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We believe in the power of sport to transform lives.
Across Aotearoa New Zealand, schools are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, retain, and develop quality sports coaches.
We are trying to solve this problem through our Game Changers Coach Development Programme.
A gift of $2,500 allows us to introduce the Game Changers Coach Development Programme into a school. If you’re interested in contributing a different amount, we’d love to work with you on how your support can be recognised within your chosen school.
Your donation helps lift the quality of youth sport coaching. Great coaches create positive experiences—and positive experiences keep young people in sport for longer. When coaches are supported, young athletes build confidence, resilience, and a lifelong love of sport.
With your support, we can develop, support, and celebrate coaches—reaching more communities and creating better sporting experiences for young people across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Support a school. Grow a community.
Thank you for making a difference.
Coach for Life connects volunteer adult and student coaches with the guidance, community, and confidence they need to make school sport a positive, lasting experience for young people.
Coach for Life Game Changers is a complete online coaching course designed specifically for the reality of coaching school sport in New Zealand.
Nine modules covering everything from building team culture to managing difficult conversations with parents.
Each module includes video interviews with experienced coaches, reflection journal prompts, practical templates, and cue cards for when you need quick answers.
The course acknowledges what volunteer coaching actually is: you're learning on the job, you have limited time, you might be coaching a sport you barely understand, and sometimes the players you're coaching go to school with your own kids.
Great coaching changes lives. It builds confidence, resilience, belonging, and joy that extends far beyond the field.
But most volunteer coaches receive no training. They're expected to figure it out alone, copying methods from coaches they had decades ago, many of which don't serve young people today.
Research shows young people quit sport primarily because of negative coaching experiences.
This course gives you practical frameworks for the situations you'll actually face: the parent who questions your decisions, the player who discloses something serious, the moment you lose control of training, the game where emotions run high.
Content is delivered through short, practical modules you complete between training sessions. Video reflections from other coaches show you're not the only one finding this hard. Journal prompts help you develop your own coaching philosophy rather than blindly copying others. Templates and cue cards give you scripts for difficult moments.
They remember the coach who saw something in them they didn't see in themselves. The one who stayed calm under pressure. The one who made them feel they belonged.