Coach of the Year Awards 2008

These annual awards are an opportunity for the rowing community to recognise and celebrate the tremendous contribution of our coaches (paid and unpaid) to the success of our sport.  It gives everyone a chance to say thank you.

The process for selecting the 2008 award winners starts with any individual, crew, squad or club submitting a nomination to their Regional Rowing Council for the Regional Coach of the Year event. The Regional winners are then put forward to the National Awards judging panel who will determine who receives the National Awards. Occasionally, as happened last year, the panel may decide to make a special award.

Take a moment to look back over the year - is there a coach you think ought to be nominated for any of the five awards below? 

Development Programme Coach of the Year

The coach who has made the most significant impact on your local community by providing new opportunities for new groups of people to become involved in the sport of rowing.  We are particularly looking for programmes that have built on good coaching practices and drawn on the resources available to them, such as the Learn to Row programmes.  We will be looking for evidence that the programme has led to a sustainable increase in membership at local clubs. This award is open to an individual or a team.  Examples of such programmes are:

• Young Person’s programme aimed at those who would normally never have the opportunity to row
• Adaptive programme
• Row to Health programme
• Recreational programme
• Corporate Rowing programme 

Young Coach of the Year

This award recognises the important work carried out by young coaches and provides an opportunity to highlight up-and-coming coaches through recognition of their coaching achievements so far. Nominees must be aged 25 years or under on 31 December 2008.

Junior Coach of the Year

The coach who in your opinion has made the most significant impact on the performance or development of School or Junior Club crew/s during 2008.

Senior Coach of the Year

The coach who has made the most significant impact on the performance or development of Senior Club crew/s during 2008.

The Coaching Team of the Year

The team that has made the most significant impact on the performance and/or development of a group of participants. 

All nominees must be members of the Amateur Rowing Association.

The nomination form sent to ARA clubs in the August mailing is available to download here (pdf) or here (word).

Please contact your Regional Rowing Council for closing dates for nominations.  You will find contact details for your Regional Coaching Commissioner in the Clubs and Regions section.

Nominations from the Regions must be received by the ARA no later than Wednesday 26th November 2008.  (See form for further details).

The winners of the National Award will be invited to attend the presentation at the ARA British Coaching Conference on 24th and 25th of January 2009.