Sport Education
An education-led approach shaped by a Gazi University and physical education teaching background.
Sport Education • Basketball • Development
Ümit Özmen
A sport educator connecting a Gazi University and physical education teaching background with basketball coaching, youth athlete development, authorship and the JAS23 vision.
Professional Direction
A field-informed approach connecting education and coaching.
Basketball playing and coaching experience is brought into the same frame as physical education, pedagogy, youth development and long-term learning.
The center of the work is responsible youth development: training as education, movement quality, long-term participation and individual differences understood in context.
Focus Areas
Reading sport through education, coaching and long-term development.
Basketball coaching, physical education, wheelchair basketball experience, authorship and responsible use of performance-related information meet in one professional framework.
Basketball Coaching
A basketball perspective that connects former playing experience, youth-team coaching and field practice.
Athlete Development
More than 25 years of field experience framed around long-term growth and sustainable sport habits.
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair basketball experience with İskenderun Engelliler Spor Kulübü during the 2015-2016 season.
Genetics-Informed Perspective
Positioning genetic information as one possible input, never as a standalone decision system.
Authorship and Content
Publication-focused work that brings sport education, development and performance thinking to wider audiences.
Real Field Experience
A professional journey connecting playing, coaching, education and communication.
From playing experience in the 1990s to youth-team coaching, club and project periods, wheelchair basketball, seminars and authorship, the story is connected by one long-term development perspective.
Read the about pageBooks
Two book works on basketball development in Turkish and English.
Basketbolun Genetik Kodları and The Genetic Codes of Basketball explore youth athlete development, individual differences, training and recovery through a responsible development perspective.
Basketball / athlete development
The Genetic Codes of Basketball
An English-language book work connecting basketball, youth athlete development and a responsible genetics-informed training perspective.
Basketball / Turkish edition
Basketbolun Genetik Kodları
The Turkish basketball book work on individual differences, training, recovery, education and long-term planning.
JAS23 Future Vision
Foundation movement education and long-term development for ages 6-9.
JAS23 is a future-oriented sport education concept connecting foundation movement, individual differences, assessment and a parent-educator ecosystem.
Personal Platform
A profile extending from the court to books, education and future vision.
This platform brings together Ümit Özmen's work in education, coaching, youth development, authorship and the JAS23 vision under one professional identity.
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