ABSTRACT
Sport coaching is often viewed as a calling rather than a vocation. The experience of learning can occur formally, non-formally, or informally. While traditionally, qualifications to coach have been unimportant with exception of playing time and experience in the sport, recent research findings challenge the reader to revisit what kind of and how experiences of the past are brought into one's coaching practice. Standards of professionalism within coaching are becoming more and more prominent. Despite the differences between the sports themselves, the foundational sport science information that guide skill acquisition, training plan design, relationship building, and many other core coaching responsibilities share a lot of coaching overlap. Developing coach-related sciences further and breaking free from stereotypes, trends, and traditions of the past appears to be the way forward. More research is needed to better understand both the individuals and the system and what keeps coaching stereotypes, trends, and traditions alive.
