World experts gather at Croker for development conference

THE GAA have lined up two overseas experts to address their annual ‘Games Development Conference’ which is expected to attract over 700 delegates to Croke Park on November 28/29.

The theme of the conference is ‘A games-based approach to training and development’ and one of the keynote speakers will be Richard Shuttleworth, who is the Skill Acquisition Specialist with the Australian Institute of Sport.

Additionally, Dr Bryan McCullick of the Department of Kinesiology of the University of Georgia in the US will be attending. The subject of his address will be “becoming an expert coach”.