Development Coach
A sports coach teaches individuals and teams to improve the way they play their sport by analysing their performances, instructing players in relevant skills and enhancing players' performance.
Coaches facilitate the development of athletes in order to improve performance of the individual or team.
This requires the coach to:
Sport coaches usually specialise in a particular sport. Coaches may operate at a local or regional, state or territory, national o and international level.
Coaches are employed by sporting clubs and associations, government agencies, government funded centres (e.g. The Australian Institute of Sport), holiday resorts and centres specialising in particular sports (e.g. Horse-riding schools), swimming centres, health clubs and community institutions.
In some sports, coaches may be self-employed in a sports training centre that they own or lease. Some coaches are unpaid volunteers.
They may perform the following tasks:
Be prepared to work long hours, usually in the evenings and on weekends. It takes a great deal of dedication to be successful, so a love of the chosen sport is a definite advantage.
Coaches facilitate the development of athletes in order to improve performance of the individual or team.
This requires the coach to:
- Plan, conduct and evaluate training
- Evaluate and analyse the sport specific performance of individual athletes and/or teams
- Design individualised training programs
- Apply a variety of teaching methods and instructional styles.
Sport coaches usually specialise in a particular sport. Coaches may operate at a local or regional, state or territory, national o and international level.
Coaches are employed by sporting clubs and associations, government agencies, government funded centres (e.g. The Australian Institute of Sport), holiday resorts and centres specialising in particular sports (e.g. Horse-riding schools), swimming centres, health clubs and community institutions.
In some sports, coaches may be self-employed in a sports training centre that they own or lease. Some coaches are unpaid volunteers.
They may perform the following tasks:
- Observe individual performances to determine the level of instruction required
- Teach techniques for players to acquire additional skills or improve existing skills
- Supervise practice sessions
- Plan, conduct, monitor and adjust an individualised training program
- Implement sports first aid procedures and apply sports first aid
- Supervise the physical development of athletes by teaching or developing the skills of strength and conditioning
- Aid in the psychological preparation of athletes to meet the needs of competition and training
- Organise and liaise with sports science support staff and officials
- Provide information about drugs in sport issues
- Apply the principles of eating for peak performance
- Plan and direct game strategy, sometimes in consultation with club officials
- Analyse the progress of games or competitions and give signals and instructions to players
- Travel with teams or individuals
Be prepared to work long hours, usually in the evenings and on weekends. It takes a great deal of dedication to be successful, so a love of the chosen sport is a definite advantage.
