Coaching Ethnically Diverse Participants: ‘Race,’ Racism, and Anti-Racist Practice in Community Sport

Lusted, Jim; Kilvingon, Daniel and Qureshi, Asad (2022). Coaching Ethnically Diverse Participants: ‘Race,’ Racism, and Anti-Racist Practice in Community Sport. In: Ives, Ben; Potrac, Paul; Gale, Laura and Nelson, Lee eds. Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 77–95.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159063-5

Abstract

In this chapter we explore some of the key considerations when coaching participants from diverse ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. The authors combine a critical sociological analysis of racism in sport with a first-hand coaching practitioner experience to provide a theoretically informed and pragmatic discussion about coaching minoritised participants. We begin by introducing some of the theoretical approaches that have been used to make sense of the experiences of minoritised populations in sport settings. The chapter then outlines the policy landscape related to race equality in sport. A brief critical appraisal is then provided of the relative importance of the background and lived experience of the coach when working with minoritised participants, before turning attention to the experiences of one of the authors of this chapter, a current coach, exploring his own journey in developing what we term an anti-racist coaching practice. From this first-hand practitioner account, we identify a range of practical suggestions to be considered when coaching participants from diverse ethnic backgrounds in a community sport setting.

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