MSc High Performance Sport Coaching
Study in your own coaching set up and at our world class sporting facilities as you learn from high performance coaches and critically explore the methods and behaviours that create high performing environments.
Entry requirements
A 2:1 honours degree related to sport coaching and/or relevant professional experience
Experience of sports coaching
Applicants with other qualifications and/or experience will be considered on an individual basis
International students will have achieved IELTS 6.5
UCAS code Apply to Marjon
UCAS institution code P63
Duration One year full-time or two years part-time
Any questions about postgraduate study at Marjon?
Contact Rachel Bailey-Lewis, our Student Recruitment Officer (Postgraduate).
Course Summary
MSc High-Performance Sport Coaching is designed for those who are passionate about creating high-performance sport coaching environments and who want to enhance the development of the performers and athletes they work with. It can be studied full-time or part-time. It will enhance your existing knowledge as a sport coaching practitioner by extensively broadening your understanding of the theories and concepts that underpin high-performance settings.
Behind every athlete, team or club lies a coach or group of coaches whose primary aim is to optimise performance. The processes and principles behind this operation are essential ingredients individuals must acquire in order to master their craft as coach. Therefore, before the success of the individuals or team can be acknowledged, a coach must learn more about the art of reflection, identity, leadership, and how their actions and behaviours help to shape the creation of high-performing environments for the athletes they work with.
The course is primarily designed for graduates who are already in sport coaching roles. On the MSc High-Performance Sport Coaching you'll examine your practices and processes critically, enabling you to further develop your identity as a coach, to enhance leadership skills and the creation of high-performing environments. The flexible nature of the course means that you can maintain your existing coaching practice, study face-to-face and online, as well as access world-class facilities on campus at the Marjon Sport and Health centre.
Why this course at Marjon?
Customised assessments dedicated to your own coaching practice
Learn from guest speakers working in high performance sport at national and international levels
Blended learning approach combines digital learning, face-to-face teaching and online support
Highly experienced lecturers
Examine and improve your own coaching practices and processes
Prepare to progress to the senior sport coaching roles
Modules for this course
Course Snapshot
“ I arrived on the programme as an international boxing coach and wanted to develop the knowledge and skill set to pursue the role of a Performance Director in the future. This pursuit needed me to enhance my understanding of operational leadership and the MSc in High Performance Sport Coaching delivered this outstandingly well. It was the only course that offered such focus on high performance leadership. The assessments are tailored to real world scenarios which resulted in the creation of my own high performance strategic model. This journey has since allowed me to become a Performance Director of Sweden Olympic Boxing and now Head Boxing Coach at Inspire Sports Institute India. I cannot recommend this course highly enough for those learners who are serious about becoming senior level coaching practitioners.”
1st Year
Through the eyes of the coach - reflective examinations of coaching practice
Fine-tuning the athlete - profiling, monitoring and analysis for optimal performance
Cultural creators of high performance
2nd Year
The landscape of research in high performance sport
Master's thesis/project - The end game
How you’ll be taught and assessed?
How will you be taught?
Teaching is by blended learning consisting of online delivery of live and pre-recorded sessions, face-to-face lectures, and in-situ recording and analysis.
How will you be assessed?
Assessments utilise skills expected in a sport coaching environment. These will include written assignments (reports and essays), reflective practice, online and live presentations, case studies and project/thesis work.
Aaron is as a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching & Physical Education. He is also a senior coaching practitioner and educator for external sport coaching organisations.He has a wealth of experience and knowledge of coach education and understands the wide-ranging impact this profession can have on coaches and performers alike. Aaron holds the UEFA A Licence in Coaching Football (Senior Level 4 Award), the FA Advanced Youth Award (12-16 age Youth Level 4 Award) and has extensive knowledge and experience of working within professional football academies. He has supported many players who now play football professionally and has guided and supported several coaches working within both the professional and non-league game.
Fees and funding
Fees UK students: £8,800
This fee covers your tuition and access to course-specific equipment and facilities, as well associated services including access to the library, study skills support, IT support, student support and wellbeing services and membership of the Student Union. There may be additional costs by course.
Funding available for this course
Our Student Funding Advisors offer confidential and impartial advice about your funding options.
Learn moreLecturers
Melissa has research interests that include increasing self-awareness and positive growth and mental health, developing confidence and emotional control, reducing anxiety, and facilitating communication.
Aaron is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching & Physical Education and is also the Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Sport Coaching. He teaches predominately across the Sport Coaching & Physical Education degree programmes focusing specifically on practice design, skill acquisition, performance analysis, participation coaching and performance coaching.
Sophie, who plays pool for England, teaches sport and exercise psychology principles and how these can be applied to improve sport performance and wellbeing.
Ian is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Physical Education, teaching across areas including coach behaviour, coaching philosophy, coach learning, research methods and the coaching process. With experience as an Academy football coach, he holds the UEFA B Licence and FA Youth Award qualifications. Ian’s research focuses on coach identity, coach learning and coaching practice, with a particular interest in how coaches’ identities are shaped within professional football environments. He completed his PhD, Who is a coach? Understanding coach subjectivities in professional youth football, under the supervision of Professor Christopher Cushion at Loughborough University. Ian previously enjoyed a successful career as a professional footballer, making over 250 first-team appearances and representing England at Under-18 level.
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