Sports Coach
Enhance the skills and performance of individual athletes and sports teams.
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- What's it like to be a Sports Coach?
- How to become a Sports Coach
- Top skills and experience for Sports Coaches
What's it like to be a Sports Coach?
Sports Coaches teach athletes the skills and abilities they need to reach their full potential. They may support professional sportspeople, sports teams, community teams or school groups, working jointly and hand-in-hand to monitor their performance. Sports Coaches improve performance by identifying areas of improvement, planning appropriate training programs and developing the fitness of athletes.
Tasks and duties
- Analysing athletes' performance.
- Assessing strengths and weaknesses and identifying areas for further development.
- Providing personalised training and fitness programs.
- Choosing team members from a group of potential players.
- Formulating strategies for specific games.
- Assuring the safety of the athletes during practice and actual games.
- Helping individuals and teams to further develop skills and abilities.
- Maintaining records of an athlete's performance.
- Giving instructions and commands through the use of clear and simple language.
How to become a Sports Coach
You must be knowledgeable on the sport you will be coaching. You can work as a Sports Coach without formal qualifications, however some employers may prefer applicants with qualifications in the field of sports. Your pathway to becoming a coach may be improved through experience playing the sport.
- Complete a bachelor degree in health science, sports coaching, exercise and sports science, sports management or human movement.
- Some employers may require you to have a coaching certification and experience playing the sport you will be coaching.
- Consider starting off as a volunteer assistant coach or part-time coach in a community or school-based program. You can use this experience as a stepping-stone to coach at a higher level.
Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Sports Coach employers on Jobstreet are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas.
Source: Jobstreet job ads and Jobstreet Profile data
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