Minnesota Football Summit will be held on Saturday, May 5th at Mounds View High School.  We  encourage all leaders and coaches in your youth football community take advantage of this opportunity.  This is a joint venture of the Minnesota Football Coaches Association (MFCA), Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL), with support from the Minnesota Vikings.  […]

John O’Sullivan from Changing the Game Project tells a great story of how asking your athletes one simple question can help to make a transformational change in your athletes.  Too often coaches try to analyze their athlete’s performance based on understanding concepts, listening to directions, or having the ability to execute a play. If coaches had […]

“Better Coaches, Safer Kids” — Fridley Coaches are “Trusted Coaches”: Leaders of Fridley Community Education, Fridley School District, and the Fridley Parks and Recreation Department have collaborated to create a memorandum of agreement with all youth sports associations under the umbrella of Fridley Youth Sports Association (FYSA). As of October 2, 2017, all youth sports […]

Trusted Coaches has partnered with Elevate Media to provide a series of high quality PSA’s featuring NFL veterans Chad Greenway and Brooks Bollinger. Elevate Media Group is an award-winning multi-media company based in La Crosse, WI specializing in video/ audio production, creative marketing, graphic design, web design, event, and post-production services. With over 45 years […]

Many fans today are reeling from a devastating loss, either a close game, or a blowout. This got me to thinking about how I address my team after a loss. It just so happens that I helped coach an indoor soccer team yesterday and our team went 1-2. We haven’t’ played all winter as a […]

The Lake Minnetonka Athletic Association (LMAA) is a youth football league dedicated to helping young athletes in grades 3rd through 8th to learn the fundamentals of football, learn the value of teamwork and have fun doing it. The LMAA was established in 1961, serving as the governing board for the youth football programs of its […]

More kids are playing sports today than ever before. As the number of youth participating in athletics continues to rise, we are also seeing an increase in overuse injuries in these children. An overuse injury is one that occurs when repetitive stresses are placed upon a part of the body without adequate rest. These injuries […]

Trusted Coaches Fast Facts: 220+ youth sports organizations from the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Louisiana have joined Trusted Coaches to train educate and screen their coaches. Trusted Coaches is a non-sport specific program. Organizations currently participating focus on the sports of basketball, baseball, football, soccer, softball, lacrosse and track & field. Youth Sports Organizations […]

Sometimes it’s hard to put a number on what type of impact and influence Trusted Coaches is having on the youth sports community in the short time it has been available for public consumption.  Well, our number crunchers did just that, and conservatively, here is the data. Coaches in training: 16,100+ Athletes positively impacted: 209,300+ (average team size […]