Heights National LL: Coach's Corner
The MANAGERS / COACHES section of our league website is your source for information related to coaching at Heights National Little League. Experience has taught us that Managers and Coaches who work to make sure they are kept up-to-date with League News are much more successful in creating good experiences for the families on their teams.
This year's Little League Board is pursuing a few new goals. It is especially important for our Managers and Coaches to become informed of these changes, and work to help us. Typically, a kid's coaching staff represents the primary "contact" between a player, the player's family, and our League.
Since Heights National Little League is an all-volunteer organization, we rely upon Team Managers and Coaches to help us recruit, inform and organize parents to accomplish our organizational objectives. We can only achieve the things we want to accomplish if we spread the work around, among our many willing Parent volunteers.
Coach's Box
Great teaching tool for coaches and managers who take on the responsibility of coaching.
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Little League is committed to helping managers and coaches be their best. While part of this program is targeted at making managers and coaches better at teaching skills, planning active and fun practices and showing coaches how to include all players on game day it is also aimed at making them better teachers and role models.
Recognizing that manager and coach are the most vital link in making a youngster’s experience in Little League a success, Little League has teamed up with world-renowned instructors and authors Al Herback and Al Price (Little al & BIG AL) to bring you the Little League Official Little League Manager/Coach Educational Program. You can participate in a live training clinic with al and AL each year at one of Little League’s Regional Centers (Go to the Coach Training page for details.)
Since Big Al and Little Al and Little League launched the program in 1996 over 1 MILLION Little League Coaches, Managers, Players and Parents have utilized the program training resources. Also, over 60,000 coaches and managers across the world have taken advantage of live training sessions with Al and al.
The Coaching Education Program is built around a valuable library of resources targeted at managers & coaches, players and their parents customized for each Little League division.
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The Getting Started Manual is for coaches of Tee Ball and Coach-Pitch/Machine-Pitch divisions, includes warm-ups, skills in step-by-step sequence, drills, fun activities & tips on how to organize practices & games. | |
| The Basic Instruction Manual for managers & coaches of Baseball and Softball of 9-12 year old divisions & provides step-by-step teaching methods for the fundamentals of the game. | ||
| The Advanced Baseball Manual is for coaches of Jr. Sr. and Big League Divisions and includes 92 pages of advanced skills for each position, positional play, game strategies, drills and practice plans | ||
| Each Getting Started Team Package (5-8 yrs) and Basic Team Package (9-12 years) includes 1 manual for the coach and 14 matching player instructional passports for the players. Al and al have matched skills and key sequences to keep players, parents and coaches on the same page learning the game together. | ||
| Other complimentary training resources that have been added to the library include an interactive Know Your Baseball CD-ROM and Planning a Practice training resource in both VHS and DVD formats. | ||
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We have developed this program because the heart of Little League is what happens between the coach and the player. We know the coach is the key to ensuring each player, from the little als to the BIG ALs, have a fun and positive experience, improve and most importantly feel an important part of the team. Through this program our goal is to make sure that more players than ever continue to play this wonderful game.
For more detailed information on the program resources & to order go to www.alandalbaseball.com. To contact headquarters about the Little League Education Program for Managers and Coaches, e-mail ncaringi@littleleague.org.
Take the Positive Coaching Parents & Coach Seminar
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In any given year, more than 4 million volunteer coaches work with more than 40 million young athletes (ages 5-18) in the United States. The youth sports experience provides opportunities for children to learn important lessons about determination, commitment, hard work, teamwork, and empathy while acquiring increased self-confidence and positive character traits. Unfortunately, these opportunities are all too often squandered for a variety of reasons, among them:
Youth coaches and parents blindly emulate the win-at-all-cost mentality that filters down from the professional sports entertainment business.
Youth coaches are untrained in and unfamiliar with principles of effective motivation and age-appropriate teaching strategies.
Research has shown that positive coaching can increase an athlete's self-esteem and self-confidence, which results in more enjoyment from participating, which causes a child to be more likely to continue playing.
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) believes the realm of youth athletics presents a tremendous opportunity for athletes to develop life skills that will serve them well beyond the playing field. Thus, providing a positive and favorable playing environment should be the goal of every youth sports organization leader, coach, and parent.
We believe that people want to change the culture of youth sports, but that they are not equipped with the tools to do so. Bottom line, we want to create a culture where kids love to play the game. They look forward to practices and games as times when they will have fun. The joy they find in playing will last a lifetime.
Sunday, June 10
Umps
Manager's and Coaches:
It will always be your responsibility to make sure you have an umpire schedule for your games. Do not ASSUME that the league umpire-in-chief will have the game covered. The umpires are trying to do their best to cover these and continue to be one of the few leagues that schedules games for the umpires. Therefore, check the list under Handouts and the schedule up to the end of the season. We are short on umps this year, which throws us a curveball, to still hope every game is covered. Therefore, as a leauge, we are reaching out to 'other' volunteers to help out with umpire and be in the long run for the kids to have fun.
Little League International Launches New Electronic Newsletter for Coaches and Managers
In January 2006, Little League International published the first monthly electronic newsletter ...
Tuesday, March 6
Little League Baseball Pitch Count Resource Page
Click on the link above/below to learn more about the Little League pitch count regulation for all levels of baseball that started in 2007. Check back on this link often for updates!
http://www.littleleague.org/media/Pitch_Count_Resource_Page.asp
