Post-graduate Diploma - Sport Coaching

As governments aim to promote the benefits of lifelong physical activity and sports bodies and clubs strive to ensure talented athletes fulfill their potential, the demand for highly qualified coaches has never been greater. Informed by expert coaches, this course will increase their skills and expertise and enhance their career as professional sports coaches.

With a passion for coaching, individuals will focus on specific sports that interest them. Selecting from a range of option modules, they will be able to direct their learning towards their own practice and career goals.

Working with their course tutors and fellow student coaches on the course, they will draw on insights from contemporary practice and research to add depth to their existing knowledge and skills. Their refined expertise will improve their confidence, helping them to develop their professional judgment and decision making so they can plan, deliver and evaluate long-term coaching programs that consider and prioritize the developmental needs of their participants. They will graduate with new insights about what coaching strategies work for them and their participants and why.