This document discusses talent identification and development in sports. It explains that talent ID aims to identify potential in young athletes and provide pathways for them to reach their potential. It notes that talent ID looks at both physical and mental attributes. There is variation in talent ID between closed-loop individual sports like swimming versus open-loop team sports like football. Talent ID was highly developed in East Germany and involved screening children at age 7 and funneling identified talents into sports schools. Australia also developed talent ID programs through the Australian Institute of Sport.

1. GCE AS Physical Education
Talent Identification and
Development

2. What is Talent ID
• Process of identifying potential sports
talent in young people
• Provide supportive pathways to reach
potential

3. Its not that simple!
What are we looking for?

4. High levels of physical and mental attributes
– Fitness
– Coordination – Desire
– Power – Determination
– Speed – Mental toughness
– Stamina – Commitment
– Balance
– Agility
– Technique
– Tactical Awareness

5. Talent ID varies between sports
• Closed Loop Sports • Open Loop Sports
– Rowing – Football
– Canoeing – Rugby
– Cycling – Basketball
– Swimming – Tennis
– Weight Lifting – Hockey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzelKQHh5w4

6. • What are the differences between
closed and open loop sports?
• Is Talent ID more accurate in Closed
loop sports or Open loop sports?

7. Talent ID in East Germany
• A front runner in Talent ID
• Highly successful sporting nation
• Tool for raising the profile of their country
at Olympics etc
• Talent ID became integral part of school
sport

8. Read Pages 125 and tell me
what you know!
• All children were screened for potential at
the age of seven
• Results were analysed by NSF
• Children invited to attend regular training
• At the age of ten children were transferred
to sports boarding school with links to elite
clubs
• 6 hours sport 2 hours academic

9. • On graduation they went to one of eight
national centres to continue their
development
• Facilities
• Coaches
• Sport Science and technology
This model is used the world over – in one form or
another!

10. Talent Identification in Australia
• AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) Similar
to the East German high performance
centres
• Poor performance at Montreal Olympics in
1978
• Government review of elite sports system
• Outcome: Central focus for identifying and
nurturing talent

11. • AIS opened in 1981
• Scholarships to over 600 elite athletes in
32 sports
• Top class facilities/coaches/medical etc
• A further 7 satellite institutes
• Developed ‘Sport Search’
• A bank of fitness and basic body
measurements to identify a best fit sport
for individuals

12. • Part of nation wide 2 year talent search in
every high school in the build up to the
Sydney Olympics in 2000
• Any successful participant invited to
screening at institute of sport
• Successful but only considered elitist
• Only 2% invited back

13. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uoex69WF3WQ