Charterhouse Athlete Programme
Our Charterhouse Athlete Programme (CAP), which looks at various elements of support in order to assist some of our top young sportsmen and sportswomen in the School.
Strands such as nutrition, psychology, sport science and monitoring are key parts of this programme in order to educate and develop these individuals.
All Sport Scholars are automatically enrolled on this programme and others are considered for enrolment by the Sports Department.
As a member of the CAP, all athletes are eligible to receive the following:
Athletic Development
Ensuring Physical Challenge and Progression
Fundamentally, athletes at Charterhouse are growing athletes. We recognise that they may experience rapid and regular growth spurts. Our programme consequently accounts for these challenges and aims to enhance the physical literacy of our athletes in a way that minimises their injury risk to increase the amount of time they spend participating in sport, and improves their athleticism for competition. We consider these aims to be important in supporting not only sporting endeavour, but also in fostering a lifelong affinity for sport and physical activity.
Our Under School athletes work through three different movement paradigms that progress as they get older. These comprise 14 movement patterns, which increase in complexity across ten levels, and aim to improve strength, power and fundamental movement skills.
Our Upper School athlete’s complete performance programmes that are individually tailored to meet the specific demands of their chosen sport. The main aims of their performance programmes are to increase overall strength, power, speed and reduce the risk of sporting injury.
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
All CAP athletes have the opportunity to access a 15 minute triage. This triage offers an athlete the opportunity to follow a rehabilitation programme, or receive ongoing physiotherapy support via GP referral.
Sport Science and Monitoring
All athletes receive athletic profiling reports throughout the year. These reports assess power, speed, change of direction, aerobic fitness and also involve non-invasive maturity profiling.
Athletes also complete a daily wellbeing questionnaire, on a session by session basis, which highlights issues such as soreness, psychological stress and sleep. Together with their training load logs, these are used to individualise their weekly experience of sport and minimise overtraining-related injuries.
Nutritional Support
We have an onsite nutritionist who delivers sports nutrition seminars and cooking practicals to educate the athletes on the importance of good nutrition. Our nutritionist also provides individual support to our athletes if and when they require it.
Psychological Support
We offer our athletes a range of psychological support and regularly run sports psychology workshops tailored to specific year groups. These cover a wide range of different topics, including emotional control and dealing with nerves, life after A levels, and parent-pupil relationships on and off the field.
Performance Reviews
Performance reviews are delivered remotely and involve a practical process of reflection wherein athletes identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps in self-awareness and tactical awareness as it relates to their sport. We also use data from the Sport Science & Monitoring Programme to create reports which include attendance statistics and attitude towards their development.
Expectations & Commitment
The CAP has guidelines in terms of etiquette, behaviour and attitude and it is expected that all our sportsmen and sportswomen on this programme embrace these expectations and commitments.