Fact sheets
Every year, many people (parents in particular) coach a sporting team - often by default as no one else volunteered to do it. Most new coaches seek information to assist them to do the best job they can for the participants.
The information provided in the fact sheets, will assist beginner coaches to undertake their role more effectively. You can also refer to the 'templates for coaches’ section for other tools to assist.
- Coaching children
- How to motivate young people
- Sample Training Session for Young People
- Child protection for coaches
- Managing children's behaviour
- Working with parents
- Weight training for young athletes
- Modified Sport
- Planning a training session
- The warm up and cool down
- Conducting a training session
- Demonstrating a skill
- Organising a group
- Keeping things safe
- Incident management
- What is expected of a volunteer coach
- Working with officials
- Inclusive coaching
- Sports nutrition
- Coaching older athletes
- Coaching Indigenous athletes
- Coaching skills checklist (
PDF - 23.0 kb) - Education and training - coaching (Link)
