Coaching role and responsibility
Volume 29 Number 4
It’s been said that the nature of relationships between coaches and officials is due to one big difference in their points of view: coaches care who wins and officials don’t.
Volume 28 Number 4
Elite coaches should sit down every December and make a list of personal aims for the coming year, says a consultant to leading business people in Australia and the United States.
Volume 28 Number 4
Valery Kaladzinski is used to coping with tears. As senior coach of the women’s gymnastics program at the Australian Institute of Sport he knows only too well he is dealing with athletes who are sometimes physically ready for elite competition ahead of their mental and emotional development.
Volume 28 Number 1
In the recent National Basketball League finals, Brian Goorjian was to be seen out of his seat, prowling the sidelines, barking instructions to his players and "working the referees", as he puts it.
Volume 28 Number 4
My role at the Australian Sports Commission, as Manager of the National Athlete Career and Education area, gives me an insight into the demands that are placed on athletes as they strive to achieve results in training and competition.
Volume 28 Number 2
There are no rules or clear pathways to becoming a great coach. There are no laws that say you should do this or you should do that. There is no set or established plan that you must follow to become a good coach or a great coach.
Volume 28 Number 4
If an athlete you coached won a silver medal in an event, in which the gold medal winner was found to have competed with a prohibited substance in their system (whether intentional or unintentional) do you think your athlete should be awarded the gold medal?
Volume 27 Number 3
Tony Wynd is the newly appointed Manager of the Coaching and Officiating unit and is keen to address a number of important issues facing coaches today, which he higlights in this editorial.
Volume 27 Number 3
When cricket coach Jodie Davis, a former Australian representative and level three coach, travelled to Pakistan she knew she was taking on a challenge, but was still horrified at what she found.
Volume 27 Number 2
Like elite athletes, many professional coaches undertake large physical workloads and experience considerable psychological stresses over many years.
