1. Technology Solutions in Sports Performance
Mike McKenney, MS, LAT, ATC
Director of Sports Medicine

2. Who is Sports Performance?
Multidisciplinary team of Athletic Trainers and Strength & Conditioning Coaches
Provide medical and strength training to NCAA Varsity Athletes
450 student-athletes (Daily contact)
Complete continuum of care from start to finish – Our decisions directly impact health, performance, emotional development

3. Identified Need/Problems
Efficient way to gather AND analyze data
Software is often proprietary, subscription based, and you can’t be creative
How do we provide services that benefit their health and well-being when they are not in the building?
Student-athletes are BUSY
NCAA Estimates an “80 hour work-week” when you combine academics and team commitments
We are competing for very limited space in their schedules
Student-athlete feedback
They often give us answers, we just have to listen
Improved Staff Management

5. Building a solution
Treat athletes as students– Meet them in their learning environment
In the high performance world, athletes need to learn:
Healthy nutritional practices
Recovery strategies
Time management
Personal growth and development
Utilize current services that already exist in their academic learning environment
Reduce department needs to core functionality of existing programs
Benefits
Talented professionals to collaborate and build solutions
Cost reduction!
Growing acceptance of eMedicine for chronic intervention

11. Visualize Daily Schedule next to meetings
Changes in Outlook Calendar
Change SharePoint Calendar
Easy way to input monthly Staff Schedules

12. Future Directions Office 365 Administrative Management
Planner: Potential use for scheduled administrative tasks
Staff Hub: Possible replacement for staff scheduling
Microsoft Garage Options
Sports Performance Platform for integrative data analytics

13. THANK YOU!