Coaching In Youth Sports

This Article is about the coaching in the youth sports today. Their are more than 40 million young people playing organized sports, weather it’s soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, gymnastics , swimming, baseball or many of the other popular sports that is in the united states today. In the past 20 years their has been a demand for youth coaches and it has increased. As stated by the National council of youth sports their is two million adults being couches for sports. In an attempt to see if the couches are prepared and qualified to couch the youth , the ACE (American Council on Exercise) and the American’s Workout Watchdog had the help of exercise scientists from the Clinical Exercise Physiology program at the University of

Wisconsin. In three categories that are listed here (education level, different degrees and what level they coached or if they got paid or not) they found that in each category they all had an overall lack of knowledge and their wasn’t a very big difference in the demographic data and it didn’t matter if the coaches where female or male, they also didn’t find a difference in their final scores. But they did noticed a significant difference in the health science majors, they did a lot better than other college majors for the people who completed college as the highest level of education. But it’s always important to keep in mind that the youth couches seemed prepared in other areas for example their was 74% of couches reporting that they were first aid certified, while 73% of coaches are also CPR certified, and 54% had AED training.
In conclusion the study that was provided showed that their was some weakness in the education level of most coaches. Their can be steps created by the youth- sports organization to make an educational program to better prepare the coaches. by the Youth coaches taking an educational program they will have better knowledge and Be able to understand the basic topics of exercise pysiology, and this will create a safer and more enjoyable environment for the young athletes.