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If you love being active and playing sport, take the chance to turn your passion into a thriving and rewarding career. Our Sport, Fitness and Wellbeing courses are designed to help you build the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to succeed in this dynamic industry. You’ll explore a wide range of subjects that underpin many key roles in the sector, including anatomy, physiology, nutrition, sports psychology, injury prevention, and coaching techniques.

Learn from expert tutors and take full advantage of the outstanding facilities at the Peter Paine Performance Centre, our dedicated hub for Sport, Fitness and Wellbeing students. Through practical sessions, theory-based learning, and opportunities to gain industry experience, you’ll develop valuable skills and gain recognised qualifications. Whether your goal is to become a personal trainer, coach, therapist, or progress to university, we’ll help you get there.

Sport Fitness Wellbeing Photographs 2 A student holds a breathing tube while another student pedals on a fitness bike. Students lined up performing stretches in a sports hall. Two students playing Badminton.

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Your Future in Sport, Fitness & Wellbeing

Peter Paine Centre

Boston College's Peter Paine Performance Centre offers modern sporting facilities for our Sport, Fitness and Wellbeing students.

The facilities at the Peter Paine Performance Centre include gym facilities, three grass football pitches, badminton courts, table tennis, basketball courts, a dance studio, two sports halls, AstroTurf pitch and an outdoor multi-use games area - all of which are available for commercial hire to members of the public and local sports teams.

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Sports hall at Peter Paine Centre

Hear what our students think...

Hear from our students

“After researching more into sport I decided that it would be great for me because I have a very keen interest in sport and my hobbies are all sport related. I have decided I definitely want to progress further with Boston College and study Sport to the highest level I can achieve.

The lessons are a mix of theory and practical, we also have the chance to play sports and sometimes the lecturers join in with us. The Sport lecturers push us to achieve our full potential and everyone on the course is friendly and help each other out.”

Sebastian | Sport, Fitness and Wellbeing

“The main reason for choosing Sport was my love of football. From studying the course, I have now gained a wider knowledge on physiology, met a variety of different people and improved my English, as well as my overall confidence. When I first arrived at Boston College, my confidence was low, as my main concern was about speaking and talking to people in English, but from being at College my confidence is now a lot higher. My course is studied over three days a week, so with my free time I use this to attend extra English lessons.

The sport lecturers are really nice, friendly and are always here to help. I have regular one-to-one meetings with my tutor, who updates me regularly on how I am progressing and how to improve further. If I don’t understand something, I’m now not afraid to ask.”

Tomas | Sport, Fitness and Wellbeing

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£17,712 Entry Level Salary

£10,482 Average Salary

£30,784 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

  • Manages the playing areas and competitors, starts race, competition or match and controls its progress according to established rules.
  • Inspects and maintains specialised clothing and equipment.
  • Understands health and safety aspects of various activities and ensures any statutory requirements are met.
  • Provides information and develops facilities to encourage greater participation in sport, and to enhance the standards of participants.
  • Deals with administrative aspects such as arranging matches, contests or appearances for athlete or team, and organising required transport and accommodation.
  • Monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how future improvements can be made.
  • Controls team selection and discipline and recruits ancillary staff such as coaches or physiotherapists.
  • Coaches teams or individuals by demonstrating techniques and directing training and exercise sessions.

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9 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

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