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RAGE PCA Resource Center
Tools and Resources for Coaches, Parents and Athletes

Our goal within RAGE is to foster a Positive Coaching culture. In addition to workshops and general communication for coaches and parents, we have established (with help from PCA) this Resource Center, which provides various tools, resources and ideas to assist you in helping to make our Positive Coaching culture a reality.
Whether you're a coach, parent or player, please take advantage of these resources to promote and protect the concepts of Positive Coaching within our club, within your team, and for yourself.

Thanks
Dan Copenhagen
RAGE PCA Director

By partnering with PCA, you have made a commitment to place character education at the top of your coaching objectives and to create a Positive Coaching culture in which athletes can grow, be challenged and have fun.
As you know, the culture-changing process will not happen overnight. We're here to help you put a structure in place that will allow your Positive Coaching initiative to grow year after year.

ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS FOR COACHES
  Coach/Parent Pre-Season Meeting Agenda

TOOLS FOR COACHING
  Double-Goal Coach Job Description
  Positive Charting
  Effort Goals
  Script for Coaches on Redefining Winning
  Script for Coaches on Filling the Emotional Tank
  Script for Honoring the Game
  Flushing and Parking
  Player Pep Talks

COACH PREPARATION TOOLS
  Developing a Coaching Philosophy
  Goal Setting Worksheet
  Preparing for Practice
  Intervening on the Sidelines
  How to Conduct a Practice Observation
  How a Head Coach Can Use Practice Observations
  Practice Observation Form

A Parent's role in his/her child's youth sports experience is to let the players and coaches focus on winning while he/she provides unconditional support for the child independent of performance. The list of tools below provide insight into how parents can contribute to an "Honor the Game" culture.
PARENT TOOLS
  Parent Letter: PCA Introduction
  Parent Pledge
  The Role of the Culture Keeper
  Game Day Tips for Parents
  Guidelines for a Coach/Parent Partnership
  When Parents Need to Intervene
  Empowering Conversations

PCA believes that the goal for any athlete should be to become a Triple-Impact Competitor.  The motto of a Triple-Impact Competitor is "better":  making yourself, your teammates and the game better.
Triple-Impact Competitors make positive contributions on three levels:
* Personal Mastery: Making oneself better
* Leadership: Making one’s teammates better
* Honoring the Game: Making the sport better

PCA believes sports has two goals.
#1: Striving to win
#2: Learning about yourself and life.

Check out the tools below to learn more.
  Making Yourself Better
  Making Your Teammates Better
  Making the Game Better
TIC Pledge

During a PCA Leadership Roundtable Call, Bruce Horowitz -- co-founder of 2007 National Youth Sports Award Winner Beverly Hills Basketball League (BHBL) -- explained how message bombardment fuels the league's full implementation of its Positive Coaching initiative.

Bruce spoke of "2 minute drill" e-mails that he regularly sends to parents and coaches, highlighting nuggets of PCA wisdom. His aim: Sharing enough PCA principles with enough people that Honoring the Game becomes the cultural norm.

We've borrowed the "2 minute drill" from BHBL and will produce a new "drill" each month for both parents and coaches. We will send each "drill" to partners in PDF, text and web link.

We hope you forward each "2 minute drill" to all coaches and parents in your organization as a step toward ensuring the success of your Positive Coaching initiative.