Search for next generation takes another step with Skills4Performance

The English Institute of Sport’s (EIS) search for the next generation of support staff to help ensure further Olympic and Paralympic success for Great Britain takes another step forward this weekend at the latest Skills4Performance workshop.

The three-day course at the EIS High Performance Centre in Lilleshall, is aimed at providing talented new support staff with an insight into the elite sporting environment, and will offer unique workshops delivered by EIS staff including training in specific practical and personal skills and the chance to hear from inspiring speakers.

The EIS received a record number of applications for the course, with more than 80 practitioners set to attend across eight discipline strands.

EIS Head of Psychology Dr Kate Hays said: “The huge success of Great Britain at the Rio 2016 Games demonstrates that we have one of the best high performance systems on the planet that is going from strength to strength.

“As the team behind the team, it is the vision of the EIS to be the world’s leading high performance system and to achieve this; we need the very best practitioners.

“Skills 4 Performance is a great opportunity to unearth the next generation of talented support staff and show them exactly what it takes to work with the country’s top athletes.

“It is an exciting course that could prove to be the very start of an exciting journey into the world of elite sport.”