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IT-savvy youths access the sophisticated Xoolometer to record their progress across a number of performance criteria, either via PC – potentially during school IT lessons – or through mobile phones.  It evaluates users’ key mental and physical strengths and identifies those sports most suited to each individual.  The user’s physical progress is monitored over time on key attributes identified as important for success in their chosen sport, such as speed or stamina.

The Xoolon model works for all youngsters – beginners, gifted & talented, fit and unfit - inspiring them to greater levels of participation through the Xoolometer.  As well as helping to reverse the upsurge in teen obesity partly caused by lack of exercise, Xoolon delivers all of the positive personal development and social inclusion benefits which an involvement in sport brings.

Xoolon has been developed over three years by experienced educationalists and sports psychologists and, having been successfully trialled in schools in Bristol and Edinburgh, is now available nationally.  Already, more than 50,000 school pupils in the North West and all 24 secondary and 160 primary settings in Sheffield have access to the on-line facility.

Individuals can register and begin using Xoolon free-of-charge but the designers are pitching the package at schools, where they feel the greatest impact can be made.

To this end the Xoolon has also been made a valuable aid for teachers. The software complements the national schools curriculum and is compatible with all school management framework systems.  It supports sports and head teachers with time-saving performance assessment and reporting tools and helps to identify both highly talented performers as well as those who are under-performing.  Xoolon sits very nicely with the Virtual Learning Environments being introduced to all schools.

With almost daily news coverage of the rise in childhood health problems and Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling for “two million more active people by 2012’ , Xoolon provides youngsters with the inspiration and impetus to turn lethargy into liveliness and fat into fit, through an active involvement in sport.

Go to www.xoosport.com or contact martin@xoolon.com

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