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 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. 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; Why Coaching with Empathy is Important How can we lead our interactions with empathy? Find out in the latest article from Positive Coaching Alliance. Discussing Body Image With Athletes: Empower Them To Be Proud And Confident Watch head coach of the Harvard Crimson, Katey Stone, discuss how she encourages her athletes to think about food as "fuel." Why Michael Jordan Couldn’t Dance Alone Michael Jordan did not dance alone. When the Chicago Bulls won, it may have been understandable that some overlooked coaching and other players’ roles as secondary to his transcendent talent. Top 10 Tips for Sports Parents Winning is great - but joyful, meaningful winning comes from a good team process. First and foremost, teach children the purpose of youth sports. Celebrating and Advancing Gender Equity in Youth Sports Discover how you can be supportive of girls in youth sports as a coach, staff member, or fan. Tricks of the Trade: Strategies for Athlete Engagement Manage unintended and help run a smooth practice with these fun tricks you can implement with your team. Coaches Avoid Recruiting Players That Let Parents Speak For Them Stanford Women’ golf coach Anne Walker on how important it is for recruits to speak for themselves when meeting college coaches. How to Help a Child Being Bullied 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 Coaching in Blowout Games Blowout games are a big frustration for players, coaches, and parents/caregivers. For the losing team, they can take the joy out of playing the game. For the winning team, they deny players the mental & physical challenges that contested games... Planning a Season Discover how to plan a youth sports season with this resource from the Positive Coaching Alliance. View More