Table 1. Descriptive results of coaches’ knowledge sources.
| Sources of Coaching Knowledge |
| Personal and Athlete background |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
| Personalknowledge |
3.38 |
.62 |
| Education Background |
3.28 |
.92 |
| Experience as athlete |
3.28 |
.74 |
| Practice Level as athlete |
2.88 |
.83 |
| Learning Situations |
| Working with expert coaches |
3.50 |
.67 |
| Learning by doing |
3.37 |
.63 |
| Attending Seminars/ Clinics outside the formal systems |
3.35 |
.68 |
| Interaction with peer coaches |
3.30 |
.67 |
| Reading books /magazines and watching videos of coaching education |
3.22 |
.69 |
| National Coaching Certification Programs |
3.05 |
.78 |
| Information inInternet |
2.79 |
.87 |
Likert scale from 1 to 4:
