Are you passionate about sports and eager to inspire the next generation of athletes? Our 100% online Certificate in Coaching Education is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to become a successful and impactful coach.
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You’ll get the personal attention and flexibility needed to reach your goals at your pace. Our invested professors and small class sizes will set you up for success.
Our Jesuit Catholic values are based on a vision of a world changed for the better, emphasizing service and community engagement in addition to academics.
We offer exceptional online programs at an affordable cost. Numerous financial aid resources are available for our online students, making education more affordable.
Xavier’s online graduate Certificate in Coaching Education is a 18-credit program that consists of 6 courses that can be taken on your schedule
This course is designed to provide an examination of ethics, morality, diversity, and philosophy as it relates to coaching modern sports. Discussion will revolve around coaches’ role as a moral exemplar, identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas and what it means to be a Discussion will revolve around coaches’ role as a moral exemplar, identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas and what it means to be a morally responsible sportsperson.
This course is designed to provide an examination of leadership in sport as well as critically examine the role of leadership and team development. The course will begin with the classic leadership work of Warren Bennis followed by John Wooden’s approach to leadership and his Pyramid of Success. Discussions and readings on how various leadership theories such as transformational, servant, situated, and legacy leadership apply to sport and coaching. Discussions will revolve around the complexity of leadership development in sport for all participants, how leadership development should occur in sport, and how coaching leadership influences team identity. Practical application of these concepts will be experienced through the Integrated Coaching and Sprot Education Model (i-CaSE) developed by Dr. Ron Quinn in 2007 and a sport leader project.
This course addresses Teambuilding. Teambuilding covers Team Purpose, Stages of Team Development, Team Member Roles, Team Communication, Team Processes, and Team Leadership. More specifically, this course will look at the following: the issues and practices concerning family systems and role of family; models and strategies for consultation and collaboration; effective communication with families, school personnel; and, professional ethics, responsibilities and confidentiality. Learning Leaders experience self-assessment and interpersonal skills needed for teaming and collaboration in educational settings with parents, teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, and other specialists covering all exceptionalities and cultural settings as well as role playing, and small group practices in teaming and collaboration. Required field experience in diverse settings – 5 hours.
This course will provide an exercise science foundation for coaching that includes energy systems, muscle physiology, and how the body adapts to the physical and psychological demands places upon it for maximum performance. Sport-specific training, conditioning, recovery, and nutritional programs will be addressed as they relate to developmentally appropriate sports training.
Past, current and future trends in the field of sport management. Administrative theory, function, and application within the field of sport management.
Legal and ethical issues with regard to youth, school, college, amateur and professional sports.
Applicants to the Graduate Certificate in Coaching Education must hold and undergraduate degree with a minimum GPA of 2.5.
To be considered for admission, students must submit the following:
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One official transcript directly from all colleges or universities that you have attended for any undergraduate and graduate course work. Applicants must have a degree from a regionally accredited university. A strong candidate will have a minimum of a 3.0 GPA. Send transcripts to:
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Please state how this certificate in coaching education will help in your career goals. Be specific in addressing what your career goals are. Be specific in showing a direct application of gained content knowledge through this program to your career goals.
Please provide two letters of recommendation.
Xavier University is authorized to offer fully-online programs in most states. View the complete list of approved states by programs on the State Authorization page. Students must reside and complete practicum hours in approved states only.
At Xavier, we understand that no two degree programs and no two students are alike. Therefore, we structure every online degree program to address the unique needs of individual students and have created unique fee structures for each degree program, as well.
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The amounts listed are for the 2025-2026 academic year, and include classes from Summer 2025 through Spring 2025. Tuition cost is per credit hour unless otherwise stated.
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