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Fred Wright - Intensity stoked in the competitive cauldron

Fred Wright - Intensity stoked in the competitive cauldron

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A concept developed in basketball and popularised by one of US college soccer’s most successful coaches has been adopted by a women’s team competing in England’s fifth tier.

 

Fred Wright, coach at Whyteleafe Women, was inspired by Anson Dorrance’s use of the ‘competitive cauldron’ system at the ultra- successful University of North Carolina (UNC) women’s program.

 

The ‘competitive cauldron’ measures various performance indicators at training and Wright – a 36-year-old Uefa B licenced coach – credits it with boosting the intensity of his team’s sessions this season.

SCW caught up with him prior to one training session this week to find out more…

 

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