This page is intended to provide the coaches with valuable resources to support their commitment to our kids. The Directors of Coaching and the Director of Youth Development will also post news and events to keep coaches current.
Coaches Corner
Responsible Sports Coaching
Visit WebsiteUS Youth Soccer and Liberty Mutual have a great site for information and resources for Reponsible Sports Coaching. Take the quiz.
Videos from Responsible Sports are posted on Video Lessons (link on left).
COACHES BULLETIN BOARD
Use Phonevite for Immediate calls to the team
Phonevite is a web based product that allows you to spread an immediate message to all your team members at once. It is a free service if you only use it twice in a 30 day period and really inexpensive for more calls.
"Tim Bittle uses it with his team. When the Gettysburg Tournament changed the schedule due to rain, he made one call and the message got out. My team had to make 16 calls. Next day, when there was another change I used Phonevite and literally within 2 minutes everyone was called and I got a confirmation that all calls were successful." - Jim Faust
You create an account, enter your players name, phone # and email. Record a message and hit submit. The phone calls are made plus an email also goes out with the message attached.
Highly recommend teams set up an account on PhoneVite.
Need Patches
If you need patches for your next tournament, please contact Cathy Ditzler.
Cathy Ditzler
Treasurer
Judging a Good Coach
A good coach is someone who knows winning is wonderful, but is not the triumph of sports.
A kid's coach is someone who goes to work early, misses meals, gives away weekends and plays havoc with family schedules so he or she can help out a group of kids.
A good coach is someone who stays half an hour or more after practices to make sure everyone of the players has a safe ride home.
A good coach is someone who rarely hears a mom or dad say "Hey Thanks", but receives a lot of advice on game day.
A good coach is someone who makes sure that everyone gets to play.
A good coach is someone who teaches young people that winning is not everything, but still lies in bed at night staring at the ceiling wondering whether he or she might have done anything differently to have turned a loss into a win.
A good coach is someone who can help a child learn to take a mistake in stride.
A good coach is someone who sometimes helps a child to develop ability and confidence that sometimes did not exist before.
A good coach is someone a kid will remember a long time after the last game has ended and the season is over.