High Performance Coach

The Cricket Australia High Performance Coaching Program is Australia’s flagship coach education program.

Cricket Australia conducts limited high-performance accreditation courses throughout the year for nominated representative accredited coaches.

Coaches are nominated and selected through stringent criteria from each state for the courses, held at Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.

The program is facilitated over a 12-month period via a blended-learning format, including online lectures, two residential blocks, practical assessments, and mentoring. Participants also complete a research project throughout the duration of the program.

Successful applicants are likely to be active coaches that have completed the Representative Coach Accreditation Course or its equivalent, who:

  • Have significant coaching experience.

  • Coach within state or territory associations.

  • Work with athletes competing at senior level or youth state level.

Some of the topics covered include:

  • Coach as Educator

  • Leadership

  • Mental Health and Well-being

  • Advanced Skill Acquisition

  • Programming and Planning

  • Player Development

  • Game Strategy

  • Communication/ Stakeholder Management

  • Information Management

  • Professional Development.

Acceptance into the program is by invitation only.

For further information, please contact Cricket ACT Coach Development Manager, Janith Samaratunga.

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Cricket ACT acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and ancestors of the land we live and meet on, the Ngunnawal people. Cricket ACT acknowledges that other people and families also have a traditional connection to the lands of the ACT and region and we respect this connection to country. We honour and pay respect to the Elders in our local communities, both past and present.

We celebrate the participation of First Nations peoples, families and communities, and recognise their individual and collective shared connection and history with cricket. We are committed to listening and learning about how we as people, an organisation and community advocate for equitable outcomes and positive futures with all First Nations peoples.

First Nations Artwork with thanks to Wiradjuri woman Kalara Gilbert.