The Problem

For youth athletes, athletic development shouldn’t pause for the school holidays. Our challenge is to keep every student progressing across their entire journey with us – whether they are on campus or away for the holidays. With students often spread across the world during breaks, we needed a way for coaches and students to stay connected: to programme and monitor gym work remotely, with clear communication regardless of location.

A further consideration when working with youth athletes is data security and privacy. Much of this information belongs to minors, so it has to be stored securely and managed responsibly. We needed a solution that would provide this security and allow us to track long-term athlete development across their time in the school.

The Solution

With RYPT, every programme, every session and each student’s full athlete profile live in one place, so we can look back accurately on an athlete’s training and injury history without digging through spreadsheets. Students follow their individual programmes wherever they are in the world, while we keep visibility and oversight throughout, giving us one continuous record per athlete across their years at Clongowes.

That data is encrypted and stored securely in line with GDPR, and students keep control over their own data.

What we Love

Long-Term Athlete Development: One View of the Athlete’s Progress

What we value most about RYPT is the long-term picture it gives us. Because each student’s training, performance data and history are all held in one place, nothing is fragmented, and we can track an athlete’s long-term development consistently across their years at the school. Being able to look back over time and see how far a student has progressed since they started is genuinely valuable, both for us as coaches and for the students themselves.

Giving Athletes Ownership of their Development

The platform is also intuitive and straightforward to use for both coaches and students. As coaches, we can create programmes, monitor progress and communicate with students without unnecessary complexity. Students can easily access their programmes, log their sessions and track their progress over time. Being able to see their improvements from week to week keeps them engaged and gives them a greater sense of ownership over their development.

High-Performance Outcomes without the Hefty Price Tag

Having all of our student data and programming in one place also makes RYPT excellent value for money, and the standard of support has been consistently excellent. It is also a real positive for us that RYPT is an Irish company.

About the Coach

Tom Brady has worked across the men’s senior game with Connacht Rugby and Tipperary GAA, and for the past three years has been Athletic Development Coach at Clongowes Wood College. He holds an undergraduate degree in Sport Science and a Master’s in Sports Performance from the University of Limerick.