Contact: Chuck Keers
Executive Director
Oregon Youth Soccer Association
chuck@oregonyouthsoccer.org
503-626-4625 ext 226
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oregon Youth Soccer Teams Up with Positive Coaching Alliance to
Provide Coach and Parent Educational Tools
Oregon Youth Soccer Association (OYSA) is excited to announce our recent partnership with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA). This partnership is going to allow OYSA administrators, coaches and parents discounted access to PCA’s popular coach and parent online courses. These highly interactive courses are loaded with video from top athletes and coaches, such as PCA National Spokesperson Phil Jackson, as well as Julie Foudy.
The Double-Goal Coach® course, which has been used by numerous youth soccer clubs to train coaches, provides specific tips and techniques from leading researchers in sports and educational psychology, allowing coaches to get the best out of athletes in sports and in life.
The Second-Goal Parent® online course is for parents who want to help their children get the most from the youth sports experience. The course provides interactive tips and techniques for parents to use in talking with their children on game day, developing a productive parent-coach relationship and becoming effective and positive supporters on the sidelines.
“PCA is a quality organization that shares the same values we do regarding the importance of character, integrity and respect in sports,” said Chuck Keers, Executive Director of Oregon Youth Soccer. “This new partnership will help coaches and parents apply these principles in ways they perhaps had not thought about.”
“We’re extremely excited about providing discounted access to our online courses to OYSA members,” said Ripper Hatch, Director of Partner Development for PCA. “We’re certain that OYSA administrators, coaches and parents will find the online courses very beneficial to their goals of providing a positive experience for their athletes.”
OYSA members are encouraged to take advantage of this discount and start preparing for the 2011 Fall Season.
About Positive Coaching Alliance
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to Transforming Youth Sports So Sports Can Transform Youth by ensuring that all youth athletes can have a positive, character-building experience. It has a National Advisory Board that includes soccer dignitaries like Julie Foudy, Claudio Reyna, Joy Fawcett and Alexi Lalas.
About Oregon Youth Soccer
Oregon Youth Soccer is the largest youth soccer organization in Oregon. Oregon Youth Soccer Association is the state's affiliate for US Youth Soccer, which is the largest sports organization in the United States and the most populous member of the United States Soccer Federation, the governing body for soccer in the United States. The Oregon Youth Soccer Association represents over 40,000 players (ages 4-19) and their families, 7,000 coaches in the state of Oregon. Oregon Youth Soccer’s mission is to foster an environment that promotes the physical, mental and emotional development of Oregon's youth through the sport of soccer.