For schools, academies & clubs
Training is onlypart of the story.
The habits that decide whether young athletes thrive or quit are built between sessions. Sleep, fuelling, confidence, pressure, setbacks. We guide every athlete in your programme through all of it.
At a glance
For schools, academies & clubs
Training is onlypart of it.
The habits that decide whether young athletes thrive or quit are built between sessions. Sleep, fuelling, confidence, pressure, setbacks. We guide every athlete in your programme through all of it.
At a glance
For schools, academies & clubs
Training is onlypart of it.
The habits that decide whether young athletes thrive or quit are built between sessions. Sleep, fuelling, confidence, pressure, setbacks. We guide every athlete in your programme through all of it.
At a glance
For schools, academies & clubs
Training is onlypart of the story.
The habits that decide whether young athletes thrive or quit are built between sessions. Sleep, fuelling, confidence, pressure, setbacks. We guide every athlete in your programme through all of it.
At a glance
Trusted by
The Athlete Place is the future of athlete support. This is something I have never seen before, a complete, 360-degree approach that guides not just the athlete, but the person behind the performance. It is a game-changer for young athletes in their sport and life beyond. I wish I had this when I was starting out.Colin Jackson CBEOlympic silver medallist · former world record holder
The gap
Most young
athletes quit
before age 18.
Not for lack of talent. For lack of guidance.
You and your coaches already know that what decides an athlete's future happens away from the training ground.
Finding the hours and the expertise to cover it, for a whole cohort, is the problem.
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Mindset, fuelling, pressure, identity. It all matters, and none of it fits into a session plan.
The Athlete Place
has you covered.
We’ve created two platforms.
One for teenage athletes, the other for their parents.
For your athletes
A platform built for teenage athletes.
A library of 80+ topics, there whenever an athlete needs it, plus the ready-made learning pathways that give them structure. Use ours, or have us build them around your programme.
- ✓Supplements your existing programme
- ✓Saves your staff time
- ✓Fills the gaps in staff knowledge
- ✓A modern approach to learning
- ✓Hybrid of screen and off-screen learning
- ✓Safeguarding compliant
- ✓Added value for parents and stakeholders
The guidance library
Everything a young athlete needs, in one place.
Content created alongside elite athletes, sports psychologists, nutritionists and student-athlete mentors.
Take a look. Every course is open to preview.
Ready-made athlete
development pathways.
Hand a teenager the full library and most won’t know where to begin. A pathway removes that decision. We’ve made six so you don’t have to, each designed to progress as the athlete does.
80+ topics is a lot.
Pathways make it manageable.
✓ Included as standard with every licence
The ten topics, in order
Premium add-on Custom pathways
Or we build one
around your programme.
The six ready-made pathways suit most programmes. If yours needs something specific, we build bespoke pathways from the full library, on your schedule. Charged separately from your annual licence and priced on application.
- 01You tell us what you need
- 02We build and sequence it
- 03We assign it to your groups
A taster only, nothing is saved. The full builder has every topic, drag to reorder, release dates and group assignment.
Included in every licence
No add-ons, no upsells. It all comes as standard.
Everything below is part of the same annual fee, for every athlete on your licence.
Elite Athlete Insights
Interviews with athletes across sports, talking honestly about the parts nobody prepared them for.
Quizzes & progress
Every lesson ends with a short quiz, so athletes check understanding and your staff can see engagement.
Printable journals
Reflection sheets for most topics, so the learning carries on away from the screen.
Expert directory
Vetted specialists we signpost to, for the moments a lesson isn't enough on its own.
And now for their parents…
The people who shape the environment around a young athlete.
For their parents
A platform built for their parents.
Home shapes performance more than most sessions ever will. Every parent on your licence gets their own platform, so the guidance your athletes receive is backed up rather than undone at the kitchen table.
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Key topics, from the parent’s perspective The same subjects, rewritten for a parent. Plus courses on Athlete Parenting and Family Impacts.
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Three ready-made pathways One for each stage of their athlete's journey, so parents know where to start without any input from your staff.
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The elite athlete interviews The same interviews your athletes watch, so athletes and parents are on the same page.
How it can be delivered
The perfect supplement
to any youth sport programme.
Every topic is built in three parts. Athletes learn the subject, test whether it stuck, then apply it to their own sport in the journal. That structure is also what makes it flexible: teach it, set it as homework, use it one to one, or leave athletes to work through it themselves.
What one topic contains
01 · Learn
10 mins The lessonWritten and filmed content with an elite athlete or expert. Short by design, so athletes finish it.
02 · Check
5 mins The quizA short, manageable quiz, brief enough not to put anyone off. A 100% pass is required, so athletes have to understand a topic before they move on to the next one.
03 · Apply
30–45 mins The worksheetPrintable reflection work that asks athletes to apply the topic to their own sport, their own season, their own situation.
Per topic
~1 hour of structured learning, with minimal prep from your staffSix ways programmes actually run it
These are the models our partner schools and academies use. Pick one, or move between them as the season allows. The three marked with a star work best together, and that combination is how our strongest programmes run it.
Classroom-led session
Put the lesson up on screen and work through it together, in a tutor slot, PSHE period or squad meeting. Nothing to prepare, just open it and go.
Quiz and worksheet as homework
Teach it in the room, then set the quiz and worksheet to be completed at home. Learning continues without another timetable slot.
One-to-one mentor sessions
Athletes complete the worksheet beforehand and bring it along, or work through it together in the session itself. Either way, every meeting has a structure and a subject.
Self-paced, coach-backed
A login on its own won't drive engagement. The programmes that work best are the ones where coaches back it, mention it and ask about it. The more your staff buy in, the more your athletes do.
Injured or out of season
An athlete who can't train can still develop. Keeps them connected to the programme through the period they're most likely to drift.
Parent workshops
Run a session for parents using the matching parent content, or send the pathway home ahead of a parents' evening.
Any order. Any mix. Minimal prep either way. Change the model mid-year without changing the content, the licence or the cost.
See how it would run for youThink long term
Set it up once.
It runs year on year.
Each September every athlete moves up to the next pathway and your new intake starts at the beginning. Nobody repeats content, joiners slot straight in at their year group, and as we add new topics and interviews, you get them at no extra cost. Year one it saves your staff time. By year three it's simply how your programme works.
However it suits you
We’ve considered
phone-free schools.
In your setting it runs on your devices, under your filtering and your rules. Outside it, athletes can carry on wherever they are. Laptops, tablets, shared computers or phones, it works the same on all of them.
In school or at the academy
On your devices, your rules.
Lessons and quizzes run on whatever you already use, with your safeguarding software applied. The journal is downloaded and completed however suits you, printed or in PowerPoint. Whatever your device policy is, it fits.
- ✓Journals, your wayPrint them, or download and complete them in PowerPoint or Word on a school device.
- ✓Runs on your devicesA computer suite, a shared laptop, a tablet, or their phone (if allowed).
- ✓Saved inside your systems, not oursCompleted work stays in your shared folders, where a coach or tutor can see it.
- ✓Nothing they write comes back to usTheir journal reflections stay with the athlete and with you.
Outside school hours
And it travels with them.
At home, on the coach to a fixture, or the night before a final. The app puts the whole library in their pocket, so athletes have access to topics as and when they need them.
- ×No endless scrollingNothing designed to keep them there longer than the lesson.
- ×No comments or messagingAthletes can't contact each other, and nobody can contact them.
- ✓Ten minutes at a timeShort, manageable, bite-sized lessons.
- ✓Journals download from the appPick up where they left off, then print or work offline.
Two ways in. One programme.
Whichever way your athletes work through it, the pathway, the progress and the reporting are exactly the same.Safeguarding & duty of care
Safe in their hands,
when nobody is watching.
Young athletes work through this on their own, often on subjects they would never raise in front of anyone. We have put a great deal into making sure it's a safe place for them to do that, and something the staff around them can trust without having to check it first.
Who checked it
Where relevant, content is audited by accredited specialists.
Not written by a content team and signed off internally. We work with leading practitioners across the subject areas that need them, so the content is safe, credible, and written in a way young athletes actually take in.
- It points them to you, not to us Where a topic touches something serious, athletes are prompted to speak to a trusted adult in your organisation. A starting point for the conversation, never a substitute for your staff.
- Nobody can contact an athlete No chat, no comments, no messaging, no contact between users of any kind. There is no route through the platform for anyone at all to reach a young person.
- Their writing stays in your systems Journals are printed or filled in on your devices and saved to your folders. Quizzes are general knowledge in the third person. No personal writing ever reaches us.
- No AI for athletes to talk to No chatbot, no companion, nothing an athlete can hold a conversation with. If a young person needs to talk to someone, we point them to a real adult, not a machine.
- Reinforces your safeguarding lead Preventive, awareness-led content aligned to safeguarding best practice. It supports what your organisation already teaches rather than cutting across it.
For your DPO
We hold almost nothing.
ICO registered ZB958464. DPA provided as standard, full policy pack on request.
What we store
What we never store
Pricing, out in the open
Pricing that scales with you.
The more athletes you want to look after, the less each one costs. We would rather you reached everyone than picked a few.
For 500+ seats, type the number directly into the box above.
Annual total
Per seat
£41.67 £3.47 / monthExcluding VAT
Included in every licence
- ✓All eleven courses
- ✓The Parent Platform
- ✓Six ready-made pathways
- ✓Printable journals
- ✓Elite Athlete Insights
- ✓Quizzes and reporting
- ✓iOS and Android app
- ✓Onboarding and setup
No add-ons. No upsells. Everything above comes as standard, for every athlete and every parent on your licence.
Optional add-on
Custom pathways
Tell us what your programme needs and we build the pathways around it, from the full library, released on your schedule. Charged separately from your annual licence.
- ✓Built from every lesson in the library
- ✓Sequenced and released on your dates
- ✓Assigned by squad, year group or cohort
- ✓Changed whenever your season does
Priced on applicationTalk it through on the call and we'll quote it.
Why this exists
Nobody told me the hard part happens away from training.
I competed for Great Britain as a junior in the 400m hurdles, and won national age-group titles along the way. On paper it looked like it was going well.
Off paper I was dealing with injury, burnout, and things nobody had prepared me for. I was studying sport science at Loughborough at the time, surrounded by expertise, and I still could not find the guidance I actually needed. I lost the sport I loved, and part of myself in the process.
Most young athletes who quit don't leave because they were not good enough. They leave because nobody helped them with the parts that happen away from training. That was true for me, and it's still true now.
So I built the place I needed. The elite athletes, the experts, the honest conversations, all of it in one place, for the athletes coming up behind me.
Next step
We know your week is busy.
Got 20 minutes?
A proper look at the platform, a chance to ask anything, and an honest conversation about what we could do together for your athletes.
- Both platforms
- Your pathways
- Safeguarding & data
- Preview account
Athletes and parents can join us directly.
You don’t have to be part of a school or academy to join The Athlete Place.
Both platforms are open to individuals with exactly the same content.
Start your own pathway.
Eleven courses on everything training doesn't cover. Mindset, sleep, fuelling, pressure, and what to do when it stops being fun.
Join as an athlete →
Know what to say, and when.
The car journey home, the deselection, the exam term. Built for the people shaping the environment around a young athlete.
Join as a parent →Think your school or club should have this? Send them this page.
Most of our partners started with one person asking.
Athletes and parents can join us directly.
You don’t have to be part of a school or academy to join The Athlete Place.
Both platforms are open to individuals with exactly the same content.
Start your own pathway.
Eleven courses on everything training doesn't cover. Mindset, sleep, fuelling, pressure, and what to do when it stops being fun.
Join as an athlete →
Know what to say, and when.
The car journey home, the deselection, the exam term. Built for the people shaping the environment around a young athlete.
Join as a parent →Think your school or club should have this? Send them this page.
Most of our partners started with one person asking.
