GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 7, 2026 — The University of Florida Sports Analytics Laboratory (UFSAL) and AthlyticZ today announced a partnership to expand year-round technical training for the lab's student analysts. The agreement provides lab seats under a single institutional license, giving analysts access to live instruction and recorded resources that complement their applied work supporting Gators athletics.
Connecting training with real-world application
UFSAL's experiential-learning model brings together students from multiple academic disciplines to work in small teams supporting 14 of UF's 21 varsity programs. Students contribute complementary strengths in quantitative analysis, computing and sport management while addressing questions from coaches and staff. Their work provides opportunities to develop technical skills, communicate findings, and turn analysis into usable tools and insights.
The AthlyticZ partnership builds on the lab's existing mentoring and project work by connecting technical training with opportunities for direct application. Students can bring methods learned in live sessions into their team projects, strengthening their capabilities across the analytics workflow, from statistical modeling to application development and deployment.
Student analysts receive access to a continuing program of more than ten live sessions each month taught by practitioners and academics. Topics include hierarchical and Bayesian modeling, application development in R and Python, large language model workflows, and containerized deployment. Sessions are recorded, and accompanying code is available to attendees, allowing students to revisit material as their projects and learning needs evolve.
What the license covers
The institutional agreement is structured around the lab as a unit rather than individual seats, so analysts can be added through the academic year without renegotiation.
- 01Full course catalog for every student in the lab under one agreement.
- 02More than ten live sessions each month across modeling, application development, sports analytics, LLMs and productionizing.
- 03Browser-based coding environments provisioned per student, with no local installation required.
- 04Recordings and source code from every session, available from the session page.
- 05Digital credentials through Credly for completed work.
- 06Learning paths mapped to roles currently open across professional and collegiate sport.
Licenses, workshops and consulting
AthlyticZ offers institutional licenses to university laboratories, athletic departments and academic programs. Alongside the platform, the company runs custom consulting and private workshops: standing up a new analytics group, auditing and rebuilding an existing one, training a coaching or performance staff, and building specific tools with a department rather than for it. Engagements are scoped to the group and range from a single workshop to ongoing advisory.
Instruction and consulting are delivered by practitioners drawn from professional front offices across several leagues, university faculty and research groups, and open-source developers who maintain tools used widely in the field. Institutions interested in a license, a workshop or a consulting engagement can or contact AthlyticZ directly.