERFORMERS YEAR 10 / 11 ELITE PERFORMER UNIVERSITY DAY YEAR 8 / 9 PRACTICAL BASED ACTIVITY THEMED UNIVERSITY WORKSHOPS

N = 40

ALL SCHOOLS

N = 160

ALL SCHOOLS

YEAR 6 MULTI SKILL CLUBS & ACADEMY YEAR 7 MULTI SKILL CLUBS & EXPERIENCE DAY

N = 240

ALL SCHOOLS YEAR 6 TALENT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAMME N = 20 000

When comparing elite Judo and elite Badminton there are very similar because the facilitys that they got at the university are outstanding and both sports make full use of the sport village. They both have there pros and cons. The advances for elite Judo is that theres a well-organised structured training program along side the professional coaches and also offer one of the greatest facilitys in the country making it a amazing place to train, while badminton gains funding for elite athletes and also have fascistic facilitys just like the Judo facilitys. The disadvances for elite Judo is that there is no funding for the athletes and sometimes it is hard for the athletes to get more successfully if there is no funding for them, I feel badminton is perfect and have no big disadvances. Personally I think badminton is better to do at bath university for elite athletes, the coaches are top class people who are very skilful and had a lot of past success and will push you until you are a top athlete also there are great facilitys that can get you ready mentally and physically.