Knowledge and Competences of Racket Sports Coaches: What do They Think and Know?

  • Motta M
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This study analyzed the professional, interpersonal, and intrapersonal knowledge as well as the most important competences to Brazilian coaches who work with four different racket sports (badminton, squash, tennis, and table tennis). A total of 150 coaches (122 men and 28 women) participated in this study, most of whom were tennis coaches (n=68), followed by badminton (n=39), table tennis (n=21), squash (n=17), and more than one racket sport (n=5). For data collection, a socio-demographic questionnaire and the Coaches' Knowledge and Competence Questionnaire (CKCQ) (Quinaud et. al., 2018) were applied. The Wilcoxon test was used to compare the importance and domain attributed by the coaches to the items. In general, knowledge and competences had high scores of attributed importance and perceived domain. However, knowledge of program implementation and evaluation, professional development of coaches and competence to develop the coaching philosophy had the lowest values of perceived domain. Resumen Este estudio analizó los conocimientos profesionales, interpersonales e intrapersonales, así como las competencias consideradas más importantes para los entrenadores brasileños que trabajan con cuatro deportes de raqueta diferentes (bádminton, squash, tenis y tenis de mesa). Un total de 150 entrenadores (122 hombres y 28 mujeres) participaron en este estudio, la mayoría de ellos eran entrenadores de tenis (47 %), seguidos de bádminton (28 %), tenis de mesa (16 %) y squash (12 %). Los datos se recolectaron mediante un cuestionario sociodemográfico y el cuestionario de conocimientos y competencias de los entrenadores (CKCQ, por su sigla en inglés) (Quinaud et. al, 2018). Se utilizó la prueba de Wilcoxon para comparar la importancia y el ámbito atribuidos por los entrenadores a los ítems. En general, los conocimientos y las competencias tuvieron altas puntuaciones de importancia atribuida y ámbito percibido; sin embargo, los conocimientos de implementación y evaluación de programas, desarrollo profesional de los entrenadores y la competencia para desarrollar la filosofía del entrenamiento tuvieron los valores más bajos de ámbito percibido.

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Motta, M. del C. (2021). Knowledge and Competences of Racket Sports Coaches: What do They Think and Know? International Journal of Racket Sports Science. https://doi.org/10.30827/digibug.71157

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