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Award-Winning Human Performance Technology Company Collaborates with Sport Science Industry Professionals to Provide Interdisciplinary Support for its Customers
ILLINOIS, Chicago. – June 6, 2017 – Fusion Sport, the leading company specializing in optimizing athlete performance, hosted a conference in Chicago from May 19 to May 21 for users of SMARTABASE, their athlete data management platform.
Guided by sport science experts in extensive seminars and interactive workshops, attendees from Northwestern University, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Triathlon Canada, Ft Bragg, Tampa Bay Rays, Tennis Canada, Detroit Pistons and more, enjoyed three days of networking opportunities, learning about the latest software features, along with valuable athlete monitoring, analytics, data management and visualization best practices.
The 2017 conference highlights included presentations from keynote speakers Andrew Murray, Director of Performance & Sport Science from University of Oregon, and Dr. Joshua Hagen, STRONG Team Lead of the Air Force Research Labs at the 711th Human Performance Wing. Using various frameworks, the presentations reflected on evidence-based benefits of SMARTABASE and its impact across sports cultures and organizations.
“SMARTABASE is a massive boon for our organization, allowing us to use the data collected in the software to enhance coaching and improve athlete outcomes and results,” said Noah Wheelock, Communications Manager at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific. “The conference in Chicago was excellent, giving [the attendees] an opportunity to network and learn best practices from other users of the software.”
Alan Carlson, High Performance Systems Coordinator from Triathlon Canada
Eric Winchester, Sports Medicine Clinical I.T. Coordinator from Northwestern University praised Fusion Sport’s user-centered ethos, “SMARTABASE has provided a stable and efficient platform for collegiate sports medicine encounter documentation. After tailoring our site to our exact needs, [the Northwestern University] staff is more than satisfied with its functionality and ease of use on a daily basis.”
Keynote speaker Dr. Josh Hagen further complimented the company’s passion for innovation, “I’m floored with the advances [Fusion Sport] is constantly making, and seeing the roadmap for the near future has me even more convinced that [the Air Force Research Laboratory in the 711th] is headed in the right direction.”
Our conference was a massive success! Director of Sports Performance @Jpullara tells us why @smartabase is @NorthwesternU‘s secret weapon! pic.twitter.com/ut0Sf7GmnT
— FusionSport (@FusionSport) June 1, 2017
Jason Pullara, Director of Sports Performance from Northwestern University
Keynote speaker Andrew Murray also described the conference as “a great forum to connect users in North America so that they can share their experiences and expertise across sports and domains.” He went on to highlight the influence that SMARTABASE has for Oregon University, “SMARTABASE houses all the data connected with the athlete from a number of different inputs and technologies. The connection allows us to leverage that data to make decisions and assess our impact against our goals based on objective data rather than subjective opinion.”
As the industry’s most recognized athlete data management system, SMARTABASE is used by more than 50,000 sports professionals and has over 180 clients around the world, including 33 in the USA and Canada: University of Oregon, Tampa Bay Rays, San Antonio Spurs, Red Bull, Detroit Pistons, University of Texas, Canadian Sports Institutes, to name a few. SMARTABASE is the winner of the 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Alpha Award for being the technology most likely to impact sport on a global basis.
In addition to the success of SMARTABASE, Fusion Sport is also widely known for its advanced athlete speed and agility testing technology, SMARTSPEED. Performance partners for SMARTSPEED include EXOS and ESPN Sport Science. SMARTSPEED provides the official results for the NBA Draft Combine, NFL Regional Combines, and partners with the Canadian Football League as the Official Timing System of the CFL Combine.
For more information on SMARTABASE or SMARTSPEED, please visit www.fusionsport.com or contact usasales@fusionsport.com.
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