From Sidelines to Spreadsheets: UF Doctoral Students Take AI Coaching Research From the Court to Japan

New study examines how coaches are using data and technology to maximize player performance and safety. 

Shortly after the confetti settled over the University of Florida’s basketball championship, two graduate students studying artificial intelligence traveled to Japan to discuss how coaches are using data and technology to maximize player performance and safety. 

Accomplished athletes themselves, UF engineering students Mollie Brewer and Kevin Childs are co-primary investigators on a paper exploring how coaches analyze data – often from wearable sensors – to shape training and strategy and, ultimately, win more games.

If a player comes off an intense workout, for example, coaches can look at the data and determine if that player needs rest before the next game. This means successful coaches – like those coaching the championship basketball team – are adding “data analyst” to their roles. 

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