Facilities, Staff, Equipment…
Facilities
CTO Amsterdam
The Baseball Science Centre is located at CTO Amsterdam. The CTO Amsterdam is one of five Dutch national Olympic training centres and facilitates training and expertice for multpli Olympic atlethes in the Amsterdam regio. Als CTO Amsterdam host one of the Dutch ‘Sport Data Labs’.
The Dutch baseball federation (KNBSB) hosts their Olympic Softball program and their national talent academy at the CTO Amsterdam.
Visiting adres
Sporthal Ookmeer
Dokter Meurerlaan 7
1067 SM Amsterdam
Meet our staff:
Staff
Erik van der Graaff, PhD
Scientific Director, Embedded Scientist at KNBSB.
Paul Venner, MSc
Head of Atletic Performance at KNBSB and NOC*NSF.
www.linkedin.com/in/paulvenner/
Martijn Nijhoff, BSc
Operation Director, Talentcoach at KNBSB.
Prof. Dr. Dirkjan Veeger
Special Advisor, Chair of the Department of Biomechanical Engineering at TU Delft
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/staff/h.e.j.veeger/
Scientific Support
Prof. Dr. Evert Verhagen
Professor at the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Evert_Verhagen
Prof. Dr. Peter J. Beek
Dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Prof. Dr. Frans van der Helm
Professor in Biomechanics and Bio-robotics at TU Delft
Interns
Bart van Trigt (PhD student – Biomechanica Engineering – TU Delft)
Ton Leenen (PhD student – Human Movement Sciences – Vrije Universiteit Asmterdam)
Eva Voortman (Human Movement Sciences – Vrije Universiteit)
Yasper Recillas (Biomechanical Design – TU Delft)
Equipment
We are currently using:
Rapsodo Pitching
Rapsodo Hitting
VULCAM
Stalker
Zephyr
Microgate
Zepp (Blast)
SensoMotoric