Welcome to
Sports Coaching
Links relating to successful coaching, exercise physiology and athletic
development for sports coaches, athletes of all standards and sports.
In sports, a coach is an individual
involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field
operations of an athletic team or of individual athletes.
Coaching entails the application of sport tactics and strategies
during the game or contest itself, and usually entails
substitution of players and other such actions as needed. Most
coaches are former participants in the sports in which they are
involved, and those who are not have usually had extensive
training in the sport in question.
For example,
only around 470000 coaches have a
coaching qualification, 230000 are paid
to coach, and only 60000 coach
full-time. Sports Coach UK are ...
www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/coaching.htm |
Degrees in
coaching, sports science,
sports studies, movement studies and
physical education can also provide
coaching qualifications and experience.
...
www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/helpwithyourcareer/jobprofiles/profiles/profile336/ |
To become a
qualified coach in a sport,
you'll need to take the coaching
qualifications offered by the national
governing body of that sport.
news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/parent/hi/thinking_of_coaching/taking_it_further/default.stm |
Sports
coaching qualifications provided in
partnership with Kent Sports
Development Unit.
www.kentsport.org/coaching_sporcoach_qual.cfm |
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