Alan Burton Email & Phone Number

Leeds, GB

Obtained the Lead S&C role for senior (school years 12 and 13) Football, Rugby, and Cricket programmes in line with acceptance onto the applied PhD partnership between the school and Leeds Beckett University. The position also involves co-leading the senior basketball S&C planning and delivery. My research investigates the importance of motor competence.

Paid internship between the partnership with QE and Leeds Beckett University. During this role, I assisted with the planning and delivery of S&C from years 7-13 across 6 team sports, Athletics, and Swimming under the supervision of Dr. Tom Sawczuk.

Responsible for planning and delivering sports science and S&C support to the U15's and U16's Scholars, and supporting player's transition into the Academy programme if offered an academy contract at the end of their scholarship.

1:2:1 Personal Training, well-being support and designing/implementing full body group-training classes (max 12 per group).

Provided Strength and Conditioning support to the u15’s and u16’s squad. This role includes gym and field based S&C support, designing and implementing periodised programmes, gym and field warm-ups (as well as other duties) to support the development of young future rugby league professionals.

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Strength and Conditioning support to small (max 6 people) and moderate (max 20 people) group sizes.

Strength and Conditioning support to both the first team and academy squads during the 2018 season. This role involved both field and gym based S&C support, designing and delivering warm-ups, collecting and reporting GPS data, and providing match-day support for both squads (as well as other tasks to support the S&C department with daily duties).

As part of my role I assisted with the Sport Science support for the u18's. This included assisting with: collecting anthropometric data, collecting post-session RPE's, administering gym based S&C sessions and assisting with the use, download and interpretation GPS data from skills based training sessions. I also assisted with the collection of mid-season.

Phd, The Importance Of Motor Competence In Adolescence

A project which originally started as a fully funded MPhil studentship, and has recently been upgraded to a PhD via a successful transfer.

Msc Strength And Conditioning, Distinction

MSc modules included: Biomechanics of Strength and Power, Applied physiology for sports performance, Multidisciplinary perspectives in.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Sport And Exercise Science, 2:1

Gcse'S And A-Levels

2009-2012 Achieved 7 GCSE's ranging from grades A-C including Maths, English and Science. Also achieved Distinction in both Level 2 ICT.