Bio Banding Research

Our U13, U14 & U15 Academy teams (along with players from our other programmes) were invited by York St John University to help with their research into bio-banding in football.

The boys provided details about their parents' heights, the boys were weighed, measured and asked to fill in a number of surveys. They were numbered, filmed and tracked using GPS devices.

In the morning they played in their typical age categories and in the afternoon some players were shuffled according to their physical age (before, during, after growth spurts).

It was a very long but very enjoyable day with lots of the boys catching the 6:53am train from Halifax and not getting back until after 7pm.