How clubs can tackle volunteer coaching challenges

Over a million hours of coaching are volunteered in Ireland each week but many see themselves stepping away within the next two years. Here’s why, and how to stop it.

Every club and sporting organisation should realise they need to appreciate what they have in terms of coaching resources before it is too late.  Picture: Pat Murphy / SPORTSFILE

They’re the unheralded stars of sport. You won’t see their face on TV, rarely their name in the paper, and yet they continue to beaver away on the quiet fields and waters and in halls across the land, catering for everyone from the God-gifted talented to the God-help-us craturs.

There’s even a decent chance you’re one of them – or at least have been.