Sport Coach Learning and Professional Development: Supporting Coaches in Performance Sport

This book describes the genesis and theoretical foundations of a workflow for supporting sport coaches learning and professional development in performance and high-performance sport.

Bob Muir is a Reader in Sport Coaching in the Centre for Sport Coaching, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, UK. A senior men’s professional basketball coach for over 20 years, Bob has spent the last 15 years working as a coach development consultant with a range of sports organisations and governing bodies including UK Sport, the Football Association, the British Sailing Team, Sport Scotland and Sport Northern Ireland. He leads the University’s M.Sc. Coach Development and teaches on the Doctor of Professional Practice in Sport programme. His research interests are effective and ethical coaching and supporting coaches’ learning and professional development in performance sport.

John Lyle is a Professor of Sport Coaching in the Centre for Sport Coaching, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, UK., and prior to that Dean of the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences at Northumbria University. He has played a significant role in the development of sport coaching as an academic field of study. A former national team coach in volleyball, he combines his role as an academic with that of a research consultant, collaborating with a number of universities and national sports agencies.