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Sport Australia has developed a new Coaching Plan Template to complement the Community Coaching & Essential Skills course.
Use the template as you progress through the course, after you complete it, or when you want to review and reflect on your coaching. It can be downloaded from module 4 here: Community Coaching Essential Skills | Australian Sports Commission
Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has introduced a Child Safeguarding in Sport eLearning Course, which is available from the SIA eLearning website at https://elearning.sportintegrity.gov.au/.
The Croquet Australia Board strongly encourages all members with contact with children and especially all coaches and referees, whom Croquet Australia policies require to hold WWCC, to complete this course.
Whilst Croquet Victoria is reviewing its own Child Safe Code of Conduct, please read and follow the Sport Integrity Australia Children and Young People Safe Practices Do's and Don'ts when we engage with young people in our sport.
Train as a Coach
To be eligible for training as a coach you need to meet some Croquet Australia requirements:
- Skills and experience as specified for the code and coaching level you are interested in
- Completion of the online Community Coaching Essential Skills course
- A current Working with Children check (see below)
- An application form signed by a club officer
Detail, including the application form, is provided in a booklet available from the State Coaching Coordinator.
All existing coaches should already be using their logbook to keep an up-to-date record of their coaching activities. The new National Coaching Program requires all coaches to log their coaching hours, in order to meet SportAus requirements for record-keeping.
Working With Children Check
Please note: A valid Working With Children Check (WWCC) is now a Croquet Australia prerequisite for attendance at all coach training.
Coaches, even non-certified members who are coaching U18s require WWCC, as it is classed as child-related work, whether in a paid or voluntary capacity.
Anyone who is in any way imparting knowledge is deemed to be working with children.
Clubs that run programs for school groups, youth groups etc, will require all members who coach the youth to have WWCC; this includes school groups accompanied by Dept. of Education members/employees who previously supervised club members' contact.
Useful information on the web
- Why Women Coaches Matter - WCA Launch Event 2020 [online], 23 November 2020.
Join the co-founders of the Women's Coaching Association (WCA), Aish Ravi and Julia Hay, for a free online webinar about women in coaching roles across all sports.
[Women's Coaching Association]
Two papers by Jenny Clarke
- Quantifying Golf Croquet
- Analysis of Lower Hand Wrist Flexion and Twist of the Mallet Head in a Croquet Shot
Aussie Croquet - A Mallet Sport for Schools
- Aussie Croquet - introductory YouTube video
- Aussie Croquet 1 (pdf)
- Teaching Aussie Croquet 1 (pdf)
- Aussie Croquet 2 (pdf)
- Aussie Croquet Invitation (pdf)
The Croquet Australia Academy
Currently certified coaches
More information
- Contact the State Coordinator of Coaching for more information.