Chief assistant Iveta Bonova, Ph.D.

Education and Career

  • 1995-1999 – Secondary education, 166 SOU – Sports profile "Track and Field" Sofia
  • 1999-2003 – Higher education at SWU "Neofit Rilski", specialty "Pedagogy of Physical Education and Sports", Blagoevgrad
  • 2003-2005 – Master's degree, specialty "High Performance Sports – Track and Field" at NSA "Vasil Levski"
  • 2012 – PhD defense on the topic: "Age Models for Multi-Year Planning, Control, and Evaluation of Specific Sports Performance in Middle-Distance Running Athletes" at NSA "Vasil Levski", Track and Field Department
  • 2014 – Academic position: Senior Assistant
  • 2022 – Completed postgraduate qualification course, specialty "Track and Field Coach"

Teaching Activity

  • 2005-2007 – Adjunct lecturer at NSA "V. Levski" in Pedagogy
  • 2007-present – Senior Assistant at the Center for Scientific and Applied Activities in Sports at NSA "Vasil Levski". Teaching activities in: "Pedagogy"; "Youth, School, and Sports Activities"; "European Policies and Programs for Youth Activities and Sports"

Coaching and Competitive Activities

  • 2011 – National champion of Bulgaria in the 1500m and 3000m track events
  • 2011-2012 – Bulgarian national team, long-distance running
  • 2012-present – Track and Field Coach at SKLA "Universal" – Sofia
  • 2020-2022 – Conditioning coach of the national U-15 field hockey team

Scientific Interests

  • Track and Field, conditioning, physical fitness, sports testing
  • Publications
  • Bonova, I. (2021) Analysis of the training loads of recreational track and field athletes who have participated in mass start competitions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Knowledge International Journal, Volume 47.5, pp. 849-852.
  • Bonova, I., (2020) Trainability of players from the Bulgarian youth national field hockey team. Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol.18, Suppl.1, DOI:10.15547/tjs.2020.s.01.106, pp.663-668
  • Antonov, A., Bonova, I., Zoteva, D., Roeva, O., (2024) Application of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic to Identify Important Functional Performance Indicators in Case of Youth Hockey Players. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57320-0.
  • Author of the monograph: "Monitoring and Modeling the Training Process in Middle and Long-Distance Running"