British Rowing Coaching Conference 2025
Theme: Inspirational coaching
The first British Rowing Coaching Conference for some years will take place from 25-26 January 2025 in Birmingham.
There will be a Gala Dinner on the evening of Saturday, 25 January to celebrate the successes of coaches in 2024 from community rowing programmes through to performance programmes. Speakers will include an Olympic rowing coach.
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Booking will open in Autumn 2024.
Call for speakers and poster exhibitors
The theme of the conference is Inspirational Coaching. There will be sessions by for coaches, and sessions from leaders in coaching for those who support coaches.
With coaches at the centre of the learning, there will be opportunities for coaches, leaders, and subject matter experts to share, collaborate, and build communities of common interests and expertise.
If you have relevant and current academic or vocational experience in one of the following areas, we would love to hear from you!
Topics
Coaches have asked for speakers or exhibitors on the following topics:
- Neurodiversity in sport
- Psychology and competition
- Unconscious bias in sport
- Skill acquisition
- Adverse weather training
- Biomechanics of rowing
- Motor mechanics of rowing
- Adaptive rowing
- Nutrition and physiology
- Making rowing accessible
- Club financing
- Physical preparation.
Coaching environments
Coaching environments to be represented are:
- Recreational rowing
- Coastal rowing
- Adaptive rowing
- Masters rowing
- High performance
- Youth outreach
- High performing juniors
- School rowing
- University rowing.
You can find details on how to submit an expression of interest in the Conference Paper or Exhibition Submission Guidelines:
The closing date for submissions is 30 August 2024.
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Conference Venue
The conference will be held at:
Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre
53 Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2RS
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