Coach Academy
USA Shooting Unveils Coach Academy To Build Coaching Pipeline For Olympic Shooting Sports
With the objective of ex- panding coaching expertise and continuing a legacy of Olympic achievements, USA Shooting has constructed its own advanced Coach Acad- emy to better educate and train coaches throughout the FRXQWU\ LQ WKH VSHFLÀ F 2O\P pic shooting disciplines. The $FDGHP\ RIÀ FLDOO\ EHJDQ leading interested coaches down an extensive coaching career path on March 1. The pay-as-you go Coach
Academy model provides coaches with an extensive online library of curriculum FRYHULQJ GLVFLSOLQH VSHFLÀ F material as well as general coaching courses. Accreditation as a USA
Shooting Advanced Coach will require NRA Level I cer- WLÀ FDWLRQ FRPSOHWLRQ RI DOO Academy online coaching courses related to the per- son’s intended discipline of study and a required ground course with USA Shooting Master Instructors. Ad- vancement to USA Shooting High Performance Coach FHUWLÀ FDWLRQ ZLOO EH E\ LQYL tation only within each of WKH VSHFLÀ F 2O\PSLF VKRRW ing disciplines and requires completion of the Advanced &RDFK &HUWLÀ FDWLRQ SURJUDP and ground course to be eli- gible for consideration.
“To maintain our history of success as an organiza- tion, it is mandatory that USA Shooting offers our coaching community the opportunity and instruction necessary to become the most capable coaches possible to train our developing athletes,” said USA Shooting’s Mike Theimer, who spearheaded the 1.5-year effort. “We rec- ognize coaches as the mul- tipliers to everything that we do. There are future Olympic athletes looking to get on the Olympic path but with- out knowledgeable and edu- cated coaches to push them
along, we’re not realizing our full potential.” The mission of the USA
Shooting Coach Academy is to build a future pipeline of trained coaches in the Olympic shooting sports by providing easy access to a standardized, quality coach education program that has been built from proven prac- tices and a knowledgeable network of content experts, mentors and quality coach instructors. In order to make the pro-
gram successful long-term and eventually self-sustain- ing, the Coach Academy will
be made available interna- tionally, supporting Olympic shooting sport coaches from across the globe. “The Academy’s greatest
impact will come when we effectively reach outside of our little sphere with a pro- gram that can enhance our sport worldwide,” Theimer said. “I’m hopeful that at some point down the road we will have coaches from other countries asking to au- thor content for our Coach Academy.”
The launch of the Coach
Academy represents just the starting point for the pro-
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