Sport Coaching using remote and TEL strategies

Please note this webinar is timed to enable viewers in the UK to join. UK - 8pm - 9pm (BST) Wednesday, 29th June . NZ - 8am - 9am (NZST) Thursday, 30 June

Examining the use of remote and technology enhanced learning (TEL) strategies in sport coaching has become an interesting and important field of research. To promote a Special Edition issue on digital, remote, and online sport coaching practices (International Sport Coaching Journal), this webinar will feature presentations from several experts working and researching in this emerging area, and explore how coaches can utilize information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the impact of their own remote coaching efforts.

Dr. Christoph Szedlak is a lecturer and researcher in S&C at Hartpury University, where he leads the MSc in S&C programme. Dr. Szedlak’s research extends to examine psychosocial and sociocultural effective coaching behaviours, using innovative qualitative methods to disseminate findings to the applied practitioner. More recently, he lead a collaborative research project with GBSailing examining how their online delivery, under the umbrella term #SAailFromHome, influenced the holistic development of elite athletes. He is part of the editorial panel of the NSCA Coach and is serving as a reviewer for numerous prestigious sport psychology and coaching journals. He is also an accredited S&C coach, tutor, and accessor with the UK Strength and Conditioning Association. He has over 14 years’ experience as an elite S&C coach working with multiple Olympic and world champions, within a variety of different sports including sailing, cricket, wheelchair basketball and goalball.

Dr. Sergio Lara-Bercial is a Professor of Sport Coaching at Leeds Beckett University in the UK and the Vice-President for Strategy and Development for the International Council for Coaching Excellence. He has published widely in a variety of sport-related topics including youth sport and coach development. Sergio is also the co-founder of ICOACHKIDS, a global movement helping coaches put kids first in sport through the development of free resources for coaches, parents and sport organisations. Sergio also consults for multiple high-level organisations such as Nike, UEFA and FIBA. He is a former international basketball coach for Great Britain and has coached club and community basketball for over 25 years winning 18 National Titles.

Dr. Blake Bennett is a senior lecturer in the Bachelor of Sport, Health, and Physical Education degree at the University of Auckland. Blake completed his Doctoral degree in 2016 in the field of sport coaching with a focus on the pedagogies of rugby coaches in New Zealand and Japanese secondary schools. Blake’s research is now focused on two lines of inquiry – the first is concerned with remote coaching using online pedagogies in high performance martial arts contexts; and the second is on the influences of child safeguarding policy on volunteer coaches’ practice. Blake has been coaching in the volunteer space for over 20 years and is also the current coach of the Men’s New Zealand Kendo Team.

Dr. Chris Cushion is Professor of Coaching & Pedagogy at Loughborough University and Head of Coaching at England Netball. His research interests focus on understanding coach learning and education, coaching practice and coach behaviour across a range of practice and performance settings. This is within a framework of developing a socio-pedagogical approach to learning and development. The aim of this understanding is to contribute to developing learning environments primarily for where an element of ‘performance under pressure’ is an outcome. He has published three books and over 100 publications in the area. He has worked on a number of projects with Governing bodies, professional sport as well as working on coaching, coach education, training and ‘train-the-trainer’, in non-sporting contexts such as the police, and military.