My role in helping the students is getting them through the technical detail side of
coaching, so it brings it down to those small things.
Going through if they've made a mistake with their explanation, can we push them through
and point them in the right direction. A really good thing about this programme is
it gets you socialising with other people going through and its helping the young ones
progressing their footballing ability and so on.
So we've got coaching CPD, for the first year degree students to get some experience of
coaching, setting up sessions with feedback from other more experienced coaches and degree
students who have been here for 2 or 3 years. It just helps us see where we can improve
and also take advice from other coaches to help our coaching improve.
The start of next year we go to the Uni of South Wales to deliver some sessions for our
assessments and also we have some placements throughout the year with the Wolves Foundation.
The Soccer Schools and schools programme, so it helps us just gain a bit more experience
from people who've been there and done it before so we know what to expect and how to set up
and deliver our sessions.
It's good to work with other coaches from the Foundation because they can give us their
feedback so we can learn a lot from them because obviously they have a bit more experience
than us so there's a lot to learn there. Getting that feedback, it helps us go into
schools and stuff like that and gain more experience with children.
Obviously we're on our first year so we don't really know that much at the minute, so we're
just learning so its really good to have someone to sort of hold our hand for the start of
it and then soon obviously we can progress and be a bit more independent with it.
