London City Lionesses secure partnership with UEL
Education partnership will promote collaboration
The University of East London has formed an education partnership with the London City Lionesses Football Club.
The
agreement aims to promote collaboration between the two organisations and will
give the club’s top professional players and coaches access to high quality
sports science and rehabilitative services to enhance performance levels.
Lionesses
staff and players can now benefit from working with UEL staff and students
across a whole range of disciplines including video performance analysis, sport
psychology, strength and conditioning, sport nutrition, sport physiology, sport
biomechanics, while the club will also collaborate and provide placements to
students as well as supporting research projects around coaching/PE, physical
activity for those with specific health conditions and sport rehabilitation.
Diane
Culligan, London City Lionesses chair, said “We
are absolutely delighted to agree this collaboration with University
of East London.
“The
partnership will focus on a several key areas that are important to us as a
club while providing students with practical first experience of working within
an elite sporting environment. We hope this will be the start of a long and
mutually beneficial relationship.
“Our
players will be able to access Bachelor, Master’s degree and PhD programmes and
we look forward to supporting and welcoming talented student athletes into our
squads.”
Richard
Hunt, interim head of department for Applied Sport and Exercise Science Head at
UEL, said
“This partnership with the Lionesses is excellent news for us and our students.
Working with a strong, professional club fits so well with UEL’s commitment to
become the premier careers-first University while opening up invaluable
opportunities for industry-focused experience for staff and students.”
London City Lionesses’ head of performance Dr Ali Monajati said, “Creating the optimum environment for our players to train and play is so important. I’m excited that we have now formalised this relationship so that we can maximise the opportunities for us as a club and for UEL’s students.”