Associate Professor Carl Woods
Associate Professor in Sport Science
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Carl Woods is a theoretical skill acquisition scientist, studying human-environment interactions at the intersection of sport science, ecological psychology and social anthropology. In addition to his appointment at the University of Queensland, he is the Learning Design Lead at the Queensland Academy of Sport, and Learning Design National Discipline Lead for Australian Athletics.
Carl has a unique blend of theoretical and applied experiences, having held research leadership positions within the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, while coordinating coaching science, skill acquisition, and innovation within the Australian Football League.
Given these diverse experiences, his research spans three major themes: 1) theoretical advancements to the field of sport science; 2) exploring ways of fostering human-environment interactions through the promotion of ecologically literate behaviour; 3) addressing practical challenges in sport related to performance preparation, practice task design, and coach education.
Book Chapters
Woods, Carl T., Rudd, James and Robertson, Sam (2023). Supporting the development of sporting creativity in children through an enskilment approach. Routledge handbook of coaching children in sport. (pp. 40-50) edited by Martin Toms and Ruth Jeanes. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003199359-6
Roberts, Will, Rothwell, Martyn, Morgan, Haydn, Vaughan, James and Woods, Carl (2023). How an ethos of amateurism can support the integration of an ecological approach to learning and development in football academies. Critical Issues in Football. (pp. 26-37) edited by Will Roberts, Stuart Whigham, Alex Culvin and Daniel Parnell. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003253990-4
Araújo, Duarte, Woods, Carl, McCosker, Chris, Carvalho, João, Renshaw, Ian and Davids, Keith (2022). Functional variability enhances performance in self-paced tasks: An ecological dynamics approach. The Psychology of Closed Self-Paced Motor Tasks in Sports. (pp. 25-44) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003148425-3
Robinson, Ella, Lewis, Colin, Rudd, James, Foulkes, Jonathan, Wilkie, Brett, Woods, Carl and Sweeting, Alice (2021). Development of creative movement through enriched game design. Nonlinear Pedagogy and the Athletic Skills Model: The Importance of Play in Supporting Physical Literacy. (pp. 169-177) New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003025375
Wilkie, Brett, Foulkes, Jonathan, Rudd, James, Lewis, Colin, Woods, Carl, Sweeting, Alice and Robinson, Ella (2021). Measuring physical literacy: A fresh approach. Nonlinear Pedagogy and the Athletic Skills Model: The Importance of Play in Supporting Physical Literacy. (pp. 161-168) New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003025375
Woods, Carl T. and Robertson, Sam (2021). Is playing at home really an advantage? An Australian football, rugby league, and rugby union perspective. Home Advantage in Sport: Causes and the Effect on Performance. (pp. 194-203) New York, NY United States: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003081456-21
Journal Articles
McKay, Jim, Renshaw, Ian, Davids, Keith and Woods, Carl T. (2025). On the reflections of an international Rugby Union coach faring their way along. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 17479541251387612. doi: 10.1177/17479541251387612
Woods, Carl T., Richard, Véronique, Camiré, Martin and van der Kamp, John (2025). On the topic of education in a corresponsive sport science. Sport, Education and Society, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2025.2564247
Bromilow, Liam, Milne, Nikki, Woods, Carl T., Dowsett, Caroline K. and Keogh, Justin W. L. (2025). The effectiveness of linear and nonlinear pedagogical approaches in team-invasion ball sports: a systematic review. Sports Medicine - Open, 11 (1) 90, 1-16. doi: 10.1186/s40798-025-00893-y
Selimi, Erch, Lascu, Alex and Woods, Carl T. (2025). Continuing the conversation: charting a course for a situated approach to coach education in Australian football. Sport, Education and Society, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2025.2483798
Wijekulasuriya, Gyan A., Woods, Carl T., Kittel, Aden and Larkin, Paul (2025). The development and content of movement quality assessments in athletic populations: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis. Sports Medicine-Open, 11 (1) 7. doi: 10.1186/s40798-025-00813-0
Selimi, Erch and Woods, Carl T. (2025). Enskilment into the coaching landscape: towards a situated approach to coach education in Australian football. Sport, Education and Society, 30 (4), 413-426. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2024.2318396
O'Sullivan, Mark, Vaughan, James, Woods, Carl T. and Davids, Keith (2025). There is no copy and paste, but there is resonation and inhabitation: integrating a contemporary player development framework in football from a complexity sciences perspective . Journal of Sports Sciences, 43 (1), 99-108. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2023.2288979
Woods, Carl T. (2024). A flag for our time: in correspondence with van der Kamp. Sports Medicine, 54 (9), 2243-2245. doi: 10.1007/s40279-024-02049-6
Withagen, Rob, van der Kamp, John and Woods, Carl T. (2024). Conceptualizing the environment in a time of ecological collapse. Ecological Psychology, 37 (2), 83-92. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2024.2397764
Woods, Carl T., Araujo, Duarte and Davids, Keith (2024). On finding one's way: a comment on Bock et al. (2024). Psychological Research, 88 (7), 2172-2179. doi: 10.1007/s00426-024-02011-1
Woods, Carl T., Araújo, Duarte and Davids, Keith (2024). On a corresponsive sport science. Sports Medicine, 54 (5), 1071-1084. doi: 10.1007/s40279-023-01981-3
Brigante, Gustavo G. and Woods, Carl T. (2024). On making one's way through chess. Sport, Education and Society, 30 (5), 635-648. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2024.2346141
Woods, Carl T. T. and Davids, Keith (2024). Sport scientists in-becoming: from fulfilling one's potential to finding our way along. Sport Education and Society, 29 (4), 481-495. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2163231
Woods, Carl T., Davids, Keith and Araújo, Duarte (2024). On ecological literacy through implicated participation. New Ideas in Psychology, 73 101079, 101079. doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101079
Farley, Jessica B., O'Hara, Miranda, Keogh, Justin W. L., Woods, Carl T., Rathbone, Evelyne and Milne, Nikki (2024). Relationships between physical fitness characteristics, technical skill attributes, and sports injury in female Australian football players. PLoS One, 19 (2) e0298267, e0298267. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298267
Robertson, S., Zendler, J., De Mey, K., Haycraft, J., Ash, G. I., Brockett, C., Seshadri, D., Woods, C., Kober, L., Aughey, R. and Rogowski, J. (2024). Development of a sports technology quality framework. Journal of Sports Sciences, 41 (22), 1983-1993. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2024.2308435
Sullivan, Mark O., Vaughan, James and Woods, Carl T. (2024). Not just to know more, but to also know better: how data analysis-synthesis can be woven into sport science practiced as an art of inquiry. Sport, Education and Society, 29 (9), 1114-1132. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2023.2261970
Morris, Craig E., Davids, Keith and Woods, Carl T. (2024). On the wisdom of not-knowing: reflections of an Olympic Canoe Slalom coach. Sport, Education and Society, 29 (4), 385-396. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2140135
Woods, Carl T., Araújo, Duarte, McKeown, Ian and Davids, Keith (2023). Wayfinding through boundaries of knowing: professional development of academic sport scientists and what we could learn from an ethos of amateurism. Sport, Education and Society, 28 (7), 785-796. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2071861
Woods, Carl T. and Davids, Keith (2023). Thinking through making and doing: sport science as an art of inquiry. Sport, Education and Society, 28 (5), 579-593. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2022.2054792
Wilkie, Brett, Jordan, Alastair, Foulkes, Jonathan, Woods, Carl T., Davids, Keith and Rudd, James (2023). Examining the validity, reliability and feasibility of capturing children's physical literacy through games-based assessment in physical education. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5 1188364, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2023.1188364
Wedding, C. J., Gomez, M. A., Woods, C. T., Sinclair, W. H. and Leicht, A. S. (2023). Effect of match-related contextual factors on positional performance in the national rugby league. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 18 (3), 832-838. doi: 10.1177/17479541221092525
Selimi, Erch, Lascu, Alexandra, Serpiello, Fabio and Woods, Carl T. (2023). Exploring football coaches' views on coach education, role, and practice design: An Australian perspective. Plos One, 18 (5) e0285871, e0285871. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285871
Edwards, Toby, Weakley, Jonathon, Woods, Carl T., Breed, Ray, Benson, Amanda C., Suchomel, Timothy J. and Banyard, Harry G. (2023). Comparison of countermovement jump and squat jump performance between 627 state and non-state representative junior Australian football players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 37 (3), 641-645. doi: 10.1519/jsc.0000000000004299
Woods, Carl T. (2023). Toward Ithaka: hiking along paths of knowing of/in an ecologically dynamic world. Sport, Education and Society, 28 (6), 641-654. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1994939
Richard, Veronique, Cairney, John and Woods, Carl T. (2023). Holding open spaces to explore beyond: Toward a different conceptualization of specialization in high-performance sport. Frontiers in Psychology, 14 1089264, 1089264. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1089264
Wedding, Corey James, Woods, Carl Thomas, Sinclair, Wade Heath and Leicht, Anthony Scott (2022). Operational insights into analysing team and player performance in elite rugby league: a narrative review with case examples. Sports Medicine - Open, 8 (1) 140. doi: 10.1186/s40798-022-00535-7
Teune, Ben, Woods, Carl, Sweeting, Alice, Inness, Mathew and Robertson, Sam (2022). Evaluating the influence of a constraint manipulation on technical, tactical and physical athlete behaviour. PLoS One, 17 (12) e0278644, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278644
Oppici, Luca, Stell, Frederike Marie, Utesch, Till, Woods, Carl T. T., Foweather, Lawrence and Rudd, James R. R. (2022). A skill acquisition perspective on the impact of exergaming technology on foundational movement skill development in children 3-12 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports Medicine-Open, 8 (1) 148. doi: 10.1186/s40798-022-00534-8
Wood, Matthew A., Mellalieu, Stephen D., Araújo, Duarte, Woods, Carl T. and Davids, Keith (2022). Learning to coach: an ecological dynamics perspective. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 18 (2), 609-620. doi: 10.1177/17479541221138680
Harrison, Drew C., Doma, Kenji, Leicht, Anthony S., McGuckin, Teneale A., Woods, Carl T. and Connor, Jonathan D. (2022). Repeated bout effect of two resistance training bouts on bowling-specific performance in male cricketers. Sports, 10 (9) 126, 126. doi: 10.3390/sports10090126
Woods, Carl T., Araújo, Duarte and Davids, Keith (2022). Joining with the conversation: research as a sustainable practice in the sport sciences. Sports Medicine - Open, 8 (1) 102. doi: 10.1186/s40798-022-00493-0
Teune, Ben, Woods, Carl, Sweeting, Alice, Inness, Mathew and Robertson, Sam (2022). The influence of environmental and task constraint interaction on skilled behaviour in Australian Football. European Journal of Sport Science, 22 (8), 1268-1275. doi: 10.1080/17461391.2021.1958011
Wilkie, Brett, Foulkes, Jonathan, Woods, Carl T., Sweeting, Alice, Lewis, Colin, Davids, Keith and Rudd, James (2022). A games-based assessment in ecological dynamics for measuring physical literacy. Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2 (1), 50-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ajsep.2022.03.002
Vaughan, James, Mallett, Clifford J., Potrac, Paul, Woods, Carl, O'Sullivan, Mark and Davids, Keith (2022). Social and cultural constraints on football player development in Stockholm: influencing skill learning, and wellbeing. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4 832111, 1-18. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2022.832111
Yearby, Tyler, Myszka, Shawn, Roberts, William M., Woods, Carl T. and Davids, Keith (2022). Applying an ecological approach to practice design in American football: some case examples on best practice. Sports Coaching Review, 13 (3), 362-385. doi: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2057698
Teune, Ben, Woods, Carl, Sweeting, Alice, Inness, Mathew and Robertson, Sam (2022). A method to inform team sport training activity duration with change point analysis. PLOS ONE, 17 (3) e0265848. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265848
Farley, Jessica B., Woods, Carl T., Keogh, Justin W. L. and Milne, Nikki (2022). Profiling the kicking and handballing accuracy of female Australian football players across five competition levels. Science and Medicine in Football, 6 (1), 72-81. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2021.1882687
Farley, Jessica B., Keogh, Justin W. L., Woods, Carl T. and Milne, Nikki (2022). Physical fitness profiles of female Australian football players across five competition levels. Science and Medicine in Football, 6 (1), 105-126. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2021.1877335
Farley, Jessica B., Keogh, Justin W. L., Woods, Carl T. and Milne, Nikki (2022). Injury profiles of Australian football players across five, women's and girls' competition levels. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 25 (1), 58-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2021.08.016
Woods, Carl T., Rudd, James, Araújo, Duarte, Vaughan, James and Davids, Keith (2021). Weaving Lines of Inquiry: Promoting Transdisciplinarity as a Distinctive Way of Undertaking Sport Science Research. Sports Medicine - Open, 7 (1) 55, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s40798-021-00347-1
Woods, Carl T., Araújo, Duarte, Davids, Keith and Rudd, James (2021). From a technology that replaces human perception–action to one that expands it: some critiques of current technology use in sport. Sports Medicine - Open, 7 (1) 76. doi: 10.1186/s40798-021-00366-y
McKay, Jim, Davids, Keith, Robertson, Sam and Woods, Carl T. (2021). An ecological insight into the design and integration of attacking principles of play in professional rugby union: a case example. International Sport Coaching Journal, 8 (3), 394-399. doi: 10.1123/iscj.2020-0065
Woods, Carl T. and Davids, Keith (2021). “You look at an ocean; i see the rips, hear the waves, and feel the currents”: dwelling and the growth of enskiled inhabitant knowledge. Ecological Psychology, 33 (3-4), 279-296. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2021.1965481
Larkin, Paul, Woods, Carl T., Haycraft, Jade and Pyne, David B. (2021). Physical and anthropometric characteristics do not differ according to birth year quartile in high-level junior Australian football players. Sports, 9 (8) 111, 111. doi: 10.3390/sports9080111
Wedding, C., Woods, C. T., Sinclair, W. H., Gomez, M. A. and Leicht, A. S. (2021). Exploring the effect of various match factors on team playing styles in the National Rugby League. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 16 (4), 976-984. doi: 10.1177/1747954121997238
Doma, Kenji, Leicht, Anthony, Woods, Carl, Harrison, Drew, McGuckin, Teneale and Connor, Jonathan (2021). Effect of exercise-induced muscle damage on bowling-specific motor skills in male adolescent cricketers. Sports, 9 (7) 103, 1-13. doi: 10.3390/sports9070103
Robertson, Sam and Woods, Carl T. (2021). “Learning by Design”: What sports coaches can learn from video game designs. Sports Medicine - Open, 7 (1) 35, 1. doi: 10.1186/s40798-021-00329-3
Woods, Carl T., Rudd, James, Gray, Rob and Davids, Keith (2021). Enskilment: an ecological-anthropological worldview of skill, learning and education in sport. Sports Medicine - Open, 7 (1) 33. doi: 10.1186/s40798-021-00326-6
Browne, Peter, Sweeting, Alice J., Woods, Carl T. and Robertson, Sam (2021). Methodological considerations for furthering the understanding of constraints in applied sports. Sports Medicine-Open, 7 (1) 22. doi: 10.1186/s40798-021-00313-x
Sullivan, Mark O., Woods, Carl T., Vaughan, James and Davids, Keith (2021). Towards a contemporary player learning in development framework for sports practitioners. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 16 (5), 1214-1222. doi: 10.1177/17479541211002335
Rudd, J. R., Woods, C., Correia, V., Seifert, L. and Davids, K. (2021). An ecological dynamics conceptualisation of physical ‘education’: where we have been and where we could go next. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 26 (3), 293-306. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2021.1886271
Teune, Ben, Spencer, Bartholomew, Sweeting, Alice J., Woods, Carl, Inness, Mathew and Robertson, Sam (2021). Application of a continuous pressure metric for Australian football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39 (13), 1548-1554. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2021.1886416
Wedding, C., Woods, C. T., Sinclair, W. H., Gomez, M. A. and Leicht, A. S. (2021). Analysis of styles of play according to season and end of season rank in the National Rugby League. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 24 (2), 206-210. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2020.09.006
Woods, Carl T., Rothwell, Martyn, Rudd, James, Robertson, Sam and Davids, Keith (2021). Representative co-design: utilising a source of experiential knowledge for athlete development and performance preparation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 52 101804, 101804. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101804
Browne, Peter R., Woods, Carl T., Sweeting, Alice J. and Robertson, Sam (2020). Applications of a working framework for the measurement of representative learning design in Australian football. PLoS One, 15 (11) e0242336, e0242336. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242336
Otte, Fabian W., Rothwell, Martyn, Woods, Carl and Davids, Keith (2020). Specialist coaching integrated into a department of methodology in team sports organisations. Sports Medicine - Open, 6 (1) 55. doi: 10.1186/s40798-020-00284-5
Woods, Carl T., Rudd, James, Robertson, Sam and Davids, Keith (2020). Wayfinding: how ecological perspectives of navigating dynamic environments can enrich our understanding of the learner and the learning process in sport. Sports Medicine - Open, 6 (1) 51. doi: 10.1186/s40798-020-00280-9
Woods, Carl T., Robertson, Sam, Rudd, James, Araújo, Duarte and Davids, Keith (2020). ‘Knowing as we go’: a hunter-gatherer behavioural model to guide innovation in sport science. Sports Medicine - Open, 6 (1) 52. doi: 10.1186/s40798-020-00281-8
Pearce, Leesa A., Leicht, Anthony S., Gómez-Ruano, Miguel-Ángel, Sinclair, Wade H. and Woods, Carl T. (2020). The type and variation of evasive manoeuvres during an attacking task differ across a rugby league development pathway. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 20 (6), 1134-1142. doi: 10.1080/24748668.2020.1834490
Farley, Jessica B., Barrett, Lily M., Keogh, Justin W. L., Woods, Carl T. and Milne, Nikki (2020). The relationship between physical fitness attributes and sports injury in female, team ball sport players: a systematic review. Sports Medicine - Open, 6 (1) 45, 1-24. doi: 10.1186/s40798-020-00264-9
Wedding, C., Woods, C. T., Sinclair, W. H., Gomez, M. A. and Leicht, A. S. (2020). Examining the evolution and classification of player position using performance indicators in the National Rugby League during the 2015–2019 seasons. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 23 (9), 891-896. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2020.02.013
O’Sullivan, Mark, Davids, Keith, Woods, Carl T., Rothwell, Martyn and Rudd, James (2020). Conceptualizing physical literacy within an ecological dynamics framework. Quest, 72 (4), 448-462. doi: 10.1080/00336297.2020.1799828
Woods, Carl T., McKeown, Ian, O’Sullivan, Mark, Robertson, Sam and Davids, Keith (2020). Theory to practice: performance preparation models in contemporary high-level sport guided by an ecological dynamics framework. Sports Medicine - Open, 6 (1) 36. doi: 10.1186/s40798-020-00268-5
Joseph, Jacob, Woods, Carl and Joyce, Christopher (2020). Relationship between repeated kicking performance and maximal aerobic capacity in elite junior Australian football. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34 (8), 2294-2301. doi: 10.1519/jsc.0000000000002220
Cripps, Ashley J., Banyard, Harry G., Woods, Carl T., Joyce, Christopher and Hopper, Luke S. (2020). Does the longitudinal development of physical and anthropometric characteristics associate with professional career attainment in adolescent Australian footballers?. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 15 (4), 506-511. doi: 10.1177/1747954120927117
Woods, Carl T., McKeown, Ian, Rothwell, Martyn, Araujo, Duarte, Robertson, Sam and Davids, Keith (2020). Sport practitioners as sport ecology designers: how ecological dynamics has progressively changed perceptions of skill "acquisition" in the sporting habitat. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 654. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00654
Farley, Jessica B., Stein, Joshua, Keogh, Justin W. L., Woods, Carl T. and Milne, Nikki (2020). The relationship between physical fitness qualities and sport-specific technical skills in female, team-based ball players: a systematic review. Sports Medicine-Open, 6 (1) 18. doi: 10.1186/s40798-020-00245-y
Doma, Kenji, Leicht, Anthony S., Boullosa, Daniel and Woods, Carl T. (2020). Lunge exercises with blood-flow restriction induces post-activation potentiation and improves vertical jump performance. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 120 (3), 687-695. doi: 10.1007/s00421-020-04308-6
Pearce, Leesa A., Sinclair, Wade H., Leicht, Anthony S. and Woods, Carl T. (2019). Passing and tackling qualities discriminate developmental level in a rugby league talent pathway. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 19 (6), 985-998. doi: 10.1080/24748668.2019.1689750
Woods, Carl T., McKeown, Ian, Shuttleworth, Richard J., Davids, Keith and Robertson, Sam (2019). Training programme designs in professional team sport: An ecological dynamics exemplar. Human Movement Science, 66, 318-326. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2019.05.015
Woods, Carl T., Jarvis, James and McKeown, Ian (2019). Differences between elite and semi-elite Australian football conceptualised through the lens of ecological dynamics. Sports, 7 (7) 159, 159. doi: 10.3390/sports7070159
Zhang, Shaoliang, Lorenzo, Alberto, Woods, Carl T., Leicht, Anthony S. and Gómez, Miguel-Angel (2019). Evolution of game-play characteristics within-season for the National Basketball Association. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 14 (3), 355-362. doi: 10.1177/1747954119847171
Agnew, Deborah, Henderson, Pip, Marks, Andrew and Woods, Carl (2019). Maintaining Professionalism in Semi-Professional Sport: Are We Asking too Much?. Journal of Global Sport Management, 4 (1), 8-24. doi: 10.1080/24704067.2018.1493356
Bruce, Lyndell, Brooks, Edward R. and Woods, Carl T. (2018). Team and seasonal performance indicator evolution in the ANZ Championship netball league. Journal of Sports Sciences, 36 (24), 2771-2777. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2018.1473099
Woods, Carl T, Leicht, Anthony S, Jones, Ben and Till, Kevin (2018). Game-play characteristics differ between the European Super League and the National Rugby League: Implications for coaching and talent recruitment. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 13 (6), 1171-1176. doi: 10.1177/1747954118788449
Soo, Jacky, Woods, Carl T., Arjunan, Saravana Pillai, Aziz, Abdul Rashid and Ihsan, Mohammed (2018). Identifying the performance characteristics explanatory of fight outcome in elite Pencak Silat matches. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 18 (6), 973-985. doi: 10.1080/24748668.2018.1539381
Pearce, Leesa A., Sinclair, Wade H., Leicht, Anthony S. and Woods, Carl T. (2018). Physical, Anthropometric, And Athletic Movement Qualities Discriminate Development Level In A Rugby League Talent Pathway. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 32 (11), 3169-3176. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000002350
Fleay, Brock, Joyce, Christopher, Banyard, Harry and Woods, Carl T. (2018). Manipulating Field Dimensions During Small-sided Games Impacts The Technical And Physical Profiles Of Australian Footballers. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 32 (7), 2039-2044. doi: 10.1519/jsc.0000000000002423
Woods, Carl T., Robertson, Sam, Sinclair, Wade H., Till, Kevin, Pearce, Leesa and Leicht, Anthony S. (2018). A comparison of game-play characteristics between elite youth and senior Australian National Rugby League competitions. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 21 (6), 626-630. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2017.10.003
Doma, Kenji, Leicht, Anthony, Sinclair, Wade, Schumann, Moritz, Damas, Felipe, Burt, Dean and Woods, Carl (2018). Impact Of Exercise-induced Muscle Damage On Performance Test Outcomes In Elite Female Basketball Players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 32 (6), 1731-1738. doi: 10.1519/jsc.0000000000002244
Woods, Carl T., Robertson, Sam, Sinclair, Wade H. and Collier, Neil French (2018). Non-metric multidimensional performance indicator scaling reveals seasonal and team dissimilarity within the National Rugby League. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 21 (4), 410-415. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2017.06.014
Woods, Carl T., Robertson, Sam, Collier, Neil French, Swinbourne, Anne L. and Leicht, Anthony S. (2018). Transferring an analytical technique from ecology to the sport sciences. Sports Medicine, 48 (3), 725-732. doi: 10.1007/s40279-017-0775-2
Garrett, Joel M., McKeown, Ian, Burgess, Darren J., Woods, Carl T. and Eston, Roger G. (2018). A preliminary investigation into the discriminant and ecological validity of the athletic ability assessment in elite Australian rules football. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 13 (5), 679-686. doi: 10.1177/1747954117736168
Woods, Carl T., Veale, James, Fransen, Job, Robertson, Sam and Collier, Neil French (2018). Classification of playing position in elite junior Australian football using technical skill indicators. Journal of Sports Sciences, 36 (1), 97-103. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2017.1282621
Agnew, Deborah, Marks, Andrew, Henderson, Philippa and Woods, Carl (2018). Deselection from elite Australian football as the catalyst for a return to sub-elite competitions: when elite players feel there is 'still more to give.'. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health, 10 (1), 117-136. doi: 10.1080/2159676x.2017.1380074
Woods, Carl T., McKeown, Ian, Keogh, Justin and Robertson, Sam (2018). The association between fundamental athletic movements and physical fitness in elite junior Australian footballers. Journal of Sports Sciences, 36 (4), 445-450. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2017.1313996
Leicht, Anthony S., Gomez, Miguel A. and Woods, Carl T. (2017). Team Performance Indicators Explain Outcome during Women's Basketball Matches at the Olympic Games. Sports, 5 (4) 96, 1-8. doi: 10.3390/sports5040096
Woods, Carl T., Sinclair, Wade and Robertson, Sam (2017). Explaining match outcome and ladder position in the National Rugby League using team performance indicators. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20 (12), 1107-1111. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2017.04.005
Sinclair, Wade H., Leicht, Anthony S., Eady, Troy W., Marshall, Nick J. and Woods, Carl T. (2017). Identifying the physical and anthropometric qualities explanatory of paddling adolescents. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20 (12), 1112-1116. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2017.04.009
Griffin, Jesse A., McLellan, Christopher P., Presland, Jarrod, Woods, Carl T. and Keogh, Justin W. L. (2017). Effect of defensive pressure on international women's rugby sevens attacking skills frequency and execution. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 12 (6), 716-724. doi: 10.1177/1747954117738887
Leicht, Anthony S., Gomez, Miguel A. and Woods, Carl T. (2017). Explaining Match Outcome during The Men's Basketball Tournament at The Olympic Games. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 16 (4), 468-473.
Fransen, Job, Bennett, Kyle J. M., Woods, Carl T., French-Collier, Neil, Deprez, Dieter, Vaeyens, Roel and Lenoir, Matthieu (2017). Modelling age-related changes in motor competence and physical fitness in high-level youth soccer players: implications for talent identification and development. Science and Medicine in Football, 1 (3), 203-208. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2017.1366039
Pearce, Leesa, Woods, Carl, Sinclair, Wade and Leicht, Anthony (2017). Officiating Role Influences the Physical Match Activity Profiles of Rugby League Touch Judges and Referees. Journal of Human Kinetics, 58 (1), 225-231. doi: 10.1515/hukin-2017-0087
Woods, Carl T., Cripps, Ashley, Hopper, Luke and Joyce, Christopher (2017). A comparison of the physical and anthropometric qualities explanatory of talent in the elite junior Australian football development pathway. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20 (7), 684-688. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2016.11.002
Gaudion, Sarah L., Doma, Kenji, Sinclair, Wade, Banyard, Harry G. and Woods, Carl T. (2017). Identifying The Physical Fitness, Anthropometric And Athletic Movement Qualities Discriminant Of Developmental Level In Elite Junior Australian Football: Implications For The Development Of Talent. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 31 (7), 1830-1839. doi: 10.1519/jsc.0000000000001682
Cripps, Ashley J., Joyce, Christopher, Woods, Carl T. and Hopper, Luke S. (2017). Biological maturity and the anthropometric, physical and technical assessment of talent identified U16 Australian footballers. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 12 (3), 344-350. doi: 10.1177/1747954117710507
Woods, Carl T., Robertson, Sam and Collier, Neil French (2017). Evolution of game-play in the Australian Football League from 2001 to 2015. Journal of Sports Sciences, 35 (19), 1879-1887. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2016.1240879
Woods, Carl T., Veale, James P., Collier, Neil and Robertson, Sam (2017). The use of player physical and technical skill match activity profiles to predict position in the Australian Football League draft. Journal of Sports Sciences, 35 (4), 325-330. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2016.1164334
Woods, Carl T. (2016). The use of team performance indicator characteristics to explain ladder position at the conclusion of the Australian Football League home and away season. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 16 (3), 837-847. doi: 10.1080/24748668.2016.11868932
Woods, Carl T., Keller, Brad S., McKeown, Ian and Robertson, Sam (2016). A Comparison of Athletic Movement Among Talent-Identified Juniors From Different Football Codes in Australia: Implications for Talent Development. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 30 (9), 2440-2445. doi: 10.1519/jsc.0000000000001354
Woods, Carl T., Banyard, Harry G., McKeown, Ian, Fransen, Job and Robertson, Sam (2016). Discriminating Talent Identified Junior Australian Footballers Using a Fundamental Gross Athletic Movement Assessment. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 15 (3), 548-553.
Woods, Carl T., Bruce, Lyndell, Veale, James P. and Robertson, Sam (2016). The relationship between game-based performance indicators and developmental level in junior Australian football: implications for coaching. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34 (23), 2165-2169. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2016.1210816
Woods, Carl T., McKeown, Ian, Haff, Gregory G. and Robertson, Sam (2016). Comparison of athletic movement between elite junior and senior Australian football players. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34 (13), 1260-1265. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2015.1107185
Woods, Carl T., Raynor, Annette J., Bruce, Lyndell, McDonald, Zane and Robertson, Sam (2016). The application of a multi-dimensional assessment approach to talent identification in Australian football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34 (14), 1340-1345. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2016.1142668
Woods, Carl T., Joyce, Christopher and Robertson, Sam (2016). What are talent scouts actually identifying? Investigating the physical and technical skill match activity profiles of drafted and non-drafted U18 Australian footballers. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 19 (5), 419-423. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2015.04.013
Woods, Carl T., Raynor, Annette J., Bruce, Lyndell and McDonald, Zane (2016). Discriminating talent-identified junior Australian football players using a video decision-making task. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34 (4), 342-347. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2015.1053512
Robertson, Sam, Woods, Carl and Gastin, Paul (2015). Predicting higher selection in elite junior Australian Rules football: The influence of physical performance and anthropometric attributes. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 18 (5), 601-606. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2014.07.019
Woods, T. E. Carl, Raynor, J. Annette, Bruce, Lyndell and McDonald, Zane (2015). The use of skill tests to predict status in junior Australian football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 33 (11), 1132-1140. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2014.986501
Woods, Carl T. E., Raynor, Annette J., Bruce, Lyndell, McDonald, Zane and Collier, Neil (2015). Predicting playing status in junior Australian Football using physical and anthropometric parameters. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 18 (2), 225-229. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2014.02.006
Woods, Carl T., Robertson, Sam J. and Gastin, Paul B. (2015). Does relative age distribution influence the physical and anthropometric profiles of drafted under 18 Australian footballers? An investigation between the 2010 to 2013 seasons. Talent Development and Excellence, 7 (1), 83-90.
McKeown, Ian, Taylor-McKeown, Kristie, Woods, Carl and Ball, Nick (2014). Athletic Ability Assessment: A Movement Assessment Protocol For Athletes. International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, 9 (7), 862-873.