Thanks for much for attending Athletics Victoria's Coaching Course, we hope you found it informative. We are excited to see you head out into the community to either begin coaching or continue your coaching journey.

AV have set up a short 5-minute survey to assist us in improving processes and procedures moving forward. We encourage all course attendees to fill in this evaluation as it will help the team develop stronger course content and delivery procedures.

Please follow this link: https://members.athsvic.org.au/surveys/3180/

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The Level 1 Youth Coach focuses on developing the coach’s human management skills and understanding of physical literacy and how it can be improved based on the ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ model of sports development. This model is supported by peer-reviewed research (Light, 2002; McKeen, Webb & Pearson, 2005; Butler, 2006; Cote, Murphy-Mills & Abernethy, 2007; Evans, 2010; Balakrishnan, Rengasamy & Aman, 2011; Hands, 2012; Holfelder & Schott, 2014) and the Australian Sports Commission under the ‘Game Sense Approach’ label.

This course instructs coaches how to follow the Teaching Games for Understanding model, especially its athlete-centred pedagogy, and introduces the most critical components of developing physical literacy in beginning athletes to prepare them for future Track and Field success, which must be understood before event-specific coaching can be developed.