{"id":2844,"date":"2026-02-12T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2844\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:45:16","slug":"from-five-continents-to-one-goal-a-global-coaching-journey-in-lausanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2844\/","title":{"rendered":"From five continents to one goal: A global coaching journey in Lausanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks have been intense, inspiring and, above all, transformative for the Olympic Solidarity scholarship coaches taking part in the second phase of the new coach accelerator programme, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/news\/202192\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched at the World Archery Excellence Centre in Lausanne in early October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition ran from 31 October to 14 November 2025 and brought together five participants, including Bermuda\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/18284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trina Roberts<\/a> \u2013 a national coach, secretary general of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/member\/ber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archery federation of Bermuda<\/a> and member of World Archery\u2019s board of justice and ethics.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the cohort featured participants from Bermuda, Bhutan, Malawi, New Zealand and Slovenia \u2013 and achieved near gender parity, a rare milestone in a coaching landscape where only 17% of national coaches worldwide are women. The Americas and Oceania show some of the widest gaps in coaching representation, making the participation of coaches from Bermuda and New Zealand particularly impactful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe course was an outstanding experience,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cIt not only enhanced technical knowledge but also fostered a strong sense of community and motivation for all of us, coaches from various regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group reflected the global distribution of archery development: Europe hosts the largest archery community, while Asia, Africa and Oceania show some of the strongest year-on-year growth. Bringing coaches from five continents together helps bridge these development gaps and build a more cohesive international coaching network.<\/p>\n<p>With coaching identified as the top development need among national federations \u2013 69% of them requesting support, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.worldarchery.sport\/?doc=7364&amp;inline=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Archery\u2019s 2024\/2025 membership survey<\/a> \u2013 this edition carried particular weight.<\/p>\n<p>The immersion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarcherycentre.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Excellence Centre<\/a> directly responds to this global need, equipping emerging coaches with tools to elevate national systems across five continents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The past few weeks have been intense, inspiring and, above all, transformative for the Olympic Solidarity scholarship coaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[2818,2819,94,2817],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-coaching","tag-development-projects","tag-lausanne","tag-olympic-solidarity"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}