About Hartlepool College's Sports Academies
Hartlepool College of Further Education, in partnership with the Hartlepool Sporting Association, are dedicated to developing the right environment for sporting talent to excel.
With dedicated academies in Men's Football, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Table Tennis and many more on their way Hartlepool College of Further Education is the perfect place to become a student athlete.
Student athletes can combine a successful education as a full time student at the College with a successful career in their chosen sport. With access to the best coaches, athlete support and regional and national competition student athletes will be given all the tools to succeed.
With well established partnerships with Teesside University, Tees Valley Sport, Hartlepool United FC and sports national governing bodies each academy will be linked to local, regional and national developments ensuring a sustainable and successful academy programme.
Your course:
- Can be vocational or an academic programme
- Will lead to nationally-recognised qualifications e.g. A levels or vocational qualification at levels 1,2 or 3
- May enable you to progress further, to one of our or other Higher Education Programmes
- Can provide progression routes from College to County to National levels
- May take one year, two years, or longer if you are accepted in the academy and you abide the rules you remain an academy student as long as you are at the college.
- Is all achievable as long as you can fulfil all the requirements of your main academic study to remain in the academy
Our academies provide:
- 8 - 10 hours of quality top class coaching from highly qualified coaching staff in your chosen sport
- Opportunities to obtain sport specific coaching, officiating and leadership awards
- The opportunity to work with elite teams, providing opportunities for progression
- In some sports, the opportunity to access a sports scholarship in the USA
- The opportunity to compete against people of your own age, locally, regionally, and nationally
- The opportunity to progress to other top class sports programmes
- Free travel to any off site coaching session or competitive fixture
- A sport specific individual learning programme
- Athlete support systems such as Nutritional advice, strength and conditioning training and much more.
