National Sport and Human Performance Conference Programme 2023

10h00

Oral Presentations - Session 1

1. Eddie McGuinness: Exploring how sprint distance and split times impact maximum sprinting speed in ladies Gaelic football
2. Eoghan Myers: What do elite rowing coxswains say during races?
3. Karol Dillon: Profiling the different types of laterality in high-performance male and female Gaelic footballers
4. Declan O'Rahilly: The reliability of the cube reader LFD to measure salivary cortisol and salivary immunoglobulin-A in inter- county hurling players

Oral Presentations - Session 2

1. Kevin Murray: An examination of bilateral skill proficiency and frequency of pass in selected and non-selected youth academy Gaelic footballers
2. Chris Leckey: Machine learning for non-contact injury risk prediction in the lower extremities of elite male Rugby Union players
3. Kevin Smith: An evaluation of the Irish Rugby Football Union Coach Education Framework and its impact on the coach-athlete dyad in adolescent rugby union
4. Steven Golovkine: The influence of the menstrual cycle on the performanceof female cyclists: a functional multilevel modelling approach

Oral Presentations - Session 3

1. Conor Shannon: Conditioning in Gaelic games: The effectiveness of three running prescription modalities on aerobic capacity and performance-related variables in elite U20 inter-county hurlers
2. Niall O'Mahony: An exploration of high-performance team sport coaches practice activities across a season: A mixed methods case study approach
3. Peter Shaw: Levels of burnout in 14-year-old Irish multi-sport athletes
4. Ryan Gaffney: Determinants of match outcomes in elite level hurling

Oral Presentations - Session 4

1. Phil Kearney: The association between season length at age 14 and athlete retention at ages 16 and 19 in endurance events in track and field 
2. Norma Bargary: Applications and innovations in functional data analysis for sport and exercise biomechanics 
3. Maeve Mannion: The menstrual cycle and female athletes participating and competing in weight category sports: A narrative review
4. Toni Rossiter:  The effect of long-haul transmeridian travel on cognitive performance on Olympic team support staff
5. Fionn Fitzgerald: The eyes don’t have it: Coach’s eye is not a valid method of estimating biological maturation

Presentation Awards
 

• Best Oral Presentation Award
  Presented by Prof Giles Warrington (Co-Director of SHPRC)
• Best Poster Presentation Award
  Presented by Prof Ian Kenny (Co-Director of SHPRC)