1st Team Performance Coach

Business Unit:KSE

Location:Commerce City, CO—Dick’s Sporting Goods Park

Reports To:Director of Performance

Employment Type:Full Time – Salaried– Exempt

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) is an American Sports and Entertainment holding company based in Denver, Colorado. KSE is committed to providing world class sports and entertainment for both live and broadcast audiences. We are the employer of choice as the owner and operator of Ball Arena, DICK’S Sporting Goods Park, the Paramount Theatre, Denver Nuggets (NBA), the Colorado Avalanche (NHL), Colorado Mammoth (NLL), Colorado Rapids (MLS), Altitude Sports & Entertainment, Major League Fishing/Fishing League Worldwide (MLFLW), Winner comm, Outdoor Sportsman Group and Sky Cam.

Nature of Work:

The Colorado Rapids are looking for an energetic, engaged, innovative, and highly organized 1 st Team Performance Coach. The 1 st Team Performance Coach will be directly responsible for collaborating with the Director of Performance to create and execute all pre-activation and S&C programming, along with collaborating with the medical staff in return to play programming, all in alignment with our Player Health & Performance Department systems and protocols.

This includes working closely with the Director of Player Performance, Senior Director of Sport & Data Science, and medical staff to develop and support individual player development that is in line with the needs and wants of the club. Knowledge and experience in elite return to play, movement quality assessment, pre-activation planning, S&C programming, and physical/tactical periodization processes are required to be successful in this role.

This position requires a coach who understands and respects high performance environments and who takes great pride in creating an elite, holistic, player-centric, team-first culture, ensuring that each individual player is optimizing their ability to achieve peak performance while maximizing their athletic potential and overall development throughout. Important to this role is the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team, contribute to the club’s return to performance process, and utilize objective data to help inform decision-making process.

This role will support the vertical alignment of the Colorado Rapids by working with High Potential R2 & Academy Players throughout the year to facilitate elite homegrown player development.

• Create and maintain a strong working partnership with the First Team Interdisciplinary Team (Director of Performance, Senior Director of Sport & Data Science, Sport Scientist, Medical Staff, Nutritionist, Sport Psychologist, CMO, etc.), collaborating to create a unified performance/medical approach as modeled by the First Team, facilitating a player-centric, team first environment that is committed to selfless service, player/personal development, and elite individual care for all First Team players.
• Serve as a resource to the
  First Team coaching staff by positively influencing internal and external player loads to optimize adaptation, fitness, development, and most of all player availability, using the PHP developmental framework to guide the training process.
• Track and manage player performance profiles for each First Team player and High Potential Player (R2 & Academy), including readiness testing, performance testing data, match load output, and any other relevant information.
• Support medical staff and Performance staff to develop individualized Return to Performance (RTP) program that allow each athlete to progress safely back to full training as guided by existing RTP process.
• Responsible for all performance programming and physical periodization through each phase of the year (i.e., off-season, pre-season, in-season, and post-season) in the gym under the guidance of and in collaboration with Director of Performance & Senior Director of Sport & Data Science.
• Assist with the collection and processing of gym, movement assessment, and performance related data
  , using PHP department protocols to monitor internal and external training loads and operating within the scope laid out by Director of Sport and…