Assistant Trainer Program

From player to coach.

We're launching a real path for neurodivergent teens and young adults into coaching — training, mentorship, and paid work in the sport they love.

Join the first cohort → Launching 2026
ATP trainee coaching a session

The path

Three stages, each at the trainee's own pace.

1

Intro to Coaching

An eight-week course — one 90-minute on-court session a week, in a cohort of 4–8, paired with a mandatory online module that teaches the rules, game formats and common on-court situations before each session, so trainees arrive prepared. Finish with the Proset Intro-to-Coaching certificate and an invitation to Stage 2.

2

ATP Pathway

Assist on court alongside a senior Proset coach, building real coaching hours and skills — with police check and First Aid included. We're working with certification partners so this training counts toward formal credentials as they become available.

3

Get paid to coach

Graduates work as paid assistant trainers alongside Proset coaches — at our programs and partner clubs. Those who excel can grow into leading groups and teaching Stage 1 to the next cohort.

Why we're building this

The role that doesn't exist anywhere else

When autistic players age out of youth programs, the options largely disappear — services end, programs stop, and there's rarely a next step. The ATP is our answer to that gap: a path where young adults stay in the sport they grew up playing, this time on the coaching side of the net, with training and paid work as assistant trainers.

A child who starts with us at eight can still be with us at twenty-eight — as a player, a helper, and one day part of the team running the court.

Know someone ready to coach?

The first Intro to Coaching cohort opens in 2026 — for neurodivergent teens and young adults 15+, Proset players and newcomers alike. No coaching experience needed; we build it together.