PhD, Associate Professor V.V. Kadakin¹
PhD, Associate Professor O.V. Chetaikina¹
PhD, Associate Professor M.Yu. Kulebyakina¹
PhD, Associate Professor E.A. Yakimova^1
1Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M.E. Evsevyev, Saransk

Keywords: sport reserve, prospects, general education programs, REC Success Academy.

Background. Modern elite sports with their growing global competitiveness are increasingly demanding to the sport reserve training standards. One of the most promising ways to improve the sport reserve training system and step up the Russian sports competitiveness on the global arenas is to upgrade the elite athletic and sport reserve training systems, with a special priority to the prospects’ selection standards and processes and the institutional development initiatives to facilitate progress of the human resource in the sector.

The efforts to find and promote promising athletes shall be taken via cooperation of the relevant general, advanced and higher education establishments well supported by material, technical, human, programmatic and methodological resources. The issues of the institutional cooperation in this context have been addressed in many study reports to offer a variety of school-university networking models [2, 3] including advanced and higher educational systems integration models to secure due sport reserve, sub-professional and professional training standards to expand the inflow of a high-quality human resource to the national physical education and sports (PES) sector [3, p.14]. Such institutional networking models are designed to offer a high-efficiency training service to the prospects with the early self-identification and professional specialization processes being duly harmonized in the secondary and higher educational systems.

MSPI is proud of its multiannual practical experience of successful institutional cooperation as acknowledged by the relevant accreditation from the Russian Education Academy and its leadership in the role of a basic national center for the new educational models piloting projects. The latest successful new projects of that kind that deserve mentioning are the ‘Success Academy’ Research Education Center, Junior School Academy and the special school programs implemented in the Children and Youth Sport Schools (CYSS) in Saransk geared to select and train the most promising underage and junior athletes.

Objective of the study was to analyze the key institutional and educational provisions for success of the sport reserve training service provided by the ‘Success Academy’ Research Education Center.

Methods and structure of the study. The study analyzes the practical training experience of the ‘Success Academy’ Research Education Center in application to the junior prospects having good chances for competitive success in martial arts and track and field. The study spells out the key institutional and educational provisions for success of the sport reserve training service by the ‘Success Academy’ RES with contribution from the ‘Sirius’ Education Center in Sochi.

Study findings and discussion. One of the top priority objectives of the Republican ‘Success Academy’ RES is to train prospects for the martial arts and track and field in compliance with the Federal Sport Training Standards and as provided by the valid general educational programs [4, 5]. One of the key institutional and educational provisions for the sport reserve training at the ‘Success Academy’ RES is the selection of underage prospects for the research training sessions. Due attention in the selection process is given to the CYSS instructors’ recommendations conditional on the prospects being tested successful in their sport disciplines, with the junior champions of municipal/ national/ international competitions qualified directly, without entrance contests.

One more provision for the sport reserve training system is the additional education/ training programs for junior martial artists and track and field athletes. The CYSS Martial Arts (Judo) and Track and Field (Middle/ Long-Distance Race) programs are designed to secure high physical fitness and competitive successes for the trainees, with this policy pursued in every research training session in compliance with the valid training standards. The research training sessions are designed to give due theoretical and practical knowledge to the trainees, facilitate their technical progress and improve their physical fitness rates. The training sessions include master classes and game technologies like relay races, active/ team sports etc. A high priority in the junior prospects’ training process is given to the practical and research tasks, including heart rate measured and fixed in daily records; wellbeing self-rating after physical practices; making advertising materials for public promotion campaigns like Judo for Everybody; or Track and Field is My Choice etc.

Modern and safe sport facilities and equipment meeting the valid training standards comprise one more key institutional provision for success of the sport reserve training system. The ‘Success Academy’ RES applies the MSPI sport infrastructure of the Regional Center for Practical Research in Physical Education and Healthy Lifestyles that provides the functionality and physical fitness test services in the junior athletes’ training process; new gyms of the Institute; Olympic Sports and Health Center; and the Fitness-VUZ Sports and Health Center; with each of these sport facilities well equipped with the modern training systems and exercise machines to facilitate progress of the junior athletes. In addition to the academic sport facilities, ‘Success Academy’ RES enjoys ready access to the sport facilities of the Children and Youth Sport Schools (CYSS) in Saransk.

The junior prospects are trained by the leading MSPI academicians and best coaches of the Mordovian Republic including T.G. Khaibulatov, Olympic, World and European Champion; S.V. Bakulin, Honorary Master of Sport, Russian champion, European Cup and World University Games champion; D.G. Nizhegorodov, Honorary Master of Sport, two-times Olympic champion; and many others.

A high priority in the junior prospects’ training system is given to the follow-up (post-education) professional self-identification and progress facilitating services including master classes, competitions, university games, research contests, Olympics (including Evsevyev’s Open School Sport Olympics; Republican Finals of the All-Russian School Sport Olympics etc.). Benefits of the sport reserve training services provided by the ‘Success Academy’ RES are additionally verified by the practical competitive accomplishments of its junior trainees in the School Sport Olympics, Republican and national competitions.

Training services provided by the ‘Success Academy’ RES have been highly appreciated by the trainees, their families and national sport and research communities as demonstrated by the questionnaire survey data. The respondents highly acknowledge the top-quality training methods and technologies; knowledge and skills of the trainers; modern sport facilities and equipment at MSPI; plus the trainees’ competitive accomplishments and the practical experience accumulated in the research training sessions.

Conclusion. Practical experience of the junior prospects’ training service provided by the ‘Success Academy’ RES shows that the sport reserve training may be highly successful conditional on the following institutional and educational provisions:

• Good selection of prospects for the competitive success focused trainings in the research training sessions;
• Advanced general education programs to support the sport-specific research training sessions;
• Facilitating programmatic and practical materials for the most efficient design of the training process;
• Modern sport infrastructure;
• Highly knowledgeable and skillful training service personnel; and
• Good follow-up (post-education) professional progress facilitating services including master classes, contests, competitions, research contests sponsored by the Junior School Academy, competitive database services, further support of the university entrants from among gifted prospects etc.

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Corresponding author: t_i_shukshina@mordgpi.ru

Abstract

Competition on the global sport arenas has been on the rise for the last decade, and this is the reason why the Russian sport system needs to modernize the sport training and excellence systems with a special priority to the junior prospects’ selection process and the institutional development initiatives to ensure progress and inflow of the human resource in the sector. The gifted children and youth selection mission shall be facilitated by a closer cooperation of schools and universities with their material, technical, human, programmatic and practical resources being united and fully mobilized for success. This was the key argument for establishing the ‘Success Academy’ Research Education Center at Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute (MSPI) named after M.E. Evsevyev with support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Mordovian Republican Government and ‘Sirius’ Education Center in Sochi. Subject to analysis in the article is the MSPI progress in implementing a few general education programs at the ‘Success Academy’ REC for the junior prospects having good chances for a competitive progress. The study spells out the key institutional and educational provisions for success of the sport reserve training service.