The FA's Women's & Girls Coach Development Podcast

Extra resources: Paul McGuiness - Under the microscope webinar with Matt Bishop - https://youtu.be/xWrMFrqziFM

This episode of the women's and girls coach development podcast talks to Kim Stenning (Manager of Crawley Wasps 1st Team) and Charlotte Young (Brighton RTC U16 Coach) about their experiences working towards doing their UEFA A Licence but also their experiences on course, and finally offering advice and thoughts to other female coaches aspiring to achieve their UEFA A License in the future.

An insight into Mel's coaching journey and how she has evolved as a coach moving from the Penn State, USA to London City Lionesses. Mel also describes what she thinks are the biggest differences between football in the USA and England, as well as giving advice to English players that aspire to attend an American College.

What is Peak Game Pace 

How do we use it to develop the physical performance of players

Why is it important to understand Peak Game Pace

We are joined by Dawn Scott (Senior Women's Physical Performance Manger at The FA), Abbie Sadler (Bristol City Women's Super League Academy Coach), and Dan Waldron (P.E Teacher and Grassroots U13 girls' football coach).

In this episode, Amy Price (FA Women's National Coach Developer) facilitates a conversation with Dawn, Abbie and Dan to discuss how the menstrual cycle can impact performance & wellbeing of female players. We discuss this from the point of view of performance, talent & grassroots settings. 

Some of the topics discussed were:

-importance of building awareness of the menstrual cycle

-how coaches & players can be more confident in speaking about the menstrual cycle  

-how the menstrual cycle can impact different people in different ways

-why better menstrual cycle management has the potential to impact player performance & well being

-what coaches may consider in their coaching practice to support menstrual cycle management

Discussing the importance of understanding the differences between boys and girls when coaching

Podcast content:

https://youtu.be/NeMNVFcubH8

The podcast outlines fundamental challenges and experiences of RTC coaches and Technical Directors around developing young female players, drawing on their coaching experiences from grassroots and exploring how they developed over time through working within the RTC programme