[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"header-nav":3,"footer-nav":29,"article-katherine-sciver-brunt-mum-guilt-coaching-career":82,"category-counts-nav":98,"related-katherine-sciver-brunt-mum-guilt-coaching-career":108},[4,8,11,14,17,20,23,26],{"label":5,"to":6,"exact":7},"Home","\u002F",true,{"label":9,"to":10},"World Cup","\u002Fworldcup",{"label":12,"to":13},"Standings","\u002Fstandings",{"label":15,"to":16},"Football","\u002Fcategory\u002Ffootball",{"label":18,"to":19},"Basketball","\u002Fcategory\u002Fbasketball",{"label":21,"to":22},"Tennis","\u002Fcategory\u002Ftennis",{"label":24,"to":25},"F1","\u002Fcategory\u002Ff1",{"label":27,"to":28},"Long Reads","\u002Fcategory\u002Flong-reads",{"brand":30,"columns":32,"tagline":80,"copyright":81},{"description":31},"In-depth sports journalism covering football, basketball, tennis, F1, and beyond. Daily analysis, long reads, and expert opinion.",[33,51,59],{"heading":34,"links":35},"Leagues",[36,39,42,45,48],{"label":37,"to":38},"Premier League","\u002Ftag\u002Fpremier-league",{"label":40,"to":41},"La Liga","\u002Ftag\u002Fla-liga",{"label":43,"to":44},"NBA","\u002Ftag\u002Fnba",{"label":46,"to":47},"Formula 1","\u002Ftag\u002Fformula-1",{"label":49,"to":50},"Champions League","\u002Ftag\u002Fchampions-league",{"heading":52,"links":53},"Content",[54,56,57],{"label":55,"to":16},"Analysis",{"label":27,"to":28},{"label":58,"to":16},"Data & Stats",{"heading":60,"links":61},"Company",[62,65,68,71,74,77],{"label":63,"to":64},"Terms of Service","\u002Fservice",{"label":66,"to":67},"Privacy Policy","\u002Fprivacy",{"label":69,"to":70},"Editorial Policy","\u002Feditorial",{"label":72,"to":73},"Contact Us","\u002Fcontact",{"label":75,"to":76},"About Us","\u002Fabout",{"label":78,"to":79},"Website Disclaimer","\u002Fdisclaimer","Built for the love of sport","© SportPulse. All rights reserved.",{"title":83,"slug":84,"category":85,"badge":86,"author":87,"excerpt":88,"date":89,"readTime":90,"image":91,"imageAlt":83,"tags":92,"body":96,"_path":97},"Sciver-Brunt confronts 'mum guilt' as she steps into coaching","katherine-sciver-brunt-mum-guilt-coaching-career","long-reads","Long Reads: Feature","Sarah Martinez","The former England fast bowler opens up about the emotional cost of pursuing a coaching career while raising a family.","2026-07-24 18:11:09","2 min read","https:\u002F\u002Fichef.bbci.co.uk\u002Face\u002Fstandard\u002F976\u002Fcpsprodpb\u002F4d2c\u002Flive\u002Ff47c3360-8780-11f1-a6cf-7dd9e08d50d6.jpg",[93,94,95],"Cricket","Women's Cricket","England","Katherine Sciver-Brunt, one of England's most decorated fast bowlers and the wife of current captain Nat Sciver-Brunt, has begun transitioning into coaching. She has spoken openly about the difficulty of the shift, describing \"mum guilt\" as something she carries constantly, \"with the weight of expectation that it will not drop.\"\n\nCoaching at any serious level demands presence: pre-season camps, away trips, hours on the training ground. For Sciver-Brunt, those demands collide with school pickups, bedtime routines, and the rhythms of a young family. She wants to build a coaching career. She also wants to be present for her child. She has acknowledged that those two goals do not always sit comfortably together.\n\n## Too few female coaches, and a pipeline that shows it\n\nWomen's cricket has transformed in recent years. The Hundred, franchise leagues across the globe, and improved central contracts have changed the financial and competitive reality of the sport. Coaching infrastructure has not kept pace. There are fewer female coaches at the top level of the women's game than there should be. Retired players with deep tactical knowledge and international experience often find the pathways into coaching neither clear nor accommodating.\n\nSciver-Brunt's profile gives her a platform most do not have. She is married to the England captain, which keeps her close to the professional environment. She was one of the most recognisable players of her era. But proximity and recognition do not solve the logistical problem of childcare during a county fixture or a week-long training block.\n\n## Naming the tension instead of smoothing it over\n\nThe most significant thing Sciver-Brunt has done in this transition is not the coaching itself. It is the refusal to narrate her post-playing career as a seamless next chapter. She has named the guilt. She has admitted the tension between ambition and presence. In doing so, she has given language to women, in sport and outside it, who navigate the same calculations daily.\n\n\"Mum guilt\" is not a press-release phrase. It is lived experience, and Sciver-Brunt deploying it publicly signals something beyond her own situation. Elite sport asks athletes to be selfish for years: to train, to travel, to prioritise performance above almost everything else. Retirement does not end that tension. It relocates it.\n\nNat Sciver-Brunt continues to captain England. Katherine Sciver-Brunt is building something new on the other side of retirement. Between them, they are modelling what ambition looks like when it runs through a family, not just a career. The coaching badges will come. The hours on the training ground will accumulate. What Sciver-Brunt has already offered is a framework: wanting both a career and a family is a negotiation, and one worth having openly.","\u002Farticles\u002Fkatherine-sciver-brunt-mum-guilt-coaching-career",[99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,85,107],"analysis","basketball","cricket","f1","football","general","golf","mma","tennis",[109,123,134],{"id":110,"stem":110,"path":111,"title":112,"category":85,"badge":113,"badgeType":114,"author":115,"authorRole":116,"authorInitials":117,"date":118,"readTime":119,"image":120,"imageAlt":112,"tags":121,"excerpt":122},"whitlock-glasgow-heartbreak-hand-injury-robs-commonwealth-farewell","\u002Farticles\u002Fwhitlock-glasgow-heartbreak-hand-injury-robs-commonwealth-farewell","Max Whitlock Forced Out of Glasgow Commonwealth Games With Hand Injury","Feature","category","Marcus Wright","SportPulse Contributor","MW","2026-07-13 14:47:42","5 min read","https:\u002F\u002Fichef.bbci.co.uk\u002Face\u002Fstandard\u002F976\u002Fcpsprodpb\u002Faecc\u002Flive\u002F9527a950-7eb9-11f1-8439-ebc9c5f19300.jpg","Commonwealth Games, Gymnastics, Olympics, Glasgow","Three-time Olympic gold gymnast Max Whitlock withdraws from Glasgow's Commonwealth Games after a training hand injury shatters his planned farewell.",{"id":124,"stem":124,"path":125,"title":126,"category":85,"badge":15,"badgeType":114,"author":87,"authorRole":127,"authorInitials":128,"date":129,"readTime":130,"image":131,"imageAlt":126,"tags":132,"excerpt":133},"maggie-thatcher-can-you-hear-me-lillelien-norway-england-1981","\u002Farticles\u002Fmaggie-thatcher-can-you-hear-me-lillelien-norway-england-1981","The Night Norway Beat England and a Legend Was Born","Transfer Correspondent","SM","2026-07-10 00:05:29","6 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fmaggie-thatcher-can-you-hear-me-lillelien-norway-england-1981.webp","World Cup, International Football","Bjørge Lillelien's unhinged 1981 rant after Norway stunned England remains the greatest commentary moment in football history.",{"id":135,"stem":135,"path":136,"title":137,"category":85,"badge":15,"badgeType":114,"author":138,"authorRole":116,"authorInitials":139,"date":140,"readTime":130,"image":141,"imageAlt":137,"tags":142,"excerpt":143},"fa-wales-uefa-pro-licence-military-training-coaches","\u002Farticles\u002Ffa-wales-uefa-pro-licence-military-training-coaches","Inside Wales' Brutal Military Module For Europe's Elite Coaches","Elena Rossi","ER","2026-07-13 04:03:06","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Ffa-wales-uefa-pro-licence-military-training-coaches.webp","Uefa Pro Licence, Football Association of Wales, Coaching","The FAW's Uefa Pro Licence course sends coaches through army survival training, redefining tactical education through psychological extremes."]