Coach (sport), the Glossary
An athletic coach is a person coaching in sport, involved in the direction, instruction, and training of a sports team or athlete.[1]
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109 relations: Amateur, American football, American football positions, Association football, Association football tactics and skills, Athlete, Athletic trainer, Athletic training, Baseball, Batting (cricket), Bill Belichick, Bowling (cricket), Captain (cricket), Coach (baseball), Coach (basketball), Coach (carriage), Coach (ice hockey), Coach of the Year, Coaching, Coaching staff, Coaching tree, College baseball, Competence (human resources), Confidence, Cricket, Critical thinking, Declarative knowledge, Defensive coordinator, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Determinacy, Don Mattingly, Driving (horse), Education, Empathy, Evaluation, Exercise physiology, Fielding (cricket), Football Association of Ireland, General manager (baseball), Gymnastics, Head coach, Holistic education, Ice hockey, Integrity, Joe Torre, John Wooden, Kevin Long (baseball), Knowledge, Kocs, Learning, ... Expand index (59 more) »
- Leadership positions in sports
- Sports coaches
Amateur
An amateur is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income.
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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In American football, the specific role that a player takes on the field is referred to as their "position".
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Team tactics as well as individual skills are integral for playing association football.
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Athlete
An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance.
Athletic trainer
An athletic trainer is a certified and licensed health care provider who practices in the field of sports medicine.
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Athletic training
Athletic training is an allied health care profession recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA)"What is an Athletic Trainer?".
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
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Batting (cricket)
In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket.
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Bill Belichick
William Stephen Belichick (born April 16, 1952) is an American sports analyst and football coach.
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Bowling (cricket)
Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batter.
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Captain (cricket)
The captain of a cricket team, often referred to as the skipper, is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of the other players. Coach (sport) and captain (cricket) are Leadership positions in sports.
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Coach (baseball)
In baseball, a number of coaches assist in the smooth functioning of a team. Coach (sport) and coach (baseball) are sports coaches.
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Coach (basketball)
Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behavior of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Coach (sport) and coach (basketball) are sports coaches.
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Coach (carriage)
A coach is a large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both.
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Coach (ice hockey)
The coach in ice hockey is the person responsible for directing the team during games and practices, prepares strategy and decides which players will participate in games. Coach (sport) and coach (ice hockey) are sports coaches.
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Coach of the Year
Many sports leagues, sportswriting associations, and other organizations confer "Coach of the Year" awards.
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Coaching
Coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.
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Coaching staff
The coaching staff is a group of non-athletes tied to a sports team. Coach (sport) and coaching staff are sports coaches.
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Coaching tree
A coaching tree is similar to a family tree except it shows the relationships of coaches instead of family members. Coach (sport) and coaching tree are sports coaches.
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College baseball
College baseball is baseball that is played by student-athletes at institutions of higher education.
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Competence (human resources)
Competence is the set of demonstrable characteristics and skills that enable and improve the efficiency or performance of a job.
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Confidence
Confidence is the feeling of belief or trust that a person or thing is reliable.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation.
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Declarative knowledge
Declarative knowledge is an awareness of facts that can be expressed using declarative sentences.
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Defensive coordinator
A defensive coordinator is a coach responsible for a gridiron football (American football) team's defense.
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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Determinacy
Determinacy is a subfield of set theory, a branch of mathematics, that examines the conditions under which one or the other player of a game has a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies.
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Don Mattingly
Donald Arthur Mattingly (born April 20, 1961) is an American professional baseball coach, and former first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Driving (horse)
Driving, when applied to horses, ponies, mules, or donkeys, is a broad term for hitching equines to a wagon, carriage, cart, sleigh, or other horse-drawn vehicle by means of a harness and working them in this way.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
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Empathy
Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience.
Evaluation
In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards.
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Exercise physiology
Exercise physiology is the physiology of physical exercise.
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Fielding (cricket)
Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the striking batter, to limit the number of runs that the striker scores and/or to get a batter out by either catching a hit ball before it bounces, or by running out either batter before they can complete their current run.
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The Football Association of Ireland (FAI; Cumann Peile na hÉireann) is the governing body for association football in the Republic of Ireland.
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General manager (baseball)
In Major League Baseball, the general manager (GM) of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub during contract discussions with players.
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance.
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Head coach
A head coach, senior coach, or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. Coach (sport) and head coach are sports coaches.
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Holistic education
Holistic education is a movement in education that seeks to engage all aspects of the learner, including mind, body, and spirit.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
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Integrity
Integrity is the quality of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
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Joe Torre
Joseph Paul Torre Jr. (born July 18, 1940) is an American professional baseball executive and former player, manager, and television color commentator.
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John Wooden
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player.
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Kevin Long (baseball)
Kevin Richard Long (born December 30, 1966) is an American former minor league baseball player and the current hitting coach for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Knowledge
Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill.
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Kocs
Kocs is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary.
Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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In association football, the manager is the person who has overall responsibility for the running of a football team. Coach (sport) and manager (association football) are sports coaches.
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Manager (baseball)
In baseball, the field manager (commonly referred to as the manager) is the equivalent of a head coach who is responsible for overseeing and making final decisions on all aspects of on-field team strategy, lineup selection, training and instruction. Coach (sport) and manager (baseball) are sports coaches.
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Manager (Gaelic games)
In Gaelic games, a manager or (in Irish) bainisteoir is involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of a team. Coach (sport) and manager (Gaelic games) are sports coaches.
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Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.
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Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
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Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior.
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Motor control
Motor control is the regulation of movements in organisms that possess a nervous system.
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New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area.
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New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
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NFL Coaches Association
The National Football League Coaches Association (NFLCA) is a group of coaches in the National Football League (NFL).
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NSPCC
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a British child protection charity founded as the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) by Thomas Agnew on 19 April 1883.
Nutritionist
A nutritionist is a person who advises others on matters of food and nutrition and their impacts on health.
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Offensive coordinator
An offensive coordinator is a member of the coaching staff of an American football or Canadian football team who is in charge of the team's offense.
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Pedagogy
Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.
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Personal trainer
A personal trainer is an individual who creates and delivers safe and effective exercise programs for healthy individuals and groups, or those with medical clearance to exercise. Coach (sport) and personal trainer are sports coaches.
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Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
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Physical education
Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys.
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Physical therapy
Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is a healthcare profession, as well as the care provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through patient education, physical intervention, disease prevention, and health promotion.
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Player-coach
A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Coach (sport) and player-coach are sports coaches.
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Position coach
In American football, a position coach is a team official in charge of coaching a specific position group.
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Practice (learning method)
Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior repeatedly, to help learn and eventually master a skill.
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Procedural knowledge
Procedural knowledge (also known as know-how, knowing-how, and sometimes referred to as practical knowledge, imperative knowledge, or performative knowledge) is the knowledge exercised in the performance of some task.
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Professional development
Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing praxis in addition to the transferable skills and theoretical academic knowledge found in traditional liberal arts and pure sciences education.
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Professional fitness coach
A professional fitness coach is a professional in the field of fitness and exercise, most often instruction (fitness instructor), including professional sports club's fitness trainers and aerobics and yoga instructors and authors of fitness instruction books or manuals. Coach (sport) and professional fitness coach are sports coaches.
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Professional sports
In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance.
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Quality control coach
A quality control coach is a member of the coaching staff of a gridiron football team whose primary job is preparing the team for a game, beginning sometimes two or three weeks before the actual game.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.
Reflective practice
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to take a critical stance or attitude towards one's own practice and that of one's peers, engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning.
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Relative age effect
The term relative age effect (RAE), also known as birthdate effect or birth date effect, is used to describe a bias, evident in the upper echelons of youth sport and academia, where participation is higher amongst those born earlier in the relevant selection period (and lower for those born later in the selection period) than would be expected from the distribution of births.
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Ron Guidry
Ronald Ames Guidry (born August 28, 1950), nicknamed "Louisiana Lightning" and "Gator", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
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Safeguarding
Safeguarding is a term used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia to denote measures to protect the health, well-being and human rights of individuals, which allow people—especially children, young people and vulnerable adults—to live free from abuse, harm and neglect.
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School
A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.
Self-determination theory
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that concerns people's innate growth tendencies and innate psychological needs.
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Self-esteem
Self-esteem is confidence in one's own worth, abilities, or morals.
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Short form cricket
Short form cricket is a collective term for several modified forms of the sport of cricket, with playing times significantly shorter than more traditional forms of the game.
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Skill
A skill is the learned ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.
Social responsibility is an ethical concept in which a person works and cooperates with other people and organizations for the benefit of the community.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Sport England
Sport England is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Sport psychology
Sport psychology is defined by the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC) in 1996, as the study of the psychological basis, processes, and effects of sport.
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Sports agent
A sports agent is a legal representative (hence agent) for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches.
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Sports analyst
A sports analyst is a person looking through technical, tactical, physiological, and psychological performance metrics working with the sports coach and sports science team to improve athlete performance.
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Sports biomechanics
Sports biomechanics is the quantitative based study and analysis of athletes and sports activities in general.
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Sports nutrition
Sports nutrition is the study and practice of nutrition and diet with regards to improving anyone's athletic performance.
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Sports science
Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives.
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Sports team
A sports team is a group of individuals who play a team sport together.
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Star Tribune
The Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Strength and conditioning coach
A strength and conditioning coach (also known as an S&C coach) is a physical performance professional who uses exercise prescription to improve the performance of competitive athletes or athletic teams. Coach (sport) and strength and conditioning coach are sports coaches.
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Subsidy
A subsidy or government incentive is a type of government expenditure for individuals and households, as well as businesses with the aim of stabilizing the economy.
Tax exemption
Tax exemption is the reduction or removal of a liability to make a compulsory payment that would otherwise be imposed by a ruling power upon persons, property, income, or transactions.
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Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. Coach (sport) and teacher are education and training occupations.
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.
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Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
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UK Coaching
UK Coaching is the professional association for sports coaches in the United Kingdom.
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Understanding
Understanding is a cognitive process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each.
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See also
Leadership positions in sports
- Captain (Australian rules football)
- Captain (Gaelic games)
- Captain (association football)
- Captain (baseball)
- Captain (cricket)
- Captain (ice hockey)
- Captain (sports)
- Coach (sport)
- Skip (curling)
- Sporting director
- Toshiyori
- Vice-captain
Sports coaches
- Becoacht.com
- Brevet d'État d'éducateur sportif
- Coach (baseball)
- Coach (basketball)
- Coach (ice hockey)
- Coach (sport)
- Coaching staff
- Coaching tree
- Gervais Hakizimana
- Head coach
- Horse trainer
- József Keresztessy (fencer)
- Manager (Gaelic games)
- Manager (association football)
- Manager (baseball)
- Nachalnik Komandy
- Personal trainer
- Player-coach
- Professional fitness coach
- Seasonworker
- Strength and conditioning coach
- Toshiyori
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach_(sport)
Also known as Assistant Coach, Athletics Coach, Coach (American football), Coach (association football), Coach (sports), Coaching (sport), Coaching sports, Commissario tecnico, Football Managment, Football coach (association football), Goalkeeper coach, Goalkeepers coach, Goalkeeping coach, Lady football coach, Soccer management, Sports Coaching, Sports coach, Sports instructor, Sports manager, Technical commissioner.
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