British Cycling Takes Coaching To A New Level

 

News Posted: 28 April 2008

British Cycling has announced the latest stage in the expansion of its British Cycling Coach Education Programme.

The new Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Track Cycling and Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Road and Time Trial are the first of six discipline-specific qualifications to be launched at Level 3 and join existing Level 1 and Level 2 qualifications.

Led by British Cycling's coaching and education team the two new world-leading qualifications have had a significant contribution from international technical experts, including British Cycling's own Olympic coaches. The result is that materials for both Level 3 qualifications capture a level of coaching information never documented before.

The current Level 3 qualifications are aimed at coaches who have experience of track or road and time trial coaching and who have completed the appropriate British Cycling Level 2 Discipline-specific Coaching Award.

The Level 3 qualifications focus on developing riders' performance and so help to build coaches' knowledge of planning, prescribing and evaluating training for individual riders; and delivering advanced discipline-specific techniques and tactics to individuals and/or groups.

British Cycling Coaching, Education and Development Director John Mills said: "The launch of the Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Track Cycling and the Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Road and Time Trial Cycling is a significant development for British Cycling's Coach Education Programme. The information that has been created through the development of these qualifications is truly world-leading. There are no other resources within the cycling world that cover the knowledge in such depth as is included in these qualifications."

John added: "The Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Track Cycling has received UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC) endorsement - confirming national recognition of a high-quality and fit-for-purpose qualification. The Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Road and Time Trial is expected to gain UKCC endorsement later this year."

Further Level 3 qualifications are set to follow, with Level 3 BMX and mountain bike qualifications scheduled for launch in 2009, followed by cyclo-cross and cycle speedway in 2010.

There will be three different routes to achieving a Level 3 coaching qualification, to suit individual coach's background qualifications:

Route 1 - for candidates who have completed the relevant Level 2 Discipline-specific Coaching Award, and either the Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Cycling or the Activity Coach Award
Route 2 - for those candidates who have completed the relevant Level 2 Discipline-specific Coaching Award, and the Club Coach Award
Route 3 - for those candidates who have completed a Level 3 cycling coaching qualification in another discipline.

The initial launch is for Route 2 candidates only, providing British Cycling's Club Coaches with the opportunity to be at the forefront of coach education developments and gain the first Level 3 cycling coaching qualification in the UK. It is anticipated that Route 1 will be launched later in 2008, and Route 3 once the first group of coaches have achieved a first Level 3 qualification.

The 2008 programme for the Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Track Cycling and Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Road and Time Trial is provided below. To complete either qualification, coaches are required to attend a Level 3 'Core' Unit and a Level 3 'Discipline' Unit.

Please note that to enrol on this initial round of courses, candidates must be a fully qualified Club Coach, who has also completed the Level 2 Track or Level 2 Road and Time Trial Coaching Award.

Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Track Cycling
'Core' Unit
Manchester: 17 & 18 May 2008, 14 June 2008
Edmonton, London: 5 & 6 July 2008, 2 August 2008
   
'Track' Unit
Newport: 13 & 14 September 2008, 17 Jan 2009
Manchester: 6 & 7 December 2008, 4 April 2009
   
Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Road and Time Trial
'Core' Unit
Manchester: 17 & 18 May 2008, 14 June 2008
Edmonton, London: 5 & 6 July 2008, 2 August 2008
   
'Road and Time Trial' Unit
Shrewsbury: 22 & 23 November 2008, 7 March 2009

   
If you would like to apply to attend either the Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Track Cycling or the Level 3 Certificate in Coaching Road and Time Trial Cycling please contact British Cycling Coaching and Education on 0161 274 2060 or coaching@britishcycling.org.uk 

 

For more information, visit http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/coa/Level_3_Track.asp

" British Cycling has secured funding that will be used to help Go-Ride Clubs to put one coach per club through the new qualifications. Fully accredited Go-Ride Clubs are being offered a ?200 subsidy for one coach with clubs working towards full Go-Ride accreditation are being offered £100.