BasketballIreland's video: Basketball Ireland Performance Conference - Reconceptualising Youth Player Development

Host: Ciaran O’Sullivan - Basketball Ireland Head of Development. Guest 1: Brian McCormick, PhD. Brian is a former professional and college basketball coach who has written numerous books on skill acquisition and advantage-based basketball. Having worked in Ireland, Denmark and Sweden, Brian knows the European game and has coached both males and females. Brian has sold over 23,000 books on basketball skill development. Guest 2: Mark O’Sullivan Mark O'Sullivan is Head of Youth development (8-12) and part of the Research and Development department at Swedish Hallam University. He has published a significant amount of research papers that capture his work both as a coach, academic and researcher. Mark has also consulted for the Canadian Soccer Association on coach education, helping build their new evidence-based Children's license (launched 2019) and also for the British Columbia Soccer Association on disabled football. While football is his main area of interest, he has also consulted and gave workshops on coaching and coach education in basketball, Floorball, Golf, Figure Skating and Tennis.