Please review these requirements and recommendations pertaining to travel arrangements that individual participants must make for this program.
Medical Precautions
Participants are encouraged to consider purchasing travel medical insurance if their current health insurance plan or travel insurance does not provide coverage for medical care while traveling in Scotland.
All participants will be required to follow all state and local COVID guidance. Participants will be responsible for any additional expenses incurred related to COVID or other illness, or travel-related delays.
Travel
Participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements to Newark, Delaware (Module 1), apprenticeship experience (Module 3) and Edinburgh, Scotland (Module 4).
Travel for Module 1: University of Delaware
- The program begins at 4 p.m. on June 9, 2024 in Newark, Delaware. All participants should plan to arrive no later than 4 p.m. on June 9. If you choose to arrive earlier, you will be responsible for your accommodations until the program begins.
- The closest airport to the University of Delaware is Philadelphia International Airport.
- Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodations and meals during Module 1.
Travel for Module 4: Edinburgh, Scotland
- The program begins at 4 p.m. on December 6, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- All participants should plan to arrive on the morning of the start of the program. If you choose to arrive earlier, you will be responsible for your accommodations until the program begins.
- Edinburgh Airport is the closest airport to Oriam, Scotland’s national performance centre for sport, based at Heriot-Watt University’s Riccarton campus.
- All participants should depart at the conclusion of the program.
Hotel Accommodations
- Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodations and meals during Module I.
- The participant fee includes the cost of the hotel room, tax and meals at the Marriott at Oriam, Edinburgh, Scotland, during Module 4. Participants will share a two-queen guest room with another participant.
About Oriam Facility
Oriam is Scotland’s national performance centre for sport, based at Heriot-Watt University’s Riccarton campus in Edinburgh. The Scottish Rugby Union and the Scottish Football Association use it as a training facility, as does Heart of Midlothian F.C. for first-team training and to run its academy.
Located within the Riccarton campus at Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University, the £33 million facility is home to a vast array of Scottish FA activities and home to its coach education program. Designed to provide an inspirational environment for top athletes, Oriam opened in August 2016 and has set a new standard for facilities within Scotland, including a FIFA-accredited indoor synthetic pitch with a viewing area that can seat 500 people. The pitch is the largest of its kind in Europe and has direct access to state-of-the-art dressing rooms, a hydrotherapy pool, a rehabilitation area and a gym area for strength and conditioning.
In addition to the indoor pitch, Oriam offers various synthetic and natural outdoor fields, including an exact replica of Hampden Park that is 116 yards by 76 yards. Thanks to the high quality of the facilities, Hampden Park has been used by the national squad for training camps across all ages and has hosted matches, including an international tournament for the under-16 level.
The Scottish Rugby Union also uses Oriam as its home of performance, and the facilities are regularly used by the likes of Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian FC, Edinburgh Rugby and English Premiership football teams for their preseason training.
The Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Football Association is renowned around the world for the high quality of its coaching education courses. Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Fabio Capello, Andre Villas-Boas, Nuno Espirito Santo and Shelley Kerr have all taken their UEFA coaching license courses with the Scottish FA.
The opportunity to take the Scottish FA C license course is a significant one for U.S. coaches as it represents a pathway into the UEFA coaching license pathway. Once U.S.-based coaches complete their C license with the Scottish FA, they are considered “Scottish” in the eyes of UEFA and are on the pathway to go on and potentially take the UEFA B course and then the UEFA A License course should they choose to do so.