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 10 Tips For First-Time Sports Parents Keeping your eye on the "Big Picture;" How to choose the right sports environment for your child; What to say (and not say) after the competition; Discussion Guide: Kicking & Screaming This film includes themes of coaching your own child, being a sports parent, over-competitiveness in youth sports, and the coach-parent relationship Coaching with Empathy: Learning from Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic Journey Finding the human side of Olympic athletes under the crushing pressure of expectations. Discussion Guide: McFarland USA Themes presented in this film include teamwork, hard work, and respect 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. Pre-Season Meeting Agenda Template A well-run pre-season meeting sets the tone for a successful season—here’s how to align coaches, parents, and athletes from day one. A One Minute Explanation Of Mindfulness For Coaches And Athletes Learn how Psychology Professor and Director of Berkley's Good Science Center defines mindfulness and how coaches and athletes can use it. 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. 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. Sports Can Battle Racism: Courageous Conversations Sports can be a very powerful tool in supporting inclusion and equality. Here are five questions to ask to make sure you do your part. The Coaches’ Guide to Supporting High School Athlete Mental Health Sports teams offer unique opportunities to create spaces where teens and young adults feel safe, seen, heard, and valued, and coaches are ideally positioned to provide that support. You can be the first to notice when an athlete is struggling... Why Equity Matters in Youth Sports To truly celebrate the profound impact of sports, we must first champion equity. This is especially crucial for youth sports, where the youngest athletes are just discovering their passion, unaware of the numerous systemic barriers that threaten their fun View More