Charles van Commenee at IFAC!

Another big shot for the 2020 International Festival of Athletics Coaching: Charles van Commenée enters in the conference’s line-up!

Charles is one of the world”s leading experts in managing performance, initially as personal coach to a number of elite athletes who won medals at Olympic Games and World Championships, then as Technical Director for Dutch and British Athletics and finally as Performance Director for the Dutch Olympic Committee and later for British Athletics.

He will talk about how to “Lead the team through Covid-19” in the third session of the conference, scheduled November 7th at 6:55PM GMT. 

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Ladies & Gentlemen…. Dawn Scott will talk at IFAC 2020!

England Women have been boosted by the appointment of Dawn Scott as senior women’s physical performance manager.

Scott, who hails from the north-east, has been working with US Soccer since 2010 and played a key part in USA’s FIFA World Cup wins in 2015 and 2019.

She previously spent nine years with The FA as head of sports science and supported England’s run to the 2009 UEFA EURO final.

Her role will be to support the Lionesses as they work towards UEFA Women’s EURO 2021, which will be played on home soil.

That preparation will start with the SheBelieves Cup to be played in the US from February, with Scott starting work at St. George’s Park in December.

Scott will also be charged with building the interaction between the senior team and Barclays FA WSL clubs in terms of physical performance as well as working closely with staff along the whole talent pathway.

She will benefit from working alongside the outstanding physical performance and nutrition team already working at St. George’s Park.

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Helena Duplantis in the IFAC line-up!

Great news for the upcoming International Festival of Athletics Coaching, scheduled for next 6-8 November: Helena Duplantis will speak about how phenomenal ‘Mondo’ Duplantis and his entourage dealt with Covid-19 restrictions to achieve the incredible set of new World Record in pole vault.

Helena will be interviewed by Wolfgang Ritzdorf in the IFAC session entitled “Remaining competition ready in a climate of uncertainty”, scheduled at 2:55PM GMT on Saturday, December 7th. 

She’ll be also one of the hosts in the final panel of the session, with two other female coaches. Want to know who they are? Stay tuned: they will be announced soon here!

In the meantime, don’t lose time and subscribe to the 2020 International Festival of Athletics Coaching for only €99,00!

EACA, NACACTFCA and ASEA together for a conferences’ cycle

With an agreement that could be defined as historic, the Associations of Athletics Coaches active in three major Areas in the world have decided to collaborate in the organization of their annual conferences.
The European Association (EACA), the North American, Central American and Caribbean Association (NACACTFCA) and the South American Association (ASEA) will organize their respective annual conferences in a completely virtual form due to the still very severe pandemic conditions at the level. global.

The three conferences will therefore have a similar format and will all be broadcast in live streaming on this site, through which in the coming weeks it will also be possible to purchase. virtual tickets for the conferences.

A new era for EACA

As the Beatles song goes, it’s been a “long and winding road”, with many dead end streets and crossroads. But now we have finally reached a point, which is nothing else than… the starting line!

The big difference now is that the European Athletics Coaches Association has a clear and well defined pathway to continue their journey. As we now have the appropriate technological equipment and support, we are growing our skills on how we can serve you as the coaches, in the best way possible.

In the year of its 60th birthday, the European Athletics Coaches Association has reinvented itself, embracing the virtual world to deliver services to it’s coaches. Here are some of the ideas we have worked so far, and will continue to work on to bring the best Membership possible:

  • EACA aims to create a community of coaches where they can connect and network with each other, exchange opinions, share videos, and knowledge. This is similar to a Social Media Coaching Networking group, where the concept of “growing faster together” is the key
  • We have a lot to share with you, especially from our many years of running our main event, the world renowned International Festival of Athletics Coaching (IFAC). At the moment, we are offering more than 150 presentations from over 90 coaches from a wide range of different sports who have previously spoken at one of our IFAC conferences from 2006 to 2020. In the following months we will publish footage taken from our IFAC events between 2012 and 2019, while the recorded sessions of IFAC 2020 live stream is already available
  • Of course, Technical Articles are one of our projects. We’ll be inviting columnists and editors to have the opportunity to publish articles. Please keep an eye on our website!
  • Also in our plans is an online platform offering courses to coaches who want to improve their skills. We don’t want to clash with the new World Athletics eLearning platform so our courses will be very specific and not just technical. We’re also trying to set up a credits system based on EU rules. The online Academy will be dedicated to our late vice-president Elio Locatelli

I’m sure at this point you are wondering, what is the price of all of these new services? The good news is that a wide variety of content will be available as part of the Free Membership, including; access to the coaching social network, elements of our IFAC presentation, selected online courses, discounts for applying to our events or events created by our partners and many other benefits. It’s easy to register as an EACA member without paying any money.

For those who want more, they can apply for the Premium Membership which costs only €2,99 billed monthly or €30,00 billed annually. Further down the line in 2021 we will also offer a Pro Membership with even more benefits and higher discounts at a cost of €9,99 billed monthly or €100,00 billed yearly. We offer incredibly competitive rates compared to other membership fees and can’t wait to have you as an EACA Member! 

So, what are you waiting for? Choose your preferred membership level and become an EACA member. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t a European Coach, the EACA Membership is open to coaches from all around the world.

Only a few days before NACACTFCA 2020 Conference

If you are not registered to the NACACTFCA 2020 Conference yet, don’t wait any longer: coaches and experts like Roberta Anding, Harry Marra, Donna Harris, Dan O’Brien, Wendy Truvillion and Nikos Apostolopoulos are waiting for you!

Register today for only $50,00 to watch the live stream. 

If you are an EACA member the discounted price is € 35,00!