This free course is designed to help empower coaches (either actively coaching or thinking of coaching in the future) and other people who hold supporting roles in sport settings to confidently and competently support ethnically diverse participants. Completing this course will help you to ensure that every participant you coach or support feels welcomed, able to ‘be’ their authentic selves and play sport in an environment that encourages them to enjoy themselves and thrive to reach their sporting potential.
While the course is designed primarily for coaches supporting children and young people in youth sport settings, many of the principles outlined in the course can apply to coaching adults too. Although the course is not just for coaches, for simplicity the term ‘coach’ will be used as a general term for anyone supporting people in a sport-related setting.
The video below provides a short introduction to the course from Asad Qureshi – an experienced community coach and coach educator who was part of the original project team that developed the anti-racist coaching (ARC) model of practice which underpins the content of the course.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- identify the benefits to coaches and participants of adopting anti-racist coaching practice
- compare anti-racist coaching practice with other types of coaching practice
- demonstrate a variety of ways to share anti-racist coaching practice with others
- identify the difference between non-racist and anti-racist positions.
First Published: 04/11/2026
Updated: 04/11/2026