HL32013: Managing the performance athlete
[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWVG 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Visual or recorded presentation Group (CWVG 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Identify key issues faced by individual practitioners when working with athletes in a sports performance environment
- Critically examine factors relevant to managing sports performance
- Critically evaluate the roles and responsibilities of practitioners in the multidisciplinary environment
- Apply appropriate knowledge and theories to solve specific challenges faced by performance athletes
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| Synopsis: | Develop conceptual and contextual knowledge and understanding of multidisciplinary sports science support teams in the context of managing performance athletes.
You will critically examine the roles of applied practitioners and their work with athletes and coaches to manage and enhance performance.
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| Content: | Multidisciplinary teams; Roles and responsibilities; Ethics and codes of conduct; Anti-doping; Rehabilitation and return to play; Sleep.
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| Course availability: |
HL32013 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Sport (Sports Performance) (Year 1)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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