Fighter Pilot Training Helps Four Indiana High School Basketball Teams Have Historic...

Fighter Pilot Training Helps Four Indiana High School Basketball Teams Have
Historic Seasons

EAST HANOVER, N.J., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The same technology initially
developed to train fighter pilots on the cognitive, brain level was an
integral part of the training for four Indianapolis high school basketball
teams this season -- Carmel, Franklin Central, Indy Tech and Zionsville.
The Basketball IntelliGym(TM) software program, proven to improve
real-time decision-making and execution for thousands of basketball players,
awarded two players on each team an IntelliGym scholarship this season. Not
surprisingly, all four teams had successful seasons and, according to their
coaches, the players training with the system showed dramatic improvement.
Mark Galloway, Head Coach, Carmel High School credits the IntelliGym for a
record-breaking season for his point guard who helped lead the team to a 22-3
record this year including MIC Conference Champions and Sectional Champions.
"We benefited right away from this product," said Coach Galloway. "Our
point guard trained diligently, and as promised we saw great strides from his
play. He broke our single season and game assist records, earned 1st Team
All-State and Metro North Player of the Year honors and a scholarship to play
at Boston University."
"Our player completed 8 training sessions at the beginning of the season
and his play early on was outstanding," admitted Coach John Hamilton who led
Indy Tech to improve upon their 10-10 record of a year ago to post a 13-9
record and reach the semi-finals of the Sectional Tournament for the first
time in 15 years. "His reactions were quicker and he had some of his best
games early in the season including a pair of 25 point outings. It clearly
helped his court awareness and decision-making and helped our team come
together quicker than I had expected."
Franklin Central head coach Mark James, whose team posted a 17-8 record
and won the 4A Perry Meridian Sectional Championship provided the IntelliGym
to a freshman point guard on his JV squad and junior point guard on the
varsity squad. The frosh showed so much improvement during the season that he
joined the varsity team and started the last seven games of the season.
"The system definitely helped with their decision-making on the court,"
said Coach James. "Our freshman committed only 27 turnovers in 25 games and
very few of them were decision-making in nature. I have no doubt that this
training helped him excel and fit in well when we called him up to play
varsity."
The IntelliGym looks like an innocent computer game -- but much more is
actually going on. As the player manipulates simple movements on the screen,
"shooting" ammunition at moving targets, the system is busy analyzing skills
and customizing a training program for the player. The computer will then
administer to the player the tailor-fit training program, monitoring his or
her progress at every stage and reacting to every improvement or setback. As
the player becomes better, the activity becomes more and more demanding.
In addition to be used by thousands of high school players, the Basketball
IntelliGym has also been used over the past four years by many top college
programs including: Florida, Memphis, Kansas, Purdue, Long Beach State and
more. More information is at www.IntelliGym.com.
SOURCE IntelliGym

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