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Join our coaching community dedicated to developing Kiwi youth and non-elite adult participants in sports. Ideal coaches nurture skills, ethics, and love for multiple sports, creating better individuals. Overcome challenges like declining teacher coaches, varied abilities, and competitive interests. Be a part of a broader coaching community striving for athletes' holistic growth.
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The Development Community Who are the participants being coached? • Development coaches support a wider range of participants including: • the children who continue in organised sport through the later years of primary school and intermediate school • students taking part in secondary school sport • Participants in club youth competitions • Non-elite adult participants
The Development Community Who are the coaches? • Again can come from anywhere but they need to understand and care about the development of Kiwi youth and adult non-elite participants in sport. • Parents • Primary, Intermediate and Secondary school teachers • Club Coaches • Regional Sports Development Officers • Older secondary school students • Tertiary students
The Development Community What are the ideal attributes for a Development Coach? • Nurture a love of multiple sports • Focus on skill development and decision making • Understand the needs of participants – primarily intermediate and secondary school children and adult non-elite participants • Reinforce ethical approaches to sport and recreation • Provide for participants’ needs and aspirations • Understand they create not only better athletes, but better people • Have a sense of working in a wider coaching community with similar goals
The Development Community What are the challenges? • Decline of secondary school teacher coaches • Wide range of participant development stages • Competing interests for participants • Varying levels of ability in participants • Increased cost of sport • Increased competition for facilities • Expectations of parents