The International Coaching Enrichment Certificate Programme (ICECP) is one of the most recognised and respected coach education programmes in the world.
The ICECP is offered in partnership between the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), Olympic Solidarity and the University of Delaware. The courses are taught by Team USA’s Sport Performance and University of Delaware experts, as well as other leading international sport professionals in their respective fields. Its aim is to provide national level coaches and those responsible for the development of the sport national coaching structures in their countries with a practical programme orientated towards developing proficiency in the areas of coaching leadership, sport sciences, talent identification, athlete development, coaching education, grassroots sport development and ethical aspects of coaching at all levels of competition and across multiple sports.
The focus of the programme includes training participants to identify and develop athletes, but also provides the participants with the skills and competencies needed to educate aspiring coaches in their home country. The programme will lay theoretical foundations and offer practical applications for the further growth of sport, coaching and the Olympic ideals within their home country. The intended outcome is for ICECP participants to return to their countries and to serve as coaches within their respective sports as well as become foundation builders for future coaches and athletes while spreading the Olympic spirit.
Coaches benefitting from this programme are expected to be leaders and to stay abreast of the latest technical methods of their sport, as well as incorporate within the training of their athletes the use physiology, nutrition, psychology, strength and conditioning, video technology (among others). The value of a coach with enhanced leadership skills, educated on the application of the sport sciences, and possessing the technical knowledge for their sport is of the greatest value to the development of athletes. Another important component of the ICECP programme includes Safe Sport awareness and abuse prevention training.
This is an intensive coaches’ education programme consisting of lectures, projects, guest speakers, participant presentations, group work, field trips, and project planning and implementation. The programme will consist of 5 modules scheduled over an academic year, during which time the candidate will work with an international tutor to develop a personal project that will be implemented for the benefit of the respective sport or sport in general in that country.
Coach Lee is expected to commence the first module online from April, then travel to Colorado Springs for module 2. Modules 3 and 4 will be held at Colorado Springs, USA and the University of Delaware, while the final module will be in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Coach Lee joins the ranks of Denise Williams, Kerlon Peters, Anthony Benjamin, Ronald Charles, Dimeon Castle and Kester Elcock who are all successful graduates from this certificate programme.
The Grenada Olympic Committee congratulates Cuffie and wishes him the very best in his continued quest for coaching excellence.
GOC
Good job Coach Cuffie aim for excellence always.
It would have been nice if you included a bio of coach Lee Cuffie instead of useless paragraphs about the programme.