MSc Sports Coaching | University of Chichester

When you're at Chichester you surround  yourselves in a great environment and there's a great bunch of people that are always willing  and there to support you. I think the people that you meet are people that you really quickly form  bonds and connections with, especially lecturers as well you can have different tutors and you can  have different lecturers for different modules but I think every single lecturer that you that  i have potentially experienced at this uni has been extremely helpful

in helping me with every  single bit of work I've ever done in terms of preparation and actual content I'm learning  about the lectures have been extremely helpful. We have quite a small group within our sport  coaching cohort and I'm happy with that because that gives us the opportunity to personalize your  learning journey, so we will assign you a mentor within the staff team and we'll align that to the  interests that you identify as you walk in the door you would most like to work on. That

mentor  will stick with you throughout the year to help personalize the learning and if we need other  mentors as other interests developed during the year we can work with that, and that's what stands  us apart from other courses. Due to the background from the small number of people in the class  everyone comes from a different area so you get lots of people doing traditional sports, adventure  sports, team and individual and everyone bringing that background to the course really makes it  rel

evant and specific to the coaching background. The balance between theory and practical makes it  really relevant so using that theory in our actual practical coaching is a really good benefit of  this course. Having that expertise from different lectures in the university in the institute of  sport, I found that really valuable for my progression as a coach. Football  was my main sports that's the one I love to coach but to develop as a coach for me it was not just  coaching that I had to coach

a range of things so I might coach a little bit of rugby, I might  coach a little bit of basketball, netball... The skills that you learn coaching each different  sport will all tailor towards how you want to develop you know you might find it hard but  that's ultimately where you learn the most. So I'm currently serving in the army. I'm in  something called the royal line physical training corps which looks after physical training for the  army as part of my role I had to have a masters becaus

e I looked after research development of  physical training in the army. The coaching aspect has been absolutely invaluable to me because  actually we're trying to incorporate more coaching network within the armed forces. Having this  experience was really invaluable. The applicants that are best suited to this master's course are  those that are passionate about their coaching I don't mind whether they've decided they want to  go down academic or practical or a mix of the two, they're welcome.

It's easier to make that  transition if you come from a two one, but if you've missed that you'll have a story talk  to us. If you are out there coaching and a more mature applicant you're very welcome because to  be able to reflect back on your years of coaching and just challenge what you've been doing for  the last few years, brilliant. If you want to go into coach development and be a coach educator  because there's some lovely jobs coming out in coach development these days this could be 

the course for you. Chichester as a university is brilliant it's quite small but because of the  size of it it's a really friendly atmosphere you get one of everybody, the people I was on the  course with were absolutely fantastic and we had a real bond together which was really quite nice. We got really well with teaching staff and yeah it just gives a really good learning environment  to get on with. So if someone was thinking about coming here I'd obviously tell them all  the amazing experien

ces that I've had and the community and the family that you develop here  I feel like you won't get other universities and having spoken to friends they've gone elsewhere I  don't think they've had the same experience that I've had, and I've absolutely loved the experience  I've had here and if someone was thinking about coming to university I'd definitely say and  recommend that they see if they see if they like the course and obviously make sure the course  is right but I'd recommend that they

come here.