Understanding Athlete Transitions
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Qualification description
Level 3 Award: Understanding Athlete Transitions
The Level 3 Award in Understanding Athlete Transitions aims to provide learners with an understanding of the transitions that athletes may face across their careers. The course focuses on the demands and challenges experienced by athletes and the support they may require. The course is suitable for anyone who operates within a sporting environment and who directly or indirectly supports athletes (e.g. coaches, practitioners, National Governing Body Staff). One of the key aims of the course is for the learner to reflect on how they can optimise athlete transition support within their own roles.
The qualification can be delivered online over 5-8 sessions, dependent on daytime/evening delivery. Each session lasts between 3-5 hours.
More about this course
Unit 1: Transition Theory
- What is a transition vs a critical moment
- General and sport specific transition theories
- Types of athlete transitions
- Using transition theory in practice
Unit 2: Athlete Support and Coaching During Transition
- Flourishing and languishing during transition
- Athlete transition interventions and support tools
- When to refer to an expert
Unit 3: Educational Transition & Athlete Migration
- Athlete choice when they leave school
- Factors that impact the university transition decision
- Demands, challenges and support in the transition to university
- Transitions within the university journey
- Pathways athletes take when they leave university
- Factors that impact the transition out of university decision
- What is athlete migration, reasons athletes migrate, and challenges
- The push-pull framework and cultural transition model
- Support required during the recruitment and migration decision making process
Unit 4: Junior to Senior Transition
- Individual and external factors that influence transition success
- Sources of stress for athletes during transition from the junior to senior level
- Coinciding transitions during the junior to senior transition
- How the transition varies between sports
- Academy to first team transition
- Stakeholders during transition from junior to senior level
Unit 5: Athletic Retirement
- Athletic retirement theory
- Factors that initiate and impact the quality of adjustment
- Impact of retirement on athletes’ wider support networks
- Challenges (and how they vary) during retirement transition
- Mental health and wellbeing during retirement
- Media impact on retirement
- Support networks & duty of care during retirement
- Mind the gap theory (educational and vocational skills gaps)
- Athlete value transfer & transferable skills
Unit 6: Unique Athlete Transitions & Performance Pathway Transitions
- Para-athlete transitions (e.g., classification changes)
- Talent transfer (types and reasons athletes transfer)
- The athlete to coach transition
- Athlete parenthood transition
- Deselection
- Transition to a national training centre
- The club to national team transition
- Major event transition cycles
Assessment
Learners are required to complete a learner portfolio and demonstrate competency in nine assessed tasks. Assessments are short answer knowledge-based questions and reflective tasks.
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Understanding Athlete Transitions
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