Fremantle senior development coach/assistant coach Peter Sumich is one of four coaches who have been accepted into the AFL’s Level Four Senior Coach Program.
“The Level Four Program seeks to prepare highly-rated assistant coaches for the rigours of a potential head coach position at an AFL club with concentrated mentoring and development work, beyond the existing Level Three Program,” the AFL said in a media release on Tuesday.
AFL general manager football operations Mark Evans said Sumich, Brett Montgomery (Western Bulldogs), Jade Rawlings (Melbourne) and Justin Longmuir (West Coast) had been “selected from an outstanding group of candidates”.
They will join the eight candidates chosen last year who continue in the program, including former Fremantle senior development coach/assistant coach Simon Lloyd, who is now at Geelong. Brendan Bolton was also part of the program before being appointed senior coach at Carlton.
“The selection process involved an extensive application, peer and senior coach review and an interview conducted by a combination of highly regarded coaches and CEOs. Former AFL coach Neale Daniher was joined by Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou, leading hockey coach Ric Charlesworth, AFL Coaches Association CEO Mark Brayshaw and Geelong Cats CEO Brian Cook,” the AFL said.
The course centres around four key components – core coaching modules, an individual learning plan, a program for high impact leadership and individual coach mentoring.
