Coaches' Club at WU20 Lima 24 (© Global Athletics Coaching Academy)
World Athletics and the Global Athletics Coaching Academy (GACA) present the return of the Coaching Matters virtual forum, a quarterly series that focuses on the coach-athlete relationship.
The 2025 series will kick off on 4 March with two virtual sessions – one forum for the Eastern time zone and another for the Western time zone – with the focus on the topic ‘handling success and failure’. The coaches and experts in attendance will dive deep on the topic and aim to answer the question: how do we handle what we perceive to be our successes and failures in coaching?
The Eastern forum will be hosted by Cliff Mallett, who will be joined by a panel of expert coaches including Eddie Jones – head coach of the Japan national rugby team, Lisa Alexander – former head coach of the Australian national women’s netball team, and David Taylor – former private coach to star tennis players such as Ana Ivanovic and Elise Mertens.
Richie Mercado will facilitate the Western forum conversation between speakers LaTanya Sheffield – head coach for the men’s and women’s track & field programmes at Long Beach State University, Laurent Meuwly – head of sprinting, hurdles and relays in the Netherlands and head coach to Femke Bol, and Clive Brewer – Director of Olympic strength & conditioning at the University of Notre Dame.
During the sessions, each expert will share their insights through presentations, followed by a Q&A with attending guests.
Further information on each forum session, the speakers and how to join, can be found on the forum flyers:
Eastern Forum (5pm AEST / 2pm WIB / 8am CET)
Western Forum (6pm CET / 9am PST / 5pm GMT)
Recordings will be available to watch back via the World Athletics e-learning platform. Here you can also watch the recordings of all the previous Coaching Matters forum sessions.
