Posted on 06/12/2017 10:08:10 PM PDT by thecodont
As a former lawyer, Garth Lagerwey knows about the value of evidence-based reasoning. Now he's trying to apply that same line of thinking to the professional soccer club he helps manage.
Lagerwey spoke about this philosophy at the Sounders Sports Science Weekend in Seattle, an event that focuses on the latest innovations in sports science and analytics.
The Sounders have long been pioneers, at least among Major League Soccer teams, in using sports science to help make on-field improvements. The club, which won its first MLS Cup last year, utilizes a variety of gadgets like GPS trackers and heart rate monitors to measure how exactly their players are performing during training and games. The resulting data is used to help make tactical decisions and prevent injury.
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https://www.geekwire.com/calendar-event/2017-seattle-sounders-fc-sports-science-weekend/
Seattle has a soccer team?
Who knew? Go Mariners. Go Seahawks!
The Seattle soccer team sells more tickets than most; I’d imagine the locals think it makes them more European-like...
I believe they also had a team back in the old days (the NASL, with the Cosmos and such).
I was born and raised in Kearny, NJ. At the time it had a largely Scot/Irish American population. We were a soccer town fifty years before the rest of America even knew what soccer was.
Go Sonics! Seriously, do any Sonics fans root for the Thunder? I don’t know of any.
That’s too funny; I’ve never seen a game.
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