This year our theme is Championing Values. Fresh off the back of the Paris Games, we will be bringing the Olympic and Paralympic Values to life through coaching stories, celebrations, and insight. New resources are published each day during Coaching Week – keep an eye on our social media pages too for updates.
Georgina Williams and Doug MacDonald, our Pathway and Performance Coach Developers, share what it means to create an excellent environment for coaches to develop.
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How do you coaching adaptive athletes? In this video, Paralympic Pathway athletes Craig Walton (below-knee amputee) and James King (visual impairment) describe how their coaches Will Stockton and Rob Cree have made adjustments to help them row indoors and on the water.
Rob also answers some FAQs about Para and adaptive rowing and classification here >>
We recognise the level of determination put into coaching by our many coaching members. At the 2025 British Rowing Coaching Conference (25-26 January in Birmingham), we will acknowledge some of these coaches and share the background to initiatives they are working on.
The Conference is now open for bookings!
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Today we’re celebrating our COACH membership!
Coaches are at the centre of the future of rowing, so we’re delighted to be able to share details of our 2024 Coach Development Opportunities – designed for experienced coaches wanting to develop their practice as well as those taking their first steps on their coaching journey.
Come along to our webinar on 2 October to get more details.
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Hear from the new rowing programme at Infinity BC in Stockton on Tees about what it takes to be courageous in your ambition, along with some coaching tips to instil courage in young rowers.
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Love Rowing Foundation Director, Rebecca Gibson guides us through her experience of respect in coaching, and what it means in making rowing more accessible and enjoyable for all.
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Here, current and former coxes from @thewinningcox give us their insight into what friendship means in a competitive environment, and how to manage relationships as a coach.
We will continue to celebrate and support coaches every day, so keep an eye on some of the exciting projects and initiatives you can get involved with:
South Coast Rowing Championships
Coaching Week began with the Championships in Folkestone. Find out more about this expanding part of the sport.
Find out more about Coastal Sculling
Regional Coach Cafés
We launched our new Coach Café initiative, aimed at creating stronger local networks for the coaching community.
Safeguarding Q&A
Safeguarding is a core foundation of good coaching practice, and British Rowing is committed to the ongoing development and provision of policies, best practice guidance and central support towards Safeguarding Children, Young People and Adults with care and support needs. This is your opportunity to hear from the safeguarding team, who presented their responses in an online discussion.
Measuring coaching success: Beyond wins and losses
In a world where success is often is portrayed as a simple statistic, wins and losses, it is hard to sometimes see the broader view. Katie Sparks, Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Staffordshire University, explores how to do that in this new British Rowing Plus article commissioned specially for Coaching Week.
Redefining Success Webinar
Olympian and author Cath Bishop hosted a panel discussion with Advanced coaches Richard Chambers (Leander Club), Hannah Vines (Dorney Boat Club) and Tristan Mayglothling (Dulwich College) and discussed what success means to them across a range of coaching environments.
Strength and Conditioning Workshop
Focussing on the foundations of the GB Rowing Team S&C philosophy, supporting performance through planning and programming. For future development opportunities in this area, please click here.
Indoor Rowing: Go Row virtual workshop
Find out more about Indoor Rowing workshops here.
Using goals to help athletes recognise their success
Coaches Hannah Vines, Matt Mole and Kate O’Sullivan talk to British Rowing Learning, Education and Development Manager Rachel Hooper about the process and importance of goal setting in supporting rowers and coxes to recognise success at every stage of their development.
Coach Development Opportunities
An overview of exciting additions to the way British Rowing offers support to coaches to reach their goals.
Coxing webinar for Coaches
Delivered by current and former GB Coxes from @thewinningcox: Zoe DeToledo, Matilda Horn, Morgan Baynham -Williams, Sasha Adwani and Autumn Mantell, who between them have one Olympic medal, over 20 senior international medals, 13 U23/Junior medals, five HRR medals, 10 HWR medals and two Boat Race medals, plus 75 years of combined coxing experience between them!
This webinar addressed how coaches can support coxes to define their own success.
University Rowing Development Day
Building a successful programme
Developing high performing novices
Indoor Rowing: What are the opportunities?
Changing Young Lives Through Coaching
Good coaches can do so much more than help to make boats move faster! We’ve seen how much young people can develop their life skills through taking part in rowing but we now have strong academic findings to support this, just one year into a study of a Youth Rowing Programme. Trainee Sport and Exercise Psychologist, Scott Whitfield, will discuss the findings, and in particular just how important the role of the coach is in helping young people recognise how they are developing their life skills through rowing. This knowledge can be used to inform your own rowing sessions and coaching practices moving forward. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions throughout the session.
Speaker: Scott Whitfield Trainee Sport and Exercise Psychologist
iRowClean for Coaches
We invite coaches to join this free 1 hour webinar which will provide you with an opportunity to understand your anti-doping roles and responsibilities and how to advise your rowers. There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the session.
Presenter: British Rowing Anti-Doping and Integrity Manager, Jacqui Traynor and Dan Cooper U19 Programme Manager and UKAD Clean Sport Educator
High Quality Land Training: Developing Athletic Rowers
The British Rowing High Quality Land Training Workshop provides coaches with the tools to make rowers’ land training as effective as possible, reducing the risk of injury and improving the potential for performance on the water. It covers the key principles of good movement and conditioning for rowers and how to apply them, directly relating these areas of development in the gym to performance on the water.
To find our more about this workshop, visit the High Quality Land Training page.
University & Club Coaching Assistant
The University Coaching Assistant provides more entry levels for you to get involved in supporting rowing activities at your university clubs. The University Coaching Assistant training came about as a result of university rowing clubs identifying that despite a lot of people delivering activity in university clubs, there needed to be a more effective way of succession planning between year groups to ensure that there were enough students with some training in delivering activity year on year.
To find our more about this workshop, visit the University Coaching Assistant page.
The Club Coaching Assistant provides an entry level for you to get involved in supporting rowing activities at your club. The Club Coaching Assistant training enables people to get involved in coaching and provides an entry onto the formal British Rowing Coach Education pathway. By providing more ways to get involved, the aim is to create a welcoming environment for newcomers and encourage them to participate for longer and to see rowing as a lifelong sport.
To find our more about this workshop, visit the Club Coaching Assistant page.
iRowClean Supplements and Medications
We invite rowers, coaches, volunteers, parents or carers to join this free 45 minute webinar for a deeper discussion about supplements and medications in sport, which will provide you with a better opportunity to understand your anti-doping roles and responsibilities. There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the session.
Presenter: British Rowing Anti-Doping and Integrity Manager, Jacqui Traynor
Guest: Jacob Dawson GB Rowing Team Senior Athlete
British Rowing Technique
We are delighted to be joined by Olympic Gold Medal winning coach Robin Williams who will share his expertise in discussing the fundamentals of coaching British Rowing Technique. Robin is highly skilled in making his workshops relevant to all coaches, regardless of whether you’re working with performance athletes or complete beginners.
Speaker: Robin Williams MBE and Tom Pattichis, Olympic Pathway Manager
Level 3 Senior Club Coach Certificate
The course will ensure you can safely implement a training programme appropriate to the participants that you coach, who may vary in their goals, ages, and abilities.
For more information, visit the Senior Club Coach page.
Performance Coach Development Programme
A unique learning opportunity for coaches to be mentored and supported in fulfilling their potential as performance coaches.
Check out the Performance Coach Development Programme page for more information.