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What is HASPP
The Hazelwood Athlete Scholarship Preparation Programme (HASPP) is designed for our pupils that are preparing to apply to senior schools for a Sports Scholarship. The programme is designed to drive and push our pupil's performance, to ensure they are prepared for the rigours of a sports scholarship assessment and senior school sports. The programme also includes workshops and mentoring sessions, to help develop our children’s mental approach to their sports and performance
When applying for sports scholarships, the senior school in question will require a reference from Hazelwood asking how your child has demonstrated outstanding or exceptional sporting ability and commitment to the sports programme. It is hoped that by being a part of our Athlete Scholarship Preparation Programme, we will be able to show that your son or daughter has shown excellent commitment and is striving to achieve excellence in the sporting arena.
How will we achieve this?
Mentoring Programme Aspiring Athlete Programme Specialised Coaching Clinics
Functional Movement and S&C
Sports Science Workshop
Interview Practice
Mr Jones Director of Sport
Supporting Aspiring Athletes Programme
Pupils will take part in 4 online webinar sessions, which are aimed at aspiring sports scholars and designed to enhance the prospects of those who take part. Sessions will take place during normal games sessions or can be accessed from home, if needed.
The first four sessions include:
Session 1 Monday 4 November
Embracing Failure to Achieve Success with David Osgathorp
This webinar explores the power of failure. The path to success is never a straight line and opens up opportunity to explore new challenges and learn from mistakes. By embracing failure young athletes never lose, they learn and become far more capable of achieving success.
David Osgathorp is a Performance Consultant supporting elite sports performers in Olympic sport, The Premier League and International Football. Currently David works with Oracle Red Bull Racing Formula One Team, contributing to the teams on and off track success.
Session 2
Monday 11 November
Maintaining Personal Wellbeing in the Pursuit for High Performance with Asha Riley
This webinar will explore a range of factors that impact personal wellbeing for student athletes, covering a spectrum of mental, physical and social influences. There will be opportunities for athletes to reflect, as well as guidance to support them in optimising their own wellbeing, whilst continuing to strive for high performance in sport.
Asha is a Loughborough graduate and international Lacrosse player who has taught PE in the UK and in Asia. She is an advocate of active lifestyles and the ways in which schools can encourage girls, in particular, to overcome barriers to participation and enjoy a lifetime of appropriate activity.
Session 3
Monday 18th November
Aspiring for Excellence with Andy Blight Excellence requires responsibility for actions. This webinar will educate young athletes about taking personal ownership to strive towards excellence and how to embrace excellence into their own lives, giving them the confidence to apply the necessary characteristics into daily routines.
Andy is an UEFA A Licence Coach since 2003 and Former England Schools FA u18’s Manager as well as a FA Talent ID scout for England Schools. Andy has worked with Newcastle United FC, Middlesbrough FC and Carlisle United FC as well as with the Northumberland Schools’ FA.
Session 4
Monday 25th November
The Spirit of Leadership with Tom Mitchell
This webinar will focus closely on the essential components of leadership and how young players can improve their understanding of leadership to benefit the team. These components include: Emotional intelligence, decisionmaking, leading by example, empathy, resilience and motivation.
Tom Mitchell is an England and Great Britain Seven’s legend. He made his England Sevens debut in 2012 and was the leading points scorer the following season and nominated for World Sevens Player of the Year in 2014. In 2016 he captained Great Britain to a Olympic silver medal in Rio and a Bronze medal at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
Sports Mentoring and Interview Practice
Sports Mentoring
Working with the Young Athlete Mentor company, Mr Jones will be working with scholars on a one-to-one basis for 4 weeks. Pupils will have the opportunity to work on their sports journey development, soft skills, and athlete profile. It is hoped that the mentoring will give pupils a sense of what their strengths are and how to best approach their scholarship journey, as well as their future journey in their chosen sports. Mr Jones will contact pupils individually to let them know when their mentoring weeks will take place.
Scholarship Interview Practice
Pupils will be able to practise their interview techniques and discuss areas which will be included in their senior school scholarship interviews. Interview practice will take place with Mr Fagg and Mr Jones, who will focus on wider senior school interview topics and sports specific topics respectively.
Coaching Clinics
We are thoroughly excited to give our scholars additional coaching provision in small groups, to refine and develop core skills and develop advanced techniques. Sessions are open to all of our sports scholar pupils, and we hope to see pupils taking part in all additional sessions. The transfer of skills between sports is phenomenal and skills learnt in one sport can positively impact performance in others.
The below coaching clinics will take place until Christmas, when we will review our sports and identify how our pupils need to develop.
Lacrosse
The lacrosse clinic will give our potential scholarship pupils the opportunity to develop the core and fundamental skills required to play the game. Many senior schools include lacrosse in their offering, and we want to ensure that our Hazelwood pupils are prepared for this.
The lacrosse clinic will be run by Miss Park who is a lacrosse specialist.
The Lacrosse clinic will run on Monday lunchtime, between 13:30-14:00.
Rugby
The rugby clinic will be an opportunity for our HASPP pupils to work on fundamental and advanced rugby skills, in small group scenarios. The clinics will focus on developing good habits and build confidence and understanding around game play.
The Rugby Clinic will be run by Mr Berry, who has played and coached sports across the globe and has a wealth of knowledge in game play and tactics.
The Rugby clinic will run on a Monday lunchtime, between 13:30-14:00.
Fundamental Football Skills
The fundamental Football Skills clinic will be open to all our scholar pupils and will focus on refining and developing core skills and developing more advanced skills.
The Fundamental Ball Skills clinic will be run by Miss Dudfield, who has a wealth of experience across numerous sports including football, tennis and badminton.
The Fundamental Ball Skills clinic will run on Tuesday lunchtime.
Functional Movement and S&C.
Our Functional Movement and S&C is a vitally important aspect of any sports person's life and can help to improve performance and limit the risk of injury. pupils will work through a multitude of different movements and activities, which will focus on developing their ability to move efficiently, develop strength through different movements and help them learn how to manage their bodies.
All pupils will take part in an initial screening, to ascertain their capabilities and needs. From this point differentiated programmes will be allocated, to best suit each pupil.
The functional movement and S&C will be run by Mr Jones, our Director of Sport and Mr Gurney, who has developed and implemented programmes at numerous prep schools over the years.
Functional Movement and S&C will run on a Friday lunchtime, between 13:30-14:00.
Sports Science Workshop
Our sports scholarship pupils will have the opportunity to attend a sports science workshop at a Sports Testing and Training facility.
Hazelwood pupils will have the opportunity to explore the world of sports science and how it is used to develop and drive elite level sports people. Areas such as nutrition in sport, physiology and biomechanics, strength & conditioning and sports psychology are some of the areas which are covered. The insights gained from workshops will provide Hazelwood pupils with valuable knowledge on how to improve their own performance and content to include in their scholarship applications and interviews.
Please note that there will be an additional cost for this trip.
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