Scientific and methodological support for student national teams in non-Olympic sports within the context of modern student sports development

The purpose of the study is to identify ways to implement the developed model of an integrated scientific group for supporting the training process of student national teams, taking into account the resource and structural capabilities of the higher education institution. Research methods: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical experiment, modeling, pedagogical testing, pedagogical observation, methods of mathematical and statistical data processing. Research results and conclusions. The article presents the results of a pedagogical experiment on the implementation of the developed structure of the scientific and methodological support model for a student national team, taking into account the resource and structural capabilities of the higher education institution for supporting the team's training process, based on the legal regulation of the organization and functioning of the integrated scientific group, for further application in minority and non‑olympic sports (using the example of polyathlon) and the specifics of competitive activity. A pedagogical experiment was also conducted, consisting in the implementation of the developed scientific and methodological support model into the training process of the student national team of the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sports and Health, St. Petersburg