Advanced Coaching Program

Advanced Coaches have an in-depth understanding of the skills, tactics and strategies required and focus on skill development and decision making in a competitive environment. They help their swimmers develop a wider sense of sporting ethics and nurture a love of competition while also encouraging a life-long love of the sport.

Successful Advanced Coaches bring out each swimmers ability by identifying individual needs and planning and implementing suitable training programs based on individual swimmer needs. They implement support systems that develop the individual swimmers physical and psychological fitness and maximises their performance.

Before coaches can enrol in the Advanced Coach Program, they must have held Swimming Australia Development Accreditation for a minimum of 12 months.

This ensures new Advanced coaches are tackling the right level of education, at the right time and with the right level of background knowledge and experience to be able to successfully complete the Advanced Coach Program and effectively apply the learning with their athletes.

The Swimming Australia Advanced Coach Program is delivered in a blended learning format consisting of

• Online knowledge learning through the Swimming Australia/Victoria University e-learning platform
• Workshops delivered by subject matter experts
• Assessment tasks where coaches have an opportunity to demonstrate their applied knowledge, and
• Practical coaching experience under the guidance of a mentor.

The Advanced Coach Program should take 9-12 months to complete all requirements.

Coaches have 2 years months to complete the Advanced Coach Program. This means the completion and submission of all assessments within 2 years of commencing the course.

 

To achieve accreditation as a Swimming Australia Advanced Coach, you’ll need to provide the following documents into our sport management system Swim Central:

• Statement of Attainment for completion of the Advanced Coaching Course
• current Working With Children Check
• current First Aid qualification (HLTAID003 or HLTAID011)
• current CPR qualification (HLTAID001 or HLTAID009)
• completion of Swimming Australia Safe Sport module
• completion of Sport Integrity Australia Annual Update 2022 (formerly Anti-Doping Level 2), Whereabouts course, Coach course and Competition Manipulation and Sports Betting
• current ASCTA membership

If you need assistance with course enrolment, please contact learning.coaches@swimming.org.au

To enrol in the Advanced Coaching Course visit here and follow these steps:

Links to Swim Central Login

• Login to Swim Central
• Go to Store
• Click on Development & Training
• Click on Courses
• Click on Advanced Coaching Course enrolment

If you need assistance with Advanced Coach Program enrolment, please contact coaching@swimming.org.au