Discover the coaching tools and techniques youll need to bring out the best in people. This course focuses on improving performance at all levels, from amateur to elite. Our sports coaching and performance programme is designed to give you the skills, experiences and networks that can thrust you to the forefront of coaching practice. It's a programme rooted in applied practice ensuring that you have plenty of opportunities to turn academic theory into action, with vocational experiences in the real world of professional and amateur sport. With a range of option modules, you can tailor your degree to your passions, strengths and career goals. By focusing on all areas of athlete development, you can create a path into performance analysis, talent development and elite environments, to name but a few. Throughout the Sports Coaching and Performance degree, youll gain professional body qualifications. So youll be ready for a professional career when you graduate. Whatever direction you take, youll cover a range of topics that aid player development and underpin performance coaching. Then, in your final year, youll undertake an independent project your chance to develop your specialist area of knowledge that will set you apart. In short, youll be ready to get to work as a specialist performance coach.<br>Our sandwich degrees offer the perfect blend of academic study and practical work experience, allowing you to build confidence in the workplace and graduate work-ready from your degree programme.<br><br>Our previous graduates have found their sandwich year particularly beneficial as it has allowed them to gain practical, hands-on experience within their chosen career and the opportunity to learn directly from professionals based out in industry. It is not uncommon for sandwich year programmes to also open up future work opportunities in similar fields or professions for our graduates.