Clontarf GAA
Clontarf GAA
The Coaching Pathway
Clontarf GAA Club are committed to ensuring that all our juvenile teams are as competitive as possible. That each player is constantly learning and will be in a better place when progressing to the next age level, and with the intention of ensuring each player can reach their full potential throughout their underage careers. By devising and developing our own “Player Pathway” we are creating the environment that all our young players “Play and Stay” with Clontarf GAA Club, not only for their playing careers but throughout their lives.
This resource is designed to help our coaches do the right thing at the right time for all our players.
Welcome to the Clontarf GAA player pathway. This pathway has been created to provide a structured, consistent framework to help guide coaches, managers, mentors and parents who play an active role in the development of our young players.
In order to give our young players the best opportunity to succeed at whatever level they may play and reach their full potential “doing the right thing, at the right time and in the right way” this document should be viewed as a route map which sets out the key characteristics and identifies the age appropriate content (technical, tactical, physical and team play) that should be coached or practiced at a particular age and stage of the player’s career.
Crucial to each player’s development across all stages of the player pathway is their athletic development. We encourage all those assisting the implementation of this pathway to refer to the Athletic Development Programme that we developed by the club a number of years ago. This valuable resource is accessible on the club website at clontarfgaa.com/documents.
