Reframing the value of coaching to help grow the quality of youth sport coaches across New Zealand.

“A GOOD COACH CAN CHANGE A GAME,
A GREAT COACH CAN CHANGE A LIFE”

–  John Wooden

Who We Are

The Coach for Life Foundation has been established by Jon & Sue Tanner and a group of trustees with a clear objective of reframing the value of coaching to help grow the quality of youth sport coaches in New Zealand – so that all our young athletes enjoy an enriching experience playing and being involved in sport. For life.

The Players Coach

The Shane McLeod Story

While this documentary celebrates Shane’s inspiring coaching success on the world stage, his story captures the experiences, mentors and life lessons learned from a young age that helped shaped his athlete-centred coaching philosophy. Brought to life through hockey, Shane’s coaching approach should be embraced by all sport coaches – for any age, any level – from grassroots to elite level.

Coach Ambassadors

Shane Mcleod

Shane Mcleod Ambassador Shane is a New Zealander, from Hamilton, who was educated at Hamilton Boys High School. At Hamilton Boys, the foundations were laid,

Read More

Endorsements

We are delighted to support and endorse a recently established youth sport coach development organisation called the Coach for Life Foundation.

The Coach for Life Foundation and Sport NZ share the desire to promote the value of coaching to help grow the quality of youth sport coaches in New Zealand, so that all our rangitahi enjoy an enriching experience playing their chosen sport and being involved in sport for life.

Coach for Life is working closely with Sport NZ to build quality content, that we believe will help grow and inspire our youth sport coaches.

Raelene Castle
Group Chief Executive
Sport NZ

Our Programmes

Celebrate & Champion Youth Sport Coaches

We are looking at ways that we can celebrate and champion our very best sport coaches of rangatahi. The unsung heroes who inspire and develop our rangatahi to engage and excel in sport whatever the level.

World Class Coach Visits To NZ

While Shane will be our first coach whom we engage, going forward we are looking to engage other world class coaches each year to educate and inspire our youth sport coaches. These coaches maybe from New Zealand or from International markets. As with Shane’s visit we will look to transcend across multiple sports and we will look to build world class digital content that will be available to our youth coaches to build and develop their coaching capability.

Youth Coaching Scholarships

We are looking at establishing a Youth Sport Coaching Scholarship Programme where our top youth sport coaches can be mentored and supported in their coaching journey.

We are proud to partner with: