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Course Description

In today’s competitive sports environment, coaches must navigate the complex realities of performance-enhancing supplements. This course provides a deep dive into the availability, usage, and risks of these substances, equipping coaches with the knowledge to educate and guide athletes toward ethical and healthy performance strategies. Through interviews, readings, observations, and practical experiences, you’ll gain insight into how supplements impact athletic development and decision-making. This course will better prepare the coach to lead with integrity, promote athlete well-being, and uphold the highest standards of coaching excellence.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course, the learner will by able to:

  1. Identify and process specific issues relative to ethical dilemmas related to the use of performance-enhancing substances commonly encountered within the competitive sport context.
  2. Identify and analyze crucial factors that serve as antecedents to the use of performance-enhancing substances that commonly arise within a competitive athletic environment.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the various common performance-enhancing substances and their physiological and anatomical effects encountered within the competitive sport context.
  4. Identify and analyze the popular topics of social, psychological, ethical, and moral dysfunction as a consequence of the presence of performance-enhancing substances in the competitive sports world.
  5. Develop an understanding that utilizes sound psychologically-based moral and ethical principles useful for the purposes of mentoring the student-athlete on the consequences of involvement with performance-enhancing substances.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the various common performance-enhancing substances and their physiological and anatomical effects within the context of their respective school district policies and procedures relative to their district interscholastic sport programs.

Testimonials

'Great Course! I really learned a ton of relevant and functional information relative towards my career./ – Pennsylvania

'This course has never been more relevant than it is right now! The use of performance enhancing drugs has grown exponentially for our young people and coaches have to have the right resources to be able to educate. I really enjoyed this course and Dr. Janzen is a great resource!'  - Maryland

'It was really challenging and the information will be useful in my duties as a coach.' – Pennsylvania

'I was amazed to discover how much I did not know. Thanks!' – Armed Forces AE

 

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Section Title
Coaching: Drugs in Sport
Type
self-paced
Dates
Start Now, you have 365 days to complete this course once enrolled.
Delivery Options
Online  
Course Fee(s)
Tuition credit (3 units) $395.00
Available for Credit
3 Quarter Credits
Instructors
Section Notes

This course is offered in collaboration with Paragon Coaching.

Course is self-paced. Completion time: up to one year from date of enrollment.

Refund Policy: Withdrawals submitted online through SPU within 7 days of enrollment will receive a 95% refund. Withdrawals received after that point will not receive a refund and no withdrawals will be accepted after the completion deadline for the course. Instructions on how to withdraw are located on our website under Students/Withdrawal and Refund Policies.

 

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