Coach the Coach

Our Coaches are the face of our club and our most important resource. Coaching can be very rewarding and whether you are new to soccer or an experienced player it is our goal to offer our coaches all the resources required to make their coaching experience very rewarding. We offer Certification and Coach-the-Coach clinic to give coaches on field experience. Plus we will continue to add to these pages the resources to help you be effective in your coaching. Good coaching is a much about organization and enthusiasm as it is about athleticism. Patience and love are your most powerful tools in coaching so bring lots of both to the pitch.

Coach-the-Coach
CVUSC has programmed several coaching clinics covering all areas of coaching development from the brand new parent, novice coach, through to select coach. The intent is to provide you the coach all the tools you need to develop yourself into the best coach, and our youth into the best soccer players they can be, while having fun. All the clinics outlined below are free to all CVUSC coaches. CVUSC will typically only pay for one of these clinics per calendar year, unless special permission is given explicitly by the VP Development. Clinics will be held at the CVUSC Clubhouse and Valley View Fields. Come prepared with food, snacks and water and prepared to play with the appropriate soccer playing strip. There will be on-field play (mostly) and some classroom discussion so bring a note pad and pen as well. There is no better way to build your confidence and understanding of the basics of coaching, I highly recommend all coaches take at least one clinic per year- our Comox Valley youth deserve it.

2010 - 2011 CVUSC Sponsored Clinics

BCSA Goalkeeping Diploma

Created by Tony Waiters , this course introduces team coaches to the art of goalkeeping. The contents of this course are designed to give team coaches some basic knowledge about the techniques and skills involved in being an effective goalkeeper and most importantly, giving the coaches enough information and direction to be able to effectively introduce goalkeeping into their weekly team training sessions. Previous goalkeeping experience is not required. This is not a NCCP certification course. Registration information see IMPORTANT NOTES below.

Sunday September 19, 9am-5pm

Valley View Fields
 

Grassroots Coaches Handbook

BC Soccer is please to introduce the Coaches Handbook for 6 -12 year old players. For the first time, we have designed a 8 week training program for Under 6 - Under 9's and a 16 week training program for Under 10 - Under 12 year old players. This will provide a complete training curriculum for our small sided coaches. The purpose of the Coaches Handbook is to assist our coaches in standardizing the complete training session within your club or district. Whether young players choose soccer as a lifelong sport is determined to a high degree by the content of the training program. Registration information see IMPORTANT NOTES below.

September 25, 1pm-4pm

Valley View Field
 

Community Coach Youth

The Community Coach Youth course is tailored to coaches working with players in the 10 to 14 age groups. The contents of this course are based around coaching players at the recreational youth level of soccer and touch on the following areas: stages of development, conducting and planning training sessions, the role of the coach, ethics, safety and liability, team development, technical skill development and information on coaching youth players. This course meets the NCCP standards for the soccer technical and practical components. Registration information see IMPORTANT NOTES below.

Saturday October 2, 9am-5pm

Sunday October 3, 9am-5pm

Lewis Park Fields, Courtney

Community Coach Children
The Community Coach Children's course is tailored to coaches working with players in the 6 to 10 age groups. The contents of this course are based around the FUNdamentals of mini-soccer and touch on the following areas: stages of development, basic practice planning, the role of the coach, ethics, safety and liability, review of mini-soccer rules, basic skill development and ample amounts of sample practice sessions. This course meets the NCCP standards for the soccer technical and practical components. Registration information see IMPORTANT NOTES below

Sunday October 24, 9am-5pm
Valley View Fields, Courtney

IMPORTANT NOTES
These clinics are now posted on the BC Soccer website and the registration is open. All Clinics require a minimum of 15 participants and a maximum of 22 participants. When minimum registration numbers have not been met the clinic will be cancelled 5 working days prior for coastal clinics and 10 working days for interior clinics. Click on this link to view the clinic listing - BCSA Coaching Clinics

All coaches participating in any coaching clinics MUST BE registered through the BC Soccer on line registration tool. This allows BC Soccer to be responsible in  maintaining an accurate database of coaches in British Columbia and allows for stronger administrative support to the instructors and class participants. Registration for all coaching clinics in British Columbia is done solely through this system.  

CVUSC is covering the cost for CVUSC coaches. The appropriate "payment code" or "registration code" is indicated below, which you will be asked for when registering for this clinic. BC Soccer will invoice the club for all coaches who register with this code.

Grassroots - September 25 - REGISTRATION CODE: C47093
GK Diploma - September 19 - PAYMENT CODE: C59049
CCC - October 24 - PAYMENT CODE: C66803
CCY - October 2&3 - PAYMENT CODE: C21472 (Corrected code 29 Aug)

 

One on One Coaching
Select coaches wishing one on one coaching help can contact Ash Mohtadi almohtadi@shaw.ca. Ash will come and coach a practice with you.