David Gil

David Gil is the Performance Lab Director and Head of Sports Science at VERT, where he has spent more than a decade helping advance the use of technology and sports science in volleyball. With a background in exercise science and physiology, David has been a primary innovator behind many of VERT’s performance solutions and a driving force behind modern approaches to volleyball training and athlete management. David brings a unique perspective to the sport, viewing volleyball primarily through the lens of athlete movement and workload. Rather than focusing solely on the traditional stat sheet, his work examines what is happening physically behind each point—how athletes move, how often and how intensely they jump, how they land, how workload accumulates, and how those demands affect performance over the course of a practice, match, and season. Throughout his career, David has worked with more than a dozen national teams, over 500 collegiate programs, and professional teams around the wo