These initiatives are an excellent opportunity to further your own coaching credentials within the Leinster branch.
Code of Ethics Courses, including sections on child protection, are a mandatory requirement and it is hoped that this scheme will, in itself, become a developmental initiative for young up-and-coming coaches who wish to pursue a coaching career.
Please send a brief application to Stuart Ferguson, the development co-ordinator for Leinster schoolgirl hockey at stuart@live.ie, outlining your coaching credentials and achievements if you wish to take part in the future of Schoolgirl Hockey in Leinster.
2 comments:
Think this is a great initiative as I'm sure there are loads of people involved with hockey that would like to give something back. Frequently a school might need a coach who might simply not know that they are looking. In particular the boys side of the game at primary/secondary school level could really be developed if coaches were available to coach in schools.
A basic social networking site could be created where players/past players/coaches/players interested in coaching add a little bio about themselves. They could include coaching experience and/or if they are interested in coaching etc. Important resources could be shared, session plans/coaching availabilities/drills/looking for matches/discussion forums/blogs etc. See http://tinyurl.com/yjomu7t
Schools could go to this side and put up an ad or directly contact potential coaches if they are interested in starting a hockey program in the school, I think it would encourage them as it would reduce the hassle of finding coaches etc. College students and possibly transition year students might be a good group to target as potential coaches.
Sounds complicated but it's not really.
Have started this process see http://leinsterdevelopment.wordpress.com/ for initial blog site.
Hope to develope further in the next few weeks.
Only a few replies so far, so if anyone needs more information to commit please contact me at stuart@live.ie
Look forward to hearing from you.
S Ferguson
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