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North American Coach Development Summit

The North American Coach Development Summit is in Oklahoma City in 2025

Submission of Abstracts is Now Open and Due on Dec 6, 2024

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The North American Coach Development Summit, formerly the National Coaching Conference, brings together the professionals from across the United States, North America and around the world who educate, develop, train and supervise coaches along with coaches, sport scientists and sport science researchers interested in professional coach development.

The Coach Development Summit program features practical application of research-based coaching information and best practice models that demonstrate the integration of sport science knowledge related to athlete and coach well-being, development and performance at all levels of sport from participation through peak performance.

The goal of the North American Coach Development Summit is to highlight PRACTICAL information that coaches and coach educators and developers can hear and use in practice immediately.

What to Expect at the Summit

Attendees at the North American Coach Development Summit can expect:

  • A dynamic program focused on interactions, discussions and networking. Come prepared to ask questions, explore solutions and share ideas with industry peers who are focused on enriching sport across the spectrum of participation through high performance.
  • Evidence based best practice and practical real world idea application.
  • Resources for building and enhancing coaching education programming
  • People passionate about going beyond ‘talk’ and who are focused on the growth of the support and development of coaching and coaches.

Open to People with Passion for Quality Coach Education 

The North American Coach Development Summit is open to anyone passionate about quality coaching education, coach development, and long term athletic development.

Attendees and presenters include a wide range of coaches, directors of coaching, coach educators, sport science researchers, and sports pedagogy specialists interested in professional coach development. They represent a wide range of national governing sport organizations, non-profit and for profit programs and academics from across North America and around the world.

Types of Programs at the Summit

Lectures

Lectures are 15 minute presentations designed to share ideas, challenges, and solution strategies for educating coaches, providing coaching education, and enhancing coach development. Program submissions in this category are designed to share current models of practice for coach education/development OR to explore original applied research from the educational and program perspective. 

Panel

Panels are a group of 3-4 experts or practitioners in the coaching, coach education, or coach development field, who share facts, offer insights, and respond to audience questions either through questions curated by a moderator or taken from the audience directly. The panel session typically lasts for 60 minutes.

Workshops

A ‘workshop’ presents an in-depth 60 minute exploration of a theme and should provide opportunities to share professional practice strategies through demonstrations and hands-on experiences for participants. Workshop abstracts must include: a statement of the specific learning objectives, teaching methods, specific techniques, and a description of materials that will be shared with workshop participants. Programs can be research and/or application based.

Master Classes

A ‘master class’ is a 90 -120 minute program that is an in depth exploration of an applied or research based topic in coaching, coach education and/or coach development.  Master classes should have a clear target audience (e.g. academic coach educators, non-profit sport organization leaders) and 2-3 specific objectives (e.g., developing coaching minor coursework, retention of volunteer female coaches).  Master classes are not lecture based and should be designed to stimulate discussion among a group of peers to explore shared challenges, develop research needs, discuss new concepts, etc.  Master class participation will be by pre-registration only and class sizes will be capped at a maximum of 20 participants to allow for quality interaction.  Priority will be given to master class submissions that can demonstrate clear outcome goals.

Posters

‘Interactive posters’ present research findings, applied materials, techniques and/or proposed conceptual frameworks in the areas of coaching education and coach development.  Accepted posters will be on display during a dedicated time during the Summit program and the interactive time is designed to spark discussion and support networking.  Poster authors will prepare hanging posters and will be expected to present their work during the dedicated poster session interactive time during the Summit. Students are encouraged to submit projects, theses, or dissertations that are in the conceptual phase, in progress, or that have been completed. Student work submissions must include the collaborating academic advisor(s). The poster format should be A0 (1189mm x 841mm / 33.1 x 46.8 inches) and will hang horizontal.

5 in 5 Presentations

Each presenter will have 5 slides and 5 minutes to present their subject. Time limits will be enforced and presentations will cease when the 5 minute timer goes off. After the first three presenters, there will be a 10 minute discussion period followed by the next three presenters and 10 more minutes of discussion. At the end of all presentations, there will be an open discussion of the topic(s) as a whole. Join for fast-paced presentations and exciting discussion!

Summit attendees have included coaching education leaders & developers from:

Adams State University

AKL Connection

Allegheny College

American Sports

Athlete Assessment

Ball State University

Biola University

Body Helix

Bridgewater College

Buffalo Sabres

Caleb University, Lagos, Nigeria

Canterbury Christ Church University

Cardiff Met

Cebu Football Association

Cirque du Soleil

Coaching Corps

Coaching Peace

Coastal Carolina University

Colby-Sawyer College

Community Rowing, Inc.

Deakin University

Drexel University

e.t.c. Consulting

East China Normal University

East Tennessee State University

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes

Eleiko Sport, Inc.

Emporia State University

Erin Boynton Medicine Professional

First15 Sport Performance

Fresno State

Georgia Southern University

Grace

Healthy Kids Out of School

Illinois State University

IMG Academy

Indiana State University

Inside Out Initiative

Institute to Promote Athlete Health & Wellness, UNC Greensboro

International Center for Coaching Excellence, ICCE

Jamestown Community College (SUNY)

Judo Association

Keil Power Skating

Kinesio Health Coaching

LA84 Foundation

LaGrange College

Leeds Beckett University

Lewis-Clark State College

Life University

Loughborough University, UK

Ludus Consulting

Manchester Metropolitan University

Marbury High School

Medina Academy

Michigan State University, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports

Missouri Institute for Positive Coaching

Mosaic Expressions LLC

Mount Baker Rowing & Sailing Center

Myanmar International School

National Federation of High Schools (NFHS)

NCAA

NICA – National International Cycling Association

Northern Michigan University

Northumbria University

Northwestern State University of Louisiana

NSCA

Ohio University

Old Dominion University

Oregon State

Pacific Lutheran University

People Academy

Pittsburgh Pirates

Positive Coaching Alliance

Professional Skaters Association

Red Deer College

Saigon South International School

Sam Houston State University

Seattle University

Shape America

Smith College

Special Olympics North America

Sport, Vlaanderen

St Mary’s University

St. John’s University

St. Philip’s Episcopal School

Steel Sports

SUNY @ BUFFALO

Tarleton State University

Texas A&M University-Commerce

The Excellence Edge

The FA

The University of Southern Mississippi

Texas State University

TriHealth

Towson University

Tufts

U.S. Soccer Foundation

Uganda National Council of Sport

United States Olympic Committee

United States Sports Academy

United States Tennis Association

United States Track and Field

University at Buffalo

University of Birmingham

University of Central Florida

University of Georgia

University of Great Falls

University of Idaho

University of Iowa

University of Johannesburg

University Laval

University of Limerick

University of Maryland

University of Minnesota

University of Missouri

University of New Hampshire

University of Northern Colorado

University of Ottawa

University of Southern Mississippi

University of Tennessee

University of Utah

University of Washington – Center for Leadership in Athletics

Up2Us

US Lacrosse

US Rowing

US Soccer Foundation

US Ski and Snowboard

USA Basketball

USA Field Hockey

USA Football

USA Hockey

USA Shooting

USA Swimming

USA Ultimate

USA Volleyball

Valdosta State University

Victoria University

Washington State University

West Virginia University, Center for Applied Coaching and Sport Science

Whistler Athletes’ Centre

Whitworth University

Xavier University

YLC Kicks

Young Leadership Council

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