Open Field
Personal Sport Science: Oliver Wilson Showcases the Future of Individual Athlete Support
Check out our “High Performance Short” interview with BreakAway Ambassador, Oliver Wilson. Here he explains how he devised his own individualised performance data system, and how it helps him prepare and perform, and his ideas to find further performance gains. 9 minute listen.
Do You Want to Build Trust and Collaborate With Players, or Not?
The global sports industry has moved beyond the theoretical beta stages when it comes to athlete data. At BreakAway, we have a solution—available now—that gives athletes access to their data in the BreakAway app on their mobile phones.
Player Data Shouldn’t Be Played With
When teams use player data against athletes—rather than for them—the ramifications can cause reputational damage, loss of financial earnings, an erosion of trust, and reluctance to embrace tech that should make athletes better.
The Walk-On Flexes NFL Speed
N.C. State wideout Thayer Thomas turned his once scrawny body into Sunday-ready with a data-driven training approach that he traces all the way back to (checks notes) the fifth grade. It’s the future, he says, for the next generation of athletes.
Safeguard Your Team’s Performance Culture: What You Need to Know About FIFPRO/FIFA’s Charter of Player Data Rights
Our goal is to help football teams navigate the new set of player data guidelines and suggest ways to proactively implement them into their protocols to support the club’s performance culture.
Andy Murray Embraces Athlete Data: Training Smarter Is Better Than Training Harder
With the help of BreakAway Data, tennis star Andy Murray is using data insights to make his practice sessions reflect the workload of actual matches, rally by rally.
Our Top 10 Moment Is a Victory for Athletes Everywhere
BreakAway Data has been named one of the top 10 most innovative sports technology companies by SportTechie and Sports Business Journal, which featured BreakAway’s co-founders in its sports tech Power Players special issue.
BreakAway Data & the NFLPA Empower NFL Players With Their Own Athlete Data
Players can take greater control of their careers by tracking performance, recovery, and training metrics on the BreakAway app. The NFLPA is acquiring an equity stake in BreakAway to help move the chains of innovation in football.
Use Data Insights to Find an Athlete’s Sweet Spot
A BreakAway Data conversation with James Moore, the performance director at Andy Murray Tennis.
BreakAway and the WNBPA Put Women’s Basketball at the Heart of Innovation
BreakAway Data and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association are partnering to put athlete data in the hands of all WNBA players via the BreakAway app, which gives athletes the ability to collect, store, control, and commercialize their data with licensing opportunities.
BreakAway Data Partners With Athletes Unlimited Pro Sports Leagues
BreakAway will make its mobile athlete app available to all players in lacrosse, softball, basketball and volleyball. The app will be a hub for game stats and performance metrics, as well as training and wearable data. The partnership will also see BreakAway create data licensing opportunities for Athletes Unlimited athletes.
Emotional Connections Help Influence the Delivery of Data to Athletes
A BreakAway Data conversation with Scott Drawer, the director of sport at Millfield School in England.
Personalise Player Data to Make It Meaningful
We held a roundtable discussion at our London office about the landscape of athlete data in European football and the best ways to present data so it resonates with players.
BreakAway and the XFL: A Shot of Pure Adrenaline to the Heart
The XFL is working with us to customize technology and data insights to get the most out of players—and to do the most for players. We’re reinventing from the ground up the way football players are evaluated and empowered with their information.
BreakAway Data Partners With Speedworks Training
Team-sport athletes can now access Speedworks’ elite, tech-powered sprint coaching and analysis on BreakAway’s performance platforms.