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ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT

Sasa Ilic Soccer Academy student athletes have access to proven performance training protocols in areas like vision training, strength & conditioning, nutrition, and sports medicine. Athletic Development coaches and trainers integrate into the program’s larger support system, ensuring that each student-athlete feels confident and prepared off the field as well.

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

Our goal here is to outlast the competition with IMG Academy’s Strength & Conditioning program. Our team of performance experts design a program that supplements sports training to help student-athletes reach their potential. We teach:

Speed, agility, and movement
Endurance & Conditioning
Strength and power
Vision/ spatial awareness
Flexibility, mobility, balance, and core

SPORTS MEDICINE

Our Sports Medicine program is designed to educate and support student-athletes in maintaining optimal health throughout rigorous training and competitions. Our dedicated team are obsessed with long term health and endurance of an athletes career by implementing preventive and corrective exercises, conducting comprehensive injury evaluations and treatments, and assessing movement quality.

We teach:

Athletic training
Physical therapy
Injured athlete program
Corrective exercise work
Recovery initiatives
Education on injury management
Return-to-play management

NUTRITION

We understand how important it is for student-athletes to fuel their bodies in order to to meet their physical and emotional demands as an athlete. Our Nutrition program educates our soccer players with nutrition knowledge and resources to fuel and hydrate themselves for academic, athletic and long-term performance.

We teach:

Optimal everyday nutrition
Performance Plate
Nutrient intake and timing
Hydration strategies
Supplement education
Pre and post-competition fueling
Travel nutrition
Energy balance