As part of an ongoing effort to add new features to the Trusted Coaches website, the Trusted Coaches Team just added a new tool to make your job as a Coach Administrator easier. We would like to make you aware of a new tool we have built that will allow you to keep track of […]
How to present Trusted Coaches to your program
You are attending a youth sports event and you overhear other parents in the stands talking about a new online youth coach’s education program. You are intrigued by this verification program and find out that it offers four components which include a first-aid and concussion training course, Positive Coaching Alliance “Double Goal” coaches’ character education course […]
Trusted Coaches Welcomes Elk River Youth Baseball!
Recently, Elk River Youth Baseball Association (MN) purchased 55 seats for their 2015 Youth Baseball Coaches. On behalf of the Trusted Coaches team, we would like to welcome all the coaches from Elk River to this unique program that provides the most up-to-date training tools necessary at your finger tips. Testimonial from Jim Brown, President of […]
Background Checks Can Prevent Hiring the Wrong Coach
So you are getting ready to sign your kid up for a fall sports program. This is great – you have an hour to go shopping while your kid gets to run around and play his favorite sport. As you are shopping, you begin to wonder who the new coach was. He wasn’t there last […]
Concussions Among Prep Athletes
The Institute of Medicine released a report in the fall of 2013 about sports-related concussions in youth athletes. Football had the highest rate of concussion per 10,000 athletes at 11.2, as should be expected. In most sports where both boys and girls participated, girls suffered a higher rate of concussion than boys. Sports that have […]
Positive Coaches Do Make A Difference
We’ve all witnessed it: a coach berating a player in the dugout or on the playing field. It’s embarrassing for the coach, humiliating for the parent, and can ruin a kid very quickly. It doesn’t have to be that way, and sometimes it just takes a little training. Trusted Coaches has partnered with Positive Coaching […]