Connor Allan

My ambition is to become a football coach. I believe that I possess the skills, attributes and drive to be successful in this challenging industry. My coaching qualifications include the SFA 1.1 Introduction to Coaching and 1.2 Youth/Adult Coaching certificates. From the age of fifteen I have been a coach at my local football team, Glasgow Athletic. I was assistant coach for under 11’s team followed by an offer to act as head coach of the under 6’s team. I developed many new skills such as organisation, planning and team work as well the importance of delivering fun and engaging sessions. Thereafter, I was given an opportunity to coach at a new club; UTD sports. I was responsible for delivering training sessions and leading the team in tournaments. I also planned summer programmes delivering a wide range of sports activities. Currently, I am the 2014’s Head Coach at Glasgow Athletic where I am responsible for ensuring coaching sessions are to a high standard and progressing the team within their personal and team goals. In addition, I am completing a two-year apprenticeship with Glasgow City Council Active Schools, PEPASS team. This has given me a great insight to coaching through planning and delivering sports sessions to children across schools in Glasgow including pre-school, primary, secondary and additional support needs schools. This involves delivering PE lessons in local schools as well as lunch and after school clubs. During my apprenticeship I have refined my sports coaching skills alongside my determination, drive and skills. As part of a team, I have worked towards the goal of creating significant change in schools through sport with the aim of having more pupils, more active, more often; creating an environment which is accepting, encouraging and supportive to all regardless of their personal abilities.