S2E24: Next Step in Athlete Performance is in Coach Performance with Vicky Huyton
Vicky is an experienced Coach and Coaching Consultant, as well as the founder of the Female Coaching Network. As an advocate for better coaching, Vicky has spent the last 20 years examining how coaches develop and how to create a safe and effective high performance environment for all.
Her work with the Female Coaching Network has changed the sporting landscape not just for women who coach, but for those who are coached; from the creation and delivery of the first ever fully paid coaching internship with Premier League Football club Tottenham Hotspur, to consulting Nike, UK Athletics, Athletics Canada and World Athletics, in creating cultural and systemic changes for a safer and fairer environment for elite athletes and coaches in Track & Field.
And this is why Iā€™m excited to bring this conversation to the Untapped Potential. Vicky is passionate in creating real and sustainable change in sport, and not just deliver tick box projects.
Talking Points:
- Fix a system, not the women
- What does the sports system actually mean
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Sport is a tool, not the be-all and end-all
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Low numbers of female coaches but high success rate
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Adapt coaching style - coach the person not the sport
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Sport is not separate from society
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Sport needs to be held accountable
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A Federations job is to cater for the athlete
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Resources:
- Practitioner Rites of Passage
- Flow Genome Project
- Dr Joe Dispenza min-body research
- Conversation for the context of Dr Joe Dispenza's work
- FCN in the recent Guardian article
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- Alice Milliat Women's World Games
