"athletic development" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of improvement in one's physical skills, such as agility and endurance, which are important for certain sports. For example, "The high school athlete has put a lot of time and effort into her athletic development this season."
Also under Mr. Putin, a black belt in judo who has made athletic development a national priority, the government increased training stipends for disabled athletes, as well as money for foreign travel.
Fewer young athletes play multiple sports these days, a trend thought to decrease overall athletic development and lead to burnout.
DEPAUL--Named Lemone Lampley assistant director of athletic development.
DUKE -- Named Marty Riggs first base coach and outfielders coach, Thomas Coffman director of athletic development, and Don Fowler associate director of athletic development.
They say their fathers were an integral part of their athletic development.
AUBURN--Announced associate athletic director Jay Jacobs will oversee athletic development efforts.
MINNESOTA--Named Mike Halloran associate athletic director/director of athletics development.
A network of shared affordances in the environment can invite specific actions, which provide opportunities for athletic skill development as athletes become more adaptive at sampling a variety of environmental properties and energy flows intrinsic to parkour and a team sport being targeted [18].
They are bigger, faster and more athletic — a development that comes into focus in the dual exhibit by Paul Pfeiffer, a photographer and videographer who, according to promotional materials, "reframes the players, the ball and the architecture of the arena to underline the sublime potential of the game and its metaphoric undertones".
This project responds to the call for athletic career development and transitions research that centralizes the constitutive role of culture in athletes' experiences (Stambulova & Alfermann, 2009; Stambulova & Ryba, 2014).
According to the ASM, to avoid the pitfalls of early specialisation, practice in specific youth sport programmes should be (re) designed to include experience of various physical activities, termed donor sports, which cultivate athletic skill development through exploratory practice and guided discovery.
