Sport Coaching with Diverse Populations

Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts, and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than ever before. This book introduces the professional competencies and knowledge needed to build successful working relationships across the different communities and groups with which coaches operate.

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Introduction. 1.Coaching for Youth Performance: Challenging Tradition through Understanding and Applying Non-Linear Approaches to Skill Development 2.Coaching Children and Youth: Building Physical Foundations 3.Understanding the Sport Values of Young People and Recognising the Implications for their Coaches: Sport for Kids, Not Kids for Sport 4.Coaching Female Combat Athletes: Creating Positive Environments for Women and Girls 5.Sport Coaching in a Disadvantaged Community: A Case Study of Freestyle BMX 6.A Structural Shift in Voluntary Work with Refugees within Sports Clubs in Germany 7.The Importance of Sport in Engaging Refugees: 'It's Only a Game?' 8.Addressing the Under-representation of BAME Coaches in Professional Football Club Youth Academies: An Examination of the EFL Mandatory Code of Coach Recruitment 9.Coaching and Teaching LGBT Youth 10.Disability Sport Coaching: 'You Just Coach the Athlete not the Disability' 11.Coaching Athletes with Intellectual Disabilities: Same Thing but Different? 12.The Role of Physical Activity in Cancer Rehabilitation 13.Decreasing the Fear of Falling in Older Adults: The Use of Adapted Utilitarian Judo 14.Physical Activity and Ageing: Keep Moving! Concluding Thoughts and Future Considerations.