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 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. Five Tips for Sports Parents Sports Are Back: 4 Things to Remember Sports are back! Whether you are reading this as a sports parent, sports grandparent, head coach, assistant coach, leader, or athlete, PCA is here for you as are source this summer and beyond. Tips for Assistant Coaches As players need each other, coaches need assistance too. This resource displays how your role as an assistant coach is vital to the team’s success. Supporting Each Other Through Tough Times As human beings, we have our own version of this called an Emotional Tank. If our tank is full of positive inputs and encouragement the better positioned we are to achieve success Discussion Guide: McFarland USA Themes presented in this film include teamwork, hard work, and respect Coaching Girls Guide: How to Get and Keep Girls Playing Girls love to play, but their sports careers are often much shorter than boys'. Here are tips that all coaches can use to keep girls playing longer. 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. Discussion Guide: Bend It Like Beckham This film uses themes of balancing sport and family, maintaining self-belief, coping with societal pressure, and self-motivation 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! Gender Equity In Youth Sports to Level the Playing Field (+ Title IX) – 9 Insights 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. View More