POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE

The AAU National Office is happy to announce to its members, FREE Coaches' Education for all AAU Non-Athletes. This exciting program will be administered by Positive
Coaching Alliance (PCA), using their Double-Goal Coach® Online Course,
which helps coaches pursue their first goal, winning, while pursuing the
second, more-important goal of teaching life lessons through sports.
This program will give all team administrators, club directors, and
coaches the tools they need to help youth athletes improve. PCA’s online
course is filled with powerful coaching tools that are based on the
latest research in sports psychology and reflect the "best practices" of
elite coaches and athletes, including such PCA National Advisory Board
Members as Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach Phil Jackson, Boston Celtics
Head Coach Doc Rivers, Naismith Hall of Fame basketball coaches Dean
Smith and Larry Brown, former Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach Herm
Edwards, Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Bart Conner, Olympic Gold Medalist
and former WNBA star Ruthie Bolton and Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer
Summer Sanders, just to name a few.
Everyone will enjoy the interactive video and audio segments, featuring
many of these top coaches and athletes, throughout the course’s four
dynamic modules. Course users who complete all the modules and
achieve an 80% approval rating will receive a completion certificate.
After completing the Level 1 of the coaches' education program,
participants will be able to complete Level 2 and Level 3 courses in the
coming years.
"We are taking this bold and unprecedented step for two reasons. First,
AAU always has believed in the power of sport to develop character in
youth, and there is no better way to do that than through Double-Goal
Coach training for all our coaches. Second, AAU has always been a
pioneer and it is keeping with our tradition to stake out a leadership
position in this important area." - Bobby Dodd, President & CEO - Amateur Athletic Union
Mandatory. All registered non-athletes will take this free course as part of gaining membership into the AAU.
The AAU is proud to be a leader in the youth sports market and looks
forward as being the trendsetter in coach education in years to come