Sport Experiences, Milestones, and Educational Activities Associated with High-Performance Coaches’ Development | Zendy

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Sport Experiences, Milestones, and Educational Activities Associated with High-Performance Coaches’ Development

Author(s) -

Karl Erickson,

Jean Côté,

Jessica FraserThomas

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the sport psychologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.581

H-Index - 70

eISSN - 1543-2793

pISSN - 0888-4781

DOI - 10.1123/tsp.21.3.302

Subject(s) - coaching , psychology , athletes , applied psychology , medical education , physical therapy , medicine , psychotherapist

What experiences are needed to become a high-performance coach? The present study addressed this question through structured retrospective quantitative interviews with 10 team- and 9 individual-sport coaches at the Canadian interuniversity-sport level. Minimum amounts of certain experiences were deemed necessary but not sufficient to become a high-performance coach (e.g., playing the sport they now coach and interaction with a mentor coach for all coaches, leadership opportunities as athletes for team-sport coaches only). Although coaches reported varying amounts of these necessary experiences, general stages of high-performance coach development were traced. Findings serve to identify and support potential high-performance coaches and increase the effectiveness of formal coaching-education programs.

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