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Join date: Feb 4, 2020

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Sam Reffsin is an athletic performance coach with over ten years of experience

working with professional and NCAA athletes. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Sam

has held notable positions including Assistant Sports Performance Coach with the

University of Louisville Women's Basketball Team and Director of Performance for

the Turkish Women's National Basketball Team during the 2018 FIBA World

Championships.

Sam holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Keene State College

and a Master of Science in Exercise Science & Nutrition from Sacred Heart

University. He holds certifications from the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning

Coaches Association (CSCCa) and the National Strength & Conditioning Association

(NSCA), and is also a Certified Sports Performance Coach through USA Weightlifting

and certified by the Functional Movement Screen (FMS).

Posts (2)

Feb 6, 2019 ∙ 4 min

Elite Player Profile Part II: You've Completed your Assessments, Now What?

Once you’ve designed your elite player profile and completed the assessment process with your athletes, it’s time to use the data to drive your decision making. The priority should always be managing injury risk, and this data is extremely valuable to identify your high risk athletes. These are athletes who performed below the minimum standard on a number of assessments, and should be managed differently than your athletes who performed above the minimum standard. I have created a risk...

Jan 3, 2019 ∙ 4 min

The Lost Art of Creating the Elite Player Profile

In any high performance environment the goal is clear, minimize the risk of injury and maximize athletic development. If you lay in bed at night and honestly tell yourself you’ve done everything in your control to protect your athletes health, then you certainly have an assessment process in place. Most sports have technical, tactical, and physiological (I suppose we could add psychological here, but we won’t for now) requirements. If you don’t work with elite level athletes, you can still...

Sam Reffsin

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Athletic Performance Coach | Former Director of Performance, Turkish Women's National Basketball Team

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