Hamstring injuries are among the most prevalent injuries in Gaelic Games, and come with significant health, performance, psychological and financial implications. Despite this, adoption of injury prevention protocols remains relatively low, and the prevalence of hamstring injuries appears to be increasing. Research suggests that prevention strategies that are centred around performance improvement, as well as injury prevention may create greater buy-in and long term adoption. 

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Characteristics of sprint performance have recently been identified as potential risk factors for hamstring injury occurrence in male soccer players, but this has yet to be investigated in other sports or in female athletes.

 Thus, this project proposes a 2 phase process, where phase one monitors sprint performance characteristics and hamstring occurrence across a full Gaelic Games season in order to examine if these metrics are related to hamstring injury risk across Gaelic Games codes and biological sexes. Phase 2 will then implement a sprint training intervention to modify identified risk factors in phase 1 and asses the outcome in terms of injury occurrence and sprint performance across a season.