12-year-old winger — first touch and confidence
Technically capable but hesitant under pressure; first-touch breakdowns in competitive moments erode game confidence.
Every unit has its own rubric-scored deliverable. The capstone integrates the entire program into a single private-training case.
What a certified private coach is expected to know and do. Program expectations, role definition, and the service statement.
Intake, first-session diagnostics, baseline observation, and bottleneck identification.
Translate an assessment into a focused 4- or 6-week plan with clear priorities and progression logic.
Objective clarity, opening relevance, technical quality, progression, cueing — session craft at the individual level.
Pairing logic, layout and flow, rep density, scaling across two or three players, competitive layer.
Group promise clarity, size-appropriate design, flow, and the strategy that separates private small-group from team training.
Presence, clarity of instructions, cueing, timing, and control on the grass.
Onboarding scripts, expectation setting, progress updates, and the boundaries that protect the coach and the player.
Offers, pricing, policies, and the inquiry-to-client workflow that runs a real private training business.
Facility readiness, emergency action, incident documentation, safeguarding — the non-negotiables of the trade.
Integrate the eleven units into a coherent private practice. Readiness check before the capstone review.
The capstone is a rubric-scored private-training case. Candidates assess a realistic player, design the plan and sessions, draft the parent communication, and defend the operating choices — reviewed by a trained, experienced private trainer who is also a former player, a parent, and a career educator or executive.
Technically capable but hesitant under pressure; first-touch breakdowns in competitive moments erode game confidence.
Loses possession when receiving under pressure in central areas; body orientation and scanning are the likely levers.
Strong runs and good positioning, but finishing mechanics break down. Parent is pushing for drills; the real gap is structural.
Redesign a stale small-group concept into a commercially viable, pedagogically sound private group offer.