Sport Coaching BSc Welcome Pack
Welcome to Sport Coaching BSc 2024.
The BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching degree is designed to develop your key coaching skills and behaviours and to understand how our coaching styles and approaches influence our athletes.
The course will develop skills such as long-term planning, reflective practice, conducting athlete needs analysis and understanding pedagogy in different sporting environments. For sports coaches to take a holistic approach to their athletes’ development we need to have an understanding the physiological, technical, psychological, and social factors that feed into the long-term athlete development. As well as developing performance analysis skills and putting all our practical coaching skills into the real world, through our local clubs and organisations.
Your Programme Leader
Dr Emma Buxton
Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching
emma.buxton@northampton.ac.uk
Welcome and Induction Sessions
his is your induction timetable with online sessions starting on Monday 9 September, and in-person sessions starting on Tuesday 17 September. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact induction organiser Emma Buxton, Emma.Buxton@northampton.ac.uk.
Equipment
You are not required to purchase any mandatory kit or textbooks to start this course. As a heavily practical based course students will require sportwear for many modules. We will provide all students with one of our course branded t-shirts, and students can purchase further course branded kit from Kit Locker. While purchasing this is not mandatory, we do encourage students to consider an additional pair of tracksuit bottoms/leggings for circumstances when completing work based learning activities and representing both our course and institution.
Additionally, near the start of term you will be given a choice of certain offers. You can choose between a free laptop, £500 off accommodation and campus credit, however, we would highly recommend and advise you to pick the laptop offer because you will be required throughout the three years of your degree to use different software.
Enhancing skills, building networks and engaging in the wider University community
We recommend that you create a LinkedIn profile and join our University of Northampton Sports Network as this can help you with placement positions, jobs and future employment. It is not compulsory, but it will help.
You will need to provide a profile picture on your account and a title explaining that you are a ‘First Year Undergraduate Sport Coaching BSc Student’ and then connect with Saul Cuttell to ask to be admitted to the group.