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Behind enemy lines Expressing locomotor movements of athletes in the National Rugby League Women s NRLW competition relative to opposition data624.77 kB
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Journal article
Behind enemy lines: Expressing locomotor movements of athletes in the National Rugby League Women's (NRLW) competition relative to opposition data
Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol.41(19), pp.1762-1767
2023
Abstract
We provide a novel analysis of the locomotor movements of athletes in the National Rugby League Women’s (NRLW) competition by presenting the data of opposing teams expressed as a relative (%) difference and explore the association with match outcome. 117 rugby league athletes from the four NRLW clubs participated in this study. Mean speed (m·min−1), mean high-speed running (>12 km·h−1; m·min−1), and mean acceleration (m·s−2) were measured in 12 matches (370 individual match files) using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Individual GNSS-derived data from each match-half were summed across each team and the association with total points and the points differential in each match-half was determined using linear mixed models. Greater high-speed running and lower mean acceleration were associated with more points being scored. A greater relative difference in mean high-speed running between competing teams was associated with a higher points differential. That is, if a team completed 10% more high-speed running than their opposition, they were likely to score an average of 3.2 points more during a given match-half. This unique analysis of GNSS-derived data may assist coaches and performance support staff to interpret the locomotor movements of female rugby league players with the appropriate considerations for the opposition team.
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- Title
- Behind enemy lines: Expressing locomotor movements of athletes in the National Rugby League Women's (NRLW) competition relative to opposition data
- Authors
- Clare Minahan (Author) - Griffith UniversityHeidi R Thornton (Author) - University of Newcastle AustraliaPhillip Bellinger (Corresponding Author) - Griffith UniversityJonathan Ward (Author) - Griffith UniversityDale Lovell (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Sports & Exercise ScienceSimon Buxton (Author) - National Rugby League LimitedTimothy J Newans (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol.41(19), pp.1762-1767
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1080/02640414.2023.2296736
- ISSN
- 1466-447X; 0264-0414
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Grant note
- This project was funded, in part, by National Rugby League Limited.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99990698902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Sport Sciences