NZ Sports Coaching Policies Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is Sport NZ?
- Since 2015 it has become the one-stop shop
- Sport NZ is the Kaitiaki (guardian) of the play, active recreation and sport system in NZ
What is Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora?
- Every body active, in their way, everyday
- Their mission is to empower everybody to realise their aspirations in play, active recreation and sport, whilst giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
What is some examples of where the money is being invested in?
- School lunch programme
- Treaty principle bill
- Increasing diversity
- Changing nature of work (lots of shift work)
- Weather
- Increasing economic inequity
- Climate change
What were the shifts in strategy?
- Strategic Plan (2015-2020) - “the world’s most successful sporting nation”
- Everybody Active (2020-2024) - “contribute to the wellbeing of everybody in NZ by leading an enriching and inspiring play, active recreation and sport system”
- Now? (2024-2028) - “empower everybody to realise their aspirations in play, active recreation and sport, whilst giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi”
What is the Talent Plan strategy?
- Based on the assumption that if you get young people underway with sport and recreation early, they will be on that path for life
- Getting athletes on a pathway towards higher level performance
- Contested area - had lots of potential but is stopped in 2020
What is the balance is better approach?
Focuses on why young people play sport, which is ‘to have fun, be challenged, develop, and enjoy time with friends.’
What are the assumptions that balance is better is based on?
- Childhood success is not a reliable predictor of future success
- Identifying athletes early and specialising early is taking its toll on young people
- A focus on winning rather than development is a problem for young people, because it can have unintended consequences on their wellbeing and affect their motivation to take part.
What is the ‘Keeping up with the play’ campaign?
- A public awareness campaign based on the balance is better philosophy
- Raises awareness of why we’re losing young people from sport and what can be done about it
What is the ‘It’s my move’ campaign?
- Set out to initiate a national conversation about the barriers young women face when it comes to physical activity
- Encouraging young women to find PA options they enjoy
- Education parents, caregivers and providers of PA about supporting and building confidence of young women
What difference does a uniform make?
- Feeling comfortable in what girls wear is a big deciding factor to what sport they participate in
- Often girls have to wear male uniforms which is an example of feeling neglected
What do we know about motivations for participation in young people?
Having fun and the social aspect has a major influence. If you aren’t having fun, you don’t want to do it
What do these strategies mean for coaches?
- Putting the needs of the participant first
- Supporting coach development at all levels
- Increase opportunities to improve the experiences for women and girls in coaching
- There is reduced visibility of ‘the coaches’ role as key stakeholders in the production of sport and wellbeing for everybody
What is the ‘Core Knowledge’ Initiative?
- An attempt to articulate what the core knowledge that coaches in this space might need
- Innovative performance inspired by shared knowledge
- However some coaches will be reluctant to share their ideas as they are trying to win
What are the three domains of the Core Knowledge Initiative?
- Coaching craft: Performance practice and performance impact
- Energy Systems: Performance nutrition and physiology
- The body in motion: Performance & technical analysis and physical performance
What’s the idea of ‘best practice?’
- “Take what’s good in one coaches setup and plant it in another and it’ll be good.”
- This isn’t always the case, so perhaps ‘best fit’ is a better term
How should strategy always be read?
In relation to the prevailing social and political environment
What are some issues around female coaches?
- Much more males than female coaches (only 13% of coaches at Tokyo Olympics were women
- How women are portrayed can worsen the problem
- As women’s sports become more competitive, the percentage of teams coaches by women has dropped from 90% to less than half
- Women bring different inherent gendered skills to coaching compared to men, such as being caring, emotional or nurturing
What do the scholars think about female coaches?
- Market our outstanding female coaches for what they produce and build rather than looks and masculinity traits
- Establish a coach mentoring programme with women coaches supporting developing women coaches
- Provide female only development coaching or accelerator programmes
- Give females development opportunities to gain the experiences they need to earn Olympic or pinnacle team roles
- Collaboration and promotion of like minded organisations to help broaden the voice and advocacy of female coaching locally and globally
