Positive Coaching Alliance

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• Positive Coaching Alliance
• SUMMARY

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Positive Coaching Alliance

• Created in 1998-Stanford University
• Movement to Transform Youth Sports

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ChallengersMission Statement

• The Challengers is a soccer club run by parents
  for their children. It is led by parents who are
  dedicated to providing a competitive soccer
  experience for their children while retaining
  control of the level of commitment in terms of
  time, travel, and money.

Don McBride
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PCA Vision

• The positive culture encourages athletes to play
  multiple sports and never pressures players to
  specialize in one sport too early
• Creating a culture where kids love to play the
  game. They look forward to practices and games
• Coaches feel the responsibility..to teach
  skills/strategy, but also respect the game
  (teammates, opponents, officials, fans)

I think PCA stole this from our own website!
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Coaches/Leaders

• Brian Schroder
• Jim Ensign
• Don McBride
• Craig Hipp
• John Hill
• Jim Higgins

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This is a MUST DO!

• Transforming Youth Sports
• Double-Goal Coaching Model
• Organizational Culture

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Double Goal Coaching

• 1-Winning is IMPORTANT
• 2-Teaching Life LessonsMore Important

Redefining Winner Filling the Emotional Fuel
Tank Honoring The Game
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Redefining Winner

• Scoreboard Definition
• Results
• Comparison w/ others
• Mistakes Not OK

• Mastery/Redefined
• Effort
• Learning
• Mistakes are OK

Mastery Definition drives kids desire
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Filling the Emotional Fuel Tank

• Fill
• Praise
• Appreciation
• Listening

• Draining
• Criticize/Correct
• Sarcasm
• Ignore

Empty TankLess Coachable Full TankMore
Coachable
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Honoring the Game

• R.O.O.T.S
• Rules
• Opponents
• Officials
• Teammates
• Self

Nutshell Definitions Follow the rules, Honor the
game, opponent is not enemy, Respect officials,
honor the team with actions, live up to own self
standards
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Organizational Culture

• Set the tableExpectations
• Parents and Athletes
• Via
• Message Bombardment
• Written (signs, buttons,Parent Pledges,etc)
• Spoken-thats not the way we do things Here!