In 2004, the rural primary school attended by Linda Nicholson’s daughters put out a plea for volunteers. They needed help with fundraising, art classes, cake baking for events, and netball. As a former age-group international athlete, a Masters World Championships… Read More »Linda Nicholson – Interview
To celebrate the World Athletics Championships in Eugene from 15th – 24th July 2022, founder of the FCN Vicky Huyton and Athletics Irelands Lilly-Ann O’Hora are interviewing a number of Track & Field coaches involved with the World Championships themselves.… Read More »FCN & World Athletics Celebrate World Championship Track & Field Coaches
Here is the real impact of creating gender equity in high performance coaching. In 2019, at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, GB & NI Athlete Chris McAlister was left without his personal coach Marina Armstrong, as she was unable… Read More »From this … to this: the real impact of gender equity in coaching
History has been made once more as GB & NI head to Eugene for the World Athletics Championships, with the inclusion of two female team coaches and an increase of athletes coached by women. Since the publication of our research… Read More »FCN | Female Coaches head to Eugene as part of GB & NI team for the World Athletics Championships
As part of the World Athletics Gender Leadership Taskforce programme of webinars, the FCN has been invited to speak to an audience of leaders and coaches from around the Globe about the challenges to progression for women coaches and leaders… Read More »FCN to Present at World Athletics Gender Leadership Task Force
History has been made at the World Athletics Indoor Championships after 3 female coaches have been selected for Team Coach roles with the GB Squad. Previous to this, there had never been a single female Team Coach on a GB… Read More »History made at the World Athletics Indoor Championships
Thursday 24th March 2022 at 18:00 GMT | 19:00 CET Join us for an evening with one of the most successful CEO / Head Coach duo’s in British sport as Joanna Coates (former CEO of England Netball and UK Athletics)… Read More »FCN Euro Network Webinar: Joanna Coates & Tracey Neville
Monday 31st January 2022 at 18:00 GMT | 19:00 CET Our Special Guest for our January FCN | European Sports Leadership & Coaching Network is Stephanie Hilborne OBE Stephanie Hilborne is the CEO of Women in Sport; a charity based… Read More »FCN | Euro Network Webinar: Stephanie Hilborne OBE
Following the publication of the research paper “Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching”, Professor Leanne Norman (and Richard Simpson) have published the open paper: Gendered microaggressions towards the “only” women coaches in high-performance sport. Professor Leanne Norman posted… Read More »Gendered microaggressions towards the “only” women coaches in high-performance sport
The Female Coaching Network Track & Field: UK is a groundbreaking approach to making much needed change in the world of British track and field. Pre 2020, the sport was in dire need of highlighting and addressing the many issues… Read More »Track & Field: UK