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 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. Discussion Guide: Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a fascinating documentary, filmed over a four year period, following the lives of Chicago high school basketball players 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. 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. RISE: Glossary for Race, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion An understanding of terms and concepts is critical to supporting positive discussions about race and race relations. An Inside Look at PCA’s Sports Can Battle Racism Workshop Join PCA as they share their effective tool to help combat racial discrimination and stretch moral courage within ourselves and others in a positive way. Creating and Inclusive Environment Learn how to inspire your athletes to become the very best version of themselves and have a positive youth sports experience. Concepts, Behaviors, and What Youth Sports Leaders Can Learn from the NBA Certain behaviors, concepts and characteristics can help leaders as they seek to do their best for their communities What Makes a Great Teammate? Here are 12 qualities that every great teammate should have. Flourishing Amidst COVID: If Camus (and Aristotle) Were Your Coach Youth athletes are in the midst of a legitimately challenging time, on so many levels. Creating Equitable Connection through Care Read through these strategies to meet kids where they are and ensure they can thrive in an equitable environment. Safety Tips for Times When Parents Do Not Accompany Their Youth Athletes A checklist for parents to prepare kids before they go anywhere without adult protection View More