Sports Coach

This is one of the most common careers you could go into and one with the most horizontal career mobility. Sports coaches are required across a range of different sports and ages, which means you could specialise in a sport you love and work in a variety of organisations too, such as schools, nurseries, sports teams.

Sport Nutritionist

Sports nutritionists work with elite athletes, professional sports teams and with the general public to help them achieve their performance or health goals. Whether you choose to work with athletes or the public, your role will be highly varied and could include creating, designing and evaluating diet plans, assessing body composition and educating your clients about nutritional value. The average annual salary of a sports nutritionist is $60,427.

Sport Therapist

As a sports therapist, you will have the knowledge and clinical skills needed to effectively prevent, assess, treat, and rehabilitate musculoskeletal injuries. You may choose to work in professional, semi-professional, or amateur sports. Alternatively, you may wish to work in private practice, treating a wide variety of individuals in a sports injury clinic. The average annual salary of a sports therapist is $78,054.

Personal Trainer/ Conditioning Coach

Many sports students develop a passion for helping people achieve their health-related goals, coaching young performers or contributing towards optimising the performance of high-level athletes The role of a personal trainer or a conditioning coach is often varied, and can include monitoring athletes, fitness testing, and implementing recovery protocols and assisting with the rehabilitation of injured athletes. The average annual salary of a personal trainer is $63,961.

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