Zone7 Performance Podcast
By Zone 7 Peformance Podcast
Zone7 Performance PodcastFeb 22, 2023
Applying data science within a college football environment with UC Berkeley’s Mike Blasquez
The California Golden Bears Football team has 115 student athletes, ten different position groups, ten different position coaches and performance staff. It’s a complex environment. They’ve got kids that play a lot, and they’ve got kids that don’t play much.
For Mike Blasquez, Assistant Athletics Director at UC Berkeley, it is imperative for him to be able to get a snapshot of these athletes’ performance data so as to make informed decisions to manage their workloads.
Blasquez joins Zone7 CEO Tal Brown and experienced Sports Science Consultant Jo Clubb to discuss why they have adopted Zone7 within their environment, interpreting risk and what drives it, and the data science process of converting what was predominantly a soccer-based system previously for the demands of a College Football.
00:00 - Intro
11:53 – Support for expert operators
34:05 – Information efficiency
35:32 - Figuring out what’s next
#ArtificialIntelligence #UCBerkeley #GoldenBears #CollegeFootball #DataScience #SportsScience #Workload Management #Football #AmericanFootball #Pac12 #GoBears
Unlocking performance data to make better informed decisions with Rich Buchanan and Ben Mackenzie
Rich Buchanan first identified the need to make more efficient sense of data whilst he was working as Performance Director for Swansea City AFC in the Premier League in 2014/15. Years after beginning that search for an answer, he found Zone7. Then the stars aligned with Buchanan becoming Performance Director for the company in early 2021.
Ben Mackenzie has a similar background to Buchanan having also spent around two-decades working within professional football. However, Mackenzie's journey to the company took a very different route, with him retraining as a software engineer and data scientist in 2019. Mackenzie joined the company as a Data Research Analyst in 2022.
In this episode, Paul Macdonald is joined by the pair to discuss what brought them both to Zone7, the increasing impact of data science within high performance sport, and what the future looks like for the company and for the industry.
To find more information on Zone7, please visit zone7.ai
#DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BigData #HighPerformance #SportsScience #SportsPerformance #HumanPerformance #Football #Soccer
Special: How injuries impacted Jordi Cruyff's longevity in the game
How artificial intelligence technology can help promote elite-level athlete performance.
Paul MacDonald speaks to Jordi Cruyff. Jordi is a former Barcelona & Manchester United star. We discuss his career, how injuries impacted his longevity in the game and how he is looking to change things with the introduction of Zone7 technology across all sports & sectors.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:28 Jordi’s Career Injuries
00:03:56 Playing to prove yourself
00:05:21 Support for players then v support for players now
00:06:58 Modern football schedules
00:09:59 New substitution rules
00:14:12 Jordi working with Zone7
00:19:10 Resistance from clubs to use the technology
00:24:07 The Future of Zone7
Pilot: What is Zone7?
How artificial intelligence technology can help promote elite-level athlete performance.
In this, our very first episode, we discuss injuries and what zone7 technology can do to help prevent them.
Host: Ben Jacobs
Panel:
Tal Brown
Co-Founder & CEO of Zone7
John Colquhoun
Wikipedia page here. Played for Celtic, Hearts, Sunderland and Scotland. Zone7 investor.
Rebecca Bex Smith
Wikipedia page here. Played for NZ in Olympics and world cups, lead Wolfsburg to titles with Bundesliga, UEFA Women's Champion League and Ladies first cup. Leading several industry initiatives around female athlete wellbeing and performance with experience through roles in COPA90, FIFA and Isokinetic Medical. A strategic advisor for Zone7 for marketing and women's sports.
Federico Smanio
Wikipedia page here, played for several Serie B teams. CEO of Wylab, Europe's first sports accelerator and an early investor of Zone7. Considered a European sports-tech advocate and expert, with a vast experience from previous roles in Serie A/B.