Publications by authors named "Daniel T Jackson"
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- The study examines how socioeconomic status and psychological traits influence talent development in English soccer academy players aged 11 to 16.
- It categorizes players into 'higher-potentials' and 'lower-potentials' based on coach rankings and evaluates their social class and psychological characteristics using standardized methods.
- Findings indicate that higher-potential players come from families with lower social statuses and possess better coping skills under pressure, suggesting the need for academies to consider these factors in talent selection and development.
The relative age effect (RAE) is a phenomenon that represents how young athletes who are born early in the selection year are often overrepresented within youth sport settings. The contact nature of rugby union may further magnify the physiological advantages of those athletes who are chronologically older. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the RAE within English age-grade rugby union.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Countermovement jump (CMJ) and perceived wellness measures are useful for monitoring fatigue. Fatigue indicators should simultaneously show sensitivity to previous load and demonstrate influence on subsequent physical output; however, these factors have not been examined.
Objective: To explore the efficacy of CMJ and wellness measures to both detect postmatch fatigue and predict subsequent physical match output in elite youth soccer players.
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- The study examines how relative age effects (RAEs), which favor older players in youth basketball, affect selection into various British basketball teams and their transition to senior teams.
- It involved 450 male and 314 female participants, analyzing three groups: Regional Talent Hubs, England National Youth Teams, and England National Senior Teams, focusing on birth quarter distribution.
- Results showed significant RAEs for males in both the Regional Talent Hubs and National Youth Teams, while females only showed significant effects in the Hubs, highlighting a need for fairer structures in the talent pathway.
The relative age effect (RAE) is almost pervasive throughout youth sports, whereby relatively older athletes are consistently overrepresented compared to their relatively younger peers. Although researchers regularly cite the need for sports programs to incorporate strategies to moderate the RAE, organizational structures often continue to adopt a one-dimensional (bi)annual-age group approach. In an effort to combat this issue, England Squash implemented a "birthday-banding" strategy in its talent pathway, whereby young athletes move up to their next age group on their birthday, with the aim to remove particular selection time points and fixed chronological bandings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn an attempt to facilitate more appropriate levels of challenge, a common practice in academy football is to play-up talented youth players with chronologically older peers. However, the context of playing-up in academy football is yet to be empirically explored. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the multidimensional factors that differentiated players who play-up from those who do not.
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