Sports coaches use a variety of methods to maximize the potential of the players they lead. The discipline of sports coaching is built upon multiple knowledge bases, including game strategy, exercise physiology and sports psychology.

Australia is an island country and continent of the southern hemisphere, in the SW Pacific, a member state of the Commonwealth.

Graduate diploma courses often take somewhere between one to two years to complete, and are usually offered to students already holding college degrees. Students might expect better job prospects in the relevant field after graduating from one of these programs.