Compete! Coaching the Sport

GO! Raise Excellence in Youth Sports Think Tanks

This course is one of six learning tracks from the 2019 GO! Raise Excellence Think Tank to Improve Youth Sports. Hosts Reed Maltbie, Ruth Nicholson, Gordon MacLelland and Sam Snow brought 61 leading experts together for 10 days of solution-based learning sessions. Each track had at least 10 presentations specific to the track learning focus.

Compete track was focused on providing coaches with the tools and knowledge to become better at coaching the sport. It covered the technical and tactical skills required to become a Coach of Excellence on the field. Participants learned how to better implement invasion sport tactics, differentiate between skill and technique, institute a values-based learning program, create training environments that elicit better game performance, institute the John Wooden pyramid of success, and much more. The experts in this track include 5 Coaching Educators from the USOC and at least 6 different sports. The specific experts are listed in the Coach Credentials section below.

All six tracks are available on CoachTube and are as follows:

1. Compete - Coach the Sport

This track is all about the technical and tactical (hardware) skills required to be a transformational coach on the field.

2. Compute - Coach the Brain

In this track, our experts will share how we can write better "software" in our athletes' brains to lead to excellence.

3. Collaborate - Coach the Parent

This track is focused on engaging parents in more effective ways so they become collaborators in our culture.
 
 
4. Coordinate - Coach the Club

This track is focused on the Governance and Operations aspects of youth sports and how strong clubs start in the boardroom.

5. Cultivate - Coach the Coach

This track is focused on helping coaches create the best possible culture on their team, in their club and among their colleagues.

6. Correlate - Coach the Person

This track is focused on the other aspects of youth sports from nutrition, to fun maps, to physical literacy and more for the WHOLE athlete.