Sport Experiences, Milestones, and Educational Activities Associated With High-Performance Coaches' Development
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Authors
Erickson, Karl
Côté, Jean
Fraser-Thomas, Jessica
Date
2016-06-03
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journal article
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en
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Coach , Experience , Interaction , Performance
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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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0888-4781