Sports Coaching and Exercise Sciences

This course can either be studied at Wakefield College or Selby College.

Whether you're a community coach wanting to develop your abilities or an aspiring coach to elite athletes, this course will put your knowledge into practice and ensure you help people participating in sport achieve their full potential.

This may involve supporting professional sports people, sports teams, community teams, or school groups and working closely with them to improve their individual and group performance. The programme includes sport science and coaching modules to ensure you have a good understanding of the theory that underpins sports performance. Employability is a key theme of the programme and the team are currently working closely with many professional teams such as Wakefield Trinity, Castleford Tigers and a number of key providers for students to undertake voluntary work to complement their academic programme.

Course Modules

Modules studied can include:

Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology (20 credits)
Strength and Conditioning (20 credits)
Foundations of Nutrition (20 credits)
Skills coaching (20 credits)
Coaching Young Performers (20 credits)
Research and Investigative Project (20 credits)
Nutrition for Sport Performance (20 credits)