COACHES: Kentucky Youth Soccer Association, Inc.

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Developing Decision Makers: An Empowerment Approach to Coaching by Lynn Kidman / Paperback / Innovative Print Communications / 2001

The book promotes the use of an empowerment approach among coaches for all levels of athletes. It relates successful stories about the approach from the perspectives of both elite and junior coaches, and athletes themselves.

Catch Them Being Good : Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls by Tony DiCicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg / Paperback / 240 Pages / Penguin USA / August 2003 / 0142003352 / List Price $14.00 This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. The authors include exercises that foster teamwork and develop essential skills.

Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life by Jim Thompson / Paperback / HarperCollins / August 2003 / 0060505311 / List Price $14.95 The Double-Goal Coach is filled with powerful coaching tools based on Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching Alliance. These strategies reflect the "best-practices" of elite coaches and the latest research in sports psychology. The lessons and activities can be used in the very next practice to make sports fun and to get the best from players.

Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports by Jim Thompson / Paperback / Warde Publishers / March 1995 / 1886346003 / List Price $19.95

Thompson puts his positive coaching ideas on paper for the first time. Loads of idea and information for coaches and parents who want their young athletes to truly enjoy their sports experience.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer by Michael Muckian with Dean Duerst / Paperback / 312 Pages / Alpha Books / May 2003 / 1592570577 / List Price $16.95 You’re no idiot, of course. You’ve seen the World Cup games and know that soccer is one of the most popular and exciting team sports in America today. But when it comes to playing soccer and understanding the nuances of the game, you feel like you’ve been hit on the head by the ball once too often. .

Official US Youth Soccer Coaching Manual by Thomas Fleck, Robert W. Quinn, David B. Carr, Buren, Stringfield / US Youth Soccer / Spiral Bound / 86 Pages / April 2005 / 1931720010 / List Price: $9.99.

An indispensable tool for anyone coaching youth players. This manual contains a gold mine of information for novice as well as experienced youth coaches. Using an educational and sport science foundation rather than a simple collection of drills allows the youth coach a better understanding of the player.