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Positive Coaching Alliance
Positive Coaching Alliance Continues to Guide
WBA Coaches and ParentsSave the Date: February 17, 2009 for the PCA Parent and Culture Keeper Meeting at Westlake Elementary Multi-Purpose Room. The meeting will begin at 7 pm.
Our partnership with Stanford University's Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) now enters its eighth year. The goal of PCA is to provide an environment that ensures our players have a positive, character-building experience. We want to provide practical tools to develop coaches that 1) want to win and, more importantly, 2) want to teach their athletes positive life lessons.
Our success has progressed year after year in this program. Several years ago, we were awarded the national honor of "Youth Organization of the Year". For the last several years we have awarded, worthy coaches, the Manager of the Year Award. On Opening Day last year, we honored Chris Vatcher as our Manager of the Year. On Opening Day 2009, we will again honor a manager who best exemplifies those attributes associated with the PCA. Our association with PCA and the positive changes it has facilitated are due to the foundation laid many years ago by David Bishop, the Director of Coaching, for many years. Dave believed in the program and made it a reality. We at the WBA owe a great deal of thanks to volunteers like Dave Bishop, who not only give of their time, but have the foresight to see that a program is worthy of our interest and then have the ability to facilitate implementing the program into our league.
This year, in addition to the coaches’ mandatory clinic, where PCA’s values are introduced or reviewed for the veteran coaches, the WBA Board of Directors will once again host our Third Annual PCA Class for Parents. Last year the class was a “full house,” so be sure to sign up early.
Last year the WBA was proud to introduce the Culture Keeper position to the league. This parent reminded all of us the proper manner in which to “Honor the Game.” The key to preventing adult misbehavior in youth sports is a youth sports culture in which all involved "Honor the Game." Honoring the Game gets to the ROOTS of the matter and involves respect for the Rules, Opponents, Officials, Teammates and one's Self. You don't bend the rules to win. You understand that a worthy opponent is a gift that forces you to play to your highest potential. You show respect for officials even when you disagree. You refuse to do anything that embarrasses your team. You live up to your own standards even if others don't. The WBA is proud of our relationship with the PCA and we look forward to many more years of positive coaching together.
What is the Positive Coaching Alliance and Double Goal Coaching?
Double-Goal Coach™ Certification ensures that certified youth sports and school coaches have built their knowledge of what we call "Honoring the Game" — a deeper, more focused evolution of sportsmanship. A Double-Goal Coach™ strives to win and, even more importantly, uses sports to teach life lessons through Positive Coaching. WBA coaches have been receiving this training at the beginning of each season for the last six years.
Become a "Second-Goal Parent"!
WBA is now extending the PCA youth sports outlook to our parents as well.
What is a "Second-Goal Parent"?
In keeping with PCA's ideal of a Double-Goal CoachTM -- whose first goal is winning and whose second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports -- a "Second-Goal Parent" focuses on helping youth athletes learn those life lessons.
Who can become a Second-Goal Parent?
Any parent can become a certified Second-Goal Parent.
Why become a Second-Goal Parent?
Ensure you are doing all you can to help your child get the most from youth sports. Our live course provides techniques to strengthen your overall relationship with your child.
Please click here to learn more about Westlake Baseball’s relationship with PCA. "Positive Coaching Alliance"
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