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 Herm Edwards Just Gave Everyone in America a High 5: Who Will You High 5? Now more than ever, we need to help each other get through these times and emerge ready to play. So the national nonprofit Positive Coaching Alliance has launched a #High5Challenge. Athlete Nutrition Tips for Long Summer Days Developing Team Leadership with Dan Helfrich Join PCA to get tangible advice from two amazing coaches and a top corporate leader on how to build effective leaders, develop championship culture, coaching the whole person, and more. Aja Evans Talks About How Sports Help You Believe You Can Achieve Anything Olympic bobsledder Aja Evans discusses how a positive youth sports environment can help you believe in yourself. 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. Bringing Empathy to Your Team Wondering how you can bring empathy to your team? Follow the tips below to create that supportive, empathetic environment that all kids can benefit from! How to Help a Child Stop Bullying Other Kids This resource will explore identifying bullying, warning signs of bullying, cyberbullying, who is involved with bullying, what to do if your child is bullied, risk factors for bullying, and different types of bullying. What A College Coach Looks For In Recruits Hard work and positive attitudes will take an athlete a long way with college coaches and recruiters. 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. Why is it Important to Distinguish LGBTQ+ Athletes? Hudson Taylor and Ashland Johnson outline how teams can best use LGBTQ+ resources to support all athletes in being true to themselves. Brian McBride: Advice to Youth Coaches See how this coach's approach can help nurture a youth athlete's talent . Overcoming Myths and Barriers — 10 Best Practices for Girls in Sport Helping coaches, youth sports leaders, students, and others overcome myths and barriers will help girls and women “breakthrough” in play and coaching. View More