Hawthorn premiership coach Alastair Clarkson will attend Harvard University. Source: Kim Eiszele / News Limited
HAWTHORN coach Alastair Clarkson is going back to school.
But it's just not any school.
The Hawks have enrolled their dual premiership coach into a leadership and management course at the prestigious Harvard University in Boston.
He will be in America for nearly two weeks in the New Year but will be back a couple of days before Hawthorn's first clash in the pre-season NAB Challenge series against the Brisbane Lions on February 13.
It will be left to Clarkson's assistants to prepare the reigning premiers for their first competitive hit-out of the year against the Lions at Etihad.
Study and further education are not new to 45 year-old Clarkson, a qualified teacher who has university degrees in sports science and business.
Hawthorn president Andrew Newbold said the Hawks have a history of sending their executive overseas for further studies, including former chief executive Ian Robson and more recently football operations manager Mark Evans who completed a month-long management course at Harvard earlier this year before joining the AFL.
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"It's a self-improvement thing for him (Clarkson)," Newbold said.
"We are big on those sort of courses for our people. It's just part of our professional development, I guess.''
Newbold said that putting Clarkson through the course showed that the role of a coach had changed dramatically over the years and they weren't just involved in football but in managing people which perhaps they hadn't been previously trained in.
"I think this is to just round him out and make him better in the job," he said.
AFL Coaches Association chief executive Danny Frawley said it was great that coaches were trying to better themselves and it was an example of why Clarkson was so good at his job.
The Hawks head of football operations Chris Fagan said the club had plenty of coaches to take charge of the players until Clarkson returned.
He said everyone supported Clarkson improving his knowledge through a leadership course at Harvard.
"Clarko is always keen to develop himself and it's good for him to freshen up a bit after being at the club for nine years," Fagan said.
It's not uncommon for AFL and club executives to do Harvard University courses with the most recent being|Geelong chief executive Brian Cook who returned there this year for a six week advanced management course.
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