Learning from Serial Winning Coaches: Caring Determination [Paperback]

This book provides researchers, performance coaches and directors, and coach developers with the knowledge and tools to conduct further research, to inform future policy and practice in the identification, recruitment, and development of performance coaches.

Cliff Mallett and Sergio Lara-Bercial have chronicled a terrific overview of sport and sports coaching in their latest instalment, Caring determination: Learning from serial winning coaches. Long term success is what every sporting coach is seeking and this latest instalment by Cliff and Sergio provide strategies used by long term successful coaches. In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see

Michael Bohl OAM (A serial winning coach to multiple medallists in 5 OG from 1992, 2008  2020 and coach to 8 Olympic & 1 Paralympic medallists, who won 14 individual medals, including 5 gold)

While the athlete or team make excellence happen, the coach makes excellence possible. But how do you create possibility repeatedly and consistently? The why? What? And How? Of that are brilliantly set out in these pages.

Frank Dick OBE (Multiple Olympic medal winning coach in Athletics, Head Coach UK Athletics in their golden era and global leader in coach development)