South Carolina State Clinic

• Motivation
• Lessons learned
• Mistakes made
• Sound advice

This talk will explore nutritional strategies to support performance, adaptation, and overall health in female athletes. This talk will focus on the critical roles of energy balance and carbohydrate intake, as well as opportunities for targeted supplementation, with a focus on factors unique to female athletes, including the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraception. This presentation aims to equip practitioners, coaches, and health professionals with a deeper understanding of female athlete physiology and practical, evidence-based nutritional approaches to optimize performance and well-being.

• Background of what we do, how we do it and when we do it at the Carolina Panthers
• Demonstrating how we make decisions based off of data obtained
• Types of information you can gather depending on where you are and your current circumstances
• Leveraging your information to make an impact

This presentation will explore the history, rationale, and best practices for using vertical jump as a performance monitoring tool. It will highlight the scientific rationale behind its widespread use, discuss common limitations and pitfalls, and provide practical advice for implementation in performance monitoring programs. Following this presentation attendees will be able to: 1) Explain the scientific rationale behind using the vertical jump as a performance monitoring tool. 2) Identify common limitations and pitfalls associated with vertical jump testing. 3)Apply best practices and practical strategies to effectively integrate vertical jump testing into performance monitoring programs.

• Discuss how the performance and coaching staffs utilize both internal/external data to help make informed decisions
• Analysis of how data correspond to different position groups and the approach used
• Implementation of both weightroom and on-field exercises and techniques to prepare athletes for demands of sport while also reducing injury risk

• How to develop physical literacy for a school district through a systematic & vertically aligned curriculum
• Practical drills for movement, speed, agility, and quickness

• Attendees will get insight into a number of foundational areas key to sustaining excellence and innovation
• Hiring practices, retention
• Organizational structures
• Management of staff
• Despite the frame of reference being on college athletics, key principles will be applicable to other settings: high school, private, and professional