The Gold Coast Football Club playing squad as well as senior coach Guy McKenna and training staff will complete their Bronze Medallion training at Kurrawa Surf Club tomorrow morning. (Saturday January 23).
The team's program which has run for eight weeks is an essential component of the clubs community program, as well as ensuring the playing squad who have come together from all over the nation, embrace the Gold Coast culture of sun, surf and sand.
The bronze medallion is the minimum requirement for an active surf lifesaver and GCFC players will need to demonstrate proficiency in surf awareness, survival, patrol and rescue procedures, emergency care, as well as anatomy and physiology to pass the course.
GCFC Senior Coach Guy McKenna said the bronze medallion course has been an important part of the players development program.
“Taking the environment and culture of the Gold Coast into account, it is essential for the players to obtain the skills of a surf lifesaver and long term they will be able to put back into the community by potentially doing patrols on the beaches,” he said.
“The bronze medallion incorporates a lot of our conditioning and recovery training and also gives the players an involvement outside of football.”
The course has included theory about the aquatic environment and rescue techniques, caring for basic injuries, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, aquatic survival and rescue skills, basic management of spinal injuries and performing a rescue.
The team will commence the program at approximately 8am at Kurrawa Surf Club.
