Athlete Success Profiles

Hockey NSW will build on  the strengths of the past, where principles in the technical and tactical area of athlete development  have been successfully shared and delivered.  

By developing holistic player attributes and  creating learning environments where training, competition and selection take place, players will be  supported to develop as people and performers. Athlete success profiles that are age and stage appropriate across  five areas of holistic development have been identified and align with Hockey Australia's BIG 5. These aspirational success profiles will guide development, inform selection and encourage self reflection for continuous improvement.

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Hockey NSW has engaged Katrina Mulcahy as our Athlete Well-Being & Culture Consultant who will be working with our players, coaches and staff to better support holistic athlete development. 

Katrina is passionate and successful at helping athletes, parents and coaches to understand the link between personal happiness and sporting performance. 

Balancing wellbeing and performance while promoting a culture of inclusion and belonging is everyones responsibility.  

Pride Values

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Hockey NSW is committed to supporting coaches to be holistic leaders focused on people and performance. In the past, strong principles in the technical and tactical area of coaching have been successfully developed, shared and delivered. In order to be holistic leaders, our coaches must be aware of and better understand the competencies, knowledge, experience and personal qualities required by a coach to develop the whole athlete in training and competition environments. To this end, Hockey NSW has developed an aspirational and easy to understand profile of what a successful coach in NSW looks like. 

The aspirational Coach Success profile included below, aligns with Hockey Australia’s performance coaching framework and has been developed to support coaches, athletes and the hockey community to better understand what our coach selection and development approach will focus on. 

Coaches will focus on coaching and providing feedback to athletes linked to holistic player attributes (Hockey NSW Athlete Success Profile - The Big 5). Ideally, team coaching combinations will reflect gender and regional diversity and will begin working together prior to selection events. 

Selection panels will have greater independence and will focus on selecting the best eligible players while coaches focus on providing an athlete experience that includes learning more about areas of strength and areas for development.  In order to be holistic assessors, our selectors must be aware of and better understand the competencies, knowledge, experience and personal qualities required by a selector to assess agreed attributes of the whole athlete in training and competition environments. It's important that selectors work with coaches to understand ways of play; preferred attributes; team/line numbers etc. while maintaining greater independence. To this end, Hockey NSW has developed an aspirational and easy to understand profile of what a successful selector in NSW looks like. 

Team Managers play an important role in planning and delivering an organised campaign that balances wellbeing, inclusion and performance. In order to be holistic organisers, our managers must be aware of and better understand the competencies, knowledge, experience and personal qualities required by a team manager to remain calm, be inclusive and work with integrity. To this end, Hockey NSW has developed an aspirational and easy to understand profile of what a successful team manager in NSW looks like. 

Coach Developers will be engaged by Hockey NSW for State Teams Coach Development to compliment accreditation and ongoing  development opportunities. Lead Coach Consultant, Larry McIntosh will play a key role in developing people and resources that suppport holistic athlete development.

Hockey NSW's Coach Success profile provide a strong base for coach development.

Priority areas for State Teams Coach Development have been identified for 2023 and include:

1. Campaign Planning and scheduling 
2. Technology – better utilising data and video to improve performance
3. Integrating an inclusive performance culture with wellbeing into training, selection and competition environments – PRIDE values in action (working towards zero tolerance for poor values/conduct)
4.  Compelling Communication:
   • Sharing competition vision and strategy
   • Planning, running and linking team debriefing to game goals
   • Using positive athlete feedback loops; gender, cultural and diversity aware language/style
   • Performance conversations
5. Debriefing; Self-reflection; Auditing – measuring the right observations and data for continuous improvement

NB: Formal Coach Accreditation programs will be conducted in October/November 2022 aligned with Hockey One and again in February 2023 aligned with Pro League

 Click here to access more information on what Hockey NSW is doing in the State Teams Coach Development space in 2022.