Lorena Torres Ronda is a Spanish expert in human performance, currently Director of Player Performance at You First.

She holds a Ph.D in sport science, several Master and has a wide educational, teaching and research background spanning five different universities across the globe, with specializations in sport performance and sport science.

Lorena has more than twenty years of extensive experience working with elite professional and Olympic athletes in differente disciplines, but spent most of her professional career in professional basketball, and with professional soccer players lately. A recent milestone has been being part of the Spanish National Basketball Federation, as the first woman member of the coaching staff of the senior men's team, being part of the gold medal achieved in the 2022 European Championship. Prior to her current role, she has served as a Performance Director for the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA) and as Sport Scientist, Research and Development Coordinator with the San Antonio Spurs (NBA).

For her career, Lorena has received awards for distinguished professional achievements from the Balearic government, the Women's Sports Institute and, from the Spain’s National Sports Council [Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD)], who awarded Lorena Torres with the bronze medal of the Royal Order of the Sporting Merit.

In addition to leadership and high performance culture, her focus centers on human performance, from a holistic, multifactorial, global and integrative perspective, supporting people to achieve their performance goals, while creating a lifestyle that allows them to be their best selves.

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She is ultimately passionate about merging the science of excellence with practical applications, to help others reaching their potential.