Coaches are crucial to athletics. Thousands of coaches across the UK give countless hours of dedicated service to tens of thousands of athletes. Athletics needs you to ensure recruitment and retention of athletes. Athletics needs you to ensure that athletes perform to their potential. Athletics needs you to ensure Olympic and Paralympic success.
Power of 10 exists to "drive up performance levels in every event, every region and every age group"
That will not happen without coaches like you. Athletics needs excellent coaches, skilfully guiding youngsters through the fun and excitement of early competition and training, instilling a love of working hard to achieve goals, but avoiding the dangers of over specialisation, over training and too much pressure. Athletics needs expert coaches who can identify and nurture talent in its widest sense, allowing it to blossom. Athletics needs coaches who can guide world class athletes towards that most elusive of prizes, Olympic and Paralympic gold. We have some brilliant coaches – we need more. We want to ensure that our coaches are effectively supported, developed and deployed and that coaches work together for the good of athletes and other coaches throughout the sport.
These pages provide information about the coach education pathway, other coach development opportunities and the growing library of resources and information that is there to support the coaching process.
If you are considering becoming an athletics coach, please do so - it can be the most rewarding experience!
If you already are a coach, thank you for the tremendous contribution you make to athletics!
