Athletic-dev-2025

3 INTRODUCTION KEY CONTACTS: Cyrus Azariah Andrew Brown Academy Strength & Conditioning Coach Academy Physiotherapist cyrus.azariah@trentbridge.co.uk andrew.brown@trentbridge.co.uk We have put this information booklet together to provide you, as players and parents, access to information and recommendations around player performance. In the past, this information has only been available to academy level players and above. However, as young cricketers play more and more cricket while juggling other commitments, we felt such recommendations needed to be provided at an earlier stage. In the booklet, we cover a number of areas such as fitness and workload management. This will allow you to address certain issues around injury prevention and athlete well- being, which are very apparent among young cricketers. By no means are we guaranteeing that the information in this booklet will keep players injury free or make them into world-class players overnight, but it is a step towards improving player welfare in the “youth athlete puzzle”.