Athletics Weekly

How does paying for coaching improve the quality of that which is done? The likelihood of an awful lot of the coaching that I see ever helping athletes towards a reasonable standard of performance, in some way commensurate with their innate ability is extremely low - paying people to deliver the sa...

I also agree with trickstat that reversing the situation would be the challenge, but I feel that the instinct to start thinking in terms of one club/coach will and others wont illustrates the problem itself. If all coaches were paid a basic hourly rate via the clubs, raised via session subs and as H...

Firstly, I would suggest that until athletics coaching becomes a paid position and moves away from voluntary participation we cannot possibly expect a cohesive, joined up coaching system. Most clubs struggle to develop a truly cohesive system internally so what real chance is there to manage somethi...