Coaches Corner
We are very thankful for our volunteer coaches. They're the backbone of TBL, and the people leading, instructing, and shaping the youth of this city on the baseball fields.
At TBL, our direction to our coaches is simple - we want the kids to have fun. We want them to be upset when the season is over and we want them to want to play baseball the following season. Baseball is a game, and it should be treated as such.
We also want to give our coaches the guidance, support, and resources to properly instruct the kids they lead each year in our spring/summer and fall leagues. As part of that guidance, we've put together the TBL Coaches Resource Packet you will find below. In it, you will find instructions on how to communicate to parents, how to structure practices, and what some of the best drills are to work on with the kids.
And coaches - we're always just an email away at twinsburgbaseball@gmail.com. Enjoy the season!
TBL PARTNERS WITH THE POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE
In February of 2015, the TBL Board voted to partner with the Positive Coaching Alliance, a quickly growing national organization that works with youth and high school sports leaders, coaches, athletes and parents to help promote a positive, character building youth sports experience.
PCA offers a number of tools for all of the aforementioned groups.
PCA also offers workshops and courses that strive to transform high school and youth sports into a "Development Zone" where the goal is to become Better Athletes, Better People and the following become prevailing models in youth and high school sports.
· The Double-Goal Coach, who strives to win while also pursuing the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports.
· The Second-Goal Parent, who concentrates on life lessons, while letting coaches and athletes focus on competing.
· The Triple-Impact Competitor, who strives to impact sports on three levels by improving oneself, teammates and the game as a whole.
· The Single- Goal Leader, who works to create a Development Zone within their individual school/youth sport organization.
PCA gains support from a National Advisory Board, including National Spokesperson and 11-time NBA Champion Coach Phil Jackson, and many other top coaches, athletes, organization leaders and academics who share PCA's vision.
The PCA website is loaded with other information, resources, and tools to help all involved with youth sports create a positive atmosphere that encourages kids to keep playing sports. Here's just a few ...
Help your child through the #recruiting process & college sports search w/ these tips.
"I want to quit," says your child. Here are tips for handling this burnout.
Coaches can consider a variety of solutions when players missing practice becomes a problem.
It can be hard to motivate athletes during a no-win season or a blowout game. Use these tips.
The numbers of kids in America playing baseball from ages 6-12 is at healthy levels, but there has been a sharp drop off in the number of kids that continue playing after that point.
PCA is committed to helping coaches and youth sports organizations to create the positive type of atmosphere that leads to kids wanting to continue to play sports through their high school years.
Volunteer coaches are the backbone of youth sports in America. Without the thousands of parents signing up to coach youth sports, the youth sports world would come to a crashing halt!
The question is who are these volunteers? Are they an ex-high school or college athlete trying to re-live their sports experiences? Are they a parent of a reluctant child trying to give their child the same great experience that they had as a child? Or are they the mother or father of a child who was told, "If you don't volunteer, we don't have enough coaches!"
The truth is that all of these scenarios are pretty likely in the average volunteer-based youth sports league. That's why in 1981 NAYS developed the National Youth Sports Coaches Association - to help educate those volunteers to become the best youth sport coaches that they can be.
Also, TBL requires head coaches to be members of the NYSCA and go through the ONLINE "Intro to Coaching” training on the NAYS.org website.
http://www.nays.org/onlinepromo/Without_FL/html/CYSportsPROMO.html
Each coach should have NYSCA member #’s before the season starts.
