Coaching is crucial to athletics. Thousands of coaches across the UK give countless hours of dedicated service to tens of thousands of athletes and ensure recruitment and retention of athletes.
Coaching excellence is needed to ensure that athletes perform to their potential - 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 excellence in coaching and our strategy around teaching and developing the sport
UK Athletics will appoint a head of Coaching and Strategy in 2008. In the interim this section aims to provide information about:
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Coaching - the coach education pathway, other coach development opportunities and the growing library of resources and information that is there to support the coaching process.
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Teachers and teaching – outlining the course options available to teachers wish to improve and develop their delivery of the number 1 Olympic and Paralympic sport.
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Event Development – this section will underline how the individual event groups will be structured and developed in the future.
