Sam Tierney
How long have you been playing football for and how did you start?
I’ve been playing since I was 6 years old. I joined a boys team at first and when I was 8 I joined Sheffield United Academy.
What team do you currently play for?
I play for Doncaster Rovers Belles in the FAWSL 2 as well as playing for Hallam.
What is your current training schedule?
I train with Belles on Tuesday and Thursday evenings as well as a technical session on Friday’s. I have S&C on Tuesday and Friday mornings and every Monday I do an individual recovery session. Games for Belles are on Sunday’s and I play for Hallam on Wednesday’s.
What is your best footballing achievement?
Representing England and scoring in a game against Holland at a camp in La Manga.
How do you feel S&C has helped you develop as an athlete?
My programme has a huge power focus and I can feel the benefits of this when playing as I feel much faster. I have gained overall strength meaning I am stronger on the ball.
Andrew Langford, Head of S&C says:
“This is one of Sam’s latest sessions. We’ve been looking at further developing strength qualities along with power output. Sam is fairly new to S&C but is progressing really quickly and is able to tolerate quite high workloads, even during the season. At the moment all of our aims are based around overall athletic development, which should lay a foundation for specific sporting qualities in the years to come. We’ve also used some force-velocity profiling with Sam, which is really useful to monitor progressions and to analyse how she produces force. In future we might also use this to prescribe loads depending on readiness.
Sam is a really great athlete to work with and has a fantastic drive and work ethic that we love to see in our scholarship athletes. She is a great role model and ambassador for Team Hallam and I am sure will progress to the highest levels of achievement”
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