EvelChat #4: "The Standard" A Chat about Coaching

In this episode of EvelChat, Derek discusses the different levels or classifications of coaching and offers a new definition and criteria set for evaluating development coaches.

Topics include:

Traditional views on evaluating coaching
Physical preparation as a coaching standard independent of results
Development vs. High Performance vs. Elite coaching: a continuum
Why development coaching is, in some ways, more difficult than elite coaching and vice-versa
Success, injury history and retention of trainability as clear definitions and standards for evaluating developmental coaching
Developmental coaching as a specialized form of coaching

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About the Podcast

EvelChat

The EveltrakSport.com Coaching Podcast with Derek Evely

A Podcast about Coaching, from specialist turn-ons to general piss-offs… & everything in between.

About your host

Derek Evely

Derek Evely has taken a career path unique in Olympic sport. As an athletics coach, he has coached professionally at all levels along the developmental continuum and is widely regarded as a foremost expert in both youth development programming and elite training methodology. As a coach he has produced three World Junior Championship medalists, two of whom went on to win Olympic medals. He was the development coach for Gary Reed (IAAF World Championships 800m Silver Medalist), Dylan Armstrong (Beijing Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist) and Sophie Hitchon (2016 Olympic Hammer Throw Bronze Medalist). He has been a national team coach for both Britain and Canada to every major championship on the global calendar including the Olympic Games, IAAF World Championships and European Championships. He was a High Performance Training Centre Director for British Athletics leading into the 2012 Olympic Games where he coached the youngest athlete on the British athletics team (Hitchon) to her first Olympic final. From 2005 to 2009 he was the Sport Science Manager for the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center. He consults and coaches with federations and individuals worldwide on all aspects of developmental and high performance programming. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three teenagers.