In the face of lowered pay, wage gaps, and more, Coach Keir Wenham-Flatt makes the case for a strength & conditioning coaches union.

• It would be overly dramatic to suggest that working as a strength coach in professional or collegiate sport is akin to working in a 19th-century textile mill, but the parallels are there.
• working as a strength coach
• It is common these days for head sport coaches in football and basketball to make in excess of 100x the salary of the lowest-level strength coach working with the team, says @RUGBY_STR_COACH.
• ended with a phone call
• Our field is missing out on the talents of potentially huge numbers of bright, hard-working, but poor coaches who simply can’t afford to enter the workforce, says @RUGBY_STR_COACH.
• sport coaches
• university strength coach
• Improved worker conditions and wealth creation are not mutually exclusive, says @RUGBY_STR_COACH.
• change is needed
• If the NSCA, CSCCa, or UKSCA are the true coach advocates they claim to be, they need to follow the example of the ASCA and set wage expectations, says @RUGBY_STR_COACH.
• director or administrator

Created 1/31/2021