Why you should let your players know you're going on a course

Sports Coach UK

Coach development communication to athletes.

11 Qualities of Optimal Learning Environments

Athlete Assessments

"When athletes enter into your program, they should not be viewed as a finished product, no matter how good they already are in their sport. Instead, each coach is faced with the challenge to teach their athletes; to make less skilled athletes, skilled and great athletes even better. "

Coaches and parachutes

NZ Coach

Jim Dickin on social media in coaching, including a few to follow.

Foreign coaches not helping Indian hockey: Dhanraj Pillay

Times of India

"The standard of Indian hockey is going down because of the foreign coaches as they are unaware of the strength and the weakness of Indian players," says Pillay.

Cox explores coaching options

Netball Australia

"Veteran Australian netballer Catherine Cox may have played her last game of international and domestic netball, but she has vowed to continue her involvement in the sport as she eyes a career in coaching."

Community Sport Coaching

Clearinghouse for sport

New research concluding that "overall, the coach-athlete relationship forms a key component in a participant's rationale for entering, and then continuing in a sport. The quality of coaching also contributes to a participant's satisfaction with his/her sporting experience and continued performance development".

Putting statistics on the spot

Irish Examiner

A Spanish stats professor - a 'penalty doctor' - uses his analysis of 11,000 Spanish shout out results to demonstrate why data should be considered in sportd coaching and management.

The Best Coach I Ever Had

Positive Coaching Alliance

PCA's "Insight from Sports Experts" participant, George Cohen, describes the best coach he ever had.

Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?

David Epstein, TEDTalks

When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.

Always #LikeAGirl

Using "Like a girl" as an insult is a hard knock against any adolescent girl. And since the rest of puberty's really no picnic either, it's easy to see what a huge impact it can have on a girl's self-confidence.