The Teesra

Category: coaching

  • Attrition in junior membership numbers — can we encourage “drop-ins”?

    Really interesting from Professor Catherine Woods of University of Limerick in her presentation “Youth Sport Dropout: Prevention is Better than Cure” at the iCoachKids (virtual) Conference on 2nd December 2020.

    Professor Woods’ main focus was on ways of keeping junior players engaged with sport as they get a little older (see below for a link to the presentation).

    But something else she said really chimed with me — some sports seem to get a second intake of “drop-ins”, with junior participants transferring in from another sport.

    Dropout does not have to mean STOP. Sport specific dropout does not have to lead to sport general dropout.

    Professor Catherine Woods, University of Limerick

    But this begs the question — what can cricket do to facilitate “drop-in”?

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  • Coaching the child vs. coaching the sport

    Over lockdown I was privileged to receive an invitation to join a series of webinars hosted by Chance to Shine (CtS) for their coaches. I have run a few CtS sessions in schools, but in truth I rather felt like an impostor amongst the County Board staffers who do such a great job delivering CtS across the country.

    The presentations were (mostly) very interesting, occasionally inspiring. Not always immediately applicable to what I will do (no, I don’t expect to be delivering CtS over a live video link in the near future), but it did get me thinking about why I coach.

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  • Coaching 5-year olds — top tips?

    Interesting challenge posed by ConnectedCoaches, the online community hosted by UK Coaching.

    But only three?

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