A thought crossed my mind last night as I was sitting in at a "Certification Coaching Clinic"

In Canada in order to be a Coach at any level must complete courses through the N.C.C.P. (http://nccp.baseball.ca) The higher the level you wish to Coach the more courses one must take, and so on.

Is that the norm in the States as well? This is something relatively new in Baseball Canada, maybe over the past 5 or so years it has been filtering down to even T-Ball.

Just wondering what, if any certification is needed in the States to be considered a Coach?

Hey Doc

In our area you had to have a level 2 certification.

You also could not have a player on the teamunless they were desperate. You also could not sponser a team your son played on.

Sometimes when I was coaching, I thought "I must be certifiable to still be doing this..."

Tex, I thought the same often. I have just finished looking at some certified pre-owned cars. Does that mean that they are certified to have been pre-owned? I hope so since they're used.
I guess experience can take the place of some certification, but less experienced coaches may benefit from such a program.

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Tex, I thought the same often. I have just finished looking at some certified pre-owned cars. Does that mean that they are certified to have been pre-owned? I hope so since they're used.
I guess experience can take the place of some certification, but less experienced coaches may benefit from such a program.


So

Certification is training to be a knowlegeable coach. We also certify our UMPIRES too.

For Little League, travel ball, rec ball, etc. there are no certifications required to coach (that I am aware of).

Here in the state of Arizona, coaches at the elementary school and high school levels do, I believe, have to take some sort of class(es) that I guess would count as a certification.

In my experience (youth rec and travel ball) Counties require coaches to be "certified", which means about 2 to 4 hours of anything from watching a videotape to listening to a guest speaker. The certification includes a background check, which is probably a good thing (and I still wonder how I slipped through ). One of the organizations that does the certifying is the NYSCA, and they've got a pretty good magazine which they send out to their coaches.

I just came accross a notice for our city BB clinic with ML instructors. They have done this for years and it is very succesful. My son owes a lot to these coaches for prividing an early start to proper BB skills. They have done this for years and it has helped rejuevenate BB in our area over thye last 10 years or so. The Elite programs have taken it even further, I often watch these events and it is wonderfull to see the kids learn proper techniques.



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We ran a certification course, 6 weeks with exam, for our LL coaches---it did two things---eliminated the dead wood guys and kept the serious men and also lowered our insurance costs

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Posted May 01, 2007 04:30 PM Hide Post
Tex, I thought the same often. I have just finished looking at some certified pre-owned cars. Does that mean that they are certified to have been pre-owned? I hope so since they're used.
I guess experience can take the place of some certification, but less experienced coaches may benefit from such a program.


So

Could someone explain this? How do you define making someone more knowledgeable? I obviously need this. Reference another thread in this forum.
Certification is training to be a knowlegeable coach. We also certify our UMPIRES too.