The Loden Sports Blog
The Loden Sports Blog will serve as a vehicle to provide thought-provoking content on athletic development, use-cases for the services Loden Sports provides, and news and updates on the happenings of Loden Sports.
From full evaluations in the summer to weekly jump testing in-season, the reigning North Carolina 4A State Champion Cardinal Gibbons Football program fully embraced Loden Sports in 2022. This blog covers what we learned and how we used a weekly jump test to monitor readiness for the program.
Last fall, Loden Sports teamed up with the Houston Baseball Initiative in support of their holistic approach to youth baseball. A year later, we take a look at how Loden Sports has informed and supported their vision through providing reliable, objective data to benchmark the development of their athletes.
A look at the outlier athleticism of 2023 MLB Draft Prospect, Kyle Henley, an outfielder from Denmark High School in Cumming, Georgia.
A look at the outlier athleticism of 2023 MLB Draft Prospect, Zion Rose, a catcher from Brother Rice High School in Chicago, IL.
An investigation of the fallacy of the growth curve and an objective illustration of how 2022 MLB Draft Prospect, Josh Hood broke away from an average athletic profile in high school to Outlier status in June 2022.
On June 9, 2022, Loden Sports evaluated the raw athleticism of Vanderbilt outfielder and MLB Draft Prospect, Spencer Jones. Spencer achieved a Loden Score of 9 – a feat accomplished by fewer than 1% of elite, physically mature athletes.