The Department of Health and Exercise Studies offers a 16 credit hour minor in coaching education designed to prepare students to assume coaching responsibilities with a sound theoretical and practical background. The minor provides students with a foundation of essential coaching skills; (a) the basic knowledge, understanding, and application of coaching philosophy, sport psychology, and effective teaching techniques; (b) the basic principles of human anatomy and physiology, kinesiology, and exercise science and the practical application to coaching; (c) injury prevention, risk management, and the treatment of sport-related injuries; (d) theories and techniques necessary to plan, organize, and implement sport programs; (e) and a demonstration of motor skills and strategies involved in coaching specific sports.
Recent practicum experiences have included:
- Assistant varsity lacrosse coach at Sanderson High School
- Assistant coach at the Raleigh Swimming Association
- Assistant soccer coach at Wake FC Soccer Club
- Assistant swim coach at Athens Drive Magnet High School
- Assistant soccer coach at Cardinal Gibbons High School
- Varsity wide receiver assistant coach and JV football special teams coordinator at Green Hope High School
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