The English Institute of Sport

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The English Institute of Sport

• By Josh Searle

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What is the EIS?
Who they are The EIS (The English institute
of sport think there selves as the team behind
the team . They deliver a range of performance
impacting in Sports Science, sport medicine,
technology and engineering solutions to Olympic
and Paralympic and work with Premier league
football, premiership rugby union and Rugby
league. What they do There main aim is to
improve performance and people work daily with
coaches and athletes as part of their elite
performers programme. They provide support for
coaches and performance directors in helping to
improve training, preparation and performance of
their athletes. How they do it The services
which they provide are guided by the technical
programme need s of performance directors,
coaches and athletes. They also work with
athletes and coaches daily at high performance
centres around the country and also travel
the world with them.
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Their Objectives and how they deliver them

• They offer an extensive network of internal and
  external expertise focused solely on performance
  impact Through their network of nearly 250
  sport science and medicine practioners. They have
  a unique network throughout England. They ensure
  Practioners have access to a pool of talent
  across all disciplines that they can draw upon.
• Quality Assurance Their investment in technical
  leadership ensures that each practioners is part
  of an integrated quality assured network. They
  technically drive the discipline forward.
• Flexibility and Accessibility- Practioners
  operate out of a network of EIS high performance
  centre. Sports can choose to access support out
  of either single site or across the network. They
  ensure this is flexible and accessible to the
  needs of different sports.
• Access to the state of the art equipment,
  facilities and systems- Through the funding
  support of UK sport and sport England they are
  able to invest In equipment facilities and
  infrastructural systems to support competition,
  equipment and on line systems for injury
  recording.
• Value for money They are a non profit
  organisation but they ensure they provide value
  for money for sports.

Areas of Expertise
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Support Profiles
Winter Olympics support profiles
Skeleton The EIS provide a significant level of
support to British skeleton based at the EIS high
performance centre at the university of Bath.
With a Annual spend of 125,00 . The sport has
also benefitted from the work of UK talent team
and a collaboration between UK sport and EIS in
order to identify athletes with ability to become
part of the sports development and elite
programmes. Using Power2podium initiative
including Lizzy Arnold already a world
championship bronze medallist. Short track The
EIS provide performance nutrition. Physiotherapy,
psychology and performance lifestyle services to
GB short track. They are currently working with
14 athletes. Bobsleigh With an annual spend of
16,356 .Alison Thompson and Natalie Woolsey
provide Physiotherapy and Soft tissue therapy
services respectively, working closely alongside
British Bobsleigh coaches and support staff as
part of an integrated team, whilst athletes also
have access to sports medicine provision when
required.
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Initial Talent identification programme.
Power2Podium campaign Mission To enhance
Olympic and Paralympic performance pathways in
the UK by delivering world leading, evidence
based and technical solutions that have a direct
impact on medal success in 2016 and 2018. The UK
talent team is a collaboration between UK sport
and the EIS. It supports the world class
programme to identify and develop talented
athletes and put in place support systems. Its
part of the UK sport 8 year strategic investment
and it focuses on 714 development podium
potential athletes and their coaches who have the
capacity to impact on future Olympic and
Paralympic games.
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Facilities , resources and coaching
The EIS strategy focuses on creating performance
environments fostering innovation, world leading
expertise and high performance facilities to
provide support for athletes leading up to 2012
and beyond. To deliver podium positions for
sports, podium practioners need to be developed
to provide world class support to Britain's top
athletes. In order to achieve this , The EIS is
committed to developing and retaining practioners
to create a sustainable high performance system
for sport science and medicine. The EIS also
builds on its unique position to develop its
staff to add value to sports with which they work.