BSc (Hons) Rugby Coaching and Performance
Do you want to turn your passion for rugby into a rewarding career? An ever-increasing workforce of skilled professionals is needed to help rugby players reach their full potential. Strength and conditioning, coaching and performance, fitness testing, team and player analysis, nutrition and psychology are all becoming vital to performance.
This rugby coaching course offers a unique opportunity to work towards industry-recognised World Rugby/Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) rugby coaching awards. This means you can be confident you’ll graduate with enhanced employment prospects in the field.
USW's rugby course is supported by the WRU and professional rugby regions in Wales. It has been designed in consultation with WRU Coach Education Managers, Cardiff Blues, Dragons, Scarlets, and Ospreys coach educators, Hudl Performance Analytics experts, and United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) strength and conditioning experts, and many of these staff contribute to the course.
You can work towards your Rugby Union Level 1 and 2 Children’s and Senior UKCC/WRU Rugby Coaching awards, Level 1 and 2 Refereeing qualifications, and gain relevant experience within Performance Analysis and Strength and Conditioning modules, which provide experience of working in those areas.
What you will study
You will gain an understanding of the varied, dynamic and constantly changing nature of rugby development. From grass roots community projects that engage people to take up rugby, to working with elite players who are at the top of their game.
Your studies will integrate theory and practical lectures with community rugby experience, so you’ll develop coaching, leadership and enterprise skills, and gain experience of working in the professional rugby industry.
You’ll study rugby coaching, sport psychology, strength and conditioning, performance analytics and fitness testing and evaluation. You will also have the opportunity to gain industry-recognised IRB UKCC coaching awards which are embedded into the practical coaching modules.
Year One: Rugby Coaching course
Your first year will provide you with the underpinning theory and practice of coaching young athletes via practical sessions and classroom-based lectures. You will gain knowledge of how grass roots rugby is organised and managed in the community, and you will have the opportunity to lead school and club activities and events like Tag festivals.
- Introduction to performance Analysis for rugby coaching and performance - 20 credits
- Rugby Coaching: Young Performers - 40 credits
- Academic Research and Professional Skills - 20 credits
- Managing and Developing Rugby in the Community - 20 credits
- Strength and Conditioning in Rugby Union - 20 credits
Year Two: Rugby Coaching course
You will develop your knowledge of coaching and leadership principles and approaches to developing and managing rugby with adolescent groups. You will study barriers to rugby and gain experience of running enterprising events and completing a community rugby placement. This year will expand your understanding of the different career options available to you.
- Rugby Coaching: Adolescent Performers - 40 credits
- Research Methods - 20 credits
- Physical Education and School Sport - 20 credits (optional)
- Sport Placement: Rugby - 20 credits
- Rugby Performance Analysis - 20 credits
- Strength and Conditioning in Rugby Coaching and Performance - 20 credits (optional)
Year Three: Rugby Coaching course
During this year, you can choose to undertake a placement for one or two days a week working with one of our partner sports organisations. Some of our current students are working with organisations such as WRU, Welsh Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, the Ospreys and the Scarlets, Sports Development departments, schools and other sports organisations. This experience will enable you to enhance your CV and create a strong network within the rugby industry in the UK and overseas.
- Applied Professional Project - 40 credits
- Dissertation - 40 credits
- Rugby Coaching: Adult Performers - 40 credits
- Strength and Conditioning - 20 credits (optional)
- Work Based Learning - 20 credits (optional)
- Analysis in Rugby Coaching and Performance - 20 credits (optional)
- Creatively Teaching Physical Education, Health and Wellbeing - 20 credits (optional)
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