Building and Sustaining Sport Participation

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Investigate and critique the processes associated with recruiting and retaining participants in community sport / active recreation organisations;
2. Review and reflect on strategies used by community sport / active recreation organisations to encourage participation for a targeted group such as players, coaches / instructors, scorers, committee members or umpires / referees;
3. Collaborate to consult and negotiate with a manager from a selected sport / active recreation club to create or modify a framework to recruit and retain participants as players, coaches / instructors, scorers, committee members or umpire/referees;
4. Apply a socio-ecological model to increase participation in a community sport club/active recreation organisation; and,
5. Reflect on how an innovative framework leads to encouraging participation through effective recruitment and retention strategies.