News 2007
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Lancashire Evening Post (UK) - December 2007
"Football student's England opportunity"
Football-mad student John McGuigan has landed a plum job as a backroom boy with the England Under 19s women's squad.
The 20-year-old is in his final year of a sports coaching degree at the University of Central Lancashire and has recently enjoyed trips to Italy and Harrogate with the team to provide video and computerised in-depth match analysis.
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www.toledoblade.com (Ohio, USA) - December 2007
" State-of-the art program key in St. John’s success"
A high-tech tool should be given an assist every time the St. John’s Jesuit hockey team skates off with a win.
The Titans employ a state-of-the-art video analysis software system to break down their game film. The SportsCode Gamebreaker is part teaching tool, part scouting device and a valuable time saver. Read More
www.business.nsw.gov.au (AUS) - October 2007
"Rugby World Cup finalists rely on Sydney technology"
2007 Rugby World Cup champions South Africa has gone all the way in France with the help of sports analysis technology developed in Sydney. "This is an excellent example of NSW innovation making a big splash on the world stage," Minister for State Development Ian Macdonald said. Read More
www.mirror.co.uk (UK) - October 2007
"Us against the world"
"The secret to their success was a piece of analysis drawn from tapes of Australia's pool performances which showed that the Wallabies had lost their edge at the breakdown. "We felt they had become a bit lack-lustre in the way they were working around the rucks" revealed Lewis Moody."
England us the SportsCode analysis system to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of their opponents. The RFU invested in Sportstec products 2 years ago and have implemented the products as an integral part of their training and game analysis, says Philip Jackson of Sportstec. Read more
www.nzherald.co.nz (New Zealand) - October 2007
"An Englishman preaching for Argentinian rugby"
If Argentina ever realise their dream of being admitted to compete in either the Six Nations or Tri-Nations rugby tournaments, they will in part have an Englishman to thank. Read more
www.lanacion.com.ar (Argentina) - October 2007
"The software in action"
The Argentinian team is finally using video analysis for the games, a tool which Marcelo Loffreda uses on a daily basis and which is mainly responsible for the current situation in which are Los Pumas.
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www.lagaceta.com.ar (Argentina) - October 2007
"Los Pumas' "laboratory""
It is not a coincidence that Los Pumas are achieving a successful path in the Rugby World Cup; there are motives and reasons. Certainly the players are high-level players but they do not do much more than expressing on the pitch a scenario and a work plan elaborated by the technical staff working in a responsible, reliable and professional way.
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www.lanacion.com.ar (Argentina) - October 2007
"The systems' analyst"
This Englishman Les Cusworth, the UAR (Argentinian Rugby Union) rugby director, is Loffreda and Baetti’s(the Argentinian team’s coaches) right-hand man; he studies rivals and suggests the most appropriate strategies.
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www.uar.com.ar (Argentina) - September 2007
Argentinian Rugby Union (UAR) - Video Analysis 2007
In our country, there is a huge effort made in the research for developing the game. We are now required to start thinking about a project to reach higher levels and to keep looking for a tool to improve the game in our country.
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Product Releases - September 2007
Gamebreaker /Gamebreaker Plus Version 7 Released
Sportstec is pleased to announce the release of its much anticipated Version 7 for Gamebreaker and Gamebreaker Plus. Find out about all the latest developments and how it will benefit you. Read More
www.clarin.com (Argentina) - August 2007
"The English man giving a hand"
He is 53 years old, he was fly-half in Leicester and in his country’s team which he managed as well. Based on technology, he analyzes his team’s good moves and mistakes as well as the opponents’.
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www.eindhovensdagblad.nl (Holland) - July 2007
"Reckers, The 'wizzkid' of Louis van Gaal"
Max Reckers, the new video analyst for Dutch Soccer Club AZ, talks about merging sport and technology. He has previously used SportsCode products for hockey, and now plans to use them for soccer.
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www.evertonfc.com (UK) - July 2007
"School of Science" in Italy
Everton's Head of Performance Analysis is with the soccer team in Italy. There are two technical systems that Everton's analysis team use - one of which is SportsCode. Read more
www.teambath.com (UK) - July 2007
Team Bath has been a Sportstec customer for a few years now. Team Bath caters for all levels of sport and recreation from "learn to courses" to training programmes for Olympic medalists with netball, rugby, football, swimming, badminton, tennis and judo being the main sports that extensively use SportsCode.
Now, Team Bath is also a Sportsec Stream's user for their video streaming. Read more
www.prematch.com.ar (Argentina) - May 2007
LOS PUMAS' (Argentinian Rugby Union) older brother
Nicolás Basdedios Molina is Sportstec distributor in Argentina, with his own company called Digital Tree. Additionally, he’s in charge of the video department for the UAR (Argentinean Rugby Union), Newman and the URBA (Rugby Union of Buenos Aires).
Digital Tree operates in South America and its customers are the Argentinian and Paraguayan Football Association, the Chile National Rugby team, the San Isidro athletics club, Banco Nacion and Champagnat clubs, among others. Read more
news.naver.com (Korea) - 25th April 2007
Busan KTF, Pro basketball team, has great results with SportsCode
There are 5 basketball teams including KTF, that are using SportsCode in Korea.
In the case of KTF, Hong chang iee is working as the team’s analyst. Together with the team’s director, Chu il seung and the coaching staff, they are configuring a tactical program from the analyzed data and occasionally arranging meetings with the team.
Within the KBL (Korean Basketball League) championship, the KTF team recently won 82-75 with leading the opening part of the game.
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www.ljmu.ac.uk (UK) - April 2007
Liverpool John Moore University puts SportsCode at its students' disposal
The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences is home to a staggering array of world-class research facilities among which are a temporal isolation laboratory (rare facility in Europe), several physiology laboratories and the DEXA (Dual Energy X-Ray Absorbance) and hydro-static weighing equipment.
In the meantime, the School is in the process of developing a new notational analysis facility featuring SportsCode software. Read more
Congratulations to Rutgers for reaching the Final 4! (USA) - 27th March 2007
Good Knight, Rutgers! C. Vivian Stringer and her scrappy Scarlet Knights are headed to the Final Four. Rutgers became a Sportstec customer 2 years ago and have reaped the rewards of investing in the products for all their analysis and editing needs. Read more
Congratulations to Georgetown for reaching the Final 4! (USA) - 26th March 2007
Sportstec partner, the Georgetown University Men’s Basketball team stunned the top-seeded Tar Heels 96-84 in the East Regional final Sunday for their first trip to the Final Four since 1985. Read more
52 NCAA D-I Basketball Customers reach NCAA/NIT (USA) - 23rd March 2007
Sportstec USA would like to congratulate all of our customers who reached the NCAA and NIT Basketball tournaments. In total, 52 Sportstec clients were selected. Best of luck to all 52! Read more
Ice Hockey State Championship (USA) - March 2007
Sportstec takes great pride in sharing this email. So often the impact of our products goes unrecognised and it was tremendous to receive this email to our Canadian Distributor (Lindsay Miles) acknowledging the impact Gamebreaker had on their State Championship winning season.
Well done to Lindsay, Mike Hayes and the St John Jesuit High School team.
Philip Jackson
Coaching Women's Basketball (USA) - March 2007
Increase your video IQ: Video the Storm Way
Heidi Vanderveer, Assistant Coach Seattle Storm
"Fast-forward 20 years, the evolution of the game, and the advances in technology are amazing! I have been through many different systems from tapes to digital and what took hours (even days) now takes minutes with my Sportstec editing system!" Read More
The Irish Times (Ireland) - 9th March 2007
Frames of reference essential to the big picture
"Mervyn Murphy is Ireland's video analyst. Here the affable former Ireland A centre offers an overview of his job in his own words. [...]
"What that entails is breaking down the information using a (computer) program called Sportscode. What we have done is created a network within Ireland at every professional level within the Irish Rugby Football Union." Read More
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