Sport Coaching
Our courses in sport coaching allow you to develop the background knowledge and practical ability required for a successful coaching career.
Sport Coaching courses
We offer an undergraduate degree in sport coaching and a top-up degree in sport coaching and development.
Find out more about our sport coaching courses
Professional links
You will benefit from our partnerships and contacts with Sussex County Cricket Club, Brighton and Hove Albion football club, Eastbourne Borough Council, and Sussex County Sports Partnership.
We also have a link with Bekoji which is the home town of many famous Ethiopian athletes including Olympic gold medal winners Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba. Young athletes from Bekoji are featured in the 2012 documentary film, Town of Runners.
Following the success of the documentary, staff and students from our sport coaching degree are involved in the coaching outreach work that is part of the sustainable legacy to the film.
The outreach will include coach education programmes in Bekoji, establishing educational resources for aspiring local coaches and hosting athletes at our base in Eastbourne as they prepare for UK and European competitions.
Field trips
Field trips have included Manchester United football club. On this trip students looked at the community and elite coaching programmes at the club.
Students were able to observe community coaching sessions run by the Manchester United foundation, a charitable arm of the club which specialises in using football as a vehicle to develop social cohesion.
There was also a tour of the club’s Carrington Training Ground where students were invited to observe a first team training session.
Placements
You will have the opportunity to put your study into practice through work placements.
Previous placements have included:
- working with rugby club junior players
- assisting strength and conditioning coaching of amateur and elite athletes
- numerous school-based PE and sport coaching positions
- assisting physical activity programmes in disability sport
- management of junior cricket coaching and coach education.
There could also be the opportunity to volunteer for Football 4 Peace and other international coaching projects.
Football 4 Peace is an activity-based community relations and reconciliation initiative. The project began in 2001 in Israel and now runs in Jordan, Ireland, Germany, Northern Ireland and England.
Graduate outcomes
You will be provided with the skills and knowledge to enter the industry as a competent sport coach. A degree in sport coaching will also equip you with skills that employers will find attractive in many areas in addition to coaching sport.
Possible roles include work in regional and national sporting organisations, sports development officer, sports or coaching coordinator, exercise scientist, and recreation officer.
You can also apply to study for a further year to qualify as a dance or PE teacher – providing you meet government entry requirements for teaching.
