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 Should Parents Intervene When the Coach is Being Unfair? How to approach sportsmanship with your youth athlete. 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. Best Practices for Player Tryouts: School Sports Nervous athletes don’t perform their best—here’s how coaches can create a tryout environment that sets them up to shine. Preseason Coach Onboarding Checklist Voices From the Black Community: How Sports Can Unite Us for the Better Dive into Black History Month as former UCLA Softball NCAA Champion, Marti Reed discusses how sports can bring people from every walk of life together. Sanya Richards-Ross: Parental Guidance and Success Hear from one of the world’s fastest women, Sanya Richards-Ross and how she credits her parents for playing a vital role of the success. The Importance of Mental Health in Youth Athletics In partnership with US Club Soccer, this is the first video in of a series of Facebook Live conversations for parents, coaches, and athletes. 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. Designing Welcoming, Equitable, and Positive Girls’ Sports Programs Designing youth sports programs with girls central and in mind is key to making youth sports welcoming, equitable, and positive for all. Check out these nine tips! Roman Oben Speaks About The Phases of Development for a Student Athlete Watch former NFL player Roman Oben talks through the three phases of learning for youth athletes. Checklist for Positive Coaches Positive Coaches strive to develop their athletes as competitors and ensure the development of life skills by creating a positive sports culture. Here are simple but powerful things you can do to have a lifetime impact on your athletes as... 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