Wisconsin State Clinic

• Examine how adaptability, self-awareness, and resilience contribute to effective leadership and sustainable performance in high-pressure or evolving environments
• Analyze the impact of recent shifts in collegiate athletics such as NIL policies, the transfer portal, and changing athlete identities on leadership, team culture, and professional identity
• Apply strategies that integrate evidence-based practice with lived experience to enhance decision-making, collaboration, and professional growth within high-performance organizations

• Identify 3 common diet myths related to athletic performance and recovery
• Describe the roles of macronutrients in supporting sport performance and recovery
• Describe how diet culture and extreme eating patterns can negatively effect an athletes performance, recovery and mental wellbeing

• Recognize the importance of designing and implementing goal-centered programming within the context of a continuum of performance
• Summarize primary advantages and limitations to traditional programming strategies
• Review autoregulation as a strategy to address limitations of traditional programming and review current evidence as it relates to novice occupational athletes
• Discuss consideratons and application strategies for repetitions-in-reserve (RIR) as an entry-level tool for autoregulatory programming in novice populations

• Understand and identify youth who are specializing in sport
• Recognize why youth athletes specialize and how it impacts future sporting success
• Design strength and conditioning programs that counteract sport specialization's negative effects

From the dreaded "hamstring pull" to other knee and leg injuries, having a strong posterior chain is critical for reducing the risk of injury and increasing athletic performance. Come join this practical presentation where you will be exposed to a wide variety of hamstring exercises that can be performed using various pieces of equipment (or even just your own body weight). Strategies to progressively make these exercises more challenging based on your athletes' ability levels will be discussed. 

• Provide real-life examples of how to monitor loads
• Provide a road map on how to monitor loads in different environments

• Overview and hands-on demonstration of strength training, plyometric, acceleration, and max velocity exercises, drills, and techniques taught starting in 6th grade including some progressions, regressions, and modifications utilized as students move through middle and high school
• Detail how this method fits into a unified strength and conditioning program and serves the needs of all student athletes
• Brief explanation of my unique journey into middle/high school strength and conditioning, and some current pathways to a career in high school strength and conditioning

• Define work capacity through a systems lens
• Apply a biologically-driven periodization model
• Optimize the probability of success across various schedules
• Scale sport science to any resource environment

• Understand how to connect personal coaching philosopy to the development and reinforcement of team norms
• Demonstrate strategies to intentionally build and strengthen effective coach-athlete relationships
• Identify key elements of culture in the strength and conditioning environment and explain how it is integrated into daily training

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