Taken from Prospects 2022

As a sports coach, you'll help people participating in sports to work towards achieving their full potential. They may support professional sportspeople, sports teams, community teams or school groups, working closely with them to improve performance. They may have a role in encouraging underrepresented groups or young people to participate in sporting activities.

Sports coaches bring out ability by identifying needs and planning and implementing suitable training programmes. Whatever the context, coaching involves developing the participants' physical and psychological fitness and providing the best possible practical conditions in order to maximise their performance.

Coaches must also be aware of their ethical and legal obligations to their clients.

Many coaches combine coaching with other, often full-time, jobs. Many sports coaches work part time and unpaid, offering their coaching services on a purely voluntary basis.

Planning and administration

• producing personalised training programmes

• maintaining records of participant performance

• coordinating participants' attendance at meetings and other sports events

• planning and running programmes of activities for groups and individuals

• transporting participants to and from training sessions and sports events

• seeking and applying for sponsorship agreements

• finding appropriate competitions for participants

• marketing and promoting your services, if you're self-employed

• planning your own work schedule.