Sprints, Hurdles & Jumps Development Coaching Day
Athlone IT, Saturday 3rd September
This event is part of the Coaching Network series and once again will combine a mixture of theory and practical sessions.
The event will be specifically aimed at the needs of coaches who are focused on club and developmental level athletes. The presenters will incorporate some of Ireland’s most experienced coaches along with others who have made a more recent impact.
The main focus will be on sharing knowledge and improving on the technical aspects of sprinting, hurdling and jumping
If you are a club coach or development coach this event has something to offer you. These occasions are designed to assist coaches to develop while also networking with other coaches and help build a better support structure for their own training group. Please register HERE for €30.
Event Timetable
09.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 11.00 Warm Up – Paul McKee
11.00 – 12.30 Workshops
Hurdles – Brid Golden and Paul Byrne
Relays – Daniel Kilgallon
Triple Jump – David Murphy
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Workshops
Speed Development – Daniel Kilgallon
High Jump – Brigid Corrigan
Developing General Conditioning – Eamon Harvey
15.00 – 16.00 Planning – Pat Ryan
16.00 Close
Warmup workshop
This will equip the coach to devise and oversee warm-ups that assist the athletes in maximising the benefit from the session.
Hurdles workshop
This will equip coaches to introduce hurdles and developing hurdling skill with juvenile athletes. The workshop will cover:
Drills for hurdling to develop technique and speed
Identifying common errors in hurdling
Developing fluency over the hurdles
Coaching tips on group hurdling sessions
The older hurdler - moving to higher hurdles and increased spacing between hurdles
Sprint Relay Workshop
This workshop will look closely at the basics of coaching Sprint Relays including:
Warm up
Squad drills,
Change zones
Check marks
Passing technique
Triple Jump Workshop
This workshop will concentrate on the basics of the event:
Triple jump technique
Control of the phases
Drills to maintain control of the hop phase
High Jump workshop
The focus will be on the fundamentals of the event including:
Run up
Take off
Flight and landing
Drills to develop the phases
Speed development - a marathon not a sprint
This workshop will examine the sprinters journey from juvenile through to junior ranks looking closely at key sessions and developments.
General conditioning workshop
The focus of this workshop is to lead coaches to appreciate the benefits of circuit training in the conditioning of athletes and to discuss how to organise circuit training sessions and programmes that address the challenges of balance, stability and strength in the young athlete.
Planning workshop
This will cover the basic factors that need to be considered by a coach when devising a training strategy.
Presenter Bios:
Paul McKee
Paul McKee is Athletics Ireland’s RDO for the north-west. Paul is a former national record holder in the 400m outdoors and indoors and also contributed to a national record in the 4x400m relay. He competed in the Sydney Olympics and won a bronze medal in the World Indoor championships in 2003.
Paul has coached a number of athletes to international level including Jason Harvey.
Daniel Kilgallon
Daniel is currently Athletics Ireland’s RDO for the East Coast Region. Daniel has been a sprints coach with Tallaght AC since 2010. During this time he has coached numerous sprinters to national titles and medals in all age categories. Many of these achieved national records and CBPs in sprint and relay events. Daniel has coached athletes to represent Ireland at Schools International, Celtic Games, European Junior Championships, World Junior Championships and European Senior Championships. Daniel is also National Junior Men’s 4x1 relay coach. He has guided the team to a 7th place finish at European Junior Championships in 2015 in Sweden and a new National Junior record at the World Junior Championships in Poland in 2016. He is a Coaching Ireland Tutor and Level 2 coach.
Brid Golden
Brid Golden is a former Irish record holder for heptathlon and winner of 22 National Senior Championships (10 indoor including 60m hurdles, shot and heptathlon and 12 outdoor including 100m hurdles and heptathlon). She won the 3A’s indoor pentathlon on two occasions. Over the last 20 years Brid along with her husband Alan have coached the Ferrybank AC hurdlers, sprinters and jumpers through their juvenile years including Thomas Barr, Jessie Barr, Kelly Proper Mairead Murphy, Kalyn Sheehan, Ben & Megan Kiely, Niamh Whelan, Ciara Giles Doran, Christopher Russell, Billy Ryan and Paul Murphy. A large number of athletes coached by Brid & Alan competed at EYOF, European Junior, European Senior, World Junior and World Senior Championships over the last 11 years. Ben & Megan Kiely (400m hurdles) and Niamh Whelan (100m) won medals at EYOF while Kelly Proper made the European Indoor Long Jump final. Brid led her club to win the European Junior Clubs Championship (Group C) in 2006 and they placed 2nd in 2007 (Group B). In 2011 Ferrybank AC Ladies team placed 2nd in the European Clubs Track & Field (Group 2), the highest ever placing by an Irish team in this event. Brid has coached Kelly Proper , Irish long jump record holder and Ireland’s most prolific winner of Irish Senior Championships (19 indoor and 17 outdoor including 60m, 100m, 200m, long jump & heptathlon) since she was 10 years of age . She is the current Chair of Athletics Ireland High Performance Committee and a member of the Coaching Committee. Brid was the Athletics Ireland team coach at the World Junior Championships in 2002, the World Youths Championships in 2003 and the European Indoor Championships in 2009.
Paul Byrne
Paul is an international athlete who has just returned from the European Championships in Amsterdam. He is the national record holder for 300m hurdles and is a Level 2 coach.
David Murphy
David is a former triple jumper based out of Waterford and competed for St Pauls AC and Waterford AC. He has worked closely with a Athletics Ireland for the past few years as an IAAF level 4 jumps coach, working with athletics and coaches at all levels to up skill jumps.
Brigid Corrigan
Brigid is a former High Jump national record holder and first Irish female to break the imperial measure of 6 feet. Her PB of 1.84 metres was first cleared at 16 years putting her in the top three in Europe for her age at that time. She won 7 national titles in the high jump in three different decades, taking the first title at 15 years of age. She narrowly missed out on qualification for two Olympics being a mere centimetre off the qualifying height at the time. She competed in two European junior events and one European senior indoor championships. Brigid represented her country in high jump as well as the shot putt event internationally for over 20 years at junior and senior level. She is a second level teacher and president of the Leinster Schools Athletic Union for the past two years and is involved with the Dublin-based athletics club Celtic DCH.
Eamon Harvey
Eamon is a former PE teacher who was also part of the AAI Development team. He is the current Chair of the Coaching & Development committee.
Eamon is an active coach at juvenile level in addition to coaching a number of national champions in events ranging from jumps and throws to sprints and endurance. These include athletes such Karl Griffin, 6th European U23/800m 2015, Kelly Mc Grory, 2016 Irish 400mH champion, Kate McGowan, 2016 Irish Universities 400mH champion. In the past he worked with athletes such as Mary McLoone, Irish triple and long jump champion, Kevin McBrearty, 64m javelin and former Irish champion, Bridie Lynch, paralympics discus gold medallist, Conal McNamara, paralympics 400m silver medallist and Catherine Walsh, pentathlon, paralympics bronze medallist. Eamon is an I.A.A.F. Level 4 Coach.
Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan is the Director of Coaching & Development with AAI. Pat is a former athlete who won national senior titles indoors and outdoors and was a national junior record holder. He coached athletes to world junior standard and was a member of the coaching staff at Beijing 2008 and London 2012.