Elite & Professional Sport

Elite & Professional Sport

Over a decade at the sharp end of world sport — where marginal gains decide titles, and the science of the human body is a competitive weapon.

Football

The Premier League

Five years in professional football as a performance lead — one of only three women working at that level in the Premier League — alongside roles with the Football Association and the Women's Super League. Responsible for the physiology, conditioning, nutrition and recovery of elite squads competing week in, week out.

Tess Morris-Paterson briefing a professional football squad in the dressing room
Motorsport

McLaren Formula One

Human performance support for the McLaren Formula One race team, including published research on how the unique demands of the Singapore Grand Prix — heat, humidity and a night-race body clock — affect the cognitive function of the crew. In F1, the machines get the headlines; the humans win the races.

Tess Morris-Paterson with Jenson Button and Jonny Brownlee
Olympic & Paralympic

Head of Performance, athletics

Leadership of multidisciplinary expert teams across Olympic and Paralympic athletics — and hands-on innovation, including a novel method for measuring an athlete's total-body muscle mass with a single pill, and customised nutrition strategies for the world's best track and field athletes.

Tess Morris-Paterson with Sir Mo Farah and training group
Individual athletes

World No.1s, one to one

Coaching and performance science for world-ranked tennis players and golfers, and Olympic gold medal-winning athletes — translating laboratory science into the routines, sessions and decisions that hold up under tournament pressure.

Tess Morris-Paterson with Andy Murray and performance colleagues
PhysiologyStrength & ConditioningPerformance NutritionRecovery & SleepCognitive PerformanceTeam Design