National Women’s Soccer League To Roll Out Performance Medicine Solution By Kitman Labs As Advanced EMR
The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and Kitman Labs, the sports technology and analytics company signed a new data arrangement beginning in 2024. The deal calls for the Division-I women’s professional soccer league featuring national team players from around the world to be technologically outfitted with a centralized and configurable operating system designed to aggregate and mobilize all player medical data. Performance Medicine Solution powered by iP: Intelligence Platform will enable all current and incoming NWSL franchises with the Performance Medicine Solution. The Sports Techie community blog is honored to share this breaking sports tech story released from both New York, NY and Menlo Park, CA to our readers, followers and fans, as well as athletes and sporting organizations representing the world’s most popular sport. Kitman Labs is setting the industry standard for how elite sports organizations use data via one of four Solutions offered as part of Kitman Labs’ iP: Intelligence Platform.
“In making the decision around what technology to deploy, it was critical for us that the technology not only represent the gold standard in performance intelligence but be supported by a team of practitioners born from the Sport. We get both in Kitman Labs,” said NWSL Chief Medical Officer Cindy Chang. “We’re not looking for the quick fix or a short term solution. We’re looking for a partner that understands our vision and can provide a platform that can scale and adjust as the League continues to grow and evolve. We also needed a platform that would help automate and streamline workflows, freeing up bandwidth for medical and performance staffs to do what they do best – develop and train elite athletes.”
NWSL Specs
The NWSL teams are to be provided the Performance Medicine Solution technology and infrastructure to automate and power accurate, league-wide medical data collection and analysis, drive collaboration among all relevant league and team stakeholders, yield actionable intelligence to support specific performance outcomes and enable data-led decision-making and research.
The clubs are the Angel City FC, Chicago Red Stars, Houston Dash, Kansas City Current, NJ/NY Gotham FC, North Carolina Courage, Orlando Pride, Portland Thorns FC, OL Reign, Racing Louisville FC, San Diego Wave FC and Washington Spirit.
Performance Medicine Solution Objectives
- Standardize league-wide medical documentation and data collection – eliminating data gaps, inconsistencies and inaccuracy and facilitating club-level compliance
- Collaborate and align relevant internal stakeholders across both the Medical and Performance Teams to support evidence-based decision-making around player health, care and wellness
- Enable practitioners to spend less time dedicated to data collection, analytics and administrative oversight and more time with athletes
- Establish a solid and complete data set to support ongoing and future league-wide research initiatives and innovation
Kitman Labs SportsBiz
Kitman Labs has an established track record of working with top governing bodies, leagues, teams and athletes across a variety of sports, including soccer/global football, basketball, rugby, and American football. The company’s technology has been used by teams in some of the world’s most elite sports organizations and universities including the NFL, NBA, Premier League, Danish Superliga, MLS (Columbus Crew) and NCAA.
“We have extensive experience developing and deploying league-wide technology solutions related to medical, performance and talent development data. The insights and intelligence gleaned from a platform capable of aggregating and analyzing disparate data sets across multiple organizations is invaluable,” said Stephen Smith, Founder & CEO Kitman Labs. “The NWSL will now have a fully configurable operating system that can grow with them, drive league-wide efficiencies and support data-led decision-making at every level of the organization – league, team and athlete.”
This partnership with the National Women’s Soccer League follows other recent business strategy moves Kitman Labs has undertaken including the successful acquisition of The Sports Office and Presagia Sports, both made in the last two years. The combined companies represent the industry’s largest network of elite and youth organizations (1000+) and created the industry’s largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data for all stages of the athlete lifecycle.
Kitman Labs is the world’s leading sports science and performance intelligence company. It powers iP: The Intelligence Platform, the advanced operating system used by the largest and most innovative leagues, teams and regulatory bodies in elite Sport. Their four software solutions – Performance Medicine, Performance Optimization, Coaching & Development and League Operations – are designed to optimize human performance; enhance overall health, wellness and longevity; reduce injury risk; and drive operational efficiencies and value. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Dublin and Manchester.
For more information about Kitman Labs, visit www.kitmanlabs.com.
Sports Techie, the leading SaaS-based sports science and technology company will power all medical data and analytics for the league across all first teams.
The current 2023 NWSL season is well under way and parity is the name of the game with Portland on top of the standings with a 10-6-5 (W-L-T) record resulting in 35 points while the bottom team is Chicago at 7-11-4 with 24 points.
League play began in March. The playoffs begin on November 6 with the NWSL semifinals.
Women sports has never been more accepted and are growing at unprecedented rates across the United States and worldwide with no better example than the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Congratulations to the NWSL and Kitman Labs for foraging together into the future with Performance Medicine Solution.
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