Presentation for readings class

1. Erickson, K., Côté, J., & Fraser-Thomas, J. (2007).
Sport Experiences, Milestones, and Educational
Activities Associated With High-Performance
Coaches' Development. Sport Psychologist, 21(3),
302-316.
Tyler Goad and Karl Zang

2. Quantitative Analysis of Coaching
Experiences
• What experiences are necessary in developing
high-performance coaches
– Common experiences in each developmental
stage?
– Is formal coaching education a factor?
– Are there necessary experiences that must occur
in order to become a high-performance coach?

3. Background and Significance
• Research intended to expand on previous
research done.
• Support other related research
• “Developing a framework of sport experiences
that are necessary for the development of these
high-performance coaches” (p.303).

4. Methods
• Retrospective interview procedure
– contained preset questions designed to collect
quantitative information
– Only experiences that occurred before the
participant became a high-performance coaches
where recorded
– 19 “high performance coaches”
• 10 sport team and 9 individual sport coaches

5. Analysis Methods
• Descriptive Stats of interview items
– Means, standard deviations, and frequency scores
• Categorization of interview items
– Level 1 = 100% nonzero item scores. All
respondents experienced these.
– Level 2 = 75% of sample reported scores (8/10
sport team and 8/9 individual coaches)

6. Findings/Main arguments
• The study was able to characterize high
performance coach development into 5 stages
• Supported similar studies findings:
– coaches had experience as an athlete in the sport they
now coached (not necessarily occur at a high level).
– formal coaching education/mentorship where
important experiences in the development
– most high level coaches had some type of coaching
experience before becoming a head coach.

7. Conclusions/Implications for Future
Research
• The what, how much, and when analysis can
be applied to coaching education
(development stages)
• Use larger coaching sample
– Female coaches
– Different countries (cultural differences)

8. Importance to me?
• The 1973 “ten year rule”- initial coaching
involvement to obtaining a high performance
head coaching position = 10 years

9. Questions?
• Is becoming a high level coach more about
“who you know” than “what you know”
• Which developmental stage is the most critical
in your opinion?