Advanced Coach
At all levels of the game coaches can make a difference to a player’s experience and help them enhance their performance.Players need coaches with expertise, support and passion at every stage of their development. At all levels of the game coaches can make a difference to a player’s experience and help them enhance their performance.
The challenge for all coaches is to learn as they develop, just as players do. Therefore, the ECB have developed a programme that will help you challenge your current coaching practice and further your knowledge and understanding in a variety of areas.
Programme Outcomes
This programme has been designed to build on your experiences and give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to help players improve their game as well as developing a wide area of expertise when coaching individuals, units and teams.
Who is it for?
For coaches working with players and teams in talent pathway, performance, professional and international environments that hold the ECB Core Coach qualification or equivalent.
Application process is managed by the ECB.
Content
Key Themes
- Coaching beliefs
- Coach behaviour
- Coaching teams
- Planning
- Player development
- Skill development and practice design
- Sport psychology for coaches
- Human movement science for coaches
- Physical preparation for coaches
- The future cricketer
- Batting, pace bowling, spin bowling, fielding and wicketkeeping
Commitment
- Attendance at a selection day after shortlisting
- 8 face-to-days split between 3 modules held over 1-3 months
- Individual and group coaching with players in their own environment linked to applied activities such as planning and reflecting
- Attendance at an assessment centre
Pre-requisites for certification
- Current Safeguarding Certificate
- ECB Disclosure and Barring Service check
Nicky Clarke / Workforce Manager
Nicky joined GCF from Somerset Cricket Foundation, where she spent 4.5 years gaining valuable experience supporting clubs and leagues, in cricket operations, and with volunteer workforce development. At GCF, Nicky is responsible for supporting the development of the people who make recreational cricket happen, covering everything from grass to game!
Nicky has spent many years supporting the WEPL Board, providing expertise in using Play-Cricket, player registration, and managed migration to clubs across the West of England. She is also a qualified coach, umpire, and scorer who has been lucky enough to score at the county ground in Taunton on a few occasions, including England Lions v South Africa in 2022.
Nicky’s home club is Weston-super-Mare, where she is a long-standing volunteer and has been integral in rebuilding the women’s and girls’ section following Covid. On the rare occasions she’s not doing something cricket related, she has two boys who prefer the social side of cricket to the playing side, she likes to read, run (slowly), and is a half-marathon survivor.
