Finding things that matter to performance:   The use of deterministic modelling

Thursday 26^th November 9 – 10am AEDT

Peter is an internationally renowned sports performance and analysis specialist. A rich technical background as a biomechanist and researcher preceded Peter's 10-year involvement with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) over the Beijing and London Olympic cycles. Peter became director of high performance for the USOPC from 2009 - 2012 after 4 years as a senior sport technologist from 2005 - 2009. Peter then served as the USOPC senior director of competitive analysis, research and innovation from 2012 - 2015.

In 2016, Peter was hired by Everton Football Club as the English Premier League’s first American-born Academy Director. He returned to his sport science, technology and analytics consulting work in 2018, and served as Performance Team Manager for the INEOS 1:59 Challenge (held in 2019). Peter also served as subject matter expert for the Olympic Genome Project to identify and evaluate key organisational and policy factors associated with increasing medal-winning success of Olympic-sport athletes and teams.

Peter has advised in his areas of expertise for projects on international competition analysis methodologies, match and player analytics, injury surveillance, athlete data management systems, and improved implementation of sport science, motor learning, and skill acquisition.