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Q&A with Harry Routledge
Harry Routledge is a seasoned high-performance practitioner with over a decade of experience across elite sport. Previously the Head of...
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How Sportlight Empowers Sports Teams’ Departments With With Actionable Data
On the field of play, professional athletics are often grounded in tradition, slow to move toward innovation or embrace diversity of...
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Where Movement Tracking Fits in With the Future of Player Evaluations
As sports organizations have become more scientific about their approach to player evaluation, use of the data collected from player...
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Q&A with Keke Lyles
Keke Lyles recently joined Sportlight Technology as a strategic advisor, bringing decades of experience at the intersection of elite...
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Are Sports Investments Truly Resilient? Analyzing Growth and Strength in the Sports Technology Sector
As athletics have evolved from a recreational pastime or social diversion into big business and a legitimate environment for investment,...
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LiDAR vs. Optical Tracking and Wearables in Sports: Which Technology Defines the Future of Movement Tracking?
The sports industry has been working to perfect the tools and processes related to performance tracking for decades now – and have...
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Balancing Performance and Longevity in Sports
In a recent article from The Athletic and New York Times entitled “ Prominent MLB physician sounds alarm on pitching injuries ,” an...
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Sportlight Partners with the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers to Bring Next-Gen LiDAR Technology to Ice Hockey
Sportlight Technology, a leader in advanced sports technology, has partnered with the Philadelphia Flyers on an innovative project that...
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Building Trust in Sports Technology: The Vital Link Between Practitioners and Athletes
Sports science and technology have come an extraordinarily long way in a short period of time. Thanks to these a series of leaps in our...
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The Challenges of Implementing Data-Driven Scouting
With Luka Doncic having recently put on one of the more spectacular performances in an NBA postseason series ever, now seems as good a...
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Why North American Sports Could Outpace Europe in Data-Driven Scouting
In sports, data is the new frontier. In addition to the sort of Moneyball -style statistical numbers-crunching and mining of game...
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Navigating the Evolution of Movement Tracking in Sports
The long arc of performance-tracking-technology development has been driven by the same forces that make athletes, as well as the...
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How Tech Can Help Manage Player Performance Following International Play
The Premier League season is a 10-month, 38-match grind for every footballer who participates – not to mention the League and FA cup,...
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Identifying Position-Specific Demands to Elevate the Rehabilitation Process
There’s an old saying about career-building that is ostensibly about the power of projection and self-actualization: “Dress for the job...
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The Importance of Plug-and-Play Technology in Sports
The professional sports industry has changed dramatically in just the past 10 years. In particular, the way that franchises view the...
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Sportlight Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Saudi Pro League for Next-Generation Player Tracking and Performance Insights
Sportlight, a leading LiDAR and AI sports technology company, is proud to announce a multi-year agreement with the Saudi Pro League (SPL)...
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Harnessing Tech to Create Bespoke Training Programs for Athletes With Injury Histories
In the sports performance industry, technology usually has one of two purposes: 1) athlete performance optimization or 2) athlete...
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Cross-Sport Integration: Why LiDAR Has the Potential to Benefit More Sports in the Future
The common law of business balance project-management model has become virtually ubiquitous, across industries as diverse as advertising...
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How Advanced Performance-Tracking Technology Transfers From Football to Hockey
Performance-tracking technology has been used across nearly every sport, at practically every level, for some time now. Devices can be as...
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How Advanced Performance-Tracking Technology Transfers From Football to Hockey
Performance-tracking technology has been used across nearly every sport, at practically every level, for some time now. Devices can be as...
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Cross-Sport Integration: Why LiDAR Has the Potential to Benefit More Sports in the Future
The common law of business balance project-management model has become virtually ubiquitous, across industries as diverse as advertising...
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Harnessing Tech to Create Bespoke Training Programs for Athletes With Injury Histories
In the sports performance industry, technology usually has one of two purposes: 1) athlete performance optimization or 2) athlete...
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Bill Styles Q&A
Bill Styles is a sports scientist who has served as the lead first-team strength and conditioning coach at Southampton FC for almost a...
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Why LiDAR Is the Future of Data Capture in U.S. Sports
Legacy performance-tracking systems typically rely on one of three different types of technology: radio frequency, GPS or cameras. Each...
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