StatSports’ Alan Clarke named as a finalist for EY Entrepreneur of the Year programme

Alan Clarke of StatSports pictured working with Arsenal

Alan Clarke of local company StatSports has been named as a finalist for this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year programme.

Clarke has been nominated in the international category of the prestigious award where he will be up against Crest Solutions (Frank Madden), Diona (Graham Stubbs), PlanNet21 (Denise Tormey), SOSventures (Sean O’Sullivan), Stripe (Patrick and John Collison), Vita Liberata (Alyson Hogg) and Vizor (Ross Kelly and Conor Crowley).

StatSports was founded in Dundalk by Alan Clarke and Sean O’Connor in 2008 and is now based in Newry.

Since then StatSports has grown to become Europe’s premier, unrivalled sports science service with Manchester Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and the Leinster Rugby team amongst their clients.

Their range of products includes the world’s only GPS analysis and consultancy service. StatSports offer teams and individual athletes the opportunity to train and test themselves using the most advanced sports science equipment currently available, catering for all teams and individuals from the elite to the amateur.

As part of the nomination for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year, finalists will travel with 100 former finalists for a week-long CEO retreat to Berlin and Munich in June. There they wil visit some of the biggest names in German industry, including the BMW headquarters.

The awards gala will take place in October with a winner in the three categories announced before an overall winner is selected to represented Ireland at the World Entrepreneur of the Year awards in Monaco in June 2016.

Dundalk Mavericks team up with StatSports

The Dundalk Mavericks’ preparations for their debut Irish American Football League season took a massive leap forward recently when the club was approached by StatSports, a local sports science company, about working together.

The club was asked to trial the latest sports equipment due to hit the NFL next season. StatSports, who work with the likes of Barcelona, Manchester United and the Ireland Rugby team on a daily basis, came down to fit the Mavericks players out with the very same equipment that will be monitoring NFL stars next season.

Club Chairman/Coach Robert Shevlin said this was a huge coup for the club and the IAFL as a whole.

“StatSports have given us great insight into our own team game and  each individual player’s performance and we were delighted to be involved with them,” he said.

The StatSports team will be taking the sample data provided by the Mavericks Stateside in the coming weeks as they look to expand their operation to include the NFL.

In a statement last night, the Dundalk Mavericks said they would like to thank the Stat Sports team for the exceptional data they provided the coaches and players with and wish them the best of luck as they venture into the NFL this season.

Meanwhile, back home in Dundalk, the Mavericks are preparing for the season’s opening game in April.

They will compete in the newly formed IAFL-2 Division with the Tyrone Titans, Galway Warriors and South Kildare Soldiers. The first ever IAFL-2 fixture will be played between Dundalk and South Kildare on 6th April at the Rathbride Crossroads Pitches in Kildare. This will be followed by a home game against Tyrone on May 10th in Dundalk IT.

The schedule in full is:

• April 6th – South Kildare (Away)
• May 10th – Tyrone (Home)
• June 15th – Galway (Away)
• July 13th – Tyrone (Away)
• July 20th – South Kildare (Home)
• August 3rd – Galway (Home)

New players are always welcome and training takes place every Sunday in DkIT at 11am. For more information, you can contact the Mavericks at www.facebook.com/DundalkMavericks