Tennis Coach (L3) | Courtside Hubs

During the course you will:

Gain a developed understanding of observation and analysis and learn how to use this to drive your coaching sessions.
Improve your players’ match play via match charting, statistics, goal setting and game-realistic drills.
Study and practically use the tactical and technical fundamentals that drive coaching knowledge
Understand the basics of Strength and Conditioning for tennis and understand how to implement them with players of any standard.
Practically apply a framework that will enable you to better coach players with disability
Learn how to build a tennis programme, including how to develop yourself
Take a deeper look at doubles coaching: roles, considerations, and patterns.

In addition, you will complete around 43 hours of remote coursework:

15 hours on a Player Development Project, improving a player over a period of 8 weeks
10 hours of Qualification Experience
10 hours of online units and tests with Subject Matter Experts
4 hours of demonstration and feeding tasks
2 hours spent on the ITF online library of coach education
2 hours on a Group Coaching Task

You must have completed and passed the Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Tennis or the LTA Tennis Instructor qualification.
You must have the LTA Enhanced with child barred list DBS check. If you are not an LTA Accredited coach, your LTA DBS must be less than 12 months from issue date. If you have current LTA Accreditation the DBS can be less than 3 years from issue date. If you have an Enhanced DBS from another organisation the LTA will except this ONLY if it is on the Government Update Service.
You must have successfully completed the LTA Coach Readiness Test or you must have (or have had) a rating of at least 6.1, or have a WTN rating of 22 (male) / 25 (female). The Readiness Test can take up to two weeks to be assessed once submitted - please allow sufficient time for this when signing up for the course.

You must have attended two 4-hour face to face elective courses. There are 3 to choose from.
You must have a current first aid certificate, either EFAW, FAW or PFA. (Emergency First Aid in the Workplace is a 1-day course, First Aid in the Workplace is a 3-day course, and Paediatric First Aid is a 2-day course).