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Melissa Hyndman – Interview

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  Melissa Hyndman is an international netball coach who has travelled the World coaching the sport she loves. Originally from New Zealand, Melissa has had...

Danielle Bouchard – Interview

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Danielle Bouchard is a Canadian boxing coach, who, for 2 Pan American Games in a row, had her boxers achieving 2 Golds and 1...

Why I Continue to Coach: A Mothers Journey Back to Track and Field Post-Partum

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Shelli is the Associate Head Track & Field Coach at the Univeristy of Iowa, USA.  After working hard as a track athlete as a...

Virginie Dufresne – Interview

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  Virginie Dufresne is a running coach from Canada and has a passion for physical preparation and testing combined with her teaching and coaching experience...

Michelle Abella – Interview

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  Michelle Abella is a basketball coach from Canada and is ready to take the next step in her evolving coaching career as she begins...

Pregnancy & Coaching; Rachel’s Story

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Our series of blogs about pregnancy and coaching aim to share stories of women's experience as to how they juggled being a new mum and a coach.  Following on from our latest blogs, Rachel Sandler (a T&F coach from USA) got in touch to explain her experience of coaching whilst pregnant and her thoughts on the Q&A blogs with Erika, Rikki and Shelli...   "I was the assistant Cross Country and Track & Field coach at a Division III liberal arts college for 4 years, and coached all 3 seasons (cross

Pregnancy & Coaching; During Pregnancy

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A big thank you to our 3 coaches for sharing with us their pregnancy and coaching experience so far.  Here at the FCN, we know...

Jennifer King – Interview

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  Jennifer King enters her ninth year as a member of The Pride women’s basketball staff in 2014-15 and leads one of the finest women’s...

Pregnancy & Coaching; Finding out about the pregnancy

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  To kick off our series about pregnancy and coaching, we wanted to ask our coaches about their experience of initially finding out they were pregnant and the reaction of their colleagues.  As all three women are employed in their coaching positions, they are of course covered by employment law, but due to the nature of their employed jobs, was there a fear of letting their team down?  How does such a life changing situation affect a coaches ability to coach and did they plan their pregnancy in

Pregnancy & Coaching; Meet the Coaches

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Whilst there seems to be an abundance of research on women who exercise when pregnant, there is no real research into women who coach whilst pregnant and how it affects them before, during and after they start a family.  As all coaches know, coaching itself is a lifestyle commitment and one that takes over almost every element of ones life, with successful coaches always having to put the needs of their athletes first.  But what happens when the coach has to put their own needs first?    Many