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How elite field hockey programs analyze with Spiideo Perform
“Program-changing” automatic cameras for coaches that like to win
Most professional teams install between three and seven Spiideo AI cameras. By scheduling every game and practice ahead of time, coaches ensure that every moment is captured with a high quality panorama, end-to-end goal cameras, and additional angles per each team’s setup.
Without a doubt I would have to say that video has helped our field hockey program just for the ease of it all. Not having to have anybody manually be on the camera but also capture a quality picture and then be able to tag and clip with efficiency has really helped us with our time demands as coaches
The video is both live and collaborative. On-field staff can pan/zoom, tag, and share clips with players instantly using drawing tools to aid visual learners. Simultaneously, remote assistants can be working on a full game or practice breakdown in real time or post-match. Video reaches both players and staff without delay, a key selling point for leaders like UMass Lowell’s Shannon LeBlanc, a coach “that likes to win” and pulls out highlights directly after the game ends.
LeBlanc says “this video has been program changing for us as far as our ability to live code during our games, and then also the immediate feedback we are able to give our team.”
Individual learning styles facilitated by daily interaction with video
The pace of workflows from capture through to breakdown, presentations and sharing, which all happens without leaving Spiideo Perform, means that personal feedback can happen far more regularly.
LeBlanc’s athletes get feedback on every session, as well as catching up on missed practices or analyzing performances when travelling to and from games while the memory is fresh. She says “they’re able to review at their leisure, which saves a lot of time not having to do it as a team in a video room. We know this generation loves that instant gratification.”
Likewise, Wake Forest’s Averill believes that daily interaction has been “critical to how the growth of the game is facilitated in each student athlete’s individual learning style”.
Adding that “the best part about this video is that I can access it from anywhere. Say, I’m out there doing an individual training session with two or three players, I can just immediately capture at that point and clip.”
Pulling opposition video and league-wide data in the same platform
Beyond analyzing their own team’s performances, college field hockey centralizes all conference games in a Spiideo League Exchange. Also automated, the exchange pulls live video from each fixture, with recordings broken down via Spiideo’s professional tagging shortly after the final whistle.
That gives each team opposition lineups, results, and event data with every instance linked to the corresponding clips. Coaches simply login to their single Spiideo Perform account, select the competitions tab, find games, browse data, compare teams, analyze clips, and prepare team presentations – all in one place and from any device, anywhere in the world.
A cloud system that’s constantly upgrading with new features
Add in developments like BenchMode, which provides game day video at just 4-second latency and a simplified tagging workflow, and the result is an all-in-one video system that teams can live in across every interaction from capture to decision.
No more handling cameras, chasing video, or managing files — and a lot more time spent on development, preparation, and winning.
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If you’re excited about building your teams’ video automation system for analysis, please reach out to our field hockey team to get started with Spiideo Perform.