JSF Supporting Athletes at Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
This is all about finding ‘rough diamonds’ and polishing them.
Talent Services Coming from a small community, if we want to compete on the national world stage, we have to be savvy about how we intelligently detect, identify, map and transfer talent. We do this in two ways:
Our ‘Talent Development’ Programme is available to 12-16 year olds who aspire to be the stars of the future. It is based upon international best practice in Talent Detection and development, where children are able to get a taste of the services that senior performance athletes receive whilst providing them with vital information such as health, welling, mentorship and sport selection guidance. This is all about finding the ‘rough diamonds’ and giving them structure and direction whilst providing athletes who have already found their sport, the extra support to help their journey and their coach.
The ‘Talent Transfer’ Programme has developed a number of innovative campaigns to enhance the performance output of Jersey. Coming from a small community, we need to be savvy about how athletes with fantastic transferable skills are mapped into sports where there may be more opportunity for success. Readers may be familiar with our Power2Podium Olympic Weightlifting Programme and the Fight4Gold Judo Programme. In the first 9 months of operation these programmes have already seen medals at county, regional and national level.
Research, Innovation and Consultation The JSF works alongside organisations with the ambition of strengthening the foundations of performance ‘the grassroots’ level of sport and physical activity. Our particular interest is the development of programmes that relate to child
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activity and physical literacy. Recently a large piece of published collaborative research reviewing the holistic physical activity levels of Jersey’s children has been developed which provides a benchmark and recommendations against a wide number of international jurisdictions. The organisation has also been a major partner alongside Jersey Sport in the development of physical literacy monitoring which Jersey is now globally recognised for.
Education The JSF recognises that coach and association education is essential to enhancing the development of sport Jersey. We offer a range of coaching
qualifications and workshops related to athlete development which are usually free or run at cost value enabling access to voluntary coaches and organisations. The organisation has now hosted three annual conferences, hosting world class speakers and experts on island.
We are firm believers in developing local talent, as such we also offer a free internship which includes formal qualifications and high level hands on experience under the mentorship of professional coaches for anyone aspiring to get into performance coaching or support services.
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