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 Criticism Sandwich Is Off the Menu David Yeager, PhD describes the Mentor’s Dilemma as being hard to simultaneously criticize someone and motivate them because criticism can crush a young person’s confidence. 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. Sports Are What I Do, They Are Not Who I Am When athletes get to the top ranks of their sports, they often think that other people only think of them as an athlete. 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. Mental Health Tips for High School Athletes Simple, effective ways for student-athletes to manage stress, stay balanced, and take care of their mental health. Checklist for Positive Coaches Discussion Guide: Q Ball This film includes themes of using sports to overcome life’s struggles, reckoning with and then learning from past mistakes, and effective teamwork 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. Triple-Impact Competitor PCA shares three levels within a Triple-Impact competitor works. Roman Oben on the Importance of Showing Players You Care About Them Discover what it is like to be a youth coach after a professional NFL career and more in Positive Coaching Alliance's latest speaker series. Herm Edwards on how important character building is at a young age Sit down with Positive Coaching Alliance and former NFL head coach Herm Edwards, to learn about how the effects of character building at a young age starts at home. Webinar Recap: “Empowering Youth Athletes: Building Resilience and Mental Health” Listen to Positive Coaching Alliance and Momentum Labs and learn the importance in helping your athlete build resilience and their mental health. View More