Sport Coaching BSc Welcome Pack
Welcome to BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching – September 2026.
Welcome to the University of Northampton!
The BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching degree is designed to develop your key coaching skills, theory and practical applications when working with athletes, teams and within performance coaching systems.
The course will develop skills such as developing athletes, performance analysis, team/athlete needs analysis, coaching approaches and pedagogies. For sports coaches to take a holistic approach to their athletes’ development we need to have an understanding the physiological, technical, psychological, and social factors that feed into the long-term athlete development.
As well as developing performance analysis skills and putting all our practical coaching skills into the real world, through our local clubs and organisations.
Your Course Leader
Dr Emma Buxton
Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching
emma.buxton@northampton.ac.uk
Additional staff
- Laura Dawson – Lecturer in Performance Analysis and Coaching
Preparing for your course
In preparation for your course starting in September, we hold some online sessions beforehand so you can meet your Academic Team and other students studying the same course. These will be held on Monday 21 September, If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Emma Buxton emma.buxton@northampton.ac.uk.
Monday 21 September
Session: Welcome Meet
- Time: 11am –12pm (BST)
- Link: Join Here (Teams)
- Passcode: m5PK3r8V
This online meeting will outline further activities this week.
When you arrive at the University of Northampton, there’s plenty to get involved with during Welcome Week. However, there are specific sessions taking place as part of your course induction that’ll help you settle in and prepare for teaching to start the following week:
Monday 21 – Friday 25 September
Session: Welcome Week
- Location: On Campus
Various campus-based activities, welcome talks and course introductions. Please attend the online meeting on Monday for the full weekly schedule but you will be on campus on Tuesday 22 September and Thursday 24 September.
Tuesday 22 September
Session: Welcome Talk
- Time: 10.30 – 11.00am (BST)
- Location: Online
Session: Course Meeting
- Time: 12.30 – 2.30pm (BST)
- Location: Classroom – TBC (in online session on Monday)
Thursday 24 September
Session: Course Activties
- Time: 1.00 – 2.30pm (BST)
- Location: Classroom – TBC (in online session on Monday)
Equipment
You are not required to purchase any mandatory kit or textbooks to start this course. As a heavily practical based course students will require sportwear for many modules. We will provide all students with one of our course branded t-shirts, and students can purchase further course branded kit from Kit Locker. While purchasing this is not mandatory, we do encourage students to consider an additional pair of tracksuit bottoms / leggings for circumstances when completing work based learning activities and representing both our course and institution.
Additionally, at the start of term you will be given a choice of certain offers (i.e. free laptop, £500 off accommodation etc.), we would highly recommend and advise you to pick the laptop offer because you will be required throughout the 3 years of your degree to use different software.
