Parents and Coaches

Sports Parenting

Center for Sports Parenting (CSP)
To provide immediate, practical, and essential guidance and assistance in helping parents, coaches, educators, administrators, officials, referees, umpires and all other individuals involved in youth sports cope with the psychological and physical challenges that accompany kids who play sports.

Character Counts! Sports
Develops programs and materials to help coaches and other adults equip youth with values to meet life's challenges, on and off the field.

The Institute for the Study of Youth Sports (YSI) - Michigan State University
To research the benefits and detriments of participation in youth sports; to produce educational materials for parents, coaches, officials, and administrators, and; to provide educational programs for coaches, officials, administrators, and parents.

MomsTeam.com
- Sports Nutrition
- Health and Safety
- Performance Parenting

National Sportsmanship Day
Serves as a forum for administrators, coaches, students, alumni, parents and fans to discuss the issues of ethics, fair play and sportsmanship.

The Physician and Sportsmedicine - Guidelines for Parents of Children in Sports
Monthly journal serving the practicing physician's professional and personal interests in the medical aspects of exercise, sports, and fitness.

"Parental Guidance Suggested" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (July 15, 2001 Transcript)
Examines the growing problem of parent and coach behavior in youth sports.

Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) - Resources For Parents
- Guidelines for Coach-Parent Partnership
- Value-Laden Conversations
- Honoring the Game Guidelines

Coaching Resources

American Red Cross - Sport Safety Training for Coaches
To keep athletes safer, to enable coaches to prevent, prepare for, and respond to sports-related injuries, to raise awareness of safety issues in athletes, and to provide an atmosphere in which athletes can train and compete with the confidence that their coach has taken a sport safety course.

Black Coaches Association
by Richard E. Lapchick

Black College Football Coaches Lose Yardage
by Richard E. Lapchick

"Bob Knight and anger management" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (May 21, 2000 Transcript)
Considers whether Bob Knight will ever learn to control his temper to prevent further abusive behavior.

"Bob Knight: The Final Crisis?" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (April 16, 2000 Transcript)
Considers whether Bob Knight can survive the serious allegations brought against him.

Character Counts! Sports
Develops programs and materials to help coaches and other adults equip youth with values to meet life's challenges, on and off the field.

FindLaw - Coaching Information and Resources
(1) Resources for Coaches (2) Coaching Organizations (3) Coaching Publications.

"Football, Race, and the Power of One Word" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (June 4, 2000 Transcript)
Focuses on the significance of high school football, race, and a coach's use of a racial epithet in the small town of Wildwood, Florida.

The Institute for the Study of Youth Sports (YSI) - Michigan State University
To research the benefits and detriments of participation in youth sports; to produce educational materials for parents, coaches, officials, and administrators, and; to provide educational programs for coaches, officials, administrators, and parents.

The International Council for Coach Education (ICCE)
To promote coaching as an internationally accepted profession.

National Sportsmanship Day
Serves as a forum for administrators, coaches, students, alumni, parents and fans to discuss the issues of ethics, fair play and sportsmanship.

"Parental Guidance Suggested" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (July 15, 2001 Transcript)
Examines the growing problem of parent and coach behavior in youth sports.

Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA)
Stanford University based organization working to make youth sports participation a positive, life-affirming experience.

"Return Engagement" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (March 25, 2001 Transcript)
Explores the questions surrounding Bob Knight's return to coaching.

Smashing Barriers in College Football
by Richard E. Lapchick

Sports Performance Information Zone (SPIZ)
To educate and provide reference materials to allow coaches of all levels to grow.

"When coaches leave players behind" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (July 9, 2000 Transcript)
Addresses whether NCAA players and recruits should be restricted by transfer rules even when their coaches walk away from contracts for better deals somewhere else.

Coaching Associations

American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)
To help improve the level of coaching, assist in the promotion of baseball and act as a sounding board and spokesperson on issues concerning the various levels of baseball.

American Football Coaches Association (AFCA)
For the improvement of the coaching profession and the sport of football.

American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)
Committed to the advancement and development of the sport of volleyball by providing member coaches with educational programs, a forum for opinion exchange and recognition opportunities.

American Women's Hockey Coaches Association (AWHCA)
To promote, develop and facilitate the growth of girl's and women's ice hockey in the United States.

Black Coaches Association (BCA)
To foster the growth and development of minorities at all levels of sports, both nationally and internationally.

College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA)
Striving for new and improved ways to support coaches and their athletes who compete on the collegiate level and promoting the continued growth of swimming at all levels.

Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA)
Dedicated to educating, promoting, and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes who participate in collegiate golf at all levels.

Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA)
Dedicated to promoting the game of lacrosse and to the education of the sport's coaches.

Masters Aquatic Coaches Association (MACA)
Dedicated to creating and enhancing progressive and highly visible programs that are effective in strengthening and improving the profession of Masters coaching.

National Association for Golf Coaches and Educators (NAGCE)
Provides continuing education and certification to golf coaches.

National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)
Growth organization for fastpitch softball coaches from all competitive levels of play.

National Federation Coaches Association (NFCA)
National high school coaches association.

National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA)
To stimulate the professional development of coaching leadership within the sport of field hockey, recognize the professional contributions of its membership and foster and promote the growth of the sport.

National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA)
Organization for women's golf coaches at Division I, II and III institutions.

National High School Baseball Coaches Association (BCA)
To provide services and recognition for baseball coaches and to help promote and represent high school baseball.

National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA)
To provide leadership and support to high school coaches and their programs.

National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association (NISCA)

National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCA)

National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA)
Provides training, support, and continuing education to adults who volunteer to coach out-of-school youth sports teams.

Professional Tennis Registry (PTR)
To provide education, international certification and service to tennis teaching professionals and coaches.

Professional Skaters Association International (PSAI)
Responsible for the education of skating coaches.

United States Elite Coaches Association for Men's Gymnastics (USECAFMG)
Aids in the development of elite male gymnasts in the United States.

The United States Fencing Coaches' Association (USFCA)
Works to develop the quality of instruction in the sport of fencing and to serve the diverse needs of those who teach fencing in the United States.

The United States Golf Teachers Federation (USGTF)
Establishes a national and international standard in training and certification for professional golf teachers.

United States Track Coaches Association (USTCA)
To provide track and field coaches with pertinent training information; to improve publicity and public relations; to encourage participation from all races, genders and age groups.

Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA)
To promote women's basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to develop a reputable identity for the sport of women's basketball and to foster and promote the development of the game in all of its aspects as an amateur sport for women and girls.

Sportsmanship and Positive Role Models

Athletes for a Better World (ABW)
To change the culture of sport by developing individual character, teamwork, and civic responsibility.

Character Counts! Sports
Develops programs and materials to help coaches and other adults equip youth with values to meet life's challenges, on and off the field.

Mendelson Center for Sport, Character and Culture - University of Notre Dame
To promote sport as a means for developing and expressing all facets of human excellence, especially moral character, and offer a broad reassessment of the role of sport in contemporary culture and the cultural values that shape sport participants' experience.

National Sportsmanship Day
Serves as a forum for administrators, coaches, students, alumni, parents and fans to discuss the issues of ethics, fair play and sportsmanship.

The Sports Ethics Institute
Raises questions and offers different perspectives into the moral issues that come up in sports helping to think critically about ethical issues.