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 An Athlete’s Perspective: What Makes a Caring Coach Concepts shared from research by Lori A. Gano-Overway, PhD, CMPC, and PCA National Advisory Board Member Time Management for Student Athletes With kids headed back to school, check out these tips and tricks to help them acclimate to the student-athlete lifestyle. Should Parents Intervene When the Coach is Being Unfair? How to approach sportsmanship with your youth athlete. Dove Body Confident Sport Resources for Coaches & Athletes Dove and Nike join forces to break barriers for girls in sports! Introducing the Body Confident Sport program, empowering coaches and athletes worldwide. Let Kids Learn Sports By Watching, Rather Than Detailed Explanations Matt Kata is a former Major League Baseball player and the Cleveland Guardians Manager of Youth Baseball Development & Initiatives. Kata talks about using imitation to teach younger athletes. Breathing Exercises for Athletes Teaching your athletes these breathing exercises can help them reduce anxiety, calm their stress response system, focus more clearly on the goals ahead, and improve performance. Sports Are What I Do, They Are Not Who I Am When athletes get to the top ranks of their sports, they often think that other people only think of them as an athlete. Athletes & Mental Health: The Role of Sports in a Young Person’s Life Join Positive Coaching Alliance as they discuss in collaboration with the Jed Foundation, the impact of sports on a young person's life. Year-Round Fitness Prevents In-Season Injury Dr. Anne Moore and Dr. Heather Bergeson point to the key to staying injury-free. 9 Safety Tips To Ensure Emotional and Physical Safety of Players Here are 9 simple tips for ensuring that your players are emotionally and physically safe in their sport. 7 Tips for a Positive Parent-Coach Relationship To help you in this process, we've put together some guidelines for how sports parents can contribute to a Coach-Parent Partnership that benefits youth athletes. Discussion Guide: Coach Carter The film includes themes of coaching your own child, discipline techniques of coaches, how to be a student-athlete, making good life choices, and succeeding against the odds View More