April 2011

For immediate release

Conference calls for coaches

A conference addressing the practice and theory of sports coaching is taking

place this week.

‘New Directions in Sports Coaching’ will offer the opportunity to listen to and
engage with national and international leaders in the practice and theory of
sport coaching. It is being held on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 April at
Headingley Carnegie Stadium.

Featuring guests including Professor Jean Cote of Queens University,

Ontario, and Dave Haskins, author of ‘Coaching the Whole Child: Positive
Development through Sport’, as well as key individuals in the academic field
of sport coaching, research and delivery and leading individuals from a
number of National Governing Bodies of Sport, the conference will address
topics such as new directions in sport coaching, new programmes for the
professional preparation of children and talent coaches and professional
preparation and support of coach developers.

The conference will review, debate and discuss some of the key issues that
need to be developed to respond to these important developments in a UK
and Global context.

It will be of interest to coaches, teachers, school sport partnerships:

Government Bodies in Sports; Coaching Support Networks; researchers and
students who are interested in enhancing the experience of children in sport.
The event will be held at the Lewis Jones Suite, Carnegie Stand, Headingley
Carnegie Stadium, commencing at 5pm on Tuesday 12 April.

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For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the News and Media
team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email c.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk

Notes for editors:

 Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and 3, 000 staff.

 Leeds Metropolitan University is currently number 2 in the country for
student sport and is home of the UK Centre for Coaching Excellence.
 The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment
Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in
the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*.
 The University’s award-winning learning environments include the
iconic Rose Bowl building, awarded Best Commercial Property
Development in the 2009 Yorkshire Property Awards; Broadcasting
Place, winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New Building
category and the pioneering Carnegie Village student accommodation.
Broadcasting Place was also voted the best tall building in the world in
2010.
 Leeds Metropolitan is one of only a handful of UK universities to have
been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.