National Youth Sports Week Tuesday, Oct 25—Coaches Day Let’s emphasize the importance of access to quality coaching tools and resources and the role trained coaches play in creating positive youth sports experiences. Brought to you by Positive Coaching Alliance PEP RALLY DAY | COACHES DAY | WELLNESS DAY | SAFETY DAY | SPIRIT DAY | PLAY DAY COACHING TOOLS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Develop Winners in Life Through Sports Join the Positive Coaching Alliance team as they walk through all the resources coaches and families can use to create a greater youth sports experience. Learn, Do, Celebrate An estimated 6.5 million coaches provide youth sports instruction, but less than 5% have received formal training. Join Positive Coaching Alliance on Tuesday, October 25th for a FREE coaching webinar as well as access to select courses in their coaching curriculum. Let’s help make every coaching experience a positive one! Learn Families: Learn how to “Develop Winners in Life Through Sports” with this informational webinar from Positive Coaching Alliance. Register to watch Clubs & Teams: Learn how to conduct a coach evaluation. Download these sample coaching evaluation forms. They are a great start to help build an end-of-season evaluation for your coaching staff. Get started Do Families: Have you ever thought about being a volunteer coach? Now is the time to sign up. Already coaching your youngster? These tips are still for you—Download PCA’s list of top 10 coaching tips. Learn more Clubs & Teams: Coaches receive FREE access to PCA’s Coaching for Winning & Life Lessons course through SportsEngine. Get access by signing up for your voucher code using the link below. Get the voucher Celebrate Families: Thank your coaches today! Nominate them for the PCA Double-Goal Coach® award and share their nomination on social media with the hashtags #nationalyouthsportsweek #thankyoucoach and tag @positivecoachus and @youthsportsNCYS on Twitter. Nominate a coach Clubs & Teams: The year-end party is a great place to celebrate your exemplary coaches. We've gathered the top tips for planning that year-end team party. See more ☆ BIG IDEA ☆ National Youth Sports Week Youth Development Techniques Join us in helping the Susan Crown Exchange train one million coaches in youth development techniques by 2025. As an anchor partner of Million Coaches Challenge, PCA will train over 400,000 youth sports coaches to incorporate SEL and PYD into their coaching practices. Will those be the coaches in your organization? Read More Featured Coaching Content PCA’s Development Zone® Resource Center hosts more than 1,800 tools and resources in a searchable platform for coaches and leaders to support their athletes on and off the field and create a positive youth sports experience. Here are a few of our top picks. Surviving Tryouts and Cuts Disagree With Your Child’s Coach? How To Handle, And When To Intervene Supporting Your Children When They Make Mistakes Seize Teachable Moments In Televised Sports To Reinforce Character Should Parents Intervene When the Coach is Being Unfair? See more at the Positive Coaching Alliance Dev Zone More from Positive Coaching Alliance Breaking Bias Through Sports: 5 Takeaways Join Positive Coaching Alliance in the key ways to overcome bias with sport. Discussion Guide: Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a fascinating documentary, filmed over a four year period, following the lives of Chicago high school basketball players How Coaches Can Build Safe, Trusting Relationships Building safe, trusting relationships with and amongst your athletes is the foundation for creating a Positive Youth Sports Culture. Here are some ways's you can create these relationships and benefits that come with them. Using Veteran Players as Mentors A mentor program empowers team veterans, creates opportunities for stronger relationships among players, and can help prevent issues that erode team chemistry such as cliques, individual agendas, and status gaps based on talent. 5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Team’s Morale If a team is satisfied and optimistic, morale is high. But if a team is disengaged and frustrated, morale is low. Sam Peszek on How to Create Positive Body Image for Young Girls Olympic gymnast Sam Peszek discusses how to create a positive body image for young girls everywhere. Billie Jean King on Her Intro to Tennis and the Importance of Access Watch as Billie Jean King reflects on her first memories playing tennis and the importance of access Take Back the Game—Linda Flanagan’s Advice to Coaches In her latest book, Linda Flanagan discusses how and why youth sports have changed so dramatically over the last 30 years. Take a peek behind the cover as she dives into the legendary coaching style of Bruce Girdler. 3 Steps To Take With Over-Exuberant Parents Explore the issue of overzealous sports parents with Kathy as she offers a three-step solution for aligning values with actions in youth sports. Reinforcing Team Culture with Targeted Symbolic Rewards How Girls Can Overcome Body Image Concerns and Embrace Their Athletic Build Girls go through body changes earlier in their lives than boys typically do, but often times they feel awkward because of that. Disagree With Your Child’s Coach? How To Handle, And When To Intervene Discover what you can do when you're running into issues with your youth athlete's coach. View More