About Athletics Australia

Athletics Australia is the accrediting body for all Track and Field coaches in Australia.

Athletics Australia’s Coach Development Strategy focusses on three pillars.

Growth, Engagement, and Retention

  • Attract and retain more coaches actively working within the Australian athletics community.

Education and Capacity

  • Support coaches to develop the values, knowledge, skills, and experience to support athletes to achieve higher rates of participation and greater levels of athletic performance.

Compliance and Safeguarding

  • Publish and enforce a transparent code of conduct that protects the safety of all athletes and supports a positive culture in our community.

Currently Accredited Coaches

5333

Since 2021, over 10,000 coaches have completed

Athletics Australia Coaching Education

Our aim is to create an educated and connected coaching workforce, that works together to best support all Australian athletes.

The Australian Athletics Coach Education framework is based on the recommendations made by Stirling (2013) in ‘Applying Kolb’s Theory of Experiential Learning to Coach Education’. The philosophy of the framework is based on five key tenets that reflect best practice in adult education.

  • Learning involves experience, reflection, theorisation, and application.

  • Learning is a process and coaches improve from a combination of ongoing informal and formal education.

  • Learning is grounded in experience and information is introduced at an appropriate pace with practical application.

  • The accreditation pathway is specific to each coach, by offering a range of teaching methods and content options that fit the coach’s unique daily coaching environment.

  • Learning is an ongoing process that must continue outside of the traditional classroom.