00:00 So, just how does the Next Level Performance Platform work?
00:05 Well, Gavin Warwick, who is the body's CEO, says it's a college multi-sport recruiting
00:10 platform which aims to document athletes' physical improvement by capturing their individual
00:15 statistics and data as well as documenting their game footage.
00:19 The information is then used to create profiles of potential student-athletes and professional
00:24 athletes across sporting disciplines.
00:26 "It's a recruiting platform, it's a platform to be seen.
00:31 So what we're trying to do, the aim is to push, not just Trinidad, but the Caribbean
00:34 under this one platform for sport and then get coaches from the US or universities to
00:40 now say, 'Well, okay, I know Next Level provides, we have athletes that get scholarships, they
00:48 identify the top talent in the Caribbean, let's go and see what that athlete does have.'"
00:53 He added it offers players and coaches a chance to interact and replaces what existed before.
00:58 "So previously, the model will be two coaches knowing some coaches or an athlete would have
01:07 gotten an opportunity, being seen, going to a camp in the US, they're from a particular
01:12 club, they reach out to the club coach and those connections are built in that way.
01:19 It's really a who-you-know type scenario."
01:22 It also offers athletes verification.
01:24 "You're verified as now.
01:26 The team at Next Level or specific strength and conditioning coaches identified in the
01:31 islands will now check to see, okay, if you say you're running 20-meter dash in four seconds,
01:37 50, we verify that.
01:38 If you say bench press the next amount, that has been verified, so you get verified."
01:42 "How do you verify that?"
01:44 "Test, all the testing protocols."
01:47 The organization has already had two recruiting camps, where we can tend to have more conversations
01:51 with the various national sporting organizations about the initiative.
01:56 Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
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