Sports Coaching & Development

With us, you’ll learn in a range of different ways. Engaging, small group workshops, practical sessions with your peers and guest sessions delivered by experts. There are no ‘lectures’ on the Sports Coaching and Development degree. We believe you’ll be at your best when you’re active within our workshops. You’ll also be spending time working independently, at home or in our library whilst taking up opportunities to visit local and national sport development projects.

On campus, you’ll have access to some superb facilities, with our own Sports Arena and Sports Centre – home to the Sir Tom Finney Preston Soccer Centre (PSC), a fully functioning club with several age group teams from under sevens up to and including under 14s, as well as women’s, men’s and disabled men’s teams.

As you progress, we’ll monitor your performance with a range of assessments that our students tell us they love. These include presentations, practical coaching activity, professional discussions and video diaries. Our focus is on learning, not testing. As a result, you'll never do an exam. We prefer to support your development as an independent, resourceful, problem-solving coach with transferable skills that can apply across many contexts.

We have an impressive network of contacts across the sporting world, from the grassroots up to the elite, as well as local schools and charities, sport governing bodies and a wide range of employers, nationally and internationally. We have extensive links with a range overseas employers and universities, including studying abroad options and paid internships in Dubai. As such, you’ll not only learn from industry practitioners across many of your modules, but you’ll also have a wide range of placement and study opportunities as part of the course.