Archived Sport Coach USA Training Center
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SMITH COLLEGE 2006
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The best New England-based opportunity for coaches to receive quality coaching education.
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The Institute for Sport Coaching, in partnership with Smith College's Department of Exercise and Sport Studies, is sponsoring the 1st Annual Sport Coach USA Training Center. The Sport Coach Training Center will offer a two- tiered menu of coaching education courses, general and sport specific, to meet the demand of all coaches ranging from volunteer youth to interscholastic coaches in the New England and upstate New York area.
This year's course offerings include:
- Coaching Principles Course: This ASEP course, a requirement for interscholastic coaches in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and optional in Maine, will be offered July 14-15. The course challenges coaches to define who they are as coaches (their coaching philosophy, objectives, and style); enhance communication and motivational skills; become more effective teachers and trainers; and improve team, relationship, risk, and self-management skills.
- Sport Safety Training Course: This course, designed in by the American Red Cross and US Olympic Committee will be taught on July 16. Sport Safety Training is designed to help coaches, athletic trainers and other participants identify and eliminate potentially hazardous conditions in various sports environments, recognize emergencies and make appropriate decisions for first aid care. The course will also include CPR and AED training.
- Squash Coaching Clinic: This clinic concentrates on the coaching skills important to teach the novice squash player. This course starts the evening of July 14 and ends during the afternoon of July 16.
- Inside the Sport Coach USA's Union: This exclusive offering will feature three distinguished coaches representing youth, interscholastic and intercollegiate sports, who will participate in a moderated panel discussion, combined with audience participation, leading to insightful and deep commentary on the craft of sport coaching.
Only a two-plus hour drive from most areas in New England and upstate New York, Smith College is conveniently located just 20 miles north of Springfield, Massachusetts in the small town of Northampton. Northampton is easily accessible by Amtrak train service (to Springfield), airlines (Bradley International Airport, 15 miles south of Springfield) and the interstate highway system (Northampton is on I-91).
Please click here for more information on directions and public transportation serving the Northampton area.
Affordable on-campus housing and dining, just steps away from the classrooms, is available.
Click here for more information on the housing available to students attending the Sport Coach USA Training Center.
Contact the Institute's Executive Director, , with any questions or suggestions for future course offerings.
Click here for more information about Smith College's Department of Exercise and Sport Studies.
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