Coaching Stories - Navigating Storms, Triumphs, and Transformations in Sport

This inspiring text unveils the storms and triumphs of coaching in the form of case studies. It explores coaches- stories from across the globe through a scientific lens and translates them back into coaching practice, offering essential guidance on how to support new and experienced coaches in their work and professional development.

A variety of stories from coaches of different genders, ages, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, religions, and experience levels, present readers with a comprehensive and diverse overview of coaching and its varied and complex demands. Each powerful case study helps readers see coaching through a different lens, prompting reflection, thoughtful discussion, and creative problem-solving. Designed to instruct, reveal, and inform, the authors provide key takeaways and warn against pitfalls, as they consider what makes (and breaks) a coach as a person and performer, and what contributes to long-term coaching performance. The cases