Table 1.  Descriptive results of coaches’ knowledge sources.
  Sources of Coaching Knowledge
 
 
Personal and Athlete background
  Mean
Std. Deviation
Personal  knowledge
  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 in  Internet
2.79
.87
Likert scale from 1 to 4: nothing important, minor important; important, very important