Community Sport: Club Coach Youth

Stream: Community Sport
Context: Initiation
Program Name: “Club Coach:  Youth”

Prerequisites: None

Coaches who take this one day workshop will become a trained “Youth Club Coach.”  This coach will be able to coach beginning curlers and youth curlers whom have been involved in curling for several years.  A Youth Club Coach will be an expert in preparing a safe environment, ethical decision – making, and leading curlers in activities which are age suitable and technically correct for youth curlers.  A Youth Club Coach will exemplify correct coaching behaviour.

Topics Covered in a “Club Coach:  Youth” Workshop

• Setting the Scene
• Ethical Coaching
• Practice Planning
• Safety
• Game Orientation
• Teaching the Skills
• Program Management
• Games, Skills and Activities

Community Sport: Club Coach

Stream: Community Sport
Context: Ongoing Participation
Program Name: “Club Coach”

Prerequisites: None

Coaches who take this two day workshop will become a trained “Club Coach.”  This is a program designed to enhance the skill set of the coach and instructor who function primarily at the club level.  The Club Coach will be competent in training curlers from youth to masters, with skill levels of beginning to intermediate.  The Club Coach will be proficient in planning and designing a practice/clinic, ethical decision-making, teaching correct curling skills, skill analysis, safety, program management, planning, managing and designing a curling program.

Topics Covered in a “Club Coach” Workshop

• Role of the Coach and Organizational Management
• Game Orientation, Rules & Etiquette
• Safety
• Warm-ups & Cool-downs
• The Curling Delivery
• Introduction to Strategy
• Brushing
• Ethical Coaching
• Practices
• Clinics
• Skill Analysis
• Special Interest Groups

Important Note: “Club Coach” has replaced Level 1 Technical as of the fall of 2007.

Community Sport Coach Pathway for Curling

Click here to download the Community Sport Coach Pathway (Adobe PDF Document)