[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell MBE, trailblazing NFL coach Phoebe Schecter and Society Chairman Professor Graham N Smith will be among the guests at the University College Birmingham’s Sports Performance and Rehabilitation Conference (SPARC) on 20th January 2020.
Now in its third year, the conference aims to link national and international leading research to applied practice, offering the chance to hear leaders in sports performance and rehabilitation share their experience and knowledge.
SPARC 2020 will be opened by former Great Britain and England sprinter Darren Campbell who was a member of Team GB’s gold medal-winning 4x100m relay team at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and 200m silver medallist in Sydney four years earlier. Other guests include Professor Anne Gates, Founder and Director of Exercise Works Craig Keegan, former assistant coach of Team GB’s outstanding gold medal-winning women’s hockey team at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Dr Richard Allison, Performance Nutritionist at Arsenal FC, and Dave Fevre, a physiotherapist who served as Manchester United FC’s senior physio for the 1999 treble-winning campaign.
UCB Sports Therapy Lecturer and event organiser Gareth Bate said: “This will be our third annual SPARC event here at UCB and we wanted it to be bigger and better in every way. This year, we feel like we have used the feedback from previous conferences and secured more speakers from a variety of different professional backgrounds. There will be networking opportunities, and we will also have some of our students from last year exhibiting their dissertation posters and discussing their work with those on the courses this year.”
The event coincides with the opening of the University’s brand new Moss House campus in January. The site will feature state-of-the-art facilities including a 35-metre indoor running track for assessing speed and performance as well as a cutting-edge gym and strength and conditioning suite.
Tickets for SPARC 2020 are available to all current and former UCB students at a reduced rate of £10, and to external delegates from outside the University for £20. To book, visit UCB’s our EventBrite page.
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