Inclusive Athletics Workshop

Date: 26/11/2014
Author: Andy Kyle
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Categories: Coaching, News & Results

As part of the Club Together programme, Scottish Athletics are offering clubs the opportunity to put their coaches and assistants through and Inclusive Athletics workshop for FREE (normal cost £300). This is a 3 hour workshop. As they are offering this to all CT clubs, they are looking to get dates in…

STOP PRESS – LEVEL 2 COACH

Date: 29/08/2014
Author: Andy Kyle
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I have just found out that a Level 2 Course is to be run at Kilmarnock. You must be available to attend all dates, study the induction / refresher material before attending the course and work with a coach mentor during the time of your training prior to taking your assessment….

Coach Education

Date: 10/08/2014
Author: Andy Kyle
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COACH EDUCATION Athletics Coach Award Level 2 20th / 21st September 2014 Livingston 1st November 2014 Livingston 14th February 2015 Livingston Coaching Assistant Award Level 1 4th / 5th October 2014 Kilmarnock All days of course must be attended. Contact Club Together Officer (Lindsay McMahon…

What can You do for Kilmarnock Harriers

Date: 10/06/2014
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Categories: Coaching, News & Results, News/Announcements, Track & Field

To often club members have the attitude, What can Kilmarnock Harriers do for me ? Therefore, it’s uplifting when you come across the opposite point of view: What I can do for Kilmarnock Harriers? Maybe, we too often take things for granted with the army of volunteers now involved in…

Get Inspired: Come and Learn the Pole Vault

Date: 02/04/2014
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Categories: Coaching, Featured Events, Track & Field, Uncategorized

our young national medal winners interviewed by BBC crew Cara Baillie clearing 2.00m Tonight we had the BBC crew visiting Kilmarnock Harriers at the AAA, who were interviewing young and not so young athletes, trying to find out what inspires them to do their chosen sport – athletics. One…

Sophie Rowan wining silver medal at National Indoor Pentathlon U14

Date: 01/03/2014
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Our combined events team – proud coach to have helped two athletes in the u14 age group to national medal winners in the Pentathlon. Sophie Rowan became the second Kilmarnock Harrier winning a medal in the combined events at a National Championship, U14. Sophie followed her club mate Evie Bartl,…

New Pole Vaulters Wanted

Date: 01/12/2013
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Coach Harald clearing 2.50m for the fist time… There has been progress made with regard to ensuring that pole vault training can continue throughout the winter season. After a period of gentle persuasion staff at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena has kindly agreed that the pole vault mats can be left…

National Coach Development Programme – resources and events

Date: 24/11/2013
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The presentations and resources from the National Coach Development weekend in September are now available on the scottishathletics website – There are also a lot of of video clips uploaded from the workshop – sprinting , conditioning exercises and running mechanics. The running drills are best watched in ascending order as they…

National Coach Development Weekend September 2013

Date: 20/09/2013
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Scottish Athletics held its coach development weekend at the Emirates Indoor Arena, which again proved to be an invaluable learning experience for three Harriers coaches, Donald McIntosh, George Morton and Harald Bartl. The weekend started off with a workshop for coaches, who are enrolled on the new Event Group qualifications (level…

Planning as part of preparation for major competitions

Date: 02/09/2013
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The recent web blog just prior to the Scottish Championships was titled ‘Preparation for Scottish Championships are going well‘ and now looking back I can say that careful preparation and planning certainly helped me as a coach to instill confidence in my athletes that things were going into the right…